[OPLINTECH] FW: May 8th Tech Collaboration Summit and STA discussions

[JKENZIG]

Hi All,
Thought I would pass this along out to the list for those in neighboring
libraries whom might be interested in attending. Spaces are limited so
sign up early.

Jim Kenzig
Network Manager
Cuyahoga County Public Library
You can now follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kenzig
Blog: http://www.techblink.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Sopko [mailto:rds21 at cas] 	
Subject: May 8th Tech Collaboration Summit and STA discussions

Hello,

I have not emailed or conversed with many of you in a long time.  We'd
like to restart discussions on sharing insights about how each of us
are using technology in the area, throughout the world, and how we can
assist each other.

In the near future, we will be planning a few meetings with resources
that may be of interest to you.

IBM, Dell, Liebert, Sprint and others have expressed a desire to
support gatherings of technology professionals in the area to see how
they can better serve your needs through the Strategic Technology
Alliance.  These will be scheduled in the months ahead.

Your input of what you'd like to discuss is encouraged.  You may want
to highlight areas you'd like to share with others or we can find
someone that has expertise in a subject of interest.

To start it off, I'd like to invite you to a large Collaboration
Technology Summit occurring on the Case campus May 8th.  It's a free
event with lunch included, lots of great information, networking and a
raffle for a high end computer system and other nice prizes.

Some rather cool items will be shared including discussions by the
author of http://www.wikinomics.com , one of the founders of
http://www.secondlife.com will be there, discussions by
http://www.meetthebloggers.net , details on wikis, web 2.0,  along
with results of a 2 D mobile phone barcode test.
http://blogs.mediapost.com/mobile_insider/?p=170 ,
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LEUC-3ZmhCg  and more.

Listed below is more information on the event and a detailed invitation.

Action Items:
1: Please reply that this email is reaching the right person in your
organization who has interest in or responsibility for technology or
if you'd like, please provide an alternative.
2: If you can think of others who may be interested in attending
future local technology meetings, please tell me.
3: If you'd like to attend the upcoming May 8th Collaboration Event,
there is a need to register.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks.

Bob Sopko
Case Western Reserve University ITS
216-368-1522
bob.sopko @ case.edu


Colleagues: I hope this exceptional event will be of interest to many
of you. I encourage you to review the program and register. Seating is
limited and with free lunch on the menu I want to be sure that
everyone interested has an opportunity to get a 'seat' .

I would like to ask for your support in distribution this invitation
to your friends, colleagues, on your blogs and wikis... This is an
outstanding opportunity for the entire  community to learn and
participant in the emerging world of collaboration technology. In
addition to workshops, panels, and keynotes, there are big raffle
drawings for computer systems and more (must be present to win). The
website is open for registration at
http://www.case.edu/its/collabtech08/collabtech08.html

Case Western Reserve University will highlight new technologies and
how they enhance research and discovery during its campus
Collaboration Technologies Summit 2008 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 8 in
Thwing Center. In addition, the keynote and panels will be streamed in
ClevelandPlus in SecondLife.

All university faculty, staff, students, alumni, neighborhood and
community partners are invited to attend the symposium and
demonstration event-that will be conducted simultaneously at
collaborative sites throughout world.

The event will feature a keynote address by Anthony D. Williams. An
author, researcher and consultant, Williams's latest project is the
bestselling book (co-authored with Don Tapscott) called Wikinomics:
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.

Two panels at the summit will be anchored by Campus Computing Project
Director, Dr. Kenneth Green, Visiting Scholar at Claremont Colleges.
The first panel is titled Making Sense of the explosion of Web 2.0
tools and their relevance and consequence in Higher Education.
Panelists include educators and faculty leaders from Case Western
Reserve University, University of Southern California, Bradley
University, and Researchers from IBM. At the end of the day-long event
Green will host a panel called Collaboration Technology-What's Next?:
Bold Predictions, Cautionary Notes and Take Away Lessons. Panelists
include leaders from Case Western Reserve University, Tri-C, MIT, and
the co-founder of SecondLife, Cory Ondrejka.
Breakout sessions will include:
Track 1: Community Engagement: From local impact to global influence

    * Connected Communities and Wireless Connectivity-Case Western
Reserve, OneCommunity-The Next Chapter
    * Virtual Worlds and the New Frontiers of Learning-From SecondLife
to Wonderland
    * Worldwide Learning Environments
    * To Data Warehousing and Beyond!

Track 2: Mobile Discovery

    * Mobile Advertising-Where and how do 2D codes fit in? The
Convergence of Print, Mobile and Internet: from USA TODAY to FaceBook,
how CodeIntelligence extends the value of print advertising. The
Nation's First 2D bar code trial: Findings & Implications

Track 3: The People Formerly Known as the Audience

    * Rich Media and Participatory Culture-The Experience of YouTube
and iTunes in Higher Education
    * New Frontiers in Video-Based Collaboration
    * Towards a Unified Communications Environment Leveraging VOIP and
WebEx-The Cisco Story

Track 4: Blogs and Wikis

    * Meet the Bloggers: Community Thought Leadership and Touching New
Audiences
    * Scholarship and Blogging, the View From Within the Academy
    * Wikis and Collaboration Models for Active Learning

Featured at the Summit will be demonstrations of the launch of the
University Circle Wireless Mesh with Cleveland-based OneCommunity,

Details of the Summit, including registration information, can be
found at http://www.case.edu/its/collabtech08/collabtech08.html

The conference is free.

The Collaborative Technologies Summit 2008 is sponsored by Case
Western Reserve's Information Technology Services, University Library,
University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education, Office of
the Provost, Human Resources, Faculty Senate Committee on Information
Resources and Council of Technology Officers. Corporate underwriting
comes from IBM, Cisco, EMC, Dell, OneCommunity, Apple, Mobile
Discovery, and PerceptIS.

-- 
Lev Gonick
Vice President, Information Technology Services
University Chief Information Officer
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106

216.368.1025 (p)
216.835.9809 (m)
216.368.4903 (f)
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