Teen Tech Week Mini Grants

Some of you might have heard about this - just passing it along: YALSA has some Teen Tech Week mini grants to give out to some lucky libraries! From Yalsa’s website:
“Thanks to our 2008 Corporate Sponsor Dungeons & Dragons, you could win one of twenty mini grants for your celebration! Mini grants of $450 and [...]

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 [...]

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: 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: 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 - [...]

One Way to Improve ALA

Aaron Dobbs has a great idea or two on improving ALA, so he created a wiki called the Improve ALA Wiki.
Go check it out and contribute!

ALA is Videoblogging!

Some of you probably know I like to play with video once in a while… well, apparently ALA does, too! They now have a videoblog, called AL Focus. Very cool, indeed. Jenny Levine has a bit more info about the videoblog.
Now I need to update my presentation I’m giving at ALA about videoblogs…

My Twitter Presentation - Part of the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase

(update - the BIGWIG sites seem to be down, but there are updated links to both twitter presentations. Enjoy!)
I was asked to participate in the first ever BIGWIG Social Software Showcase “unconference.” (site seems to be down). What is the Showcase, you ask? From the LITA blog: “LITA BIGWIG (Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software IG) [...]

Another Cool Person at ALA

David Free is moving to ACRL! He’s going to be the editor of College and Research Libraries news. Why is this neat? David (besides being a great dude) understands emerging trends… for example, he originally announced his new job via twitter, and then today he told me about it via Google Talk. This is sure [...]

What ALA and SXSWi Could Have in Common

I read two things today (well, really lots more than that, but I digress) that come from extremely different areas of my scope, yet are related:

Karen Schneider’s ALA: What is to be done post;
The SXSWorld magazine’s announcement that SXSWi panel proposals will be accepted starting June 1.

So how are those two things related? One of [...]

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