If you missed the OPALescence conference in Mid-August, you can head over to the (still in progress) Archives page to check out the presentations – they have the audio + slides/chat, the audio and just the slides up for many of the presentations – including mine! Go check it out!!
In order to get attention for the campaign to raise money to help out the Louisville Public Library, a whole bunch of people are blogging today on why libraries are so important to us, both personally and professionally.
My take on why libraries kick ass? Because they provide the necessary tools – for free – to be an informed, responsible citizen of the United States (yes, I’m being US-centric today, others will blog about the importance of libraries in other countries, I’m sure). With the amount of disinformation and rumor that is passed around on topics as important as the economy, health care and our government, it’s nice to know that there is an unbiased source of information that is completely free for our citizens. They can go to their local library and read from a selection of local and national newspapers, check out information on the Web, look up articles from both scholarly and popular magazines in databases and get help with doing all of this from people who have made it their life’s work to provide this information. Without this free source of information, the access to information required for an informed citizenry is based on ability to pay – and that isn’t very democratic!
All libraries kick ass – no matter where they are located. This particular library, however, is in need of some help, so if you have been provided information for free from some helpful librarian, please consider donating a few bucks to help these hard-working librarians out!
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Of course, just a day or two after I posted the announcement that I have a Google Voice account and the number, I discover that when I dropped my phone the other day, I bent the internal circuitry to the point where it will not recharge. I have a new one on the way (thank you, Sprint insurance!!), but until then, I’m pretty much not reachable immediately. Of course, you can call the number (573)321-webg and leave a voicemail, which will be transferred to my email, and get a hold of me in a roundabout way that way, but it won’t be immediate until my new phone shows up, sometime later this week.
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Ok, I’ve been a “user” of Google Voice since it was Grand Central waaaaaay back when. That being said, I never actually used it – just had an account. Now that Google’s taken it over and given us the option for personalized phone numbers, however, I’m thinking about starting to use it more. My current voice number is (573) 321-9324 (that’s 573-321-webg) and is all set up – but rarely used… I’ll start adding it to business cards and such soon, but I just wanted to start the ball rolling by letting my faithful readers (hi there, Tab!!) know that there is yet another way they can get a hold of me. Seriously though, texting is quicker…
The OPALescence conference begins today at 11am (CST) – there is a nice lineup of topics and speakers (including me at 2pm CST today, blathering on about Collaboration 2.0) as well as “unconference” sort of unscheduled discussion groups going on at the same time as the traditional conference sessions. If one of the sessions doesn’t do it for you, hop into an unconference session and talk about what is important to you!
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