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Events: 2009 General Session & Banquet
Thursday, February 19th, 6:30 p.m.
Knowledge in the Age of Connection
Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Weinberger
As the Internet connects people to people and ideas to ideas, the riverbanks of knowledge are overflowing. That abundance is changing the nature of knowledge itself. Our old assumptions -- that knowledge is a mental content, that it is singular and unchanging, that it is ever certain and done -- are reflections of the paper-based media by which we have communicated and preserved knowledge. The digitizing of information is undoing each one of these assumptions. Knowledge is becoming social. Transparency is functionally replacing objectivity in many instances. Knowledge has outstripped the reach of experts. This new ecology demands new skills and new models of thought, sociality, and learning.
Reserve your spot by February 13th!
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Noted Tech "Guru," Professor, Humorist to Keynote Convention
TCCTA members are urged to make a special effort to attend the general session and banquet at the 62nd Annual State Convention at the Renaissance Austin Hotel.
Speaking on the convention theme will be David Weinberger, a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Dr. Weinberger began his career in the late ‘70s teaching philosophy at New Jersey’s Stockton State College for five years. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. While teaching he maintained his steady freelance writing of humor, reviews and intellectual and academic articles, publishing in places as diverse as the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Smithsonian, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and TV Guide.
In 1985, after being denied tenure because the tenure quota was filled, and after an “enthusiastic but well-mannered” student demonstration in his support, he became a junior marketing staffer at Interleaf, an innovative start-up with new ideas on how to create and structure documents. At Interleaf he helped launch the industry’s first document management system, years ahead of the Web. He left Interleaf after eight years, as vice president of strategic marketing.
Dr. Weinberger next founded the one-person strategic marketing company, Evident Marketing, in 1994. He has consulted to a wide variety of companies, including RR Donnelley, Intuit, Sun Microsystems, Edelman PR, Microsoft, Yahoo, and the Christopher Reeve Foundation. He frequently advises innovative startups.
In late 1995, he joined Open Text as vice president of strategic marketing because he saw an opportunity to help shape the way intranets are used. As part of the senior management team, Dr. Weinberger helped Open Text move from one of the first Web search engine companies (the engine behind Yahoo!) to market-and thought-leadership in Web-based collaborative software. After helping to take Open Text public in 1996, he returned to consulting, writing and speaking, helping to found a couple of dot-coms, and serving on industry and company boards. In 2000, Perseus published The Cluetrain Manifesto, of which is is a co-author. It became a national best-seller.
In 2002, Perseus published Small Pieces Loosely Joined to enthusiastic reviews. In 2007, Times Books published Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. Dr. Weinberger currently “writes too much,” including Weblogs, articles for Wired, Salon, USAToday, Harvard Business Review, and many more.
Banquet Tickets:
Your presence is requested
at the TCCTA Keynote Banquet
Speaker: Dr. David Weinberger
on Thursday, February 19, 2009
Renaissance Arboretum Hotel
$35.00 EachReserve your spot by February 13th!
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