Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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.
Tags: ALA, ALA 2009, conferences, innovation, tweets, twitter
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
I just got back from a vacay in Denver and am settling back in at home before work starts again on Monday. I ever-so-briefly played around with the idea of doing a quick turnaround to Chicago for ALA, but it wasn’t financially feasible nor the best timing. So I’m at home, enjoying a cup of coffee early on this Saturday morning, doing a little multi-tasking: schoolwork, writing, reading, cleaning and browsing through the many hashtags related to ALA 2009: #ala2009, #ala09, #unala2009. I created a few searches in TweetDeck, so it’s constantly updating with snippets of what’s going on in Chicago.
I’ve noticed a few other folks who have created twitter accounts specifically for the conference, which is a great idea. One example is the Boulder Public Library’s staff professional development twitter account, @bplconference.
And for fun (but mostly inappropriate comments), catch some of @alasecrets tweets. Someone has created a twitter account specifically for the ALA conference. I’ve seen a few folks tweet the password – anyone can log in and anonymously share their thoughts of what’s going on at the moment… Some are quite funny, snarky and a wee bit crude. (In fact, I believe there is a correlation between time and crudeness… as more time passed, the more – shall we say – explicit @alasecret’s tweets became). It’s amazing what people will say when anonymous, though I must admit librarians are quite a creative bunch! (Psst – this is
the tamest tweet I could find for @alasecrets).
Update, 6/11 afternoon: @alasecrets has been put to rest/disabled (someone changed the password and protected the updates)…not sure who shut ‘er down, but there is already a new anonymous account: @ALAsecrets2009. For information on how to post, check the directions.
Tags: ALA 2009, conferences, twitter
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
ALA’s Unconference schedule is all set and ready to go tomorrow. Not in Chicago? Presentations and discussions can be viewed through Cover it Live on ALA Connect.
Tags: ALA 2009, ALA 2009 Unconference, unconferences
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