After a couple of days off with the family, I’ll be rolling up my sleeves to pitch in with the other unorganizers for the Unconference - Library 2.0 on the Loose at the State Library of WA this Friday, 3 August. The presentations are looking really interesting, although of course the program is set on the morning. There is no closing date for registration, but if you can let us know by Wednesday, we will be able to feed you.

Revealing questionable sanity, Con and I have put ourselves down for a round of Power Point Karaoke at the unconference. Karen G Schneider, of Free Range Librarian fame, is making us each a set of Power Point slides on a topic unknown to us, but presumably relating to libraries - I hope. We get to see the topic of the talk, and each slide, for the first time as we show it to the audience and present about the topic.

I like this playful way of sharing ideas. That’s why I’m attending the webjam being held in Perth on Wednesday 15 August. For this, you actually know what you will present or demo, but you have just 3 minutes to do it. Gary Barber, the Man with no blog, describes it perfectly in Doing the Perth Webjam:

It’s been making a noise in Sydney, and Melbourne. Now it’s time for Perth to take it up a notch. Turn the amps up to eleven, it’s time for a WebJam. In association with the Australian Web Industry Association, Mr Super “Events” Man Myles Eftos has managed to talk Lachlan Hardy, Lisa Herrod and Tim Lucas into bringing WebJam to Perth.

Where: The Velvet Lounge (Rear of the Flying Scotsman), Mt Lawley
When: Wednesday, 15th August 2007 at 6pm
Cost: FREE (yeap that’s right)

What’s a WebJam. It’s where a heap (technical term) of presenters have three minutes to scream through a presentation or demo. The presentation can be anything, a demo, an idea, you’re latest project, anything. The presentations are then voted on and a winner receives the expected fame and fortune, err.. some prizes.

You don’t have to present, just come along to heckle, check out the talent, or just the general web geekiness. Need more info, go look at the videos of previous WebJams. So now go and register to attend.

Don’t forget that this is the same week as the WA Web Awards (WAWA), you do have your ticket for the WAWAs, I would hurry they have a habit of selling out. So thats two events in one week. That’s a WA Web Week.

Let’s take this WebJam, Perth and really show people what we can do.