The Rise of the UnConference

Created by Robert H. McDonald (Indiana University) on June 7, 2007

It is amazing lately how much the unconference has infiltrated typical types of academic conferences. Of course this is nothing new as colleagues have always found time to get together during large academic conferences to discuss their areas of interest. However, with the coming of twitter.com and other social tools that really drive from local proximity this is becoming a very interesting phenomenon. The latest of these is the BIGWIG UnConference that will be virtually hovering around this year's American Library Association Annual Meeting.

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		The Rise of the UnConference Created by Robert H. McDonald (Indiana University) on June 7, 2007 It is amazing lately how much the unconference has infiltrated typical types of academic conferences. Of course this is nothing new as colleagues have always found time to get together during large academic conferences to discuss their areas of interest. However, with the coming of twitter.com and other social tools that really drive from local proximity this is becoming a very interesting phenomenon. The latest of these is the BIGWIG UnConference that will be virtually hovering around this year's American Library Association Annual Meeting. See http://showcase.litablog.org/index.php/Main_Page ALA Annual Conference 2007 \| conferences \| Libraries and Technology \| unconference Robert's blog Login or register to post comments 3203 reads
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