Focus on Wikis and blogs at online information conference 2005.29 November--1 December 2005, Grand Hall, Olympia, London Olympia is an exhibition centre in Hammersmith, London, England. It opened in the 19th century and was originally known as the National Agricultural Hall. Erected in 1886, by Andrew Handyside of Derby it covered an area of four acres. , www.online-informationco.uk This years Online Information Conference (29 November--1 December 2005, Olympia, London) will dedicate an entire day to examining blogs, wikis See wiki. and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. with contributions from some of the leading experts from around the world including Jimmy Wales, the Founder of Wikipedia. The dedicated track will run on day two of the conference (Wednesday 30 November), and will be split into four focus areas: the evolution of wikis; wikis and blogs in corporate and academic institutions; content syndication--supply and demand; and monitoring and mining the blogosphere The total universe of blogs. See blog. . Jimmy Wales, President of the Wikimelia Foundation, Inc, USA, will open the programme with a keynote address focusing on his creation Wikipedia, and the future of the web community. "There has been an explosion of interest in wikis and blogs" comments Katherine Allen, Conference Director for Online Information 2005. "At this year's Online Information conference we will examine the special challenges for information managers wishing to implement wikis and blogs in corporate or academic settings, with an impressive range of international speakers sharing real-life experiences and expert insight." Highlights from the programme include: * Wilds as online information sources--collective intelligence or collective idiocy IDIOCY, med. jur. That condition of mind, in which the reflective, or all or a part of the affective powers, are either entirely wanting, or are manifested to the least possible extent. 2. Idiocy generally depends upon organic defects. ?--L. Anne Clyde, Professor, The Urtiversity of Iceland, Iceland * Blogging in the corporate world Adriana Cronin Lukas, Partner, Big Blog Company, UK * Blogging protocol--how to create an effective blogging policy Philippe Borrernans, Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Manager, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Belgium and Luxembourg * The impact of blogs in creating new relationships--a publishers' perspective--Neil Mclntosh, Associate Editor, The Guardian, UK * Academics using blogs to teach students based on the experience of Warwick University * Latest developments in content syndication with RSS--Peter Scott, Internet Consultant, RSS Compendium, Canada * How to create you own RSS feed--demonstration and questions from Fergus Burns, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Nooked, USA The Online Information Conference runs alongside the established Online Information event, which is now in its 29th year and features an exhibition of around 250 leading vendors. This years Conference will also cover issues such as: innovation in information discovery; library and publishing developments; enterprise content management; information architecture; and enterprise search. For more information on the conference please visit: www.online-information.co.u.k/conferencehtml. |
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