It was a totally full day as expected. I started by waking at 5:30am and heading down to Plumes for coffee & WiFi. Karen and Michelle met me there and then we all headed to the opening Keynote. J.A. Jance was an interesting choice but she told the moving story of her life and ended with singing. The standing ovation even had her get back up and sing another song! How’s that for a totally unexpected keynote?
I spent the morning attending sessions and those I’ve already blogged so I won’t repeat them here. I caught up with Greg Schwartz for lunch at India’s Clay Oven and headed back for another session or two.
I finally caught up with Rachel Singer-Gordon and got her to let me into the yet-to-be-opened exhibitors area to get me a copy of my Blog/RSS book. It looked great! Information Today was now down to just 49 copies at the conference.
At 3:15pm was my session with Lori Bell and Tom Peters on the Alliance Second Life Library 2.0 project. The room totally filled with folks standing in the back. The presentation went great and I almost lost it on stage laughing so hard when Lori started talking about the “sex and gambling” in Second Life and how InfoIsland was a haven from “all that” for some. We did have time to take a few questions and I believe we answered them to the audience’s satisfaction.
I then relaxed, checked my e-mail and headed off to the evening exhibitors reception. I caught up with too many people to name beyond the usual suspects. I also finally met Amy Reeve from IT who got my book through the final post-editing stages of publication. During the reception I saw at least five copies of my book sold and I’m sure they sold more than that while I wasn’t looking. If everything goes well, they’ll all be sold and everyone will come back for the book signing on Wednesday.
Then I was of to Isabella’s for dinner with the Second Life crowd. A few of the regulars showed up along with some newbies. One of them was Rowan who said she’d signed up for SL right after our talk and was interested in helping as soon as she gets off Welcome Island. Jenny Levine was also at the dinner and filled some of us in on many of the “quirks” of working at ALA.
Then we crashed the gathering of the “Five Weeks to a Social Library” gathering down at the Crown & Anchor. There ended up being about 20 people there and I met many more new people. I finally ended up back at the hotel about 10pm to crash.
(This morning my company credit card doesn’t seem to be working. I need to make a phone call.)
