Day two: Keynote & sessions

This morning's keynote was delivered by Bruce James, the head of GPO. It was an interesting history of GPO along with an overview of the direction he intents on taking it in the future (i.e. 100% digital content). I now know more about the GPO than I did yesterday. The best quote was when he was talking about depository libraries having to keep documents in puportuity: "We're fining out that puportuity is a very long time."

I attended two morning sessions, "Social Software 101" and "Wiki's @ Your Library". The former was an overview of "social" technologies such as wikis, blogs, and IM. The latter was an introduction to Wikis and how they can be applied in a librari environment. Examples of Memory Aplha (the Star Trek wiki) and Wikipedia were shown and were excellently presented examples. Unfortunately, Karen and I had to leave this one a bit early to meet up with the Neal-Schuman rep.

The lunch meeting went well, ending up with the two of us promising to turn in a book proposal by the end of April.

Presentations posted

I've posted the .PPT files for both of my Cybertours. You can find them on my presentations page.

Bookmarklets

Thanks to Stephen M. Cohen for informing me of the Make Search Bookmarklet Tool. "Thanks" in that sarcastic sort of way, not because the tool isn't amazing (it is) but now I have one more thing to show in my 15 minute Cybertour tomorrow.

Day two: Good Morning

Last night's speaker reception included much interesting conversation, mostly about the great hunt for employment. I guess I was the luckiest participant in said conversation as I currently have a job. The Dead Technologies session was as informative and hillarious as usual. (The full-frontal picture of Arnold Schwartzeneger was a bit much, especially when projected on a 20-foot high screen.) After the session many of us ended up back at the Hilton bar once again for further laughs and conversation. I was interview by Greg Schwartz for his CIL podcast and even recorded a tag line for him. I took plenty of session and bar photos but managed to mistakenly delete all of them off my camera's storage card before I could upload them. (I thought I was deleting them from the ofoto software but it turns out that deleting them there also deletes the originals too. Oh well, live and learn.)

Today my schedule is dominated by a lunch meeting with Neal-Schuman and an afternoon meeting with Information Today both regarding current and future projects. I'll report on the results of these conversations this evening.

I'm off to the Keynote...