Online Northwest

Early bird registration is now open!

2011-11-29T13:46:00.000-08:00

The conference takes place February 10, 2012. Register before January 13 at the early bird rate of $100. After January 13, the rate is $130. We also offer discounted registrations and scholarships.

Our keynote speaker will be Steve Krug, best known as the author of Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability.

Presentation topics this year include mobile literacy, e-readers, data curation, digital collections, and more. See descriptions of all the presentations on the conference website.

One week left!

2011-10-17T11:44:00.001-07:00

Deadline is this Friday. Time to get that proposal in!2012 call for proposalsOnline NorthwestFebruary 10, 2012Call For Proposals - Deadline October 21, 2011Online Northwest is a one-day conference focusing on topics that intersect libraries, technology and culture. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon University System Library Council.The 2012 conference will be held at CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis, Oregon (on the Oregon State University campus) on Friday, February 10, 2012.The conference explores how technology is being applied within library settings and how technology is affecting library patrons and services. Academic, public, school, and special librarians are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.Online Northwest seeks 60-minute presentations or 5-minute lightning talks on all topics relating to technology and libraries including:• Cloud computing• Institutional repositories• Augmented reality• Semantic web• Virtual research environments• Information discovery• Web 3.0• Library apps• Mobile computing• Technology competencies• Electronic books• Other topics related to technology in libraries are welcomeSubmit Proposals: http://goo.gl/gx9bsProposal Submission Deadline: Friday, October 21, 2011

2012 Online Northwest call for proposals

2011-07-18T16:37:00.000-07:00

Online Northwest

February 10, 2012
Call For Proposals - Deadline October 21, 2011

Online Northwest is a one-day conference focusing on topics that intersect libraries, technology and culture. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon University System Library Council.

The 2012 conference will be held at CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis, Oregon (on the Oregon State University campus) on Friday, February 10, 2012.

The conference explores how technology is being applied within library settings and how technology is affecting library patrons and services. Academic, public, school, and special librarians are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.

Online Northwest seeks 60-minute presentations or 5-minute lightning talks on all topics relating to technology and libraries including:

Cloud computing
Institutional repositories
Augmented reality
Semantic web
Virtual research environments
Information discovery
Web 3.0
Library apps
Mobile computing
Technology competencies
Electronic books
Other topics related to technology in libraries are welcome

Submit Proposals: http://goo.gl/gx9bs
Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday, October 21, 2011

For more information and examples of past presentations, see:
http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/

Blog: http://onlinenw.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/onlinenw

2011 Conference scholarships available. Apply Now!

2010-11-10T20:36:00.001-08:00

Want to attend Online Northwest 2011, but don¹t have the funds?

The Online Northwest conference planning committee is offering 5 scholarships covering the cost conference registration. Applications will be considered based on both merit and need.

Apply at https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDhNM0U3SVNJanRKYmpzcUF0U1hVTmc6MQ by December 15th. Responses will be sent no later than January 3, 2011.

For questions contact Dawn LoweWincentsen at dawn.lowewincentsen@oit.edu, or Karen Munro at kmunro@uoregon.edu.

Txt 4 info

2010-02-05T15:56:00.000-08:00

get your txt 4 info presentation here: http://nwcentral.org/?q=node/2959

look for more links and presentations posted later on our main webpage: http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/

more sessions available

2010-02-05T11:29:00.000-08:00

Even internet computers want to be free about linux and open source at publicly available library computers has posted their session on slideshare: http://ow.ly/14qxM

Teaching the teachers recording is available via elluminate. Logon with an email (real or not is up to you) and no password needed.

Library in your pocket

2010-02-05T10:55:00.000-08:00

Library in your pocket session is up on slideshare if you missed it. Good session with user aspects and code in the presentation.

Keynote

2010-02-05T10:37:00.000-08:00

Did you miss the keynote this morning? You can already view the ppt here http://bit.ly/onwxhacks Thanks Brandon for posting it so quick!

Welcome to the 2010 conference

2010-02-04T16:15:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the 2010 conference. If you are blogging on your own let us know where and we will post your links. If you are tweeting use #onw2010 so we can see what you said.

Enjoy the conference!

2010 conference Registration now open

2009-11-20T14:27:00.001-08:00

Registration is now open for Online Northwest 2010!
https://secure.oregonstate.edu/ocs/register.php?event=396

Online Northwest is a conference addressing issues at the intersection of libraries, technology and culture.

The 2010 Online Northwest conference will be held on February 5th, at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center on the Oregon State University campus, Corvallis, Oregon.

There is a special recession registration fee of only $75 this year. This rate is available through early bird registration closing on January 15th, 2010. Registration after January15th and on site will be $130.

This year’s Keynote speaker is Brandon Schauer, co-author of the book Subject to change: Creating great products and services for an uncertain world. Brandon Schauer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path. He speaks, writes, trains, and practices experience design as a differentiator for business strategy. Brandon's passion for finding and understanding the unmet needs of customers has led him to diverse environments, from the homes of cancer patients to tunnels beneath Walt Disney World. This insight with customers -- plus a solid grounding in business analysis and a mastery of design methods -- allows Brandon to help organizations define and design more meaningful experiences for their customers. Visit his blog at http://www.brandonschauer.com/blog/ for more information.

Online Northwest 2010 will include presentations on a wide range of topics such as web traffic and campus trends, unified discovery and what TV chefs can teach librarians about presentation style. Lightning talks will also debut this year. Sign up to give a 5 min talk when you register.
https://secure.oregonstate.edu/ocs/register.php?event=396

Online NW Important Dates:
Conference: Feb. 5th, 2010
Early bird registration deadline: Jan.15, 2010
Refund deadline: Jan. 15, 2010

Online northwest on the web: http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw
On Twitter: http://twitter.com/OnlineNW
Our blog: http://onlinenw.blogspot.com/
Registration: https://secure.oregonstate.edu/ocs/register.php?event=396

Visit http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/ or contact OSU Conference Services For more information.
Phone: 541-737-9300,
Toll free: 800-678-6311
Email: conferences@oregonstate.edu

One month left!

2009-09-02T10:35:00.000-07:00

There is only one month to go to get your proposals in for the 2010 conference. Details and the submission form are available at http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/.

What do you want to propose? Don't tell me here, just get in your form before Oct 2nd!

Call for Submissions: 2010 Conference

2009-06-01T15:26:00.000-07:00

Online Northwest is a one-day conference focusing on topics that intersect libraries, technology and culture. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon University System Library Council.

The 2010 conference will be held at CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis, Oregon (on the Oregon State University campus) on Friday, February 5, 2010

Submit proposals: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=HDhY4z4qIUhUrqqnK2KGRQ_3d_3d

Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday, October 2nd, 2009

The coordinating committee seeks presentations that discuss how technology is being applied within library settings and how technology is affecting library patrons and services. We strongly encourage academic, public, school, and special librarians to submit proposals. All topics relating to technology and libraries are welcome,
including:
• Technology in tough economic times
• Tagging used in libraries (OPAC, librarything, flickr, etc.)
• Change/innovation & organizational culture (as it relates to technology)
• User interface design and evaluation
• Resource sharing (e.g. ILL, document delivery)
• Information literacy and instruction (distance ed. and technology use)
• Management of electronic resources, digital repositories, or digital archives
• Programming and development of computer applications to support delivery of library services
• Using social features in library technology
• Other topics related to technology in libraries are welcome

Submit proposals: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=HDhY4z4qIUhUrqqnK2KGRQ_3d_3d

For examples of past presentations or more information, see:
http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/

Check out updates on our blog and subscribe to our twitter
Blog link: http://onlinenw.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/onlinenw

Miss Something?

2009-02-27T17:40:00.000-08:00

Were there presentations you did not get to see at this years conference? Too busy networking and miss something? We now have most of the presentations on our website. Check them out, see what you missed, and get a refresher on what you did see.

What you are saying

2009-02-17T15:09:00.000-08:00

Are you posting about your Online Northwest experience? Tell us about it and we will link to you. So far Sam Wallin has shared a video presentation of his experience, and Nicholas Schiller has posted about his experience.

Comment here and we will link to your post.

Thanks for Guest Bloggers

2009-02-16T16:05:00.000-08:00

Thank you to all our guest bloggers who did live blogging and some not as live blogging below. If you haven't gotten the chance to read their posts please take a moment to do so. Comment back and tell them what you think.

Many people were also tweeting the conference via their twitter accounts. Search #ONW09 to see all the buzz.

Good to see so many people in attendance.

FYE: a committee point of view

2009-02-16T14:06:00.000-08:00

Just a bit of background to start. I grew up on the west coast, received a bachelors degree from Linfield college in McMinnville, and moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to get my MLIS. I worked at Middleton Library while I was getting the degree, then I moved to Florida. I stayed in Florida working primarily in library administration for 5 years. Last February I moved back to Oregon to be the Portland Operations Librarian for OIT (Oregon Institute of Technology).

Shortly after starting I was asked if I wanted to represent the OIT Libraries on the Online Northwest planning committee. My answer went something like, "Uh, sure. What's that?" I learned what Online Northwest was pretty quickly after that when the committee met in the spring. For those that don't know, Online Northwest is a kickin' conference with a tech focus in the Northwest US.

The committee is made up of representatives from The Oregon University System libraries. Each committee member takes on a few tasks in the planning and execution of the conference. The tasks I took on were advertising and putting out a call for proposals. Then, last friday (2/13) was the conference.

Remember what my answer was when I was asked if I wanted to be on the committee? Well, Not only was this my first year on the planning committee, but it was also the first time I had attended an Online Northwest conference. I really did not know what to expect, but I liked what I saw.

I was the room monitor to room 114, so I got to see all the presentations in that room. I also got to troubleshoot some interesting computer issues, and deal with the curtains when the sun was too bright to see the presentations. Overall, I think it was a positve experience. I got to hear some great presentations (see some not so great pictures below.) And I got to meet some people that I would not have gotten to meet otherwise.

Cass Kvenild talks with a session attendee while cleaning up after her presentation on Library Services for Distance Learners

Sam Wallin gets animated during his presentation on Using Video to Enhance Library Service.

Anna Johnson laughs with a session attender during the break after her presentation 2, 4, 6, Great: Handouts They'll Appreciate.

Diana Wakimoto shows what not to do when making accessible web pages during Preventing a Digital Divide: Accessibility and Online Learning.

Kate Gronemyer, Planning Committee chair gives a general welcome and some brief announcements before the keynote.

So, Overall, my first year experience (FYE) at Online Northwest was a good one, and I hope to have more bad pictures for you next year.

2, 4, 6, Great: Handouts they'll appreciate (Lisa T. blogging)

2009-02-13T16:43:00.000-08:00

Anna based her thoughts on handouts on the work of Edward Tufte.

The key point I took away from this session was that the presentation is a summary of the handout. The handout is not a summary of the presentation. When you only have 1 hour (or less) to present something, it's good to have something information-rich for students to take away and read and refer to afterward. Handouts allow active learning - they don't summarize the content of the presentation, but rather give students the content.

People think that students don't read handouts because they're too long, but Tufte believes that to clarify, add detail. We often use bullet points and lots of graphics on handouts, but we shouldn't be using web design principles for the design of printed documents. In the same way, print handouts shouldn't be lists of links - paper documents need to stand alone, and should make sense 2 years from now, even if the links change.

To make great handouts, use tables to align the content, make everything look good in black and white (we don't usually print in colour), use grey lines rather than hard black ones. Insert hyperlinks into the Word doc, but don't type out the URLs you link to.

Once you convert your Word files to PDF, the hyperlinks will become clickable when the PDF gets posted online.

Fit content onto 2, 4 or 6 pages - no wasted space, no wasted paper. Print 4 pages booklet style on 11x17 paper, fold it in half.

Using colour paper is more cost effective than colour ink.

If your content makes sense in a sentence, leave out the image. Images compete with content for space.

Examples of Anna's handouts

Library Blogs: Guidelines, Policies and First Amendment Rights (Lisa T. blogging)

2009-02-13T16:23:00.000-08:00

According to a Pew study, 32% of adults are blog readers. Portland has the second highest number of blog readers and contributors in the country. What people like about blogs: the material is always new and fresh, they foster community, they're interactive.

What Multnomah County Library (MCL) learned from early tries with blogging:

be afraid
you must moderate comments
only let people comment for a specific period of time

This comes from a situation where they had an unmoderated Everybody Reads blog on their site, where people were still commenting on it, spamming it, etc. after the project was over. This led to the MCL site coming up as a result for searches of words that were not at all library-related, and possibly offensive.

How to get the public what they want without getting the library into trouble? There are rules for behaviour in the library, those could be extended to library blogs.

The three major policy issues related to allowing public comment on blogs are:

1st Amendment rights and responsibilities of the public and library staff
Public records retention
Liability - copyright infringement, libel, etc.

Re: 1st Amendment rights - describe the blog in a way that makes it a limited public forum. One that focuses on giving people information (e.g. book recommendations) limits the scope of what people can comment on. As for staff, give them guidelines as public employees, ones that are connected to existing behaviour guidelines for staff.

Post a purpose statement on the blog that defines the limited public forum. Write a social software policy for the library and post disclaimers on the blog as well. Comment guidelines also appear directly where users would post their comments to the blog.

Comment moderation helps avoid spam. There are two reasons to reject a comment - if it's unlawful, or off-topic (this is where it's important to have a purpose statement to help define what is on-topic or not). Keep any comments you don't post, in case of a legal challenge.

Re: public records retention - this is one reason why it's better to host the blog on your own server, rather than having it hosted by another site.

Re: liability - make sure staff have clear guidelines for writing posts, think about having a social software policy especially for staff, and make sure it's clear how to deal with copyrighted material. It's really easy to post images and video that may be under copyright.

Presentation materials online

Keynote - BJ Fogg (Lisa T. blogging)

2009-02-13T15:52:00.000-08:00

I decided not to blog as the sessions were going on, for fear that it would make no sense to anyone... so instead here's a summary of my notes from the keynote session presented by BJ Fogg.

BJ talked about persuasive technology - the use of technology to change people's behaviours. He emphasized especially the persuasive power of video. He argues that the web is a platform for persuasion – if you’re setting up a site you have a persuasive goal. Why else would you put effort into creating a site unless you wanted to persuade someone of something?

While technology always changes, human psychology remains pretty constant.

There are three components to changing human behaviour (i.e. persuading) - motivation, simplicity and a trigger.

There are 3 core motivators of human behaviour, which can be used to persuade:

pleasure / pain
hope / fear
acceptance / rejection

Motivating people to change their behaviour is not enough, however; they also need to have the ability to do the desired behaviour. And to give people the ability to do this, we need to simplify our technology. Sometimes the tendency is to provide more training for a technology, rather than simplifying it. (I would say libraries are pretty notorious for doing this.) BJ says this is wrong and the main thing is to simplify, to make things as easy as possible to use - one choice, one click, one step.

In addition to motivation and ability, there also needs to be a trigger present to persuade someone to change their behaviour. A trigger could be a call to action, a prompt, a reminder. A good way to do this is find a routine that someone already has (ritual computing), and build the trigger into that.

It's better to start with a small idea and refine it through many iterations, rather than starting with a big and lofty project. Once you have something small that works, you can expand on its success.

This summary doesn't capture all the great examples and videos that BJ used to convey his point. His presentation was particularly effective because he used these persuasive methods to persuade us that these persuasive methods work. It was great to see him demonstrating his techniques as he explained them.

You can find more info about BJ Fogg's work at the site for his lab at Stanford.

Heck with Hal (Repplinger Blog)

2009-02-13T14:18:00.000-08:00

Dale Vidmar presented on Google's Custom Search Engine (CSE). A Google Account is required before setting up a Google CSE. Reasons to use a CSE: Focuses on specific sites, specific info, quality of info can be maintained, and a search box can be placed within hard to search sites. You can drop it onto any web page.
(PowerPoint available online: http://www.sou.edu/~vidmar/onlinenw2009/vidmar.ppt)

There are nine steps to getting started:
1. Setup a Google account (if you don't have one already) and login
2. Go to your account & click on more options at bottom of page.
3. Click on Custom Search.
4. Select the sites & urls you want.
5. Create URL pattern to search (truncate url with * such as oregon.gov/*).
6. List what you want to search (only web sites or all Internet).
7. Go through the terms of service.
8. Create your CSE & make it either public or private.
9. Test it & modify your search.
(Tips: Keep your search simple & url trunk short).

Questions from audience about this program:
Are there ways to determine bad links?
Answer: Not known, but probably not

Can you use CSE with your library databases?
Answer: No because it would have do deal with local codes & technology that doesn't work with Google.

How much does the custom search cost for professional businesses?
Answer: Varies from business, contact Google?

How do you push it to students?
Anwser: Individually gives url to people or a handout or post it online on subject guides.

Idea: Create links for tax time. State taxing agency.
Answer: If you create a tax search function, make it available to the general public.

Can you direct people to deep web sites (places Google can't go)?
Answer: Some of the Deep Web that Google counted as lost a few years ago included Word Docs, PowerPoint Docs, etc. Google can now search these, so the Deep Web isn't as deep as once was.

How about GIS documents?

read the Online NW tweets!

2009-02-13T10:48:00.001-08:00

it's pretty fun to read all the tweeting going on during the conference! http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23onw09

Soapbox, Echo Chamber & Salon (Repplinger Blog)

2009-02-13T10:21:00.002-08:00

This presentation talked about civic engagement from three metaphors: soapboxes, echo chambers, & Salons. How are people affected by social media in terms of civic engagement?

(Notes from the presenters are posted online at http://command-f.info/)

SOAPBOX (able to publicly say your opinions & beliefs)
From the "street corner," you can make your opinions known as well as stand up for voiceless populace. Anyone can post anything. Historical examples given were the Stamp Act & when the telegraph (new technology)

ECHO CHAMBERS (surrounded by like-minded people & beliefs)
These are naturally formed communities. People seek out opinions & beliefs similar to what they believe in, but don't necessarily avoid or shutout others with opposing opinions. The Selective Exposure Theory was mentioned. There have been a recent study on where people get exposed the most to different perspectives; the main stream media was the overwhelming source.

SALONS
These represent neutral public spaces that were removed from institutions & political parties. The example--women were present, so men had to learn how to converse politely in front of others. Internet behaviors show similar characteristics in that each place has different expectations & norms. The last election showed 40% of adults watched videos, and 40% searched for primary information that was not filtered.

The big part of civic engagement is caring, and the echo chambers play an important part; they show that people do care about the issues.

Preventing a Digital Divide (Alison blogging)

2009-02-13T10:21:00.001-08:00

presentation by Diana Wakimoto, Online Literacy/Public Services Librarian at CSU East Bay

The podcast, official notes, more links, etc. will be available on Diana's blog:
http://thewakilibrarian.wordpress.com/

Accessible Design does not have to be boring!

Section 508 - ADA: all government websites must be accessible

Measuring accessibility

FAE rule set - from UIUC - functional accessibility evaluator
beta rule set from above
html validation
navigation - try it without a mouse

clean up your code - screen readers need it

Firefox Accessibility Toolbar for validating page for accessibility (html, styles), generating reports, test navigation, etc.

Google fails in 4 points of accessibility according to FAE rule set! Validator tells what needs fixing.

Vischeck - colorblind simulations

Word works better with JAWS (screenreaders) than some .pdfs

Webanywhere - from UW: web-based screen reader - free!

Overstream - for captioning videos: pulls in YouTube videos! Not as robust as other tutorial software - ie, can't change fonts, but you have captions

All of the above are good for retrofitting existing resources... here are tips for creating new accessible resources.

Adobe Captivate - fee-based video creating software. Adobe does a good job with accessibility.

Voicethread - audio and text over an online presentation (upload PowerPoint) - not completely 508 compliant yet but getting there. Others can comment on your voice thread! Cool!

Wordpress - 508 compliant blog platform, robust enough to function as a website (ie CSU library). Diana uses it as courseware. http://library1210.wordpress.com/

AxsJAX from Google labs - for accessible javascript

SurveyMonkey - 508 compliant

keynote (Phoebe blogging)

2009-02-13T09:13:00.000-08:00

Persuasive Technology- Captology

Dr. Fogg has a pretty interesting book coming out soon called The Psychology of Facebook. ("The #1 persuasive technology of all time.") He's pointed out how quickly users adapt FB apps, such as iLike.

At 20 mins in, and he's given us a great example of an online fundraising experiment showcasing the power of 20 second, simple video presos. After not getting a single person to make a birthday donation through emails and a website, he tried a series of videos and had 82% rate of conversion from the people who watched the vids!

Belated Introduction

2009-02-10T16:53:00.000-08:00

I'm really looking forward to this year's conference. I've been lucky enough to be able to attend for the past two years and have always come away with something really valuable to share and think about. Like many librarians, I'm interested in everything so I'm planning to attend sessions on information literacy, digital collections, and . . . some I haven't decided on yet.

I'm currently working as an on-call librarian for Portland Community College as well as lending my skills to numerous nonprofits in the area, including the North Portland computer lab of the Multnomah County Library and the Community Warehouse.

Hope to meet you in person at the conference.

Claire Rivers

Its almost here!

2009-02-09T13:47:00.000-08:00

The conference is almost here, only 4 days away(Friday February 13th). If you haven't seen it yet the executive summaries are posted on our website Figure out which sessions you want to attend now so you have more time to socialize during registration and breakfast.

If you have not had the chance to register yet registration is still open, or you can register on site. We are at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center in Corvallis. Registration starts at 8am, so we hope to see you then.

Carpooling

2009-02-09T12:04:00.000-08:00

(pic from flickr commons, State Library of Queensland’s collection)

Phoebe here...
It was really nice to carpool to the conference from Portland in the past. Anyone interested this year? I figure we could use the comments to get something going, maybe?

I'll start- I'd love to carpool with someone from the NE PDX area- say near the Whole Foods on 15th & Fremont or Broadway or such. I can drive or you can drive?

One More Guest Blogger Introduction

2009-02-05T14:51:00.000-08:00

Hi! I'm Alison, Technology Outreach Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region. It's a mouthful, I know! We are headquartered at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library in Seattle. Our mission to "enhance access to health information for health professionals and the public." We support medical librarians and other health information providers in a five state region - Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

This will be my second Online Northwest conference. The 25th Anniversary meeting was one of the most educational conferences I attended last year, so I am excited to be returning to Corvallis for year 26.

Another guest blogger intro

2009-02-04T14:49:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, I'm Lisa, a reference librarian at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. I'm fairly new to this job, to Oregon, and to the US for that matter - we moved here in August. I'm originally from Vancouver, BC, where I graduated from the University of British Columbia with my MLIS in April 2007. I worked for a year at public and university libraries in Vancouver, before starting my job here in Corvallis.

This is my first Online NW conference - I've heard nothing but good things about it, so I'm glad to have the chance to attend. I'm also looking forward to meeting more Oregon librarians there. I'll be blogging during the conference and afterward.

Guest Blogger Introduction

2009-02-04T09:34:00.000-08:00

I recently was awarded my MLS and Archives Studies Certificate from Emporia State University and have worked as an on-call librarian at Oregon State University for a little over a year. This is my first Online Northwest Conference. I am especially interested in reference and instruction and look forward to learning more about how technology can enhance students' experiences.

I found the Executive Summary page very useful to help me make some hard decisions about which sessions I wish to attend. I plan to blog at the conference as well as afterward and will also be sending tweets on Twitter. My updates are protected. Please send me a request and I'll be happy to add you. I am also on Facebook.

guest blogging

2009-01-16T16:04:00.000-08:00

I am really looking forward to sharing my thoughts on this year's conference! I had to miss last year, but the previous year was a fantastic program. I became a member of Karen Munro's Adobe Captivate group, met a lot of great folks, and picked up some handy information for my work in special libraries. I'll be going this year as a new member of the Meyer Memorial Trust staff- looking for great ideas and inspiration to remain innovative in the philanthropy world.

I'll also plan on tweeting some thoughts throughout the day. http://twitter.com/superphoebe

Want to blog here?

2009-01-13T16:52:00.000-08:00

We are looking for people who will be attending the 2009 conference to blog about it here! If you are interested in sharing your experiences comment to this post with some contact information.

10 new Gurus you should know

2009-01-13T16:48:00.000-08:00

B.J. Fogg is the Online Northwest 2009 Keynote speaker, and Fortune magazine has named him one of ten new gurus you should know. Register for the conference to hear him speak February 13th.

Got Facebook?

2008-12-10T11:42:00.000-08:00

Online Northwest has facebook become a member of the group to get updates, and while you are there tell us if you plan on attending the 2009 conference at the event site.

If you have any pictures or videos from past conferences share them with the group.

Registration now open!

2008-11-25T16:22:00.000-08:00

WHAT IS ONLINE NORTHWEST?
A one-day conference focusing on the use of technology in libraries, attracting librarians from the Pacific Northwest and around the country. Online NW is sponsored by the Oregon University System Library Council.

HOW DO I REGISTER?
Use the online registration form available via http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/

WHEN IS THE CONFERENCE?
Friday, February 13, 2009

WHERE IS THE CONFERENCE?
CH2M Hill Alumni Center on the Oregon State University campus,
Corvallis, Oregon

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PROGRAMS BEING OFFERED?
This year's topics will include:

- Social media and civic behaviors

- Teaching technology

- Using technology in teaching

- Technology in collaboration

Keynote: BJ Fogg
Trained in experimental psychology, Dr. BJ Fogg is the founder and Director of Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab where he creates insight into how technologies change people’s attitudes and behavior. Fogg is the author of Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do and coauthor of Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives of the Future of Behavior Change. His Online Northwest keynote speech will address the topic of online video as a persuasive technology. For more information on BJ Fogg, visit his website at http://www.bjfogg.com

WHAT IS THE DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION?
Early registration ($100) is due on or before Friday, January 23, 2009

WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION?
Visit http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/
or contact Conference Services
Phone: 541-737-9300
Toll free: 800-678-6311
Email: conferences@oregonstate.edu

ONLINE NW DATES AT A GLANCE:
Conference: Feb. 13, 2009
Early bird registration deadline: Jan. 23, 2009
Refund deadline: Jan. 23, 2009

Last chance to Propose for 2009 conference

2008-09-25T09:58:00.000-07:00

Monday, Sept 29th is the proposal deadline for the 2009 conference. Submit yours this weekend at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xr85d9JF_2f0Bxrv5IvZGdlA_3d_3d

Call For Proposals

2008-06-13T09:28:00.000-07:00

Online Northwest is a one-day conference focusing on topics that intersect libraries, technology and culture. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon University System Library Council.

The 2009 conference will be held at CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis, Oregon (on the Oregon State University campus) on Friday, February 13, 2009

Proposal Submission Deadline: Monday, September 29^th, 2008

The coordinating committee seeks presentations that discuss how technology is being applied within library settings and how technology is affecting library patrons and services. We strongly encourage academic, public, school, and special librarians to submit proposals. All topics relating to technology and libraries are welcome,
including:

Topics may include:

· Tagging used in libraries (OPAC, library thing, flickr, etc.)

· Change/innovation & organizational culture (as it relates to technology)

· User interface design and evaluation

· Implementation of Web 2.0 technologies in libraries

· Resource sharing (e.g. ILL, document delivery)

· Information literacy and instruction (distance ed. and technology use)

· Management of electronic resources, digital repositories, or digital archives

· Programming and development of computer applications to support delivery of library services

· Using social features in library technology

· Other topics related to technology in libraries are welcome

Submit proposals: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xr85d9JF_2f0Bxrv5IvZGdlA_3d_3d

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http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/

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