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webtoopointoh!

Hey, I just wrapped up teaching a course that had “Web 2.0″ in the title. And we had an audio conference during the course too. Gulp! I think I might be in trouble.
[I'm way late to this conversation but this just occured to me. Damn! I knew I should have used "Library 2.0" in the [...]

see you in Monterey!

The advance program for Internet Librarian 2006 is up and it looks excellent! It’s my very first time attending this year so you can bet I’ll be taking advantage of the conference wiki as I plan for the trip. I’m teaching a couple of preconference sessions (on IM & RSS) so I had planned to [...]

LIS course in Social Software

Remember that LIS course I mentioned that I’d be teaching on social software this Fall? Well, it’s now become priority #1, the next few months will be devoted almost exclusively to developing the content and getting it in shape for the Fall term. Here’s the syllabus, slightly modified since I first submited it to the [...]

IM: where we’ve been, where we’re going

I gave a talk on IM to a great bunch of librarians at Wilfred Laurier University this morning. Most of it was about our experience with IM over the past year, it was a great excuse to spend some time pouring over our logs and crunching the numbers. Brief recap of our first year: good, [...]

Carnival of the Infosciences #35

Good day, carnival-goers, and welcome to the thirty-fifth Carnival of the Infosciences! First up, the submissions:

Carolyne Sidey blogs the keynote address at the Endeavor Voyager EndUser 2006 Conference. The keynote, given by Tom Turvey, Strategic Partner Development Manager at Google, was all about Google Book Search, and Carolyne reports that Turvey was “funny, personable, a [...]