[Web4lib] Announcement: OPAL Online Casual Conversation with Meredith Farkas

[Tom Peters]

Greetings!  

Next Friday, Dec. 7th, there will be a one-hour online casual conversation with Meredith Farkas.  Details below.  Please note the new date!

Also, please remember that today (Friday, Nov. 30th) beginning at 2:00 Eastern, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, and 11:00 Pacific there will be a casual conversation with Aaron Schmidt.

Both online conversations can be accessed in various ways through the following URL:

http://www.conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs1641902f62b4

For a complete list of upcoming free online OPAL events, please visit:

http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm

Friday, December 7, 2007 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT/UTC/Zulu:

A Casual Conversation with Meredith Farkas 

Meredith Farkas is the Distance Learning Librarian at Norwich University in Vermont. She also blogs at Information Wants to Be Free. Her book, Social Software in Libraries, was published by Information Today earlier in 2007. She also writes a column for American Libraries, was one of the organizers of the online course, Five Weeks to a Social Library, as is known by some as the Library Queen of Wikis. 

The Casual Conversations series is designed to be up-close and personal from a respectable online distance. While there are many conferences (in-person, online, and in-world) where librarians can hear leaders in the field make formal presentations about interesting projects, there are few opportunities to hear these same leaders discuss informally what they currently are working on, their future plans and goals, the challenges and opportunities facing librarianship, their personal pet peeves, etc. 

Watch for more information about these upcoming Casual Conversations: 

Friday, Jan. 18, 2008: Curtis Rogers 
Friday, Feb. 8, 2008: Lori Bell 
Friday, Feb. 15, 2008: Michelle Boule 
Friday, March 28, 2008: Marshall Breeding 
Friday, April 11, 2008: Jenny Levine 
Friday, May 16, 2008: Stephen Abram 
Friday, June 6, 2008: Michael Stephens 

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Quick Link for Regular Participants who have already installed the OPAL Software: OPAL Online Auditorium 

Link for First-Time OPAL Users, Moderators, and Users of the No-Software-Download-Required Interface: OPAL Online Auditorium 

 
Tom Peters, OPAL Coordinator
 
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