BlogWiki2005

NOTICE: This workshop has been canceled and will be rescheduled in the future.

WHAT: BlogWiki2005 Workshop

WHEN: May 19-20, 2005

WHO: 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 creator of VPL White Papers and Subject Tracer™ Blogosphere.

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

WHY: 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.

BlogWiki2005 Workshop Schedule:

Day 1 Thursday May 19, 2005:

8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 Introduction Workshop [zillman]
9:00 - 10:00 Historical perspectives and Overview of Blogs, RSS and
Wikis [zillman][mckiernan][pacifici]
10:00 - 10:15 Online live examples of above
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45 Blogs Explanation, Examples and Demonstrations
[pacifici]
11:45 - 1:15 Lunch Break (On Your Own)
1:15 - 2:30 RSS Explanation, Examples and Demonstrations [pacifici][zillman]
2:30 - 2:45 Coffee Break
2:45 - 4:00 Wikis Explanation, Examples and Demonstrations [mckiernan]
4:00 - 5:00 Question and Answers

Day 2 Friday May 20, 2005:

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 Panel Discussion on Bots, Blogs, RSS and Wikis
[zillman][mckiernan][pacifici]
10:15 -10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45 Panel Discussion (continued)
11:45 - 12:00 Conclusion Remarks

Details

WHEN:
May 19 - 20, 2005

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

WHERE:
University of Miami
Wesley Foundation
Coral Gables, Florida

COST:
$195.00 Per Registrant through April 15, 2005
$249.00 Per Registrant April 16 - May 18, 2005
$295.00 Per Registrant at the Door May 19, 2005.

Multiple Registrants from same organization receive a 10% discount.

REGISTRATION:
Registration requires complete name, organization name, address, city/state/zip. Also required is telephone, fax and current eMail address.

Registration eMail:
eMail: Click here to eMail your Registration

Registration and Payment Postal Address:
Marcus P. Zillman
BlogWiki2005
Post Office Box 248385
Coral Gables, FL 33124

Presenters Background:

Gerry McKiernan

Gerry McKiernan currently is an Associate Professor and serves as a Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer at Iowa State University with specialization in selected fields of Engineering. Before joining ISU in April 1987, Gerry served as the Museum Librarian of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as an Assistant Librarian with the Library of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York, his hometown. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library Science (1975).

Gerry is a member of the editorial board and columnist for Science & Technology Libraries (Haworth) and a contributing editor for Library Hi Tech News (Emerald) and the >Journal of Internet Cataloging (Haworth). He has been a member of the editorial board of The Serials Librarian (Haworth) since Fall 2002.

Gerry is the compiler of several Web registries and clearinghouses, which include All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources, LiveRef(sm): A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services, and most recently RSS(sm): Rich Site Services, “a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML, Atom, or other types of Web feeds,” and WikiBibliography, a bibliography devoted to key works relating to the application and use of Wiki technologies. Gerry is the author of numerous publications and given a wide range of presentations in various national and international venues. He recently launched the Theoretical Librarian, a blog devoted to "current and emerging technologies and their actual and potential application for enhanced information and library services."

His current research interests include scholar-based innovations in publishing, alternative peer review practices and philosophies, the application of Web feeds for enhanced library services, and wikis, reader-editable Web sites.


Sabrina I. Pacifici

Sabrina I. Pacifici has been an active member of the online legal community for over two decades. She created the journal PLL Perspectives in 1989, and served as its only editor and publisher until 1996. She then turned her focus to web publishing, and developed one of the first webzines targeted to the legal research community. Launched in November 1996, LLRX.com was quickly established as a reliable online resource for researchers to leverage the expanding content of the World Wide Web. With Sabrina as the Editor, Publisher and Web Manager, the site has consistently been recognized as a publisher of comprehensive, well-documented, non-partisan reviews, guides and content-rich resources on web-related applications, tools, services, links and related information invaluable to legal researchers.

In January 2003, Sabrina launched beSpacific.com, a current awareness monitoring blog on breaking legal, technology and research related news and primary resources. She is the site's solo author, which has a searchable database of over 6,000 postings, and growing daily. Sabrina has an M.S. from The Catholic University of America, School of Library and Information Science.

Sabrina has authored many articles on legal technology topics, delivered numerous presentations at professional conferences nationwide, and has for the past two decades worked with a global 50 law firm, managing library and research services, and developing technology resources. She is the developer/web manager of the firm's cyberlaw site and firmwide research intranet, creates, authors and maintains enterprisewide blogs, and provides expert research and practice technology services.


Marcus P. Zillman

Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library and Internet expert, author, keynote speaker, and consultant has been giving workshops and presentations as well as national keynote speeches for over 25 years. He has been featured in many national magazines and newspapers including Time Magazine, Silicon Alley, USA Today, New York Times etc. He has produced and hosted over 160 weekly Internet-101 television shows, currently delivers a weekly two minute mp3 broadcast, writes a monthly column titled Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet and a monthly newsletter Awareness Watch™. He also successfully produced BOT2001 and BOT2002 conferences in New York, Boston and San Francisco bringing together the world leading academic bot, intelligent agents and artificial intelligence resource developers from throughout the world.

Marcus was selected a Super Searcher by About.com and his BotSpot.com site that he created and founded was awarded one of the Top 100 Best Websites on the Internet by PC Magazine as well as one of the most awarded sites with over 400 awards for excellence! It was later purchased by Internet.com.

Currently through the Virtual Private Library he has created and manages a blogosphere of over 43 Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs as well as numerous other information based blogs. He makes available freely to the Internet community numerous white papers including: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators and his latest Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources. His personal blog since 2000 has over 5000 postings on information retrieval, information extraction, artificial intelligence, knowledge harvesting and knowledge discovery.

Hotels Close To Workshop Site

1) Holiday Inn - Coral Gables/University of Miami

2) Miami Marriott Dadeland

3) Hampton Inn Coconut Grove - Coral Gables, Miami - Florida

4) Hampton Inn Miami Dadeland Kendall

Directions to University of Miami - Wesley Foundation by clicking here.

Current Weather in Coral Gables/Miami. Weather in mid May is high in the mid to upper 80's with night lows in the low 70's.

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