[CODE4LIB] Idea for Virtual Lightning Talks

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Murray
I was thinking this morning about the positive feedback coming from the remote participants and how the lightning talks are a great way to people working on emerging ideas. And I came up with an idea to try to replicate the experience online using one of those virtual classroom tools. I wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] Idea for Virtual Lightning Talks

2011-02-09 Thread Karen Coombs
Peter, I've got some experience doing this type of thing. First, with the LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase and then later with OCLC Developer Network. Because members of our community aren't always able to come talk about their projects, we've been trying to increase the type of this we've

Re: [CODE4LIB] Idea for Virtual Lightning Talks

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Murray
Thanks, Karen. If any helpful ideas come to mind on how to structure something like this, feel free to add them to the wiki or send them to me privately. What is on the wiki now is as far as I got with my brainstorming this morning. Peter On Feb 9, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Karen Coombs wrote: