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6 Reasons Your Library Should Host a TEDxLive Viewing Party for TEDWomen

September 10, 2010
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6 Reasons Your Library Should Host a TEDxLive Viewing Party for TEDWomen

What is TEDWomen? On December 7 and 8, 2010, TEDWomen will gather five hundred global thought leaders, innovators and storytellers in Washington, DC, to watch enlightening speakers and connect with a global community of women and men. The cross-disciplinary, cross-generational program will focus on how women think and work, communicate and collaborate, learn and lead. The program will explore what this means and why it matters to all of us. TEDx and TEDWomen The vision for TEDWomen is unlike any other “Women” conference. One of our key objectives is to hear from female voices around the globe, and on every continent. You, the TEDx community, are essential to achieving these goals. TEDWomen will be streamed live on TED.com. The stream will be offered free to TEDx organizers who sign up to host a viewing party. The stream must also be offered free to attendees. A key part of the TEDWomen conference is hearing from women in communities around the world, and that is where we need your help. So why should your library host a viewing part? 1. Cost – There is no cost. 2. Speakers – When else will you have an opportunity to have so many great speakers in

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Reminder Transliteracy Conference 9 Feb 2010 Call for Papers Dec 1st Deadline

November 25, 2009
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Call for Presentations : Transliteracy Conference : Tuesday 9 February, 2010, 9:30 – 17:30 Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre Leicester, UK In association with the Institute of Creative Technologies & the NLab Small Business Network,  De Montfort University http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/conference2010.html Deadline for Abstracts:  1 December, 2009 Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.  Since 2005, when Professor Sue Thomas introduced this concept in the UK, transliteracy has been taken up and explored by a broad range of academics and practitioners, from information scientists to literary theorists, artists and writers. The first Transliteracy Conference will take place at Leicester’s new Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, on 9 Feb 2010. This one-day event offers an opportunity for academics, artists, business people and practitioners to share discoveries, ideas, and creative works that amplify and augment transliteracy research. This Call for Presentations invites 250 word abstracts.  Presentations should be 10-15 minutes in duration, and can be used to show work or deliver a short paper.  The Conference Panel will group presentations together thematically in sessions scheduled to include time to explore the

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Internet Librarian Wrap Up

November 2, 2009
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Internet Librarian Wrap Up

As always conferences are amazing, stimulating, intense and tiring, but worth every second of it. I was able to talk with so many amazing people, and yet there were so many others I wanted to connect with and didn’t manage to. *More reflection at the end, but for those who want the nitty gritty…. Pulled from notes and tweets – some of my favorite quotes/idea and what I’m thinking about. If you could tell the world 1 thing about libraries in 30 secs or less what would it be? Good enough is the new perfect Lean into your discomfort – change doesn’t happen without discomfort. Be clear where your lines are drawn. Your librarianly obsession with Star Wars will not endear you to your patrons. The future is here its just not evenly distributed. Privacy is dead, get over it “If I’d asked them what they wanted they would have said a faster horse” – Henry Ford “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” Gen. Eric Shinseki If we keep identifying with books – libraries are dead. We should reward success and failure, punish inaction We have more autonomy as college students that we do as adults

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Web 2.0 for Patrons

November 1, 2009
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One of my presentations from Internet Librarian 2009 with Jennifer Koerber, Sean Robinson, Rebecca Ranallo I’ll be posting an update to this when I hear from Liz. Web 2.0 for Library Patrons View more presentations from Bobbi Newman. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Bring on the Rain Putting the Cloud to Work for You: in introduction to cloud computing

October 9, 2009
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One of my presentations from the 2009 COMO conference in Columbus GA Bring on the Rain Putting the Cloud to Work for You: in introduction to cloud computing View more presentations from Bobbi Newman. Google docs Zoho Buzzword Preezo PreZentit PBworks Wetpaint Wikispaces 30 Boxes Google Calendar Yahoo MyHomePoint Remember the Milk Ta-Da list Todoist The Online CEO Hiveminder Joe’s Goals Doodle Delicious Digg Netvibes iGoogle Slideshare Google Reader Google Wave Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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