Monday, February 18, 2008

Beyond the Hype - Saturday day

As it was the weekend Sharon drove us in (which was awesome as we had our luggage) so we parked over the river, had a coffee for breakfast and ambled over to day two of the symposium.

Sherman Young

The book is dead: long live the book (by Sherman Young)

Web 1.0 – Connectivity
Web 2.0 – Creativity
Web 3.0 – Collecting (Semantic web – will do the work for us)

Hardly any notes but he was an awesome speaker!

Concurrent Session 1

I chaired the following three sessions so basically took no notes! All talks were interesting though!

Mylee

The other speaker (not present) went to the USA on the VALA scholarship and visited libraries over there to see how they implement their Web/Learning 2.0 programs before they developed one for the State Library of NSW.

Jennifer

LinkIn – like Facebook for businesses.

Bernie

Gartner Hype Curve

Concurrent Session 2

Kathryn

You Tube: blip.tv, viddler, teachertube, godtube

Flickr: zoomer, picasa, photobucket

Delicious: magnolia, connotea, citeulike

Facebook: myspace, bebo, xanga, friendstar, ning

Digg (news): reddit, perthnorg, su?

Others to consider: Slideshare and Library Thing

Kate

Focus on the need first and the tool second.
Daily book review via RSS.
Overdrive (online e-book thing)

That’s it! It was a good conference. I originally thought it was going to be a bit different (with more workshops) but all in all I enjoyed it. I didn’t take a great deal back to my workplace to implement but I learnt some news things – now I just have to find the time to have a look at them.

So Tan, Jill and I caught a taxi to the airport, had some dinner, then jumped on a flight back to Melbourne. We had another mini hen’s night on the plane and the crew gave us champagne! Thanks everyone for a great time!


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