Hi Everyone,  my name is Ellyssa Kroski.  I write at InfoTangle, I'm also just finishing up my book Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals which will be published later this year.   I am an information consultant and also a Reference Librarian at Columbia University in NYC.

My Sessions/Track at CIL2007

Information Design for the New Web

Monday, April 16, Session B105  3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m

Information design has changed, and keeping it simple is the key. Web 2.0 companies adhere to the principle of simplicity and their applications possess a singularity of purpose. Designers aim for intuitive and usable interfaces that are continuously evolving in response to user needs. This session discusses the new trend in designing simple, iterative, and nimble Web sites that has shifted the way that users interact with today’s Web.

Social Bookmarking & Folksonomies

Monday, April 16, Session B106 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m (with Robert Cagna)

This session focuses on how to encourage academic social networks. Find out how social bookmarking tools can help users find, use, share, and form networks in academia. Fleming describes the tagging system being developed at University of Florida to bookmark and “label” library resources and discusses the pros and cons of folksonomies. Learn about the process of designing and testing the open source system so that it is enticing to other universities, easy to deploy, and easy-to-use. Cagna describes how Penn-Tags, one of the first academic community-focused social bookmarking sites, is working in action. Hear how members of the Penn Community quickly collect and maintain URLs, links to journal articles and records in the online catalog and online video catalog. Speakers share lessons learned along the way in implementing a social bookmarking service in academia.

Track B: Social Software in Action

Tuesday, April 17

Steven Cohen and I are moderating the Social Software in Action Track.

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