My wife and I have been taking a class together… nothing formal, but our city of Scottsdale offers a City Government 101 class, which meets every other week where you get to learn about a different department. It’s been everything from finance to water resources to trash to libraries to police/fire… one of the highlights […]
Too much time is slipping following last week’s NMC Regional Conference in San Antonio, and BackBloggiing is slipping dangerously into “Fuggeddaaboudit”… but I would be seriously remiss without mentioning the dynamic back to back sessions by two of my all time favorite presenters- Bryan Alexander, followed by Brian Lamb- the Br[yi]an Double Header. Bryan is […]
For quite some time, I’ve interacted via blogs et al with Gardner Campbell, but today was the first time I’ve heard him present… and there he is a virtuoso. At the NMC Regional Conference, his session was on “The Allegory Efffect: Metaphoric Immersion in Croquet and Second Life”, where he put a nice connection between […]
flickr foto Town Hall on Future of Scholarshipavailable on flickr Visual facilitation by Rachel Smith, NMC. NMC 2006 Regional Conference hosted by Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas The Thursday morning special event at the NMC 2006 Regional Conference was a town hall meeting- “The Future of Scholarship: A Visual Conversation”. This theme was one of […]
flickr foto Welcome Reception – Flickr Demoavailable on flickr NMC Regional Conference, San Antonio Texas At the Wednesday opening reception for the NMC 2006 regional conference, we not only had great food and drink, but 8 different demos related to “What the 2.0 Are We Talking About? New Web Demos”, where colleagues I arm twisted […]
Later in the afternoon for the first day of the NMC 2006 Regional Conference, Tom Hapgood and I presented on our preliminary work on the “new” web face of the NMC. And yes, for a rare treat, I did use PowerPoint, though it was all creative commons flickr photos and links. As is, you can […]
Here is a beginning of backblogs form the NMC Regional Conference last week. Of course, you may say I may be raving since I work for NMC, but this was a fab conference, with a small enough number of people there that you could converse with all of them over the 2 days of sessions. […]
I’m ensconced in the Phoenix Airport (again, love the free wifi, thanks y’all!) waiting for the Southwest cattle call for the flight to San Antonio, where later this week is the NMC Regional Conference. The theme is “New Challenges … New Ideas” with tracks on The Future of Scholarship, Bringing Virtual 3-D Worlds to Reality, […]
After much, much too long, I am able to focus back on our Drupal work for the NMC web site. Things are looking promising for version 5, so today I tried my hand for the first time at an upgrade, using the just released beta 1 version of Drupal 5. Beyond the usual steps of […]
I just saw a link somewhere that Firefox 2.0 was out in the open. Apparently the version 1.5.x I was running does not recognize this as an “update”, so I grabbed a fresh one. Hmmm, a few of my extensions are not there in this version. The interface changes seem to have added what the […]
