Collaboration UnConference

July 30, 2009

Final’ish information for tomorrow

Filed under: Uncategorized — George Fowler @ 10:29 am

Well, we are just a wake-up away from the CuC and we have around 90 people registered to attend from throughout the state and profession (with a couple outsiders gladly welcomed).

To assist with arrival and parking, please see the post http://cuc.uark.edu/2009-site-and-parking/.

If you are unable to attend, you can still participate (passively or actively) by watching it live @ http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/channel/all?q=collaboration+unconference and choosing a channel/event and by using the hashtag #cuc09 on Twitter.

I don’t know who will be doing what or how tomorrow, but we will all be learning together, which is what this is all about.

Don’t forget to post any topics you would like to discuss under the “3 weeks to go” post.

See you tomorrow.

George

July 28, 2009

Don’t forget to carpool!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — George Fowler @ 2:56 pm

Since we have a lot of people coming from the same institutions and locations, it would be very “green” of us to carpool.

I am also working on a “green” way for others to participate by using ustream for live broadcasting of the sessions and twitter as a backchannel. I am more of a web 2.0 n00b, but together, I’m sure, we’ll get it figured out.

I appreciate the comments so far about what people want to discuss. Remember, we will be determining the topics for the discussions starting at 9am, so, if you have a hot topic you want to discuss, it couldn’t hurt to post it here and then be there on time :) to add it to the list of potential topics.

I’ll keep you all posted on our 2.0 progress (hashtags, URLs, etc.)

July 10, 2009

3 weeks to go!

Filed under: Uncategorized — George Fowler @ 10:23 am

Believe it, or not, we are only three weeks away from the 1st Arkansas Libraries Collaboration UnConference! Things are coming together rather nicely.

We have the location ready – Bailey Library at Hendrix College, with the break-out rooms mapped and prepped. We have the equipment (laptops, webcams, and microphones for streaming to ustream). We just got confirmation on wireless availability for all in the libraries so that we can tweet, blog, or otherwise contribute to the CuC with other kewl Web 2.0 tools.

I think it is an appropriate time to begin preparing some intial topics to discuss. This will provide a rough idea of what people are thinking about to begin the planning session at 9am on the 31st. To that end, please comment to this posting any/all topics you would like to discuss at the CuC.

Thanks and see you all soon!

George

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