Let me start off by saying I went to the ACRL-Oklahoma Conference on Monday. WONDERFUL conference!!! Thank you ACRL-Oklahoma. Both keynote speakers were fantastic.
David Silver is a professor of media studies at University of San Francisco. He blogs as well as uses other tools such as Flickr and Feevy. He is a dynamic speaker and the best part is, HE'S FACULTY THAT WANTS TO WORK WITH THE LIBRARY!!!!!! How wonderful is that? He also understood Web 2.0. Basically he saw 2.0 as a conversation between two entities rather than a presentation or a lecture from one to the other. How appropriate then that the 2.0 could mean that 2.0 people are actually expressing their feelings and 2.0 people are being heard.
Another thing I got out of this presentation that empowers me...blog often - and use pictures with your blogs to give your readers another aspect of understanding. Also, not to be afraid to blog your thoughts or feelings, even if it's a somewhat short statement. There's no reason a blog entry has to be eight philosophical paragraphs on the thoughts of a Jesuit priest. (Guess you'd have to hear his presentation to understand that one.)
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hello darren!
i too thought it was a tremendous conference. so many conferences are ho hum but this one was exciting and very well organized.
thanks for the kind words regarding my talk. there's more faculty who want to work with libraries and librarians out there - there just hard to find ...
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