[Neasis-l] Reminder: Free Conference about Blogging at Harvard on April 17

[Jessica Baumgart]

Hello,

This e-mail is a reminder about the upcoming conference about 
blogging at Harvard Law School on April 17, which includes a session 
geared toward librarians/archivists/information professionals. 
Registration may be capped at 400 people, which will happen very soon.

The sessions may be Webcast and archived. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) 
may be available for each specific session, too.

Jessica Baumgart


Do you blog or have an interest in blogging?  Find yourself pondering 
how your organization could benefit from a weblog?  Would you like to 
learn what some librarians, archivists, libraries, and other 
information professionals are doing with weblogs?

Come to BloggerCon, a free, all-day conference about weblogs and 
blogging hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at 
Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday, April 
17, 2004!

BloggerCon II
Saturday, April 17, 2004
8:15 am - 5:45 pm
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Cambridge MA
Conference weblog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon/
Invitation: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon/II/invitation
You must register in advance: 
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon/II/register. Registration may 
be capped at 400 people.
RSVP by Monday, April 12 for dinner on Friday, April 16 at Durgin 
Park at 7 pm: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon/2004/04/05#a1057

There is a session focusing on librarians/archivists/information 
professionals/libraries and blogging (details: 
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2004/04/07#a973). Other topics 
on the schedule include blogging and journalism, intranet blogging, 
blogging in business and academia, and infrastructure. The sessions 
will be moderated discussions with audience participation and no 
panels.

Events to allow socializing and networking with other conference 
attendees are being planned for Friday evening, April 16, and Sunday, 
April 18.

More information and updates about the conference will be on the 
BloggerCon blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon/.

Also, there is a Thursday evening (7 pm) group for bloggers that 
usually meets at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard 
Law School that's open to the public.  If any of you are interested 
in blogging or are blogging, please feel free to come to the group. 
More details are at: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thursdaymeetings/. 
The meetings are geared toward people at all levels of blogging and 
usually draw a variety of people with a range of skills.




Please forward this announcement as you deem appropriate.
Pardon the cross-posting.



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Jessica Baumgart
Information Resources Specialist
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Harvard University
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