How to talk at ASIST Austin
The UT-Asist chapter has a page on their wiki on how y’all should talk while you’re here: Local Lingo
Add comment November 4th, 2006 at 07:37pm beatrice.pulliam
Archive for November 4th, 2006
Happy together - UT Austin sponsors conference eve social event tonight
I received a flier while in the blogs and wikis workshop announcing UT Austin’s get together this evening from 5-7p at the Cedar Door at 201 Brazos St., a short distance from the Hilton: map. You probably want to get there before the Longhorns kickoff.
Add comment November 4th, 2006 at 07:09pm beatrice.pulliam
Using social software for conference communications
There are about sixteen of us in the blogs and wiki workshop. Brad’s running it like a workshop, so everyone introduced themselves and their experiences with blogs and wikis. It’s very cathartic to hear the confessions of other people also challenged by the pull to post often. 
Listening to Meredith Farkas’ screencast now about her experience creating wikis for the ALA conference..Will add more to this as speakers change. I’m up after Heather Morrison’s screencast. Heather is a librarian in British Columbia. Heather’s screencast covered the blogs set up by her library network. All presentations will be available on the web. We’ll post a link here.
eta: Brad is talking about some of the successes of the ASIST conference wiki…more hits and use for social communications (logistics, get together, announcements) versus use for scholarly communications (speaker posting and interaction with attendees). Big challenge to use of both blog and wiki during the conference: lack of wireless everywhere. This year there is wireless everywhere!! So visit us and comment often.
Jackson Fox worked with Brad to set up the ASIST wiki and took us through the technical aspects of setting up a mediawiki type blog. Stephen Francoeur, the Teaching Librarian is discussing the use of group blogs. Stephen was involved with the recent Library Camp 2006 in Darien, CT..small world!
Deborah Swain, professor at North Carolina Central University is now exploring the idea of pre-mediating conferences where information exchange occurs through a mix of blogging (or your flavor of technology) and live meetings. Think of the earlier smartmobbing a la Rheingold’s Smart Mobs and more recently the “unconferences” (barcamp, etc).
Add comment November 4th, 2006 at 04:37pm beatrice.pulliam
Flickr and ASIS&T Conference Tags!
Hi everyone! Wow! What a spectacular workshop SIG-CR has turned out to be today and we still have much to cover. A quick note to everyone, since, well, we’ve been talking about social classification, tagging, folksonomy, and controlled vocabulary all day, is that we’d like to suggest that we use some semblance of CV when posting our photographs to our flickr pages. So, we decided to use the tag SIGCR2006 for our photos today.
I personally have been using ASIS&T2006 to tag my general conference photos. Will anyone consider using this tag so we can all connect? I look forward to seeing everyone’s photos!
-jenn
Add comment November 4th, 2006 at 03:43pm jennifer.graham
Workshops and chorizo tacos
A full day of pre-conf workshops today, from classification research and ethnography to the effectiveness of blogs and wikis as conference communication tools (ahem, I’m participating in this one from 2-5pm. Sign up and stop by.) Here’s the full list: Saturday Workshops. But first, I need one of those famous Austin breakfast tacos.
2 comments November 4th, 2006 at 10:06am beatrice.pulliam
Pre-Mediate
posted for Deborah Swain
I am researching and trying to participate in “blending” modes with blogs and live meetings. A colleague in London (Ed Mitchell) sees how people meet up as fascinating:
” The post, telephones and now mobile technology have revolutionised the way people pre-mediate physical meet ups. And people are differentiating less between the nature of the interaction. Software and the Internet have created new interaction forms that people are still getting used to, but they are getting used to it and mixing it in with their normal lives.
“Try to organise a party without telephoning people beforehand. This sort of activity is probably best typified by Japanese youth going to Shibuya, as made famous by Howard Rheingold in SmartMobs. All these kids need to know is to go to Shibuya metro station in the evening and the organisation is carried out in real time via SMS messages and phone calls. This sort of thing is happening around the world.
“Mixed mode facilitation is happening already; lots of examples are cropping up around the world and the internet. We could use the big examples you are likely to have seen about MySpace, World of Warcraft or Second Life…”
Regards, Deborah Swain (dswain@nccu.edu as well as swainham@msn.com)
Add comment November 4th, 2006 at 09:56am beatrice.pulliam
Greetings and Salutations from another first timer!
Hello all! This is my first ASIS&T conference and I am delighted to be participating in our official conference blog. I hail from Buffalo, NY where I recently completed my MLS at the University at Buffalo’s School of Informatics. There, I developed a passion for digital libraries, web 2.0, tagging, information literacy, and academic reference and instruction. Currently, I am an assistant librarian at UBLibraries Central Technical Services.
I look forward to meeting, learning and discussing the future of the digital world with all of you. June Abbas and I will be presenting a poster on tagging so stop by and talk about folksonomies vs. (or in conjunction with) controlled vocabularies with us. Or… just stop over and say hi. I haven’t decided which seminars I am attending yet, but I will be at SIGCR tomorrow and the first timers brunch on Sunday.
I also publish a personal blog at jennimi.wordpress.com and welcome any visitations and feedback. My ASIS&T2006 photographs may be found at flickr, here.
Add comment November 4th, 2006 at 12:04am jennifer.graham