I was a panelist at the OCLC Symposium preconference event. It was a blast – there were some great speakers, too, including:
keynote speaker, Michael Schrage, author of Shared Minds—The New Technologies of Collaboration and columnist for CIO and MIT’s Technology Review
Susan Gibbons, Associate Dean, Public Services & Collection Development, University of Rochester (NY) River Campus Libraries
Mary Beth Sancomb-Moran, Librarian, University of Minnesota, Rochester
and me…
If you missed the presentations, never fear! You can view the video version! Go to this page and choose the Mashed Up Library event (currently only viewable using Internet Explorer).
I’m gearing up for ALA 2008 in Anaheim CA next week! Wow, that’s coming up fast. I’ll be there the whole time, and giving three presentations. Here’s when I’m speaking:
Friday, June 27 – OCLC Symposium: The Mashed-Up Library. I’m talking about mashing up websites, etc.
Saturday, June 28 – LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. The presentation is done (you can go listen now), but the discussion at the Showcase will be a blast – come join in the fun at my table or the others!
Sunday, June 29 – Library 2.0 and Children’s Services
So feel free to come listen and say hi after – or just stop me in the hall and say hi! Either/both is cool.
I am one of the presenters/conversation starters at BIGWIG’s Social Software Showcase at ALA2008. What is the Social Software Showcase, you ask? From the website: “The general idea for the BIGWIG Showcase is to highlight up-to-date technological innovations for libraries, while giving as broad an access as possible to the content and the presenters.”
So – I’ve created a screencast. Here’s what you do – watch/listen to my presentation, and then you have a few different options:
Come sit at my table during the actual Showcase, and we’ll chat! Show up on Saturday, June 28th at the ALA Annual Convention in the Marriott Anaheim Gold Key Rooms I-III from 1:30-3:30pm.
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Description: Engaging your library’s local community is NOT an easy task. Engaging your library’s local DIGITAL community is even harder. This presentation introduces the concept of the experience economy and mashes that up with digital community participation and engagement. What’s that get you? A headache! No, wait… that’s the wrong answer. It REALLY gets you … Community Experience, aka the Conversation Economy.
So watch/listen to my presentation (if the version above is too small for you, go here for a 640X480 version)… and then come experience the conversation economy in action at my table at BIGWIG’s Social Software Showcase! Hope to see you there!
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 $50 worth of Teen Tech Week products are available to YALSA members who plan to offer unique, engaging programming activites, services or resources to celebrate Teen Tech Week in their community. Download the official rules and submit the application form and your proposal to the YALSA office at yalsa@ala.org by January 7, 2008.”
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 can that be, David? That’s just the physical attendees. But so far, my twitter presentation for the showcase has been viewed 953 times. That’s a bunch of attendees!
How about some of you other BIGWIG presenters? How many people have viewed your screencasts (those of you whomade screencasts)?
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 Twitter add-ons, and then at the Showcase David Free and I sat at a table and had good conversations with interested attendees. We talked about a range of things, from Twitter to Facebook to other techie topics.
I think ALA could use some more of these… my guess is the interest groups and poster sessions are supposed to cover this type of ground, but I’m not sure they’re achieving that. The Showcase DID achieve it. So let’s definitely have more!
- 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 2007)
- emotional bandwidth – constantly want to connect with people (emoticons vs avatars with facial expressions)
- over 200 universities represented – doing experiential learning
- creating immersive experiences
- imagine learning about ancient egypt, in a replica of ancient egypt
- real vs virtual worlds… are people you talk to real? Cell phone? What’s the difference?
- don’t get mired in past frameworks – ie., movies are not plays
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 – checking out laptops, camcorders, etc… welcoming buildings
let go of control – no cell phone signs as examples
be visible online
plan with your users
engage your users
- catalog search box in facebook
- comments in catalog
adopt a 2.0 philosophy
- throw out the culture of perfect
- learn from the gamers (it’s ok to make mistakes)
- discover, play and experience these new tools
Second Life reference desk – 200 questions a week
create a culture of trust
- trust users
- trust each other
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