Come into Second Life on Tuesday, August 3 to hear  Pat Wagner, well known speaker and consultant and owner of Pattern Research,  present "Why Futurists Can't Predict the Future, and How You Can". This is a talk about trends analysis using a Popperian appraoch to analyzing data. It's going to be an interactive presentation with the participants working on some examples while Pat speaks. 

If you have not yet explored Second Life, check out the free Introduction to Second Life webinars for SLA members at http://www.sla.org/content/learn/members/webinars/secondlife.cfm

Library Buzz: Why Futurists Can't Predict theFuture, and How You Can Presented by Pat Wagner

When: August 3 2010 - 6pm PT/SLT
Where: Info Island Auditorium, Second Life
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/62/114/33
NOTE: This session is in Second Life, please get a Second Life avatar and the client software here: http://www.secondlife.com

Pat Wagner has worked with Pattern Research, Inc. and its predecessor the Office for Open Network since 1977. She is an educator, trainer, writer and consultant, focusing on personnel, management, leadership, marketing, career and strategic planning issues. She has special interests in conflict management, project management, community outreach and future studies.

Most of her current clients work with and for libraries of all kinds, plus library boards, foundations, Friends groups, and national, state and regional library organizations. Pat also works for innovators in universities, schools, nonprofits, local government and professional, business and trade organizations, as well as medical, scientific and research institutions.

Pat had a checkered past in the performing, visual and literary arts as a poet, graphic designer, publisher, writer, radio talk show host and printer She has a liberal arts degree with an emphasis in print communication and performance.

 Virtual Worlds Advisory Council in partnership with the Community Virtual Library (CVL).

Come into Second Life on Tuesday, August 3 to hear  Pat Wagner, well known speaker and consultant and owner of Pattern Research,  present "Why Futurists Can't Predict the Future, and How You Can". This is a talk about trends analysis using a Popperian appraoch to analyzing data. It's going to be an interactive presentation with the participants working on some examples while Pat speaks. 

If you have not yet explored Second Life, check out the free Introduction to Second Life webinars for SLA members at http://www.sla.org/content/learn/members/webinars/secondlife.cfm

Library Buzz: Why Futurists Can't Predict theFuture, and How You Can Presented by Pat Wagner

When: August 3 2010 - 6pm PT/SLT
Where: Info Island Auditorium, Second Life
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/62/114/33
NOTE: This session is in Second Life, please get a Second Life avatar and the client software here: http://www.secondlife.com

Pat Wagner has worked with Pattern Research, Inc. and its predecessor the Office for Open Network since 1977. She is an educator, trainer, writer and consultant, focusing on personnel, management, leadership, marketing, career and strategic planning issues. She has special interests in conflict management, project management, community outreach and future studies.

Most of her current clients work with and for libraries of all kinds, plus library boards, foundations, Friends groups, and national, state and regional library organizations. Pat also works for innovators in universities, schools, nonprofits, local government and professional, business and trade organizations, as well as medical, scientific and research institutions.

Pat had a checkered past in the performing, visual and literary arts as a poet, graphic designer, publisher, writer, radio talk show host and printer She has a liberal arts degree with an emphasis in print communication and performance.

 Virtual Worlds Advisory Council in partnership with the Community Virtual Library (CVL).