Travels of a Ronin Librarian

Intellagirl on Web 2.0 Business Secrets

10 August, 2007: Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins' seminar was made available through the Quicktime viewer. Several people in Second Life picked up the stream and broadcast it at their locations. People picked up on "wiki" when it was mentioned that it is a Hawaiian term, for example. I watched the seminar at Montclair State University's CHSS Amphitheater. There was some chat discussion taking place among the viewers in Second Life, but for the main part this was more of a traditional lecture based experience.

One of the tools mentioned was Mashups (see http://www.webmashup.com/). The example mentioned was using mashup to tie a map in with registration information to show where participants for a conference are coming from. I definately want to pass this idea on to the professional library associations I'm involved with. A couple other tools discussed were the Firefox Web browser (with Web 2.0 features built in) and LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com) networking tool. I envision libraries one day hosting programming events and making them available to a wider audience in this fashion. Think of all the book talks and other programs held at individual libraries. If a consortium of libraries agrees to broadcast their programs, it could be like having a library channel on tv. Speaking of which, one of the groups in Second Life that I signed up for last night put out an announcement just before the end of the seminar. There will be a book talk this evening being in the Reader's Garden at Cybrary City in Second Life on the book Kite Runner by Khal Hosseini. By the way, Montclair State is also home of the Edgar Allen Poe house. It is worth a visit if you are doing some exploring in Second Life. Also, Sarah Robbins teaches Composition 101 in world in Second Life.

Posted at 11:10AM Aug 10, 2007 by David L Alexander in General  |  Comments[1]