Let me say upfront that Library Camp Kansas was a huge success! Everything went off a without a hitch and so many great ideas were exchanged! If you’re wondering where my notes are from Session 2, I didn’t take any, it happened over lunch and it wasn’t convenient to be eating and typing. Registration was from 9-10, at 10 the Unconference officially kicked off. Brenda Hough opened about a story on NPR Marketplace about an unconference where 80 people signed up and only 4 showed up. Lib Camp KS had about 100 people sign up and it looked like we were all there! Brenda talked about what would make the day a success attendees no keynote speaker no expert particpants need to be generous with experience, listening, asking questions share! A show of hands was taken to access which type of library we were from and there were attendees from all library types – Public, Special, Academic, School! We agreed on a tag for blog posts, photos, video etc LibCampKS08. Then it was time to decide the sessions. There would be three sessions during the day. People just shouted out what they wanted to talk about then that group was
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Lib Camp KS Session 3 – 2.0
My third session was Web 2.0, here are my notes. Started with definition of Web2.0 collaboration user centered flexible How is 2.0 used in Academic? Virginia Tech has a blog that is comment cards from patrons then response from Lib Duke University Ipods? “we’re at library camp Kansas, we’re all big freaks” – david Lee King (this is my favorite quote from the conference. Via la freaks! ) bitch magazine, jezebel blog class for grad students on becoming internet famous Web metrics about success of blog, page hits, length of visit, google page rank come on this stuff has been around for 2 or 3 years how are we supposed to determine success, we don’t do anything successful with our other stats, like circ, people coming in and just going to the bathroom How do you promote your blog? If you spends lots of time and resources making a blog you need to go OUT INTO the community to promote your library and your blog Cluster Maps Go out into the community and present on what you can do with the website. content created by patrons for patrons creating content for portals like igoogle and netvibes how to stream line
Lib Camp KS Session 1 – Free & Cheap
My first session was Free & Cheap, the idea was to share free and cheap tools we’re using at our libraries or for ourselves. Someone (I can’t remember who) made a good point, there is a difference between free beer and free kittens, kittens take a bit more work. Some of these might require some work on your end. I think I got all of them. Windows Live Sky drive Survey Monkey Ccleaner Spybot search and destory adaware Hijackthis Firefox web developer extension IrfanView Rockyou.com slide.com slideshare Open Office wordpress mykansaslibrary.org audacity List Garden – generate RSS feed - Google calender sync zoho.com - Time tracking for public PCs - Password safe - 1password – for Macs, not free libstats – to track reference questions Meebome – IM reference services All the Firefox add ons Personal Ancestral File - Geni - opensourcemac.org – open source tools for mac users lifehacker koha vizu. libraryelf - libx Last but not least PC Magazine has an article on 157 best free software tools If you know of a great Free or Cheap tool that isn’t on this list please let me know and I’ll edit and add them at the bottom! Bookmark on
Unconference
I’m home from Library Camp Kansas, overall a huge success! Thank you and congratulations toeveryone who helped plan for such a fabulous idea. I promise to write a more comprehensive review of what I learned and my thought’s (I have notes!) on unconferences within the week. Since I just go home from driving 8 plus hours today, in addition to exchanging some great ideas, I’m going to go relax. In the mean time take a look at the blog posts and pictures everyone else has put up! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up 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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