Twitter highlights for Thursday of the 2010 LITA National Forum
Were you unable to attend the 2010 LITA National Forum in Atlanta? Find twitter streams a bit overwhelming, lacking in context, or chronologically confusing?
Here is your solution: a re-organized, select set of relevant and/or funny tweets for each of the pre-conferences given on Thursday. Please post comments if I've missed any particularly good tweets!
I've also posted similar summaries for the other days of the LITA conference, including: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Getting Started
- Follow @litaforum and the hashtag #litaforum - Please RT [LITAForum]
- Map of area around hotel showing location of networking dinner restaurants - http://bit.ly/litaforum10 [LITAForum]
- Yay, sponsor Boopsie has an app for us again! Go to http://lita.boopsie.com with your mobile (ignore "2009" title!) [LITAForum]
- Local information, restaurants, ground transport info added to the Forum event page http://bit.ly/9CB8vX - [LITAForum]
- @LITAForum attendees: your online community is at http://connect.ala.org/litaforum (anyone can join) [alaconnect]
- Are you new to LITA? Come to the Membership Q&A session before the conference starts, Friday 11-11:30, room 202. [LITAForum]
- attn: librarian attendees: sign up for a lightning talk! share your ideas! it's only 5 minutes http://connect.ala.org/node/113358 [erinrwhite]
Preconference I: Redesigning a Website Using Information Architecture Principles, Jenny Emanuel
- nobody tweeted :(
Preconference II: Virtualize IT: Laying the Foundation for the Library of the Future, Maurice York
- floating, wave powered data center? kinda awesome #litaforum-virt-it [mkny13]
- Is Academic the natural target for OLE, given constraints of Koha and Evergreen? http://is.gd/fCJRs #hallwaydiscussions [mkny13]
- The Comcast Experience | Barco http://t.co/xNQabuB via @youtube #litaforum-virt-it [mkny13]
- But wouldn't the browser traffic be offloaded to the server's wired connection w/ virtual laptops? Break-even? #litaforum-virt-it [mkny13]
Fun Memes & Closing Thoughts
- Packing for Atlanta? Look for sunny and high 70s for most of weekend. http://bit.ly/aCqAW2 Hotel weather: unpredictable! [LITAForum]
- Hey peeps: anyone interested in tracking down a showing of The Social Network Friday or Saturday night? [griffey]
- Great opportunity to see Henry 8/Anne Boleyn saga at Shakespeare Tavern while you're in town! http://connect.ala.org/node/113337 [adellefrank]
- I'm game for The Social Network - looks like there are a few movie theaters 2 miles away from the conf. hotel. [frierson @griffey]
- Airline is checking w/ me to make sure I dont have any saddles, antlers, Hawaiian pineapples, or military duffle bags [ninermac]
- So I know I'm here for the conference, but the angry mussels at JCT Kitchen justified the trip in their own right. Mmm, bacon... [danhlawrence]
- You know what #LITAForum needs? A dance party!!! Did well at #ala10. Did really well at #ghc10 (two blocks away in ATL). [julian2]