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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).
November 4th, 2006 at 04:37pm
beatrice.pulliam
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
November 4th, 2006 at 03:43pm
jennifer.graham
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.
November 4th, 2006 at 10:06am
beatrice.pulliam
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)
November 4th, 2006 at 09:56am
beatrice.pulliam
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.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:04am
jennifer.graham
Another first-timer checking in. My name is Amelia Abreu, and I’m currently an Archivist/ History Subject Specialist at University of Houston Libraries. I’m interested in digital libraries, in particular issues of access and description, so there’s a lot I’m looking forward to in the next few days. As a veteran of math archives and a bit of a history of science hobbyist, I am looking forward to Barabási’s address as well.
Finally, as a native Texan and a former Austinite, I am more than happy to point new arrivals towards the best migas, mole and barbecue in town.
November 3rd, 2006 at 06:50pm
amelia.abreu
This afternoon I packed my bags for my first-ever ASIS&T conference, and I’m pretty excited! I’m heading to Austin tomorrow morning–flying and staying with three other women currently in the Simmons program. I’m current vice chair of the Simmons ASIS&T Chapter and am looking forward to meeting other student chapter members and practicing librarians.
I’ve looked at the conference program several times, but as for what sessions I’ll attend, I think I’ll just see where the winds blow me. I will admit to a burning curiosity regarding SIG CON . . . something tells me that will be a fun event.
November 3rd, 2006 at 05:54pm
Alison Cody
There’s a song in there somewhere…I rarely extol the virtues of a commercial airline, but not only am I able to check email and such for free from virtually anywhere in the Jet Blue terminal at JFK, I can sit next to one of many outlets on this carpeted round thing and charge up. In contrast, Boston Logan offers a $7.95 for a day’s worth of wifi…
November 3rd, 2006 at 02:13pm
beatrice.pulliam
Well this is my first ASIS&T and I’m looking forward to it. As a fresh off the grad podium librarian I am a bit curious to see what ASIS&T is all about.
Any one else heading to the Daser Summit pre-conference workshop titled Shaping Things to Come? It is hosted by SLA, ASIST and ACS.
I’ll admit, it took me a few seconds to get over the scary sounding title Daser Summit III / 8th Quadrennial Tri Society Symposium (think lasers, tasers and all other kinds of intergalactic weapons and something that sounds like a chemical formula). DASER stands for Digital Archives for Science & Engineering Resources. Ah, that sounds much more interesting, and right up my alley. And… I’m a new librarian so I’m definitely interested in hearing from “visionaries” in the field.
It is at the Hilton tomorrow (Friday, November 3) at 9 am. Not really sure exactly where in the Hilton. Perhaps someone more enlightened than I could comment and let us all know where to go.
November 2nd, 2006 at 07:09pm
laura.robinson
Plan to join us at this SIG-DL sponsored panel at ASIS&T AM 2006, on Monday Nov. 6, 2006 from 1:30 - 3:30 pm. The panelists are Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University & Editor, JASIST; Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Samantha Hastings, University of South Carolina & Editor, ASIS&T Monograph Series; and Anita Coleman, University of Arizona and Editor, dLIST.
The goal of the panel is to explore the concept of the commons by framing it in the context of scholarly communication while also honing our understandings about digital libraries and repositories as technologies and socio-cultural artifacts. Panel members will uncover the pros and cons of the commons for LIS research and scholarly communication by describing the cognate and competing extant information realities. Edie Rasmussen will discuss the role of digital libraries in the commons. Anita Coleman, dLIST editor, the first open access archive for the information sciences will present her latest research about open access archives and the commons. Donald Kraft, Editor-in-chief of JASIST, will share his experiences editing a peer-reviewed ISI-ranked journal. Samantha Hastings, editor of ASIS&T monographs will share book publishing plans and concerns. Brief overviews together with the questions of each presenter for the audience/other panelists are already available, in case you want to peek ahead or perhaps even discuss online.
November 2nd, 2006 at 03:56pm
anita.coleman
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