Tuesday, June 17, 2008

SLA 2008: Technical Support Roundtable

After sleeping in more than I could ever justify, and taking a quick walkthrough of Seattle Public, I got the Convention Center for the Technical Support roundtable. This little unconference offered IT librarians a chance to share the latest projects, problems and workarounds. It was sparsely attended, but the folks there were very interesting and forward-thinking.

Some topics discussed:
  • Drupal
  • Firefox 3 (got my copy during the session)
  • Twitter
  • Windows Vista (have you downgraded yet?)
  • MS Office v. OpenOffice
  • Mobile device support
  • Video IM clients
  • Cloud computing
I'm looking forward to next year's meeting, which we can hopefully push a little more vigourously. I suggested a wiki page for the meeting, which would let attendees submit topics in advance. This would both advertise the meeting, and bring together experts and practitioners. It would into my desire for a whole-conference wiki very well, too.

After the session, I snagged some lunch (its been a good conference for free food), and sat down to sum up my last day or so. That would bring us to now.

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