LibraryTechtonics

Bentley College – The Bentley Conference Center
LaCava Building, Third Floor, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452

This is where I am today. I bartered my time as a volunteer for free registration, which meant that my library didn’t need to pay for it, but I did get time off from work to come, since it applies to my job, which is awesome.

You can view the entire schedule online, but this is how my schedule shakes out for the day:

9:15-10am:  Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business – Jared Spool

10-11am: Volunteer at the registration desk

11am-12pm: Floater volunteer, just make sure everyone’s happy, well, and working properly

12-12:30pm: Lunch

12:30-1pm: Registration desk

1-1:45pm: Winning the Case for Usability-Tonya Price

2-2:45pm: Innovative Interfaces–Transforming Data Into Insight-Eva Kaniasty

3-3:45pm: Metaverses & User Experience-Stephen Denning

4-4:45pm: Moving Up the Usability Food Chain: A Cross-Disciplinary Holistic Viewpoint-Alex Conn

5-6pm:  Registration desk

6-7pm: Cocktail hour & networking

Should make for some very interesting postage later, when I have more time to iron out the wrinkled notes in my WordPress drafts.

There are several sessions that, upon reviewing the schedule, I decided I really wanted to go to because of their applicability to my job, and especially the project of redesigning the library’s web site.  However, upon reviewing the spiral-bound presentations book (which is brilliant, by the way), I decided on the better way to pick the sessions I would go to: sessions where the slides with the *least* text.  I want to see a presentation, and if you’re slides have so much text on them, what’s the point in going when I can just read your slides?

This is what I’m up to today:

Women Who Tech: A TeleSummit for Women in Technology in the non-profit and political world will bring together the most talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology on Monday, March 31, 2008. The TeleSummit aims to create a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving them an open platform to share their talents, experiences and insights via virtual workshops and panel discussions.

Here’s the list of sessions I’ll be attending online today:

• Get Your Local Campaigns On
• Tooting Your Own Horn
• Women and Social Capital
• Open Source for Women
• Improve This Blog Pitch
• Mobile Activism

I meant to blog about this three weeks ago when I registered, but given that I was getting ready for PLA in Minneapolis (which was interesting; just got back last night, posts to follow) and trying to work and live, I just didn’t get a chance to. It’s an opportunity to hang out online with women who do tech things on all sorts of industries, learn about what women are doing with technology to advance their businesses, and just learn stuff that can be transfered to other areas (like, say, librarianship). It’s free, and there might still be some session openings for today, so check out the site if you’re interested. You can also follow the Twitter “back channel” for the conference. I’ll be tagging all my pertinent tweets with #wwt.