Luke’s awesome ALA blogging idea
So Luke the Librarian sent me an email today, running an idea by me. I think it’s fabulously elegant yet simple.
Luke has proposed that bloggers who are blogging the ALA conference can sort of “sign up” to cover certain sessions, and then once those sessions are blogged, the blogger can link to the report on their blog from the session listing on the wiki.
I love it. It’s an excellent way to have all sorts of bloggage in one place, associated with the actual schedule. I think the only way this idea could fail is if no one picks up on it, and I’m sure the librarian bloggers out there will be all over it, at least. It’s a very nifty approach to conference reporting and report aggregation.
And, as Luke pointed out, even people without blogs could just create a new page on the wiki to write up a report to link to, and my view is that it’s a great way to get librarians involved with using wikis, especially if they’ve never done it before.
Luke’s idea is most awesome, and from the mockup I’ve seen, he’s done most of the work already, so it’s just a matter of posting it (so for all you ALA 2005 wiki addicts out there, don’t dupe his work, it’ll be up soonish). Keep an eye on the wiki for it!
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