Wikis...

As I mentioned in my first post, I dealt with wikis quite a bit with my co-op term and for the group working on wikis, there are international wiki symposiums that happen every year and have existed for a few years. They have conference proceedings, and some articles might prove useful. The conference proceedings are free for students, but you have to register with the site/association which is the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Here is a link to last year's conference proceedings. There is also a few good books on wikis one more technical and another which is more business/philosophical (I know that the links are to Chapters, but you could easily look up your local catalog, or do ILL, just figured with the title, author, ISBN, etc. would be useful). Anyways, I was just thinking about Wikis today and figured these links may be useful.


Cheers,
Jérémie

Lazy Wednesdays...

yeah as the title says it...it's Wednesday, one of my slack days. Hahahaha, I have no classes on Wed. or Frid. So it's a pretty sweet schedule.

So for the people inquiring of my Maritime whereabouts, I am about 30 mins outside of Moncton, situated in a small town of "Cap-Pelé". We have the nicest beaches in the Maritimes, with the warmest saltwater "North of Virginia USA" (so they say, but I think it's pretty accurate, cause the water temp in the summer can easily reach the high 20s. From the coastline in my home town you can see PEI, which is not always easy to see but you can distinguish in the horizon. Well enough of my hometown area...

So thanks for everyone that left comments on my blog and looking forward to reading yours (yes I slacked off yesterday and didn't check the other student's blogs), but I will after I post this.

Cheers all,
Jérémie

my first post...

Hi All,

A little about myself...well I am not new to blogs, I've been writing on blogs for a little while now, however, I created this new blog for this course. As for social softwares, I am very interested in learning and applying them in my future workplace. I just came back from a co-op with Natural Resources Canada Library, and one of the projects that I worked on was setting up a Wiki for NRCan, which was quite the adventure, and I ran into quite a learning curve, but it was all good and now I realize that wikis can be used for much more than how I knew wikis before, for example Wikipedia. The potential for Wikis are interesting. However, I also realize that there are other social software tools out there, and being developed that I am also interested in. I am really interested in this area and new technology and its uses in the library and information sharing environment. Other than that, I have varied interests in softball, anything Acadian, the Maritimes, and a lot of other stuff. Anyways if you want to know more, just ask away.

Cheers,
Jer

Woo Hoo,
Jeremie