I can certainly sympathize with how exhausting change is. I’ve spent the past couple of weeks moving from one role, and one office, and one campus location, to another. There really isn’t much time to stop and breathe so very often we can get lost in the need to ‘git ‘er done’ and the ‘other duties as assigned’ don’t really tell us what we’re truly in for. I appreciate what that can be like so kudos to you for pushing forward. It’s validating to see someone else be so authentic about their own exhaustion (I’m not sure I’m hiding mine well anymore).

The line “We’re in their world and not of their world” also really resonated with me. Beyond the implications this has for our work with students, I can see a parallel impact on our work with colleagues and, frankly, anyone external to the university, ‘stakeholder’ or otherwise. The higher ed box, or bubble, or whatever metaphor we want to use, seems to make it so we create our own world, often blinded to the greater and more pressing realities swirling around us. Until we realize that life outside the university is not exclusively the ‘real world’, we run the risk of being blindsided by these economic and other forces. It certainly seems like it’s time to get out of the box, or as you’ve said, throw out the box altogether – maybe it will be easier to see the proverbial forest through the trees that way.

2) Open in new window links are really bad for folks who use screenreaders…sorry Cabellon, it’s bad for accessibility.

3) When are you making a NTL Directory app for Android?

4) Love the picture!!! LOL.

So question about the Kindle social media primer – is it necessary to have a Kindle to get it/read it? Sounds like a basic question I should know the answer to, but I already outed myself as an Internet Explorer user, so my tech cred has dropped considerably already.

See you in Boston!

Be well sir, it will be good to see you in Boston this March!

ps. Please add “open new window” commands on your links. I didn’t like having to open up your page six times to do all the above #justsayin

As a researcher, I don’t see publishing going completely out the window, but I definitely see an area of flexibility. If I can be recognized in my field as a legitimate scholar by publishing a few articles, what’s to stop me from publishing future material on my blog, which will be faster and more accessible? The big shift will be when college professors start training students to consider the author, rather than the source. Right now, “source” basically means “mode of publication” not the actual source of information.

That, of course, would require professors to be much more well-read in their discipline to consider who is truly a good source, rather than simply being able to recognize a peer-reviewed journal.

I just added this one to my reading list & thought that I would share with you as well:
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy by… http://www.amazon.com/dp/0814727883/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_1zxSob0G61V7J via @amazon

Thanks for the post.