Presentations and Schedule - want to present? Reserve your spot by putting in your initials and the topic number, then put your description next to the topic number below.
Fl. means floater - not guaranteed a space but we'll fit you in somewhere!
Presenters - each session is timed to last 45 minutes, with a 15 minute break between sessions. Please try to time your sessions to last about 30 minutes, leaving plenty of time for discussion!

Registration all day beginning at 9am - arrive when you can, leave when you want!

	Business Concepts	Podcasting and New Media	Social Media	Web Dev.
9:30am	UnKeynote	UnKeynote	UnKeynote	UnKeynote
10:30am	101 - Primary Concepts in Website Design - John Speck	201 - Mobile Lifecasting - Brian Jepson	301 - Speed Mentoring - Sara Streeter	401 - Basics of Visual Design for the Web - Alex Taylor
11:30am	102 - Privacy vs. Transparency, Closed vs. Open - Steve Malloy	202 - Intro to Podcasting & New Media - Christopher Penn	302 Intro to Videoblogging - Joe Cascio	402 - Intro to Web Standards - Adam Darowski
12:15pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
1:30pm	103 - Adopting Open Source Web Applications For Small Business and Organizations - Jeffrey Hill	203 - How To Sound Better - Matthew Ebel	303 - Social Networking - Marlyn Tadros	403 - Intro to Web Programming - Andrew Shearer
2:30pm	104 - Artists' online marketing and lessons for everyone -Deb Block-Schwenk	204 - Video Blogging Reprise and Internet Censorship - Steve Malloy and Joe Cascio	304 - Speed Mentoring - Sara Streeter	404 Chelpixie - Second Life and Virtual Hot Wings
3:30 PM	Wrapup	Wrapup	Wrapup	Wrapup
Fl. 10:30
Fl. 11:30
Fl. 1:30		1:30 Marketing 101 John Speck Rm 125	Auditorium Second Life Joyce and Hilary	1:30 401 Repeat Intro to Visual Design Room 106 Alex Taylor
Fl. 2:30
5 PM	After Party @ AS220	After Party @ AS220	After Party @ AS220	After Party @ AS220

Business Concepts: a catch-all for those who want to discuss how to implement the new technology into their business models

101 - Primary Concepts in Website Design, John Speck. Before you go anywhere near ImageReady or 'the code' answer these questions: Who cares? What do they want? What do you have? How can you connect? Also explores the basics of usability: barriers, navigation, screen use, use of conventions. Discusses graphic design only marginally.

102 Privacy vs. Transparency, Closed vs. Open, Steve Malloy (sophware).The Web 2.0 trade-off and perception:

Current and future risks of being open (marketing onslought, career risks, stalking) (note to self: flickr experience with pics of kids in the tub)

Advantages of being open (only way to fully connect with people; can actually work with and meet people; is winning former privacy nuts over)

How can you participate without making your email address or other contact information totally public? Partially public? (Strategies for maintaining an additional email address; the LinkedIn/Facebook connection model of privacy versus the Craigslist middle-man option).

Options, advantages and disadvantages of maintaining a separate professional and personal online presence, or a real and pretend presence (OpenID personae, multiple Twitter accounts, Essjay controversy) NOTE - sophware: Haven't looked into whether Paull Young and/or Christie Eubanks angle covers some of this.

103 - Adopting Open Source Web Applications For Small Businesses and Organizations - Jeffrey Hill

Translating business models into "web speak" and technology demands

Things to consider when implementing web-based online shops, contact/task management systems, etc.

Licensing, cost and sustainability factors

Probably best set up as a roundtable discussion with a few other facilitators (but I ended up just blabbing for the bulk of the time allotted...I'm bad.)

(following Darowski's lead...)



104 - Artists' online marketing and lessons for everyone - Deb Block-Schwenk. In 2007 I completed a study about the ways artists were using the web to market their novels, paintings, music and films. I'll share some examples and discuss the common themes I learned. We'll discuss how these themes can be applied to businesses, organizations and individuals.

Floater Topics:
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Podcasting/Blogging: intro to putting out content in interactive forums, RSS

201 - Mobile Lifecasting, Brian Jepson.
Presentation link (likely to be in flux until 10:29:59)

• Get online on the go: cell phone or laptop?
• Cellular data plans demystified
• * HOWTO stream your life from a handheld device
• Blogging
• Flickr
  
• Streaming video
• Twitter
• (more as time permits)

202 - Podcasting and New Media 101 - Christopher Penn. Many people know yesterday's media - newspapers, radio, television. Find out how old media ideas have been transformed into new media, and how you can be your very own media outlet on a shoestring, but with the same reach as the mainstream media.

203 - How To Sound Better - Matthew Ebel. Want to learn how a 30 second spot works? Want to know what all those dials mean on your equalizer, or how to podcast and sound as good as you can? This is the session for you.

204 - Microblogging - Chris Bloom. How about something on mo'bloging or microblogging? Or, it would be pretty easy to fill a block with "All the things that Google can do for you". I wouldn't mind assisting Adam with a presentation about Web Standards if he needs help. @Adam: I read your article about blogs as the new resume - I'm sure that would make for an interesting topic.

Floater Topics:
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Social Media: discussion of sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube

301 Speed Mentoring - Sara Streeter. A la http://mplayground.blogspot.com/2008/01/speed-mentoring.html Following up on the idea of "getting newbies and mentors in the same room together", five rounds of mentoring lasting 6 minutes each while a few mentees are matched up with a mentor at a time - they each ask their questions for that mentor based on his/her specialty and then rotate to the next mentor for the next round. Thanks go to Joe Cascio for putting me in touch with Bryan Person to find out about this idea.

302 - Introduction to Videoblogging - Joe Cascio.
Your videoblog can be your video diary, or soapbox, or comedy show, or how-to instruction or expression of art. In other words, whatever you want it to be. There are no gatekeepers, so do whatever you want, whenever you want. In this very interactive discussion, we'll make a short video and post it to my blog. You'll be surprised how easy it is.

303 - Social Networking Tour - Marlyn Tadros. A presentation on different forms of social networking including social bookmarking, metaverses, etc. In particular, we will see social media that is useful for students. How are social networking sites being used? why should or shouldn't we use them? what are the drawbacks and challenges? what are the advantages?

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Floater Topics:
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Web Development: the basics of having a website, learn vocabulary and key concepts