Archive for January, 2009

Midwinter Sunday Programming

« 27 January 2009 | 16:04 | Midwinter, Oberon Octagon, Second Life | No Comments »

Contributed by Oberon Octagon and reposted because he deleted previous version
Kay Tairov and I have been pondering how to encourage interaction with SLibrarians who attened MW with those who couldn’t make it. Last summer we tried to have a briefing time for such at Salon Huron and met with mixed success. I suspect that our [...]



Midwinter: Not Over Yet on ALA Island

« 27 January 2009 | 15:59 | Midwinter, Oberon Octagon, Second Life | No Comments »

Contributed by Oberon Octagon
For those who weren’t able to attend the program in Denver or watch the Webcast, ALA Island’s Main Stage had three screens dedicated to viewing the video produced for the ALA Youth Media Awards. The media url for the stage will continue to carry that video for the remainder of the month. [...]



MW09 Day One: Stats as good as the presentations

« 25 January 2009 | 11:16 | Midwinter, Oberon Octagon, Second Life, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Contributed by Oberon Octagon
Statistically, we did very well on our first days of MW coverage on ALA Island, with a great amount of interest in the Privacy Revolution on Friday and the Virtual Communities & Libraries Members Initiative Group (MIG) on Saturday. I have a graphic that illustrates the spike in attendance at these two [...]



Midwinter on ALA Island

« 23 January 2009 | 14:54 | Announcements, Midwinter, Oberon Octagon, SL Technology, Second Life | No Comments »

Contributed by Oberon Octagon
Right now, I’m writing this while my avatar is dancing, pretty much alone, at the opening of the Privacy Revolution celebration at the Banned Books Week parcel of ALA Island. We are embarking on our most ambitious series of events yet, attempting to provide members who can’t get to Denver but who [...]



Happy New Year

« 5 January 2009 | 10:43 | Announcements, Oberon Octagon, SL Technology | No Comments »

You should be able to read this blog on ALA Island now. I’ve set up an RSS Screen that converts the feed to Quicktime and displays our blog pages on a screen in the Communications center, where we have the Members Iniative Group information located. I’ve also set up a Twitter Feed screen that will [...]