{"id":304,"date":"2007-08-04T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T01:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/04\/library-20-on-the-loose-unconference\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T01:38:02","slug":"library-20-on-the-loose-unconference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/04\/library-20-on-the-loose-unconference\/","title":{"rendered":"Library 2.0 on the Loose unconference"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was great. It was FREE. Lots of people turned up. They liked it. We chatted. We engaged. We all pitched in. Presenters were the best kind of professional – knew their stuff and talked about it without fuss and frill. Feedback was positive.<\/p>\n

Despite my nervous nelliness the night before, there were not too many people to fit in the spaces, the biscuits did turn up, I didn’t freeze during the powerpoint karaoke, there were enough pizzas and they were yummy, participants “got” it, there was no mass-confusion and anarchical walkout.<\/p>\n

Feedback forms suggested topics for other unconferences, and maybe doing them for specific sectors. Good idea – go for it. After a very slow start and a change of cast we threw this one together in four weeks.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping to be part of the Unconference at the Queensland State Library<\/a> in October, but don’t plan to organise another one soon. I’d like to see another one in Western Australia. I did get the idea that a Libjam would be great. Like Webjam<\/a>, except every presenter has 3 minutes to tell everyone something great, special or different about what your library is doing.<\/p>\n

Look for things tagged Unconfwalib07 if you want to know more. Presentations should be up on the wiki<\/a> by the end of September.<\/p>\n

Here’s a mosaic from the day:<\/p>\n

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1. Matthias gets the program organised<\/a>, 2. Making it up as she goes. Con does Power Point Karaoke<\/a>, 3. Crowd watching PowerPoint Karaoke<\/a>, 4. Sue. Power Point Karaoke DJ<\/a>, 5. Finding time to learn about emerging technologies<\/a>, 6. Lunchtime conversation<\/a>, 7. Yum. Lunch<\/a>, 8. Julie and Kate do lunch<\/a>, 9. Alison and Con, probably talking about pizza<\/a>, 10. Pizza boxes classified….Full on top, empty below<\/a>, 11. Julie grabbed my camera and took a photo of me<\/a>, 12. Glen, Hoi and ? watch Second Life and think about gaming<\/a>, 13. Sue talks about Twitter<\/a>, 14. Conference unplanners in action<\/a>, 15. Lucia and Jenny gave presentations<\/a>, 16. The view out the window of the State Library<\/a>, 17. Rossemary and Dan<\/a>, 18. Pimping the bookcart<\/a>, 19. A hipper crowd of shushers at the Brass Monkey after the Library Unconference, Perth Western Australia 1<\/a>, 20. After dark the gadgets came out at the Brass Monkey..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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