In a few hours, I will be presenting two items in a Pecka Kucha format for the Maryland Library Association conference in Ocean City MD.
The presentations are up on slideshare.
If you want to see what I see at the conference, I will be tweeting about it at http://twitter.com/confbaldgeek
I hope all of my fellow presenters have great presenations tomorrow.
Now off to bed.
Night all.
Yes, there will be more blog posts about CIL 2009.
About the incredibly rich formal learning.
About the truly sublime informal learning and knowledge sharing that happened. Mostly during the lobbycon/tablecon/carpetcon sessions.
About the renewed strength of my personal “worldwideweb”.
About the increased knowledge that is my conference takeaway.
About meeting friends by saying “Don’t I know you from the Internet?” Then bonding with same.
About bragging about my friends giving fantastic presentations all over the conference. And wishing that I could have cloned myself to be at everyone. Thank goodness for slideshare. If I know you and you presented, yes I am talking about you!
About being lucky to attend such a great conference. Thanks to MPOW Harford County Public Library. A rockin’ library even in these tough times.
About being able to produce a LIVE version of the T is for Training Podcast!
If you can’t wait for the full report, just go to my conference twitter feed at http://twitter.com/confbaldgeek to see my 337 or so updates from the conference, which made the tagcloud for the conference. I hear that Internet Librarian is much the same but with many Left Coasters for a different prospective. I would like to go but may need sponsoring help. <g>.
So look in this space in the next few days for better reports from CIL2K9.
TTFN
baldgeekinmd
I am now able to attend the sublime Computers in Libraries Conference held just outside of DC this coming Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
I will be blogging about the conference, attending many sessions, meeting a bunch of my T is for Training cohorts f2f for the first time, and renewing other friendships admit tons of good presentations.
Subscribe to my blog, if you have not already, and follow me on that new hot service called Twitter.
I have created a special account just for conference posts and insights.
Follow the user confbaldgeek to keep up with my activites at the conference.
See you on the interwebs.
Having problems explaining twitter to folks in your system? Try this article. It may not be ultimate, but it is comprehensive.
Twitter for Librarians: The Ultimate Guide
Some weeks writing for your blog equals pointing people to great resources. So far, this is one of those weeks.
Via Cindi at http://citegeist.com/
Its Up. Its Down. Its Up. Its Down. (at 4:44 Eastern, May 21st, 2008-down)
Yes, I am talking about twitter. The fantab microblogging service that can be so much more. If it was not powered by four gerbils on a wheel.
Check here if twitter is up or down. istwitterdown.com.
It is great. So what if clicking the answer redirects you to someone’s book on Amazon.
Twitter made my world a little better by getting me a response from cable giant Comcast.
Here is the conversation from Twitter:
baldgeekinmd (angry this morning after being told I was NOT elligible for the Triple Play package for almost the same price as I pay for my cable and internet at home):
@comcastcares (comcast on twitter) Dear Comcast, I pay you $170 a month, why can’t I get the triple play deal too? I feel hosed. kthanksbye
The response:
comcastcares @baldgeekinmd I can get that for you. XX_XXX_XXXX@cable.comcast.com
I bow down to the power of a hooked up cable company. And they just sent me an email to follow up. I will talk to them tonight.
W00t and yeah twitter.
And here 101 Everyday Uses for Twitter. Thanks travelinlibrarian for the link.
Posted in Harford County Public Library
Tagged cable, comcast, customer service, travelinglibrarian, twitter
Twitter, the micro-blogging service that can be used to keep you friends up to date on your minutiae or tapped as the hive-mind creates many common social network strands. The site tweetwheel.com makes those relationships visible.
Very visible.
My complete tweetwheel is here: baldgeekinmd’s wheel. Thanks to The Strange Librarian for dropping this in my twitter feed..
UPDATE: Seems as Twitterwheel had gotten so popular it has overwhelmed its servers. It runs really really really slow or looks like the site has disappeared.
Innanet Growing Painz.
Update of the Update: Bugs seem to be fixed.
The Floor of the House of Representatives, The US Senate Floor and White House all have twitter feeds.
I think this a good thing.
Posted in Harford County Public Library
Tagged Feeds, government, house, senate, twitter, white house
So, if you notice a lack of posts about the conference, that is because we library geeks with all of our gadgets designed to keep us in touch with each other constantly, fried the hotel’s wireless connection in the conference area, so there was no service in many areas. I will be posting information about the afternoon sessions I attended with notes and all tomorrow. My apologies.
Now onto the Good, Bad and Ugly from day 2.
The GOOD
Meeting old friends in a presentation. And lamenting that I could not provide some support for his presentation, because it is the same time as mine on Wednesday.
Three presentations, two great bookending one good one. Got so me thing from every workshop. Glad I had notepad to fall back upon.
The Internet cafe in the exhibit hall. I was at least able to post some basic information about the morning presentation by the Shifted Librarian.
Electronic Friendly tables in the front of the room for my three sessions. That means powerstrips that anyone could plug into and recharge their equipment.
Putting two faces with voices and people from our statewide Synchronous Training class. Beth from Howard County, Kevin from Cecil County, Nette and I had a grand time at lunch. We found a great pub not too far off the beaten path and had a grand time talking about all sorts of issues.
My wife coming down and staying until tomorrow.
Nette live blogging the conference. The Librarian In Black live blogging.
Finding my blogging about the conference listed in the April 2008 Issue of Computers In Libraries. Check it out. I should have put my real photo in so folks could say howdy here. Oh well.
CIL2008 one of the top tags for flickr today.
Lots of folks of color participating at all levels of this conference.
Folks coming up to me virtually and face to face thanking me for posting the videos from Gaming and Gadgets. I am going to post the best one in a separate post tomorrow. You could look for it on my YouTube channel. Look for Enter Sandman on Rock Band. Trust me, it is GREAT!
Someone asking why don’t you use your webcam and do a streaming feed of the workshops you are attending and your day at CIL. And then pausing and instantly brainstorming how you could do that with the three people sitting near you. Then coming to the conclusion that you carry around too much *stuff* to make that work this year, but someone could work on that for next year.
The Bad
I am responsible for reservations for tomorrow’s lunch at the sushi place. They, along with the deli, Legal Seafoods and the restaurants at the hotel were all ahem, jam packed for lunch. There are too many people for the area and not enough restaurants able to handle 2500 or so library folks along with the normal weekday crowd.
Having to drop $$ again for stable wireless. You know my feelings about that..
The Ugly
The conference seems to have overloaded the hotel’s conference wireless capabilities. We inadvertently created a small “denial of serviceseque” on the wireless. Too many needs to connect with too few licenses to connect available equals bottleneck.
Also, there are quite a few folks using twitter to microblog the conference. Seems that created a little stress on twitter also. Or maybe it just seemed that way.
Overall, again more good than bad. I can now say this is my favorite library conference I have attended. I came away last year and will come away from this conference with so much information I almost want to pull myself in eight directions.
I can’t wait for next year.
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