ALA2007’s Most Attended Program

Guess what ALA2007’s most attended program was? Was it Julie Andrews? Was it Peter Morville? No.
This is only my guess, because I don’t have all the numbers… but my guess, based on one set of numbers alone, was … the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase UnConference!
What? There were only 30 or so people who attended! How [...]

ALA2007: Ambient Findability: Librarians, Libraries, and the Internet of Things

Peter Morville - very fun to hear! Good stuff, too.
Lead-off quote: Information that’s hard to find will remain information that’s hardly found.
organize websites so people can find what they’re looking for - that’s how he explains his job to his mom
provide multiple paths to the same information
What does usable mean? His honeycomb… :
useful, desirable, [...]

Change Starts With You

Cindi at the Chronicles of Bean blog just posted a must-read post. Very cool to see someone jumping in with both feet! Also cool to see someone who wants to change - wants to actually LEAD change, and is actively seeking ways to make that happen.
To all my way-cool geek friends in libraryland - what [...]

Social Software Showcase Rocked

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Yesterday, I participated in the LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. It was very cool! The Showcase had more of an “unconference” feel, which was nice. So rather than doing a formal presentation with a brief Q and A at the end, I created a screencast of my presentation (linked above) about cool [...]

ALA2007: Libraries as Conversations with Gamers

Eli Neiburger, aadl.org
- Showed stats - gaming is a major part of the content industry
- there are more adult women gamers than teenage boys
- teens say “email is how you talk to old people”
- Pokemon the game has more text than some school curriculums do - it requires significant text literacy
- video gaming is like [...]

ALA2007: Participatory Networks: Libraries as Conversations: Second Life

John Lester (Pathfinder Linden!):
- introduction to second life
- fundamentally not a game
- asked “is the web a game?” There are games on the web… SL is the same
- online augments face-to-face just like the phone augments - doesn’t replace
- median age 35
- goal - host your own SL grid (they went open source in January [...]

ALA2007: RUSA Preconference: My VideoBlogging Slides

Here’s the presentation I just did at the ALA2007 RUSA Reinvented Reference pre-conference… Introduction to Videoblogging.
Enjoy!
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ALA2007: RUSA Preconference: The Hyperlinked Library: Reference Services in the 2.0 World

Michael Stephens, Keynote: The Hyperlinked Library: Reference Services in the 2.0 World
David says: other people probably took better notes - honestly, I really enjoy just sitting and listening to Michael talk - he does a great job, and it’s fun!
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introduced web and library 2.0, discussed the information revolution that’s taking place.
three things to do:
evolve - [...]

SirsiDynix Has a New CEO and CFO

SirsiDynix just appointed Gary Rautenstrauch as New CEO and Douglas Maughan as the CFO. Found via Stephen Abram…

I’m No Antidigitalist: a song about GormanGate

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Last week, as I was reading and responding to everyone’s responses to Michael Gorman’s blog posts, I re-read a couple of the posts myself… and this phrase from his earlier “blog people” article started running through my head … and wouldn’t leave.So I did what any self-respecting closet musician would do on his [...]

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