25 Technologies in 50 Minutes/Stephen Abram (Sirsi/Dynix Seminar)

"Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix's Vice President of Innovation lists a technology application every 120 seconds in this roller coaster ride of what's out there in LibraryLand and which one's are worth playing with and seeing if they'll be useful to your library and your community of users."
http://sirsidynixinstitute.com/archive.php

If you can handle overload in a compressed fashion, get out your notebooks! (remember, to review it, it is only a click away!)

Stephen does a great job of introducing you to (mostly free) technologies that can change dynamically the services in your libraries and colleges.

Stephen covers:

RSS
Wikis
blogs
photoblogs (Flickr)
Tags
YouTube
MP3
Streaming media
Google office
Instant messaging
Meebo Trilliam and GAIM
visualization
Second Life
Avatars
Retrievr
Podcasts
MySpace
Facebook
Skype
Library thing
Endeca
Virtual Reference
Folksonomies and TagClouds
Blinkx and Singingfish

Although this is only a 50 minute seminar, these overviews set the stage for much further exploration. I loved his idea of 15 minutes a day to play with new technologies...Actually, I would like to see "Free Friday Morning" where library staff could "play" with technologies that will greatly alter how we deliver services to our students and the college community.