A couple days ago, I wrote about how I was following my colleagues at conferences via Twitter and FriendFeed. It's not only entertaining to read folks' tweets about the conference, but I also gleaned some of the better soundbites and take-away points without having to sit in a hotel conference room all day.
Today I wanted to follow-up with some additional resources that I've tracked down to help keep pace with the conversations happening at these conferences. Here are just a few:
O'Reilly's Web2.0Expo: looked like a three-day party here in NYC in September, but there's a goldmine of presentation videos and slides archived on their site.
Internet Librarian 2008: was all the way across the country in Monterey, CA, but the conference wiki provides access to speaker files, and other resources in a section titled "Tracking the Conference."
LITA 2008: put a small army of bloggers to work reviewing sessions at their annual forum. The result? Depending on how quickly you read, an entire three-day conference can be consumed in a little more than an hour.
I know that conferences are more than 50% about networking and getting some face-time with our peers and mentors. That's a given. But the simple fact is that until we've perfected the technology to accurately simulate the conference experience virtually, we're going to have to pick-and-choose which events get the best bang for our buck.
by the way, I wanted to include a list of the sort of fare you can find at the O'Reilly archive. Not all of the content is available as video, but it's a nice peak into the present and future of new tech:
(Re)making the Internet: Accounting for the Future of Information, Communication and Entertainment Technologies
Genevieve Bell (Digital Home Group - Intel Corporation)
10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment
Arianna Huffington in Conversation with Tim O'Reilly
Because We Make You Happy
Best Practices in Theming and How They Relate to Popular Platforms
Best-kept Secrets to Search Engine Optimization Success: the Art and the Science
Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape
Cloud Computing and the iDataPlex Platform
Coding the Clouds: Building Enterprise Apps Using Force.com and Other Cloud Services
Content Matters
Design and User Experience in an Agile Process
Designing and Developing for the Future of Mobile
Designing for the Internet(s) of the Future
Early Adopters of Finance in a Web 2.0 World
Enhancing Engagement and User-Experience Beyond the TV Screen: Some Lessons Learned from a Transition to Web 2.0
Extreme Data Storage - Prayers Answered
Forecast: Partly Cloudy
Free Traffic: SEO/SMO 101 (Search Engine & Social Media Optimization)
Future of Mobile Social Activity
Going Fast on the Mobile Web
Good to Great: Achieving Product Excellence in Web 2.0
Hitting Them Where They Live: The Emergence of Local Online Advertising
How to Run Your Startup on Amazon Web Services
Internet Explorer 8: A Modern Development Platform
It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
Just How Context Aware Are You? Mobility, Datastreams, and What Inferencing Does and Doesn't Make Possible
Leveraging the Clouds for Reliable Web Applications
Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications
Man Versus Machine: The New Conundrum of Web 2.0 Advertising Automation
Micro-Interactions: How Brands Can Influence Consumer Behavior in a 2.0 World
New York's Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent
Observing the Web 2.0 Application in Production
Organizing Chaos: The Growth of Collaborative Filters
Realizing Business Value from Web 2.0: An IBMer's Perspective on ROI, Metrics and Anti-Patterns
Rich UX Documentation
Running Your Enterprise in the Cloud: Lessons from IT Innovators
Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications
Scaling Synchronous Web Apps: Lessons Learned from Meebo
Surviving and Thriving Amidst Information Overload
Tap is the New Click: Designing Gestural Interfaces
The Death of the Grand Gesture
The DIY Guide to Growing a Company
The Ecosystem of Corporate and Social Data
The Emerging Business Risks of Web 2.0 Models
The Post-Hype State of Virtual World Marketing: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
The Power of Mobile Internet - Interact in Real Time
The Real Future of Technology
The Seduction of the Interface: Merchandising in Interactive Product Design
Christopher Fahey (Behavior Design)
Trends and Technologies in Where 2.0
Tying it All Together: Implementing the Open Web
Universal Design for Web Applications
What ManyEyes Knows
What Would Google Do? How Media Must Revolutionize Their Thinking
Why Brand Advertisers Will Be the Biggest Beneficiaries of Social Media and How You Can Participate
Posted by: Jason | October 23, 2008 at 03:29 PM
The O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo videotaped only presentations that were about 9 minutes in length (most from the plenary sessions) and NONE of the real hour-long sessions (although there was someone recording each session - I don't know the dispositions of those recordings). But yes, many of the sessions have summaries on the Web 2.0 New York website, many have PowerPoint presentations (on the site or at SlideShare), and I (apparently one of the few librarians) even blogged about the sessions (look for many entries beginning with the title Web 2.0 Expo):
http://furtivelibrarian.blogspot.com
(I attended many sessions on marketing.)
Maybe it was because the Expo was geared towards the for-profit community was a reason why librarians stayed away (I was the only person there from my institution of nearly 3,000 employees). But wow, we can learn so much if we just stay open to what is going on.
Posted by: Bob Kosovsky | October 30, 2008 at 01:38 PM