Schedule+Tasmania

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Web 2.0 (WWWW) with Alan Levine 10 – 3.30 pm 15 October 2007 at the Mercure Hotel, Bathurst Street, Hobart

10 – 11.30 //How do we deal with the never ending onslaught of new technlogy, how can we face this brave new world without a sense of dread? "Keeping up" is a myth, and the way of dealing with this is creating, sustaining, and being in your extended networks of friends, colleagues, etc. Likewise, one cannot readily assess the value of new technology from the outside "looking in". This presentation will lead you through a range of examples of ways to practice more "being there-ness" so you can face technology with a child like sense of wonder.// 11.30 -11.45 Morning Tea
 * Being There**

11.45 – 12.30 Group Discussion and Hands On Work The rise of free form user tagging of content has been around for a few years, and the notion of a tag cloud as a navigation metaphor is not unfamiliar. But do they really work well? We can tag web sites, blog posts, photos, videos, people, books.... but tagging is not and end to itself. In this workshop, we'll explore some real world uses of tagging to organize information at an individual level and examine the potential of organizing content at a large scale.
 * Tag, We're All It**

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

.30 – 3.00 **Small, Precious Web Gems**

//Try something new! There are many poster children thought of when you say "Web 2.0". Flickr. del.icio.us. Digg. YouTube. Google Anything. But there are literally hundreds of other free, useful applications available for you to use. In this workshop, we will work from a framework of those giant lists of Web 2.0 applications, and spend some time exploring ones we do not know so well. Perhaps there is something for you in ToonDo, MapWing, Fauxto, Numbler, dotSub... Participants will document what they find in a public wiki to be shared in later workshops.//

3.00 – 3.30 **The Future: Where Is That Unevenly Distributed Part?** [some prognostications where this might all lead]