Holiday Social wrap-up.

If you missed the Holiday Social at the Skirball, you missed a really fantastic event. After a lively networking hour, we sat down to a delicious dinner and two informative presentations, masterfully emceed by Keith Gurtzweiler of LAC Group.

Peter Derycz, CEO of Reprints Desk, gave us an overview of their new social responsibility program, partnering with Room to Read to build a library in Nepal and to support global literacy. The way the program is structured, Reprints Desk customers play a vital role, since a donation is made for every article delivered. More information about the partnership is here: http://www2.reprintsdesk.com/News/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?prid=62

Jody Turner, founder of Culture of Future, discussed the transition our culture is making from an industrial to a social model. In the new social model the end user is important and top-down hierarchy is not as relevant anymore. End users want to be involved and want to do for themselves. They want meaningful interactions with comanies that are socially responsible, and they want a voice in how the social responsibility projects are handled. They're taking everything into their own hands, including education (look up EduPunks if you haven't already heard of them). She gave us so much food for thought that it's impossible to cover it all here, but you can get a small portion of the total picture from this site: http://trendwatching.com/trends/generationg/.

She also had a few book recommendations:
Drive by Daniel Pink
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
The Power of Pull by John Hagel
Unstuck by Keith Yamashita
The Art of Innovation by Thomas Kelley

Librarians and information professionals seem to be in a unique position to put this information to use to connect with the next generation.


Speaking of a social model of doing business, it took a small army of volunteers and supporters to put together the Holiday Social. Many thanks to our Holiday Social Committee:
Robin Dodge
Christian Gray
Peter Johnson
Jim Rochford
Amy Wallace

And to all of our volunteers:
Belinda Beardt
Eric Bryan
David Cappoli
Lesley Farmer
Jackie Gortman
Keith Gurtzweiler
Kris Kasianovitz
Kristen LaBonte
Grace Lau
Bill Lee
Grace Rosales
Carol Siu
Sara Tompson
Meggie Zamora

And to countless others who helped promote the event far and wide, including SoCalTech.com, Convergence Technology Council, and Technology Council of Southern California.

We are also very appreciative of our sponsors:
Reprints Desk
Elsevier
LexisNexis
LAC Group
Cuadra
IEEE
Thomson Reuters

And our raffle sponsors
AIM
EOS
LAC Group

Thank you to all of our volunteers and sponsors and attendees for making it a truly memorable event. Keep your eye on the Chapter Flickr site. Photos will be posted soon.


-Robin