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Brave New World
Social Networking: Plugging New England Libraries into Web 2.0
October 13, 2006
Bentley College, Waltham, MA
Call for Proposals
The NELINET IT Conference is scheduled for Friday, October 13, 2006 at Bentley College in Waltham, MA.

The theme for this year's conference is:

Social Networking: Plugging New England Libraries into Web 2.0

The conference committee is soliciting proposals for presentations and a digital poster session. If you have questions regarding your proposal, please contact Siobhan Ross (1.800.635.4638 x1923 or ross@nelinet.net).

PRESENTATIONS

The committee is looking for proposals that are project-based; how are libraries using new technology tools to facilitate a user-mediated environment?

Some questions to be answered include:

  • How did you move the project from good idea to functioning product?
  • What players were at the table to make it happen?
  • What feedback have you received from your users?
  • What would you change in the process if you could roll back time?
Presentations should be 45-minutes in length, including time for a question and answer period. Shorter talks can be combined into multi-speaker sessions; if you have a topic you'd like to share that is shorter (20 minutes in length), please submit it for review.

Appropriate topics include:
  • RSS/using push technologies
  • blogs and blogging
  • podcasting
  • wikis
  • tagging
  • creating user-centric OPACs / library websites
  • IM (Instant Messaging)
  • SMS text messaging
To submit your presentation online, visit the Online Proposal Form. Deadline for submissions is Friday, July 14 at 5:00 pm EDT.

DIGITAL POSTER SESSIONS

The committee is also looking for a handful of digital poster sessions to be on view for attendees during breaks. Laptops with Internet access will be available. Appropriate submissions will be demo-based where presenters can show off a particular technology and how it's being used at your library.

To submit your poster session proposal online, visit the Online Digital Poster Proposal Form. Deadline for submissions is Friday, July 14 at 5:00 pm EDT.

July 5, 2006

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