The Showcase is here!
The 2007 BIGWIG Showcase was such a hit, we decided to do it again. The topics for this year were driven by community voting, and several of the presenters volunteered right in our own forums....
Want one?
Want a BIGWIG ribbon at ALA? Find any of the BIGWIG officers (Jason, Karen, or Jonathan) or attend a BIGWIG event (either our business meeting or the Social Software Showcase). Guaranteed to be the coolest ribbon at ALA...team this up with an LSW ribbon and cause the ALA to worry.
Top Five Topics for the Social Software Showcase
The following topics were the top five vote getters for the Social Software Showcase:
- APIs (WorldCat, Google Book Viewability, LibraryThing, Open Library)
- Social Capabilities (or not) of Library Software
- Live conferencing software and sites
- OpenID
- Citation Bookmarking Tools
These topics along with several other will be part of this year's Showcase. Look for more information later in the week on final Showcase topics and presenters!
Showcase Voting Closed
Voting for topics for the Social Software Showcase has closed. We will announce the top 5 topics with the most votes next week.
Vote for Showcase Topics
BIGWIG is polling to see what topics people would like to see as part of the 2008 Social Software Showcase. Go to http://www.yourbigwig.com/showcase/vote to rate the various potential Showcase topics. A rating of 5 is the highest possible and a rating of 1 is the lowest possible. Please note that you don't need a YourBIGWIG account to vote.
New feature: BIGWIG Activity Calendar
I just created and embedded a calendar for us to use in planning and such. It's a Google Calendar, and if you comment here and leave your gmail address, I'll add editing privledges for you. That way we can keep track of not only planning for things, but actual events at conferences as well...like our Podcast schedule, for instance.
Accounts and permissions
Hi all, I'm really excited to see people signing up so quickly to participate. We are approving people's account as fast as we can. Keep in mind that the permissions you are getting allow you to edit anything, not just stuff you own. So be concientious and respectful. Otherwise we'll have to revoke some of your permissions.
Welcome to YourBIGWIG
BIGWIG has created this website in order to facilitate communication between BIGWIG members, potential members and interested parties. We hope to use this site to enable BIGWIG to be more efficient and effective in the work we do, allow for virtual participation, and solicit feedback and commentary on our activities. BIGWIG is different than most Interest Groups; we do stuff, and the stuff we do needs to be done better. This site is a first attempt at that goal.
