Slides for "What is awesome?" at Computers in Libraries

Here are the slides for What Is Awesome? How to create a ‘reference survey’ for your new digital initiatives, a short talk I’m giving at Computers in Libraries today about how to do a lightweight competitive analysis for your new digital initiatives.

I’ll be joined today by special guest star Meta Knol, Director of the Leiden 2022 European City of Science initiative.

"What websites should we look at?" or "What have you seen that is good?" are questions that often get asked at the beginning of new digital projects. But with the vastness of the Internet and large number of new apps and technologies appearing every day it can be hard to answer those questions in a way that creates useful, actionable insights for teams and decision makers.

In this talk I use Meta’s project as a case study to show participants how they can approach this challenge, and what else they can do (and what they shouldn’t do) when someone asks “What is awesome?” on the Internet.

(The examples I use are drawn from 4 recent posts below, starting here.)