Trying to catch up after OLA!

Well, week 4 is here and I have only just started on week 3 but I am
intending on spending some quality time on Web 2.0 this week.

Last week was busy with OLA. As always I found the conference
interesting and caught up with several old friends that I only manage
to see once a year at the conference
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There were great plenary speakers - Richard Florida, Michael Enright
and Justin Trudeau. Each quite different in personality and presentation
but they all love libraries - or so they tell us - with over 4,000 library
people at OLA how could they say anything different?

I went to an interesting presentation by the Chief Librarian from
Mississauga (name of Don Mills!) and someone from Environics
Analytics talking about analyzing geo-demographic data to see how
to make the branches more relevant to the locals.

There was also a booth at the Exhibit Hall with a display by
SimplyMap, a product that I think will be a great tool for mapping
census and socio-economic data for the non specialist. It is not yet
available but is coming along nicely.

Dan and I had about 50 people come to our presentation on E-Stat
and there were a number of questions. So we feel that this was a
worthwhile effort.

So all this has made me behind with the Wiki and Flickr assignments. So time
to get to work.