Comments on: Guest Book

By: Elahe Amani

Elahe Amani — Mon, 01 May 2006 21:28:13 +0000

Looking forward to on-line events. Please keep me posted.

By: Karen Harker

Karen Harker — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:45:34 +0000

I was very excited about this idea and very pleased with the first few presentations. In fact, I organized special times for our staff to view these presentations together so that we could discuss them and their ideas. However, more and more of them have been nothing but “blog presentations”, which are not presentations at all but Web pages. While interesting, it is not very exciting and certainly not conducive to the the social networking it purports to encourage. Overall, while the information is good, the presentations are disappointing.

By: Stian Haklev

Stian Haklev — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:39:03 +0000

This stuff is completely awesome. I am not a librarian, and I am not in the US, but I care passionately about libraries, online teaching and learning, etc, and I Have enjoyed many of the presentations.

I would like to know much more about the back-end, the process by which this was arranged, what thoughts went into the format, what difficulties were encountered… and I would really like for there to be a good evaluation after, and for everything to be posted, because my interest in the conference is not purely the content but also the form - since this is a very novel way of conducting a conference. What worked and what didnt‘t?

One quick comment, I would like there to be a little icon by the links to the different presentations, specifying the contents. I like to consume different content at different times - I might listen to a podcast in bed, while a screencast should be consumed in front of the computer - a paper can be printed and read on the bus.

I also wonder if you are content with the level of discussion that has been generated by the presentations.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:11:23 +0000

This looks lovely and it’s been fun reading the library entries from this past week. One small blip: I came to the blog con from an outside link that led me right to an article. Some of the articles (the ones that don’t link to blogs or screencasts elsewhere) don’t have any author attribution. If you come from the main page, you know who wrote the articles, but if you come from some random link from elsewhere, you don’t. Maybe someone can ping the designer?

By: Justin Hunt

Justin Hunt — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:33:29 +0000

As the previous posts indicate,

Unfortunately, not everyone around the world will benefit from HEBC. Most librarians will fail to find it. Most who do find it, will fail to take advantage of it. And as for the rest…
The good side is that a great number of people will take what they learn and re-distribute the information–applying it in their own lives, and the lives of their students and peers.

HEBC can’t solve the worlds economic and social problems…but its a heck of a start!

By: Dorothea

Dorothea — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:38:53 +0000

The intended audience for this conference, Mr. Gerstle, is librarians in the US and other developed countries. While I share your concern over the digital divide, I don’t believe this conference is to be faulted over its format rendering it unavailable to its designated community.

After all, if this conference were to publish paper proceedings, would those reach more or fewer librarians, in more or fewer places?

By: Alan Gerstle

Alan Gerstle — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:54:28 +0000

Ted Turner said this in 2001, and I fear that the problem is not improving. As a blatant self-promotion, I did include this on MY higher ed blog - www.inthetext.com - whjch focuses on economic injustice.

‘The global great and good Half the people of the world, they fret, have never made a telephone call. Africa has less bandwidth than Brazil’s city of Sao Paolo. How, ask dozens of inter-governmental task forces, can the poor get connected. Amid all the attention being paid to developing countries’ lack of Internet access, some people feel that more fundamental problems are being ignored. Ted Turner, an American media boss, observed last year that there was no point in giving people computers when they had no electricity.’

By: Iris Jastram

Iris Jastram — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:53:43 +0000

What a good idea! This combines theory and practice not only because the talks are informative and useful, but also because it allows us to actually learn by doing. I can’t wait to see how the programs take shape.

By: Meredith Farkas

Meredith Farkas — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:17:54 +0000

Thanks Darlene! We’re really excited to show what is possible in online conferences!

By: Darlene Fichter

Darlene Fichter — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:34:49 +0000

Hats off the program developers. There’s a great list of programs with speakers from several countries. Hosting a conference online using social software is a great way to exemplify how online communications technologies are changing Higher Ed.

Saskatoon, SK, Canada

By: Shane Colvin

Shane Colvin — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:39:14 +0000

Fantastic idea!!

Looking forward to the online event!

-Shane Colvin
Oslo, Norway