Today is Friday April 17. I am at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Spring 2009 meeting in Charleston, West Virginia. I am serving as the chair for a session entitled, Web 2.0 State of Mind: From Theory to Practice, featuring commenters to this blog Kate from Archives Next and J in PA.
I have just completed my introductions of Jim and Kate and Jim is going to take the podium to talk about the different tools out there for us. The presentation is being recorded and when it is released, I will add a link to it.
Update 1: Jim is asking about what tools people are using in the workplace. While this blog was created to allow me an expression of my consciousness, I do try to hit on an archival topic now and again. The majority of the audience is using at least one tool. I use many Web 2.0 tools, including Facebook, Twitter, and blogging.
Update 2: Faces in the audience: The Director of the NHPRC is standing in the back of the room. The archivist at the College of William and Mary (who is also our Program Committe liasion - and uses Twitter). An archivist with the New York State Archives, who is a friend on Facebook. Several colleagues from the National Archives, including frequent commenter here, NJM. The man who hired me to work at the National Archives, and then retired is here, along with Dr. Ken Thibodeau, head of the ERA project at the National Archives, who offered an update during the morning plenary session.
Update 3: After a discussion by Kate about blogs in general, Jim discussed the Dickinson reference blog that he created. Kate has returned to the podium to discuss Twitter. You can follow her at @archivesnext. Other big tweeters are @amycsc and @adravan. I am on Twitter at Comment Moderation@legloaj.
Update 4: Kate is now discussing podcasts. Five minutes to go until the requested cutoff so we can get the audience involved.
Update 5: Kate have moved on to Flickr. There is a lot to cover in this session! Web 2.0 rocks!
Update 6: The time is now noon, and we are getting some good comments and questions from the audience. Kate is wrapping up (after talking about podcasts, video uploading, and now wikis) and we will see what directions the audience takes us!
Update 7: The Jim and Kate show continues. Jim may have just uttered the line of the conference: Viewing Web 2.0 tools as a playground - he swears he just made it up - but it works! Discussion and interaction from the audience continues. 12:20 and we're going to questions and comments. Only 10 minutes before the lunch is scheduled to begin. The Brave Astronaut family should be returning soon and we will head out to find lunch ourselves! Herein concludes the live blogging portion of Session #4!
6 comments:
It must be time now to wonder how the lack of attention during sessions, by both speakers and the audience, seriously degrades the value sessions. Especially since we know humans cannot truly multitask.
Sent from another voncurrent session to heighten the irony.
Geof
Sitting at my desk back in Hershey, I'm sorry I missed what sounds like an interesting session. The Archives just launched a blog [http://blog.hersheyarchives.org/]to promote different parts of its collections and hopefully engage the community. I'm glad that the session was taped. MARAC needs to do more to capture and transmit its sessions.
As pcw is, Philly Girl is at her desk in, um, Philly, wishing she was in Charleston. Thanks for the blog, sounds like it was a good session, and the faces in the audience was a nice touch...
Geof - what? did you say something? I wasn't paying attention. But then again, a session with you in it is always entertaining.
PCW and Philly - You were both greatly missed at the meeting. Glad I could put you in the room for at least some of the meeting.
Thanks for sharing this-- I've really enjoyed the updates, here and elsewhere. I've never been to MARAC, and now I'm thinking about attending in the future.
Heather - thanks for the comment. I hope to see you at a future MARAC meeting
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