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Dead Tech speaker Darlene Fichter‘s slides are the feature presentation on SlideShare’s tech page. Dead & Innovative Technology: Moving & Shaking in the Information WorldJane Dysart, Conference Program Chair View more presentations from Darlene Fichter.

Did our Twitter trending (meaning we were the top Twitterers at one time) tweak the imagination of this cartoonist? Did Bizarro watch our live stream of NYPL’s Paul Holdengraber’s keynote [see earlier story for archive of this feed] or listen into our Dead Tech evening discussion? Jane Dysart, Conference Program Planning

Megan Fox continued her coverage of mobile devices in the Searching track.  Mobile searchers have specific information they are looking for,  such as facts or answers. They don’t want to look at lists of hits.  So searches tend to be just one word–very quick and direct.  The major search engines generally present sites like weather, maps, [...]

Aubria Keleman, Teen Services and Web Coordinator, Whatcom County Library System, and Tao Gao, Executive Director and Leaad Programmer, Live2Create talking about Rumba with Joomla in the Implementing CMS track. CMS is exciting because webmaster doesn’t need to do everything. Pre-redesign stuff you should do: collect stats, review your brand, collect photos, run focus groups [...]

Today’s closing keynote by Michael Edson of the Smithsonian Institution was streamed live and and here is the archive. Jane Dysart, Conference Program Chair