Archive for the ‘Conference’ Category

The speaker presentation files for the recent Web 2.0 Expo which was held April 22-25, 2008 in San Francisco, CA are now available. If you weren’t able to attend the popular O’Reilly conference, you can still access the 50+ sessions including:

• Games 2.0: Why the Future of Games Looks More Like Zombies and Scrabulous and Less Like Halo 3
• How to Create Successful Unconferences, BarCamps, & Meetups for Almost No $$
• Social Data: Collecting, Mining, and Using it in Your Applications
• Taking Web 2.0 Offline and On the Desktop
• The Next Generation of Tagging: Searching and Discovering a Better User Experience

This year’s conference was jam-packed with informative and entertaining sessions. Here are a few links to presentation slides, but be sure and keep an eye on Slideshare for more:

Libraries Solve Problems (Keynote) - Lee Rainie

Online Outreach for Libraries: Successful Digital Marketing - Sarah Houghton-Jan

Transparency, Planning & Change: See-Through Libraries - Michael Stephens and Michael Casey

Pecha Kucha 2.0 Podcasting Edition - Greg Schwartz

Technology Training for Library Staff: Creativity Works! - Sarah Houghton-Jan

Podcasting & Videocasting Bootcamp - David Lee King and David Free

Innovation Starts with “I” - Helene Blowers and Tony Tallent

From Avatars to Advocacy: Innovation through Un-marketing - Helene Blowers and Michael Porter

Harnessing New Data Visualization Tools - Darlene Fichter

Mashups for Non-Techies: Yahoo! Pipes - Jody Fagan

and the InfoTubey award winners

Today at the Computers in Libraries 2008 conference, I presented on the open source content management system Drupal and how it’s being used by libraries and librarians. For those of you who weren’t able to make the conference but are still interested, I’ve created a Slidecast of my talk which is a combination of my PowerPoint presentation and an audio track. You can also just download the presentation and check out the speaker notes if you’d rather.

Anyone doing the conference circuit this spring will want to check out the C|Net News story How to survive the next-gen confab, which discusses the new interactive audience which has been given a voice at these events through such tools as Twitter, IM, and blogs.

“If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, consider this: Today, there are so many ways to communicate that even in a conference ballroom where there’s no Wi-Fi, many audience members likely have smartphones they can use to Twitter their impressions of whoever is speaking. Add working Wi-Fi and you’ve got a full-throated echo chamber of people who aren’t at all shy about making every last thought public.”

The Public Library Association had its annual conference March 25-28, here are a few links to presentations and conference coverage.

Conference Presentations
Scary Things & Great Opportunities: Web 2.0 & Libraries 2008
Michael Stephens

Keen on 2.0: The Amateurs are Coming!
John Blyberg

Why Do We Dewey?: Redesigning Libraries By Learning from Retail
Marie Pyko, Lissa Staley, Renee Patzer & Thad Hartman
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library

PLA
PLA Handouts Page

Blog Coverage
The Public Library Association blogged throughout the conference at:
PLA Blog

WebJunction’s blog has extensive coverage of the conference at:
BlogJunction

David Lee King has blogged the conference with this series of posts:
PLA 2008 Day 1: Dewey or Don’t We?

PLA 2008 Day 1: Take Your Online Services to the Next Level: Audio, Video and More!

PLA 2008 Day 1: You’re Fired! When the Ideal Candidate Becomes the Problem Employee

PLA 2008 Day 1: What Does it Take to be Good at Reference in the Age of Google?

PLA 2008, Day 2: Think Outside the Book: Online Services as Outreach

PLA 2008, Day 2: The Cutting Edge: The Latest Information on Web 2.0

PLA 2008, Day 3: It Ain’t Necessarily So: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship

These are my upcoming presentations and classes for the next few months, drop me a line if you’ll be nearby or attending.

Feb 26 - Social Bookmarking Complete at Metropolitan New York Library Council (NYC)

Mar 22 - Card Sorting A-Z at Simmons College (MA)

Mar 28 - Social Software in Academic Libraries at New York Public Library (NYC)

Apr 7 - Beyond Libraries: Industries Using Hot Tech at Computers in Libraries 2008 Conference (D.C.)

Apr 7 - Industry Learnings & Libraries at Computers in Libraries 2008 Conference (D.C.)

Apr 8 - Drupal & Libraries at Computers in Libraries 2008 Conference (D.C.)

Apr 12 - Tagging, Folksonomies, and Libraries at ABQLA Conference (Montreal)

Apr 25 - Online Community at Hartford Public Library (CT)

Apr 28 - Technology Solutions Planning at Metropolitan New York Library Council (NYC)

Apr 29 - Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals at Education Institute (Online)

May - June - Web 2.0 for Information Professionals Course at Pratt Institute SILS (NYC)

Jun - Aug - Web 2.0 Course at San Jose State University SLIS (Online)

Jun 17 - Libraries and the Hive Mind at Metropolitan New York Library Council (NYC)

Aug - Social News Course at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus (NYC)

Carmine Gallo of BusinessWeek breaks down the elements of an inspirational presentation through his analysis of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ Macworld ‘08 keynote. He offers us the following advice when delivering a presentation:

1. Set the theme.
2. Demonstrate enthusiasm.
3. Provide an outline.
4. Make numbers meaningful.
5. Try for an unforgettable moment.
6. Create visual slides.
7. Give ‘em a show.
8. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
9. Sell the benefit.
10. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.

Read more about this 10-part framework in the original article, and for a breakdown of Jobs’ keynote address announcements, (including the MacBook Air laptop), check out this slideshow.

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the Ad:Tech interactive marketing conference here in NYC. The conference had a lot of very timely sessions focusing on how new social software tools are being used as marketing vehicles by companies and organizations.

Two sessions in particular stood out for me, one of which was “Social Media and Consumer Generated Content: Has a Value Proposition Emerged?” which featured representatives from Fox Interactive Media, Coca-Cola, YouTube.com, and Digitas, each discussing their latest marketing efforts with social media and applications such as MySpace. The other was “The Online Female Consumer” which talked about women as a coveted target audience because of their zealous consumption of not only products and services but experiences and information. For the session, they brought in a panel of 3 women who were not tech or marketing experts but actual consumers who talked about their online behavior.

But now you can also check out what Ad:Tech had to offer by accessing their conference presentations which have been uploaded to their website. These are a few of the presentations you’ll find:

• SEO Workshop
• The Podosphere: Everything You Need to Know for Success in One Hour
• Tracking the Elusive Consumer: Designing Media Engagement to Drive Performance and ROI
• TV 3.0
• Web 2.0 Meets Thunderdome
• Tales from the Bleeding Edge
• Tactical Search: Local and Mobile Search Strategies

I am a avid reader of Forrester research which provides keen insight into information technology trends and developments in their analysis reports such as: “Leveraging User-Generated Content”, “How Consumers Use Social Networks“, (free to registered guests) “Why You Should Care About Web Widgets”, ” A Second Life For Marketers?”, etc.

They have just made available a series of videos from their recent Consumer Forum 2007 which everyone can access for free when they either log-in or register as guests. (They have noted that you must use Internet Explorer to access the navigation and see the slides.) Two of the analysts that I watch out for because they cover emerging trends and interactive marketing topics, Brian Haven and Charlene Li, have both got videos listed. Here are some others you’ll find:

• Social Networking And User-Generated Content In Today’s Media Environment
  Brian Haven — Senior Analyst
  Christie Hefner — Chairman and CEO, Playboy Enterprises
• MTV — Defining The Next Generation
  Christina Norman — President, MTV Networks
• Corporate Image In The Age Of Social Technologies
  Richard Edelman — President and CEO, Edelman
• Three People Who Are Changing The Face Of Media
  Shar VanBoskirk — Principal Analyst
  Jeremy Allaire — Founder and CEO, Brightcove
  Ze Frank — Founder, ZeFrank.com
  Philip J. Kaplan — Founder and President, Products, AdBrite

…and check out the website for more.

Lee Rainie’s keynote presentation 2.0 and the Internet World from Internet Librarian is available for download from the Pew Internet & American Life website. It’s chock full of Web 2.0 usage statistics as well as some very interesting profiles of different people who use technology.

There have been some great presentations put up on the Web over the past few days. Check out a few of these.

From the Hawaii Library Association Conference:

Sarah Houghton-Jan
HLA 2007: Building a Thriving eBranch

Sarah Houghton-Jan
HLA 2007: Technology Training Tips

Michael Stephens’ Keynote
Ten Technologies and Ideas to Improve Library Productivity

From Internet Librarian:

David Lee King
Setting up the New Stuff: Planning & Implementing Library 2.0

David Lee King
Topeka’s Second Life: Experiments in a Digital World

David Lee King
Introduction to Video Blogging

Darlene Fichter
Mashups & Data Visualizations: The New Breed of Web Applications

Darlene Fichter, Frank Cervone
Cool Tools for Webmasters

The presentations given at the Internet Librarian International 2007 conference in London, England are now available on the conference website including Stephen Abram’s keynote - Next Generation Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomenon, Phil Bradley’s closing keynote Facing the Challenge of Web 2.0 as a Disruptive Technology and others including:

• Implementations of Library 2.0
• Virtual Libraries
• Blogging Inertia and 2.0 Scepticism
• 23 Things
• The Impact of 2.0
• Portals and Wikis at Work

The LibrarianInBlack has compiled some fantastic coverage of the recent Future of Libraries conference which took place at the San Francisco Public Library’s Main Branch on Wednesday, including detailed panel reporting in these posts:

• Future of Libraries Conference: Keynote Presentations
• Future of Libraries Conference: Social Software in the Library–MySpace, Wikis, IM, Blogs, and Flickr
• Future of Libraries Conference: Services Without Sites: When Fingertips-to-Fingertips Augments Face-to-Face
• Future of Libraries Conference: Collection Development/Collection Management, Link+, E-Books and the Proliferation of Formats

Library Camp NYC, a free unconference was held at Baruch College today thanks to a group of volunteer organizers. There were some very engaging sessions on topics ranging from microblogging to green librarianship and everyone had a chance to participate and contribute. I had a great time and would highly recommend the “camp” or “unconference” model for future events. The conference wiki has detailed notes from each of the discussion sessions:

Open Source Desktop
Solr and Lucene
Blogging and Microblogging
XBRL
2.0 Show and Tell
Institutional Repositories
LibraryThing for Libraries
LibX
Information Literacy 101
Grid Services
iTunes and iPhone
Semantic Web
Green Librarianship
Cataloging and Weinberger
Virtual Reference
Next Generation Catalogs

The Texas Library Association’s annual conference was held in San Antonio, Texas April 11- 14, 2007. This conference showcased a wide range of strategies, techniques and technologies for promoting and ‘evolving’ library services.

School and academic libraries were included in the ‘conversation’ and as a result the materials emerging from the conference provide a rich resource of ideas and inspiration. Presentations about cataloging, searching, course management, e-learning, fiction collections and more are available at the TLA 2007 Electronic Handouts.

[From Janice Greenberg on FaceBook]