LITA BlogStanding Room Only
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For the Opening Keynote this morning, David Lee King spoke to a standing room only audience. The presentation was great. David talked about Web 2.0 concepts and challenged us to think differently about the way we do business and [...]
A Fun Discussion Moderated by Gregg Silvis
[There were two of these sessions and they both ran a bit differently. Gregg ran this as a discussion group and I captured as many of the comments as I could. Audience comments are marked “comments,” my comments are in brackets, and Gregg’s words are as is. I came [...]
LITA wants to create a new kind of technology conference within ALA. I am chairing the committee charged with the task of coming up with a new “big” idea about technology conferences. We want the conference to be useful and we want it to reflect what you may find lacking in current ALA and non-ALA [...]
Jason Griffey, In-Coming Chair reports
What is BIGWIG? A working IG interested in social and emerging technologies. We do our work and discussions virtually using all tools possible. We are not a simple discussion group.
Our current structure is as follows:
We have an incoming chair, two co-chairs, and an outgoing chair. One chair is always in movement [...]
LITA BIGWIG (Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software IG) is pleased to present the first ever online, unconference at ALA Annual 2007. The Social Software Showcase will be occuring around and during Annual. We have gathered eleven librarians and leaders in the field to present on cutting edge technology and social software. Regardless of where [...]
Welcome to the LITA Podcasts Election Series. For your listening pleasure, every few days a new group of LITA Officer hopefuls will be presented. Tune in here on LITABlog, via any RSS aggregator using our normal RSS feed, or now tune in via iTunes by clicking here or searching for LITA in the podcast area [...]
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The LITA Town Meeting yesterday was action packed even at 8am. I know there were a couple of other people taking actual notes. These are just my thoughts.
The activity that Mark Beatty had the packed room complete involved writing things we [...]
This was a loooooong meeting with a lot of content. I tried to condense it has much as I could. There are three main sections to the meeting and I have bolded them for easier skimming.
Present at the meeting: Bonnie Postlethwaite, Mary Taylor, Mark Beatty, Jonathan Rothman, Andrew Pace, Karen Starr, Barbara Higginbotham, David Bretthauer, [...]
Mary Taylor
Happy Hour was a success yesterday with new members, old members, and people checking us out. At Annual, Happy Hour will be after the open house on Friday or Saturday. She introduces Mary Prentice who is the new Programs and Marketing Specialist for LITA.
Bonnie Postlethwaite
Use the wiki. There are spaces for the committee’s to [...]
LITA Forum in wonderful Nashville is just around the corner. LITA Blog will be there to report the goings on and important conversations for those of us who will be stuck in less fun areas of the country. LITA Blog is successful because of the great volunteers we have for every conference.
Looking for new [...]