Making Anthropological Application Count in a Global Knowledge Economy.
European governments are subjecting universities to a reform frenzy, spurred by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s postulated “global knowledge economy.” Denmark’s strategy makes universities a driver of this economy, presses them to respond to the “surrounding society,” turn “ideas into invoices,” and produce employable graduates quickly. “Application” appears central to such strategies. Yet systems to measure performance and differentiate funding reproduce old hierarchies between “pure” and “applied” in which the latter “counts” for little. After reviewing initiatives to develop applied anthropology in such contexts, the earlier experience of a United Kingdom organisation “Anthropology in Action” is used to suggest an alternative approach.
On the off chance that any of you will see this in the next 15 minutes I wanted to let you know that Dr. Paul Farmer will be on 60 Minutes tonight, May 4. Dr. Farmer was in the Global Health in the Time of Violence session in our 2007 round of SfAA podcasts.
“DR. FARMER’S REMEDY - Dr. Paul Farmer dedicates his life and career to delivering medical treatment in Third World countries, saving countless lives in places like Haiti and Rwanda. Byron Pitts reports. Catherine Olian is the producer.”
Theory and Practice in an Online Master’s Program in Applied Anthropology
As technology-mediated communication becomes a pervasive modus operandi in work and educational organizations, linguistic anthropology can provide tools to understand and improve such interactions. In fall 2006, the University of North Texas launched the first online master’s program in anthropology in the US. The authors conducted a study that compared students’ online versus on-campus experiences in the same graduate seminar. Drawing on theoretical constructs from linguistic anthropology, the study’s conclusions had practical applications for the design of the online master’s program. Furthermore, the study itself exposed an online master’s student (Cardew) to the nexus of scholarship and practice.
Keri Vacanti Brondo (U Memphis)
“Tooling Up” for Interdisciplinary Research in Organizational Settings
This paper focuses on training future scholar-practitioners to use and develop anthropological theory and method while working in interdisciplinary teams in organizational settings. The author draws upon personal research experience working with international NGOs, urban-serving CDCs, and private industry to offer lessons learned regarding effective communication across disciplines. Suggestions for “tooling up” future practicing anthropologists for theory-building in interdisciplinary settings are shared.
Wendy Bartlo, Tracy L. Meerwarth, and Elizabeth K. Briody (General Motors), and Robert T. Trotter II (N Arizona U)
A “Global Footprint” for Researcher Workspace: Consensus and Application
The authors conducted ethnographic research at General Motors R&D Centers in Warren, Michigan and Bangalore, India to understand features of a “global footprint” for R & D workspace. The study compares organizational roles and workspace perceptions to advance mid-range theory and cross-cultural applicability research. A consensus of cultural parameters for workspace emerges across Warren and Bangalore researchers suggesting that researcher culture preferences trump cross-cultural space differences.
Financing Social Change in a Global Economy: The Case of Minnesota’s Pan-African Women’s Philanthropy Initiative
Since 1990 the world has come to Minnesota - once one of the USA’s most ethnically homogenous states. Now home to thecountry’s largest concentrations of Somalis, Hmong, Tibetans and urban Native Americans, among others, Minnesota is experiencing a demographic shift unprecedented in its history. This paper will describe and analyze the efforts of foreign-born and US-born women of African descent to create a transnational identity to define and address common social concerns. In particular, it will highlight the way that the author attempted to combine and apply aspects of africanist and feminist anthropology with current trends in the fields of philanthropy and activism to provide new leadership opportunities and ways to organize for social change.
Crysta Metcalf (Motorola Labs)
Interdisciplinary Research, Anthropological Theory and Software Innovation: Bringing it all Together
This paper describes the challenges and opportunities inherent in interdisciplinary applied work, focusing on research in a high tech lab where time is short and skepticism about the usefulness of theory is long. A number of projects are used as examples of how we fit together multidisciplinary teams, applied practice, and the application and advancement of anthropological theory. The author examines the themes of evolving theory with people from very different backgrounds, and how both method and theory are influenced by applied practice in situations where many different people must buy in to “the way we do things around here.”
Violent Intent Modeling: Incorporating Cultural Knowledge into the Analytical Process
While culture has a significant effect on the appropriate interpretation of textual data, the incorporation of cultural considerations into data transformations has not been systematic. Recognizing that the successful prevention of terrorist activities could hinge on the knowledge of the subcultures, Anthropologist and DHS intern Faith Nibbs has been addressing the need to incorporate cultural knowledge into the analytical process. In this presentation she will present how cultural ideology is being used to understand how the rhetoric of group leaders influences the likelihood of their constituents to engage in violent or radicalized behavior, and how violent intent modeling can benefit from understanding that process.
For an extended version of Faith’s presented paper please click here.
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (Rhode Island Coll)
Anthropology and Ethics in America’s Imperial Age
As we debate our role and ethical responsibilities in America’s imperial age, we must address the following questions: 1) What are the key philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations for anthropologists working for national security agencies? 2) What does “do no harm” mean if “the people studied” are the “enemy?” 3) Are the AAA/SfAA Codes of Ethics sufficient for vigorous debate of issues of engagement with military and intelligence agencies? 4) How is ethical responsibility located if anthropologists are a part of teams working on intelligence or military projects? 5) How can the principle of openness and disclosure in research be fulfilled if anthropologists are part of non-transparent projects?
Brian Selmeski (Air Force Culture & Language Ctr, Air U)
Fitting Round Pegs into Square Holes: Civil Servant-Anthropologists and Dual Professional Theory
Much has been written lately regarding the appropriateness of anthropologists working in the security sector. This paper reframes the discussion by treating such individuals as part of a broader category: civil servant-anthropologists. It applies theories of professionalism, particularly the concept of “dual professionals” to further elucidate the nature of these relationships and suggest how they are best managed. This identifies dual professionals’ twin expectations, ethics and governance systems (civil service and anthropological) as the key structuring factors. After highlighting points of agreement and contradiction between the professions, the paper concludes by suggesting how the most serious dilemmas might be reconciled.
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As I was trying to think of a name for this project last year “podcast” came up a lot because that is essentially what the audio recordings are. I knew that this term “podcast” wouldn’t be a term that everyone was familiar with, but decided to go with it anyhow. My concern was to make the SfAA Podcast project accessible to the discipline of anthropology, but also to make it accessible to non-anthropologists as well. Looking at the Google search terms that have lead visitors to our website (both anthropologists and non), “podcasts” was a good term to go with.
CHAIRS: Carla Guerrón-Montero (U Delaware) and Philip D. Young (U Oregon)
Session Abstract
These two sessions, organized by Carla Guerrón-Montero and the Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs (COPAA), featured practitioners and academics who have contributed to NAPA Bulletin No. 29 (2008). Participants in these two sessions discussed, from a variety of perspectives, the theoretical and practical skills that anthropology students should develop during the course of their studies to prepare themselves for careers in applied anthropology, whether as full-time practitioners or as applied anthropologists within academia. Speakers also provided specific advice to undergraduate and graduate students on the benefits and challenges of careers in applied anthropology, in both the national and the international arenas.
NOTE: All of the papers presented in sessions I and II were condensed versions of papers that will be published in NAPA Bulletin 29. Not all of the authors of the papers in NAPA Bulletin 29 were able to participate in these sessions. The NAPA volume consists of twelve essays by fourteen academics and practitioners. It provides specific experience-based advice to students on the benefits and challenges of careers in applied anthropology in the national and international arenas
Please see the end of this post for a wonderful summary of important points made in both part I and Part II of these sessions.
Below is a list of the speakers in the order of their presentation as well as their paper abstracts as found in the 2008 SfAA Annual Meeting program. Note that as the session chair, Phil Young introduces each speaker. I’d like to thank Phil Young and the speakers for providing such a great description of the session and for submitting additional information to compliment this post and the audio.
Shirley J. Fiske (Consultant, U Maryland)
Careers in Anthropology: Federal Government
The federal government is arguably the largest employer of anthropologists outside of academia. The career opportunities are diverse, and range from careers in international development and assistance where the anthropologist is stationed overseas to domestic federal agencies that review the performance federally funded programs at the request of Congress. This paper discusses trends in federal careers and the diversity in employment by offering a detailed account of career opportunities for anthropologists in the federal government and well as describing those opportunities in agencies with a critical mass of anthropologists.
Barbara Pillsbury (Int’l Hlth & Dev Assoc)
Anthropologists in Executive Leadership
Executive leadership is about managing and inspiring others to achieve goals greater than what can be accomplished through individual work. Leadership can be learned - and typically is learned over time. This essay features the careers of three anthropologists who came into executive positions of increasing responsibility. It assesses rewards and losses that occur along the way and discusses ways anthropology assists in executive leadership, emphasizing that leadership is seeing yourself as someone who mobilizes and empowers others. Finally the chapter summarizes advice to anthropologists interested in executive careers. The context is primarily the world of international development assistance.
Creating Your Own Consulting Business: Small Business Start-up and Operating the Small Business
This paper acquaints the budding professional with the basics of starting and operating a small business based on the skills, educational background, and experience of a professional anthropologist. One practitioner focused on grant-writing, research and community development in the United States, the other on ethnographic applied research, policy research, strategic planning and group facilitation in the United States and internationally. While their projects differed in domain, location and type, they all 1) were grounded in anthropology, 2) focused on facilitating social change, 3) relied on a flexible toolkit developed over time, and 4) were successfully implemented through good consultant practices.
Gisele Maynard-Tucker (UC-Los Angeles)
Becoming a Consultant Power Point
This paper aims at giving students some advice for entering the world of development. In doing so, I will discuss the necessary skills required, such as a background in research, along with the knowledge of foreign and native languages, and how to get fieldwork experience. I will also give some advice about contacting development agencies and preparing for overseas work and will comment about what to expect while working in developing countries in the field of public health. Apart from giving counsel, I have attempted to show that being a consultant is a great opportunity to learn more about the human race and that the job is full of challenges and rewards.
Important points made by presenters and in the discussion that followed Parts I and II
• Internships and field schools are an important part of the training of applied anthropologists. Two varieties of field school designed specifically to train applied anthropologists were discussed: service learning and the country team concept. In service learning the student works with an agency in the field to design and implement a program that will be of benefit to local communities. The country team concept involves a field team usually consisting of a government or military organization and an NGO, who design and implement a training program that benefits the students while also contributing to humanitarian field activities. To illustrate the latter, segments were shown from a video that documented a field school in Romania designed to train people to set up refugee camps under hostile conditions.
• Students wishing to engage in applied research and practice from an academic base need to carefully formulate a strategy for career advancement early on. The academy remains conservative and much applied work counts for little or nothing at many universities when promotion and tenure time comes around.
• Collaborative research practice presents a special opportunity for students to move beyond counterproductive debates about public anthropology and engage in applied, publicly oriented work in many different ways. Students wishing to engage in collaborative research should become familiar with the broad range of such approaches, choose their methods with care, prepare for intense time (and other) commitments, expect project expansion, and start early, but proceed with caution. Not all academic environments are open to collaborative research approaches.
• Federal careers in anthropology have increased from 1973-2007 to over 1,000 jobs in the anthropology and archaeology series, a consistent long-term increase.
• Federal jobs include regional jobs outside Washington, DC, international jobs, and they increasingly include jobs contracted by the government, so that anthropologists are increasingly working in consulting firms or as independent contractors.
• There is a good chance that you will be hired in a specialty or job category (for example, social scientist, policy analyst, or agricultural specialist, especially if the job is international) that is somewhat outside of anthropology.
• Consequently you will need an area of specialization that becomes your calling card – your expertise in addition to anthropology – to get you in the door.
• Being hired is recognition that you have something in your tool kit that is useful. Stay alert for possibilities and opportunities even if it is a “stretch” to use your perspectives, theory, and concepts.
• Excellent free advice on all business and legal aspects of starting and operating a consulting business are found at www.entrepreneur.com and www.nolo.com.
• Good consultant practice give clients project results clearly written with recommendations that are doable and timely.
• Consulting fees are often negotiable and can be a daily rate plus expenses or a flat fee per project. Check rates on the USAID web site. Check the IRS web site for current lodging and mileage rates.
• Being an independent international consultant requires mastering the skills of applied anthropology, having a strong research background and field experience, fluency in two or more languages (your native language and at least one other) and having a marketable skill in addition to anthropology, such as nutrition, administration, agronomy, or public health.
• Benefits include being able to choose the country of work and the assignment.
• Employers want people with experience. Agencies prefer those with broad experience who are able to adapt and perform in different situations. Acquiring numerous field experiences in various contexts and cultures will empower you and will facilitate your contract negotiations with international development agencies and firms.
• Good consultants must have the ability to mediate among donor organizations, offices in charge of project administration, and local government offices and to articulate their sometimes varying goals and expectations into recommendations that will improve the lives of the intended beneficiaries.
CHAIRS: Carla Guerrón-Montero (U Delaware) and Philip D. Young (U Oregon)
Session Abstract
These two sessions, organized by Carla Guerrón-Montero and the Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs (COPAA), featured practitioners and academics who have contributed to NAPA Bulletin No. 29 (2008). Participants in these two sessions discussed, from a variety of perspectives, the theoretical and practical skills that anthropology students should develop during the course of their studies to prepare themselves for careers in applied anthropology, whether as full-time practitioners or as applied anthropologists within academia. Speakers also provided specific advice to undergraduate and graduate students on the benefits and challenges of careers in applied anthropology, in both the national and the international arenas.
NOTE: All of the papers presented in sessions I and II were condensed versions of papers that will be published in NAPA Bulletin 29. Not all of the authors of the papers in NAPA Bulletin 29 were able to participate in these sessions. The NAPA volume consists of twelve essays by fourteen academics and practitioners. It provides specific experience-based advice to students on the benefits and challenges of careers in applied anthropology in the national and international arenas
Please see the end of this post for a wonderful summary of important points made in both part I and Part II of these sessions.
Below is a list of the speakers in the order of their presentation as well as their paper abstracts as found in the 2008 SfAA Annual Meeting program. Note that as the session chair, Phil Young introduces each speaker. I’d like to thank Phil Young for providing such a great description of the session and for submitting additional information to compliment this post and the audio!
Peter Van Arsdale (U Denver)
Learning Applied Anthropology in Field Schools: Lessons from Bosnia and Romania
The service learning concept places responsibility on the sponsoring university and the student, in concert with an agency in the field, to devise and implement a program of service that will benefit local communities. By contrast, the country team concept places responsibility upon a field team, which usually consists of an NGO and military or government organization, to devise and implement a training program to benefit the student while contributing to humanitarian field activities. Both broadly engage “applied anthropology.” Slides from field schools in both countries will be included.
A link to the video played in this presentation will be uploaded in the next few days.Please note that the audio from when the video was presented has been cut out of the podcast. Van Arsdale played the video about 13 m 50 s into the presentation and noted that the ammunition being used in the simulation was live mock ammunition.
Practicing Anthropology from Within the Academy: Combining Careers
In this paper, I use my own career as a lens through which to view the challenges of combining an academic career with that of a (part-time) practitioner of applied anthropology. My main focus is on the particular variety of practice known as international development. Based mostly on my own experiences both in and outside of academia, but with occasional references to what I know of the experiences of academic colleagues who have also done applied work, I offer advice to students who want an academic job and would also like to do applied anthropology of one sort or another.
Luke Lassiter (Marshall U)
Moving Past Public Anthropology and Doing Collaborative research
In recent years, “public anthropology” has become one of the many labels used to describe a growing and ever-more ubiquitous concern with anthropological relevance, public engagement, and action. While there is little agreement about just what exactly “public anthropology” is, it nevertheless has come to have many different and overlapping meanings. This paper is about moving past these debates and engaging how students can realize public engagement via collaborative research. I begin with a brief statement about moving past public anthropology, follow this with discussion of collaborative ethnography and public engagement, and suggest some general advice for doing collaborative research.
Important points made by presenters and in the discussion that followed Parts I and II
• Internships and field schools are an important part of the training of applied anthropologists. Two varieties of field school designed specifically to train applied anthropologists were discussed: service learning and the country team concept. In service learning the student works with an agency in the field to design and implement a program that will be of benefit to local communities. The country team concept involves a field team usually consisting of a government or military organization and an NGO, who design and implement a training program that benefits the students while also contributing to humanitarian field activities. To illustrate the latter, segments were shown from a video that documented a field school in Romania designed to train people to set up refugee camps under hostile conditions.
• Students wishing to engage in applied research and practice from an academic base need to carefully formulate a strategy for career advancement early on. The academy remains conservative and much applied work counts for little or nothing at many universities when promotion and tenure time comes around.
• Collaborative research practice presents a special opportunity for students to move beyond counterproductive debates about public anthropology and engage in applied, publicly oriented work in many different ways. Students wishing to engage in collaborative research should become familiar with the broad range of such approaches, choose their methods with care, prepare for intense time (and other) commitments, expect project expansion, and start early, but proceed with caution. Not all academic environments are open to collaborative research approaches.
• Federal careers in anthropology have increased from 1973-2007 to over 1,000 jobs in the anthropology and archaeology series, a consistent long-term increase.
• Federal jobs include regional jobs outside Washington, DC, international jobs, and they increasingly include jobs contracted by the government, so that anthropologists are increasingly working in consulting firms or as independent contractors.
• There is a good chance that you will be hired in a specialty or job category (for example, social scientist, policy analyst, or agricultural specialist, especially if the job is international) that is somewhat outside of anthropology.
• Consequently you will need an area of specialization that becomes your calling card – your expertise in addition to anthropology – to get you in the door.
• Being hired is recognition that you have something in your tool kit that is useful. Stay alert for possibilities and opportunities even if it is a “stretch” to use your perspectives, theory, and concepts.
• Excellent free advice on all business and legal aspects of starting and operating a consulting business are found at www.entrepreneur.com and www.nolo.com.
• Good consultant practice give clients project results clearly written with recommendations that are doable and timely.
• Consulting fees are often negotiable and can be a daily rate plus expenses or a flat fee per project. Check rates on the USAID web site. Check the IRS web site for current lodging and mileage rates.
• Being an independent international consultant requires mastering the skills of applied anthropology, having a strong research background and field experience, fluency in two or more languages (your native language and at least one other) and having a marketable skill in addition to anthropology, such as nutrition, administration, agronomy, or public health.
• Benefits include being able to choose the country of work and the assignment.
• Employers want people with experience. Agencies prefer those with broad experience who are able to adapt and perform in different situations. Acquiring numerous field experiences in various contexts and cultures will empower you and will facilitate your contract negotiations with international development agencies and firms.
• Good consultants must have the ability to mediate among donor organizations, offices in charge of project administration, and local government offices and to articulate their sometimes varying goals and expectations into recommendations that will improve the lives of the intended beneficiaries.
We’re beginning our 2008 round of podcasts! I’d like to thank Russell Willems for doing the audio editing!
Below is a list of the speakers in the order of their presentation as well as their paper abstracts as found in the 2008 SfAA Annual Meeting program. Note that as the session chair, Kedia introduces each speaker.
CHAIR: Satish Kedia (U Memphis)
Presidential Plenary Session in Honor of John van Willigen:
The Art and Science of Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century.
Anthropology has historically represented a bridge between the arts and sciences in explorations of human cultures. Anthropologists’ seamless blending of humanity and scientific rigor to address contemporary public issues to meet the needs of the larger community, both globally and locally, pushes us to the forefronts of engaged scholarship. As our discipline evolves and adapts to continual changes in the cultures and institutions around the world, the work of applied anthropologists becomes even more critical in transforming their knowledge into meaningful practices. This session will respond to some of these issues and provide frameworks for the future direction of applied anthropology and its practitioners in the 21st century. The plenary session will include an open forum and a reception in honor of John van Willigen.
Susan Andreatta (U NC-Greensboro)
Marietta L. Baba (Michigan State U)
Truth and Reconciliation: Acknowledging Mutual Theory-Practice Exchanges in an Era of Anthropological Engagement
The history of anthropology reveals the relevance of larger contexts to theory-practice relations. Practice has played a leading role in periods of economic and political turbulence in nations around the world. Periods of theoretical development often are related to, or follow on from, engagement in the larger world, whether this is acknowledged or not. The present era of uncertainty is one that challenges theoretical structures to respond to rapid changes in our contexts; engagement, not only criticism, is an ethical responsibility and a requirement for learning. This paper acknowledges the historical and current exchanges of theory and practice, and explores ways to reconcile these crucial forms of inquiry with new intellectual approaches that can encourage synergy between them.
Erve Chambers (U Maryland)
Applied Ethnography, Part Two
Nothing in anthropology brings us closer to bridging the artfulness of our profession and the scientific rigor of our discipline than does the melding of those processes that underlie the production of ethnography and the conceptualization of culture. How are ethnography and culture transformed as we learn to situate both as processes in which we participate rather than as properties that we declare? How are the practice of ethnography and the declaration of culture affected by our relationships with research clients, our obligations to the subjects of our inquiries, and our engagement with what we perceive to be a greater public good?
I’d like to thank our 2008 SfAA Podcast team for all of their great work last week! Everyone was SO wonderful and I think we all had a lot of fun while working so hard
The majority of the speakers in the seventeen sessions were also super wonderful, helpful, and understanding when we ran into a few glitches. Thank you speakers!!
And, of course, thank you to the SfAA Office for all of their support and work- we can’t do it without you Tom, Melissa, Trish, and Neil!
And lastly, thank you to the UNT department of anthropology for their support and for providing us with a lot of great material resources. StickerGiant.com also provided us with really neat stickers which we handed out in Memphis- we had a ton of compliments on the stickers
I’ve posted the tentative schedule of the 2008 SfAA Podcasts. I say it’s tentative because timely publication of the blog posts and audio is dependent on the speakers to an extent- I need them to submit their bio info for the post as well as electronic versions of the papers and PowerPoints (this is optional, but I encourage it). It’s also tentative because I may publish podcasts early if I have extra time to work on the editing. I chose the order based on the ease of coordinating with speakers and the amount of editing involved with the audio files.
Here is the (very) tentative schedule of podcasts for the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology (SfAA).
14 April 2008 Presidential Plenary Session in Honor of John van Willigen: The Art and Science of
Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century
17 April 2008 Preparing Applied Anthropologists for the 21st Century, Part I
21 April 2008 Preparing Applied Anthropologists for the 21st Century, Part II
24 April 2008 Working with Governmental Agencies, Part I
28 April 2008 Working with Governmental Agencies, Part II
5 May 2008 The Scholar-Practitioner in Organizational Settings
8 May 2008 For Love and Money: Employment Opportunities in Medical Anthropology (SMA)
12 May 2008 COPAA International Invited Speaker
15 May 2008 Embodied Danger: The Health Costs of War and Political Violence (SMA)
22 May 2008 Mobile Work, Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences
26 May 2008 Practitioners Rise to the Challenge: A Discussion of Methods in Business
Ethnography
29 May 2008 The Flawed Economics of Resettlement and Its Impoverishing Effects: What Can Social Scientists Do?
2 June 2008 Visualizing Change: Emergent Technologies in Social Justice Inquiry and Action,
Part I: Digital Storytelling and PhotoVoice
5 June 2008 Visualizing Change: Emergent Technologies in Social Justice Inquiry and Action,
Part II: Participatory Mapping and Visual Arts
12 June 2008 SMA Plenary Session: The Political Construction of Global Infectious Disease
Crises
16 June 2008 Anthropology Engages Immigration Reform
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Last week the SfAA Office began to contact each speaker in the 18 selected sessions to request their permission to be recorded for the podcasts. Each speaker received an email explaining what the project is, what will happen the day of, and asking them to sign and return a consent form to me before February 25, 2008.
I’ve already received a lot of ‘yes’ responses but we’ll wait until we receive permission from each session before we release the preliminary schedule.
For those of you that are in a session and have been contacted by the SfAA Office to participate in the podcast project, I’d like to remind you that we’re encouraging speakers to submit contact information (e-mail, phone number), personal website, a picture, recent/relevant publication titles and/or a PDF of your paper or PowerPoint to compliment the blog post that will be associated with the recording of the session. We found that additional information about speakers was very useful to listeners in 2007. If you’re interested in providing this information please email me before (or very shortly after) the Memphis meeting. (email:jencardew[at]gmail[dot]com)
(Here’s a great example of a blog post from last year when the speakers submitted extra information.)
We know everyone loves to be connected to things that interest them, so we’ve created a Twitter account for updates as well as a Flickr account for pictures.
These accounts will become more active as we near the Annual Meeting in Memphis (March 26-29). To read more about what Twitter is, click here. To read more about what Flickr is, click here.
(This podcast was originally posted in April 2007 and is being re-published with the permission of the speakers.)
This was a two part session, however only part I was recorded, as the second session was more of a discussion and we did not have the microphones to accommodate such a conversation (maybe next year!).
The participants (listed in order of presentation) are:
Dr. Alvin Wolfe (Introduces each speaker as well as the intro to the panel)
Our very own Diana Harrelson has created a new logo for the project and it looks great! It’s a redesign of last year’s logo and is really a great improvement (I did last years, so I can say that )
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