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June 15, 2007

Not Attending ALA? Here's an Alternative...

This is posted many places but I want to be sure that no one misses it!
This is FREE and doesn't require you to leave the comfort of your home or use any gas!!!

Not able to attend ALA but still want to find out what's going on in cutting edge technology and social software!? Well check out the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase...

From their page:

The Social Software Showcase is an online unconference occurring on and during the time of ALA Annual 2007.

On this wiki, you will find eleven wonderful presentations on cutting edge technology and social software by librarians and leaders in the field. Regardless of where you are in the world, you will have the opportunity to discuss the presentations here in this space.

We will also be having a face to face roundtable discussion with some of our presenters at ALA Annual in Washington D.C. on Saturday, June 23rd, from 1:30-2:30 in the Renaissance Mayflower Cabinet Room. If you are in D.C. please come and join us.

This wiki will be a work in progress as we iron out a few things, including the embedding of the presentations. But we'll be ready and running before ALA! [end]

This is a revolutionary way of presenting information! Please do check it out.

The presenters include the VERY excellent:

Michael Casey - Library Crunch blog
Michael Porter, aka Library Man! - Library Man blog
Jessamyn West - Librarian.net blog -
Karen Schneider - Free Range Librarian blog
Her post on this.
AND MORE!

You can read another excellent post on this for some more information on the Information Wants to Be Free blog here

The Bigwig Social Software Showcase is here

Check it out! :-)

Happy Weekend!

Posted by Amy Kearns at June 15, 2007 9:03 AM

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