By now, we're all home from the ILA conference in Council Bluffs and back to the grindstone! Before I ask NWILS consulting team to share their conference experiences here, I thought it only fair to get the conversation started with my favorite session.
It has to be Wednesday's preconference with Michael Stephens; he was also the keynote speaker on Thursday. I heard him speak at PLA in Boston, too. He's a vigorous supporter behind the notions of Web 2.0/Library 2.0. Life on the web is now all about social networking. With great explanations of blogs, wikis, IM, podcasts, Flickr and more, he inspires libraries to be about social networking too.
For a good article on that topic, he recommends the cover story in Newsweek from 4/3/06: "Putting the WE in Web." You probably subscribe to Newsweek, but it's also available in full text in EBSCO. Do a little networking yourself and email the article to your board!
Lots of ideas are racing through my head as a result, including bringing Web 2.0/Library 2.0 topics to C.E. JAMBOREE in the spring. While I ponder that and set about buying his book and loading the car for 2 days on the road, check out Michael Stephens website: ww.tametheweb.com
Look for other conference highlights here soon...Bonnie McKewon
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