NEASIST Events

Librarian tag on Flickr

Michael mentioned the librarian tag on Flickr. Check out the photos of librarians' shoes! http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/librarian/

Death by meeting

Michael recommends this book: Death by Meeting.

Blogging the event on My Gadget Life

Here's a link to my blog entries for today's event on my personal blog, My Gadget Life.

So it begins...

Beatrice is introducing the day....

Wireless Lust and Disappointment

Providence College, our gracious host, has not made it round to providing wireless access on the 4th floor of the Feinstein building. Of course, your program committee wasn't going to let this stop us. The committee, speakers and other wireless experts have spent the last fifteen minutes frantically trying to cobble together wireless access via computer-to-computer networks. Unfortunately the attempt was a complete failure.

The College, as a substitute for wireless acess, has provided a lovely wired hub for anyone willing to string a cable all the way to their seat. This hub gives out it's own local ip addresses, but we can't get it to give us addresses for our computer-to-computer airport networks.

deli.cio.us tags for NEASIST

Many of the links in the bibliography are now available in Del.icio.us. Use the tag "NEASIST" to see what's there or to add to it.

Bibliography

A bibliography for the program is ready, see: Syndicate, Aggregate, Communicate: a Brief List of Resources. Suggestions are welcome for additions or changes.

NEASIST flick'r photos

NEASIST program committee members have set up a photo stream on flickr.com.

If you're planning to attend the event and want to post your photos of the event, add the tag NEASIST to your pictures using your own Flickr account, or use the email address that will be given out at the event to email your photos to our NEASIST Flickr acccount.

NEASIST flick'r photos

NEASIST program committee members have set up a photo stream on flickr.com.

If you're planning to attend the event and want to post your photos of the event, add the tag NEASIST to your pictures using your own Flickr account, or use the email address that will be given out at the event to email your photos to our NEASIST Flickr acccount.

About this blog

Syndicate, Aggregate, Communicate will demonstrate the application of new social communication tools in a real world setting.

Thinking about new communication technologies can make you feel like a kid in a candy store who wants to try as many new sweets as possible, while avoiding a stomachache. These tools present opportunities and challenges for information professionals, and making choices about which tools to sample and implement is difficult.

The NEASIS&T Program Committee debated how we might implement wiki's, blogs, PodCasts, IM/chat, and social bookmarks to support and promote Syndicate '05.

We considered:
-Infrastructure (hosting, applications, hardware)
-Sustainability (how long can we keep it going? how quickly will it be out of date)
-Learning curve (can we learn it quickly enough? do we have experience?)
-User community needs
-Interoperability (will these tools play nicely together? and with established tools? like the NEASIS&T web site)

These considerations are only the tip of the iceberg. Megan Fox, Jenny Levine, and Michael Stephens will explore these issues in greater depth during our program. For now, we offer you this blog.

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Providence College Map

A map of Providence College is available. (PDF file, 233 kb)

Syndicate, Aggregate, Communicate

NEASIST Spring Program:
Syndicate, Aggregate, Communicate:
New Web Tools in Real Applications for Libraries, Companies and Regular Folk
Tuesday, 3 May 2005, 9am-4pm
Providence College, Providence, RI

http://www.asis.org/Chapters/neasis/pc/programs/20050503.html

The Tools We Hear About : Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Instant Messenging (IM), Chat, Browser add-ons, Bookmarklets, Folksonomies

The Questions We Ask Ourselves : How and when do these tools work together? How can I use them in my environment? How do I convince my boss that they are worth implementing?

2005 opens with an avalanche of new and maturing technologies. Free tools currently available can be configured and integrated to radically improve communication and simplify information retrieval, storage and sharing. These technologies, however, are currently being developed and presented incrementally and individually, and it is up to the user to keep track, download, install, configure, integrate, learn and determine which combinations will best serve a given individual, project, or organization.

NEASIST is pleased to present another timely event designed to make sense of this frenzy of technology and turn the chaos into practical tools for harnessing information and connecting people. Three recognized, early-adopter, information specialists have been exploring and experimenting with these tools in different environments. They will be sharing examples of how you can use these tools for:

* Personal Information Management
* Internal Staff or Project Communication
* Web site Content Development
* Making your Content Findable on the Internet at large

Individual presentations and a panel session will include case studies and techniques for enlightening others about the diverse value and application of social software and information management tools.