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Change is happening all around, but attendees at the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers Fall 2009 Meeting only needed to look out the window to see the change in front of them. This year's conference, which was appropriately titled Change!?, was held September 13-September 15 in Arlington, VA. It examined specific examples of change, including cloud computing, innovation, integration of content into workflow, egovernment, and social media. For Simon Wardley, director of software services at Canonical Ltd, technology is changing because as development proceeds, yesterday's hot technologies become today's common ones, losing their strategic value. This then leads to commoditization and more innovation. Cloud computing is the provision of "dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources as a service over the Internet," according to Wikipedia. It is changing how users interact with computers and content; more services to provide information resources through this paradigm are now appearing. Since people have become a global nation of citizen publishers, social media is playing a more prominent role in the industry.
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Change: The Fall 2009 Asidic Meeting
Change is happening all around us, but attendees at the ASIDIC (Association of Information and Dissemination Centers) Fall 2009 Meeting only needed to look out the window to see the change in front of them. This year's con- ference, which was appropri- ately titled Change!?, was held Sept. 13-15 in Arlington, Va. It examined specific examples of change, including cloud computing, innovation, integration of content into workflow, egovernment, and social media.
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