Announcing BlogWiki2005 Workshop

Announcing BlogWiki2005 Workshop, May 19-20, 2005, Coral Gables FL # Presented by: Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library; Sabrina I. Pacifici, Founder, Editor, Publisher and Web Manager of LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com; and Marcus P. Zillman, Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library and VPL Blogosphere.

# Where: University of Miami, Wesley Foundation, Coral Gables, Florida. Note: Coral Gables is located in the Miami, Florida area.

# Program Overview: Blogs, Wikis, News Aggregators and RSS/Atom Feeds are emerging technologies that have and will continue to transform all fields of communication, scholarship, and library and other information services. The goals of BlogWiki2005 are to provide an introduction to these technologies and practical examples of their applications that libraries and other organizations can easily implement to their advantage.

The BlogWiki2005 Workshop is a focused, comprehensive program presented by experienced specialists designed for the newbie as well as the seasoned veteran. Each workshop participant will receive a detailed manual containing copies of all workshop presentations as well as compilations of reliable and authoritative resources and references about blogs, bots, wikis, and RSS/Web feeds.

# TIME: May 19, 2005 8:30am - 5:00pm; May 20, 2005 8:30am - 12:00pm

# The full program and schedule and profiles of the presenters is available at http://www.BlogWiki2005.com/

From: http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/007790.html#007790

-- MartinCleaver - 21 Mar 2005