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Meredith Farkas

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My blog: Information Wants to be Free

My book website

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I am currently the Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Vermont and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science. I'm the author of the book Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online (Information Today, 2007) and write the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. I'm probably best known for my blog Information Wants to Be Free and the many wikis I've created to collect professional knowledge.

Previous Presentations:

National: Wikimania 2006, American Library Association 2007, Internet Librarian 2006-2007, Computers in Libraries 2006-2008, Alliance for Information Science and Technology Innovation 2007, Readex Digital Institute 2007

International: Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark 2007, Quebec Library Association Conference 2007, Ontario Library Assoc. Super Conference 2008

Keynotes: UC Berkeley 2007, Assoc. of College and Research Libraries Eastern NY 2007, Borough of Manhattan Community College 2007

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Building Academic Library 2.0 (on YouTube)

All of my presentations

Lauren Cooney

Location: USA | CA | San Francisco
Speaking Topics: Web 2.0 | Building Community | Social Software

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Lauren Cooney's Blog

Lauren Cooney has ten years of experience building technical communities and strategies for enterprise software companies. Cooney joined the Information Management CTO Office in January 2007, focusing on strategy and community evangelism around Web 2.0, Info 2.0, and open source technologies and products. She is currently responsible for Info 2.0, IBM's new Web 2.0 offering. Prior to her role in Information Management, Cooney worked on Apache Geronimo in the WebSphere Group as the IBM lead for building community and programs.

Previous Presentations:

Mashery.com API event, NYC, March 2008: IBM Open API Strategy

AjaxWorld Conference, NYC, March 2008: IBM MashupHub and Info 2.0

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IBM's MashupHub API Strategy

IBM Mashup Center and Info 2.0

Gabriela Avram

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Coniecto

Tales from the Field of Software Development

I started as a software developer, and I still love coding.
I managed projects, trained people, acquired new clients.
Then I moved to academia, teaching DBMS, expert systems and MIS.
I ran several international projects in adult education.
And then I eventually managed to fulfill my lifelong dream: doing research full time. I started looking at knowledge management and e-learning applied to software engineering. Then I embraced the topics of Open Source diffusion and Social Media.

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Where is the Knowledge? Reflections on social networking in corporate environments

What's happening behind the firewall? The emerging role of social software in IBM