Live blogging CILIP 2.0 open session - join in from 2.30pm today

I will be live-blogging (on this Update blog) the CILIP Council special Open Session – on how CILIP can make best use of Web 2.0 – from 2.30pm, when it starts.

Please add your own comments, questions, pleas etc below the post where I'll be writing all my live updates.

(I'll put that post up v. soon: you can add your comments even before the event has started!).

Apparently, my blog – along with your comments – will be projected above the Council meeting for all to see. (Yikes!)

As will Tweets tagged with #CILIP2.

Hopefully Council, or the two speakers, will be able to absorb and respond to these queries...

The speakers at the event are Update's columnist Phil Bradley, and Brian Kelly (of UKOLN). And then all the rest of us will pile in, I suppose ;-)

'Here Comes Everybody', as Clay Shirky might say...

Phil (and his wife) and many others , it seems, will be tweeting about the session too.

Here's what Phil says: http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2009/04/my-cilip-council-presentation-290409.html

"I have embedded my presentation for the CILIP Council meeting (hashtag #CILIP2) into my weblog, so you can see it. Unfortunately because it's almost entirely images it's not going to mean a great deal to anyone who isn't going to be following at Twitter. Either go to Twitter, run a search and refresh regularly, or visit TwitterFountain and change the settings to #CILIP2 and view it live. I'll be tweeting as it happens - Jill (my wife) will also be attending and she'll be tweeting my session for me."

Follow things on Twitter here: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23CILIP2

or here: http://twitterfall.com/#cilip2  

There seem to be *lots* of LIS people ready to follow it all on Twitter.

There certainly won't be any excuse for ignorance about #tags, Twitterfall et al around CILIP after today ;-)

That said, I ought to point out that this is very much an experiment for us here, projecting live Tweets, live-blogging et al. (There has not been any kind of rehearsal!)

Keep an eye on CILIP's Council blog too: http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/council/default.aspx

(Though, if I've understood correctly, the action there could largely be after the actual event rather than during it).

Knowing that the speakers are likely to talk about the need to follow various CILIP-related Web 2.0 channels, and engage in their conversations, one question comes to mind for me: what acatually are the active channels for dicussions on CILIP?

How many posts a month are there to CILIP Communities' forums? How many blogs/comments on CILIP's blogs? Tweets mentioning CILIP? How many posts a month on LIS-Profession (was LIS-Cilip)? LIS-medical? And the CILIP Facebook page, the Linked-in page? (These are just a few).

And which way are these channels going usage-wise - up or down?

Without this information about the relative popularity of the various Web 2.0 channels that many CILIP members are already using, it feels to me a bit like we're flying blind...

These usage stats might all be pretty easy to come by too...

Do join in at 2.30, or even get a comment in before - once the live-blogging post is up.

Matthew Mezey
(News Editor, Update)

 020 7255 0584 

PS And how long will it be before someone says "Maybe we need a wiki for this...?" ;-)

I'll probably say it myself...

PPS Just now spotted David Byrne's Tweet: "Hope to catch the CILIP session - if only we could include audio and web conferencing to bring the session to life real time". Actually,  I did throw this kind of idea into the pre-event discussions (there's a limit to what can be experienced via blogs/tweets, right?), but I think it was a step too far (for this particular meeting) - as there was no budget, and rather little time. I even suggested David as someone to talk to about how we might do exactly this!