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