IMA Public Media Conference: “If I’m repeating myself…”

This is likely to be one of the big themes of this year’s Public Media Conference. There is a growing frustration (it was already considerable) at our inaction on a number of fronts. This is especially galling because the New Realities process last year, while messy, looked like the beginning of something new, and there were pledges to get moving on issues like federated search, a standardized system of online metrics, and possibly a shared digital back-end infrastructure, among other things.
What all of us have felt and talked about privately, is now something we’re talking about openly: yet again, we walked away from a conference with great ideas and a set of goals (written on paper, even) and then we accomplished little. Frankly, there can only be so much talk about this because, after fleshing through our dysfunctional issues, how under-staffed we are, how under-funded we are, there’s the core problem that there’s no set of next actions attached to these goals, to borrow from the GTD enthusiasts.