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the coolness of wikis

Since wikis were so hot at CiL, I thought I’d pass along a great resource I just stumbled upon: eastwikkers, a technology blog, is running a fun project called “33 Wikis” where they highlight a wiki a day for the next 33 days. I’ve already seen a couple that look absolutely amazing (Fluwiki, anyone?), [...]

course: blogs, rss, and other 2.0 technologies

Just barely catching my breath from CiL (quick! exhale!) and my 6-week online course through the Education Institute begins tomorrow. I usually try to have all the content done and delivered a few weeks before the start of the course, but with CiL this year, I only managed to get the first 2 weeks out [...]

CiL: run-down, wrap-up, overall impressions

What I’d really like to do is write a perfectly cohesive narrative wrapping-up the past three days neatly, but the fact of the matter is, my brain is still abuzz with ideas and impressions that relate to each other only in the most tenuous of ways. And I thought the 11-ish hours of sleep I [...]

CiL: The Web 2.0 Challenge to Libraries

Paul Miller, Talis
Paul is a great speaker — funny, engaging & passionate. He began his presentation with an outline of the four topics he was going to cover:

libraries and trust
reaching out from the library
library 2.0 platform
shared innovation

Minor aside: the session overview is so crucial. It has the potential to hook your audience or lose them [...]

CiL: SMS in Libraries: The Killer Ap?

John Iliff, Palinet
John devoted the first half of his presentation to the extent to which SMS (short message service) took the telecom industry by storm (500 billion text messages are sent per year!) and is permeating our culture. Everything from Pam Anderson advertising for Virgin Mobile to viral text campaigns to register young voters, to [...]