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Missed ALA 2009? Flexyourinfo.com has updates

lindybr1 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:44:47 +0000

I could not attend ALA, but I followed along via the tweets about the conference (#ala09, #ala2009), tweets about sub-meetings and presentations (i.e., #toptech, #unala2009, #acrl101, etc.), and watched ustream videos and cover-it-live events (i.e., lita’s top tech trends). I even heard about ALA on NPR (Librarians go wild for Gold Book Cart).

But just now — I just stumbled upon Heather Devine’s (Flexyourinfo) ala2009 page – a more comprehensive, all-in-one-place collage of tweets and conference photos. For the visual folk, please check this out! Want to see what was going on at the Unconference? Select that option. Want to know what happened on Tuesday? You can even see the tweets and photos by day! You even have the option to pick which tweets you’d like to see by hashtag.

Read more: Heather posted more about this at her blog.

Wishing I was at CIL2009

lindybr1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:46:57 +0000

The second day of Computers in Libraries is about to come to an end and tomorrow is the last day. I have been living vicariously through those who are currently attending. Lots of folks are tweeting about it, posting photos, sharing presentations via slideshare, and even streaming sessions live. While I have been following the #cil2009 tweets on TweetDeck, I’ve actually discovered the most comprehensive way to follow the conference was through the CIL2009 room in Friendfeed. The information people are sharing (a) is awesome, (b) informative and (c) making me wish I was there! Computers in Libraries is definitely a conference that I’ll look into attending in the future.

Following ALA Midwinter on Twitter

lindybr1 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:11:00 +0000

I have been following the ALA Midwinter conference via tweets from folks who are attending. Of course I don’t get the full experience of being there, but I’ve been able to pick up a lot o’ lil’ nuggets of knowledge from the various tweets.

If you’re interested in checking out the goings on from folks that are there, do a twittersearch for #alamw09. Twittersearch allows you to follow your results via an RSS feed, which I have done in my RSS reader, bloglines.

Or, you can follow #alamw09 on hastags.org or subscribe via RSS feed there too…