Great workshops on the weekend here in Monterey CA — I can tell by all the enthusiasm and buzz and the ideas that are flying around. The first two keynote speakers have sparked some great discussions already.
Howard Rheingold (who did a talk for me in Toronto in the early 90’son virtual communities) talked about the “Social media classroom“, now under development, that will allow students to switch from blogs to forms to wikis to chat to microblogs fluidly. For more coverage of Howard’s talk see Don Hawkins piece and Jaap van de Geer’s conducted a brief interview with Rheingold.
I loved his term “Killerettes” to describe the smaller apps that nibbles at the Google gorilla. Check out
my post on the
Infotoday blog. Lots of conference converage there from Information Today editors and links to many other conference bloggers. You can get a great feeling for what’s happening here at IL2008!
Our Pecha Kucha star at Computers in Libraries 2008, Greg Schwartz is the moderator for the our pecha kucha at Internet Librarian 2008 next month in Monterey CA. Listen to Greg’s talk about podcasting here. For tips on doing your own pecha kucha (where each speaker has 6 min and 40 seconds and up to 20 slides to make their points) check this out.
The CIL audience loved the pecha kucha relating to social media and the upcoming IL one will focus on planning topics. Rebecca Jones, my business partner, will talk about planning frameworks, and it will be very exciting to see good friend Stephen Abram get his points across without going over his alotted time!
The end of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (thanks again Google for your wonderful doodles) is signaling for me the fast approach of the fall, a busy conference time — a time for learning, sharing knowledge, celebrating accomplishments with colleagues, netowrking with new people, and gaining new insights. KMWorld & Intranets 2008, September 23-5, as well as Enterprise Search Summit West , September 23-4 and Taxonomy Boot Camp 2008, September 25-6 will soon be held in San Jose. Internet Librarian 2008, the 12th annual conference (amazing isn’t it?), October 20-22 in Monterey will again bring together leaders in information technology, information management, and information services as well as those hoping to be leaders in their organizations. Hope to see you there.
Fabulous keynote speakers head the Internet Librarian 2008 conference, Oct 20-22, Monterey CA with a conference theme, Beyond 2.0: User-Focused Tools & Practices.
Howard Rheingold, Communities & Communication in a Social & Mobile World
Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land: What’s Happening Out There?
danah boyd, Social Media & Networked Technoloiges: Research & Insights
Liz Lawley, Learning & Play in a Social & Mobile World
Check out the full program, participate in the conference wiki, and join us in Monterey in October for a great conference full of networking events as well as fabulous speakers.
