Posts under ‘Conferences’

Coveritlive.com is a pretty nifty (& free) tool to let’s you provide live commentary from an event.  (Live blogging. blogcasting?) You type your notes into a browser based interface and your commentary is streamed out to a viewer you can put on your blog, wiki or web page. Your virtual audience can comment back to [...]

In a class last week, someone suggested using the the free trading cards generator at bighugelabs.com as a ‘get to know you’ sort of exercise at the beginning of the school year.  That got me thinking about and looking for other back to school ideas for this fun tool.
Like all the tools at bighugelabs, this [...]

Not heading to Anaheim for ALA? That doesn’t mean you have to miss out on everything. LITA’s BIGWIG Social Software Showcase web page already has a number of videos and screencasts of presentations posted to it. There will also be some live webcasts and discussions during the conference. Check the Showcase page for times and [...]

I’m in Arlington, Virginia this week for the 2008 Computers in Libraries conference. I had really good intentions of  blogging about the sessions I’d been too.  But at the end of the day, I’ve just been too tired to think or write coherently. And live blogging from the conference sessions is way more than my [...]

Jenny Levine and Aaron Schmidt put on a great night of gaming at the Computers in Libraries 2008 conference. What a great way to start the conference. There were wii’s and ddr and guitar hero and board games and card games and lots of tun and laughter. I tried my hand at Brain Age [...]

Michael Stephens, John Blyberg and Jen Maney gave a terrific presentation at PLA last week:   The Cutting Edge: The Latest Information on Web 2.0.  I wasn’t there, but I watched and listened to the talks thanks to the presenters sharing their slides and audio.
These are the links as posted by Michael Stephens’ on Tame [...]