Stan R. Bogdanov

Thursday’s Educause 2011 Conference Live Blog

Stan Bogdanov — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:56:12 +0000

This is a live blogging event from the 2011 Educause Conference in Philadelphia, PA. You don’t need to refresh this page. The embedded window below will refresh automatically with every new update, live! You can just leave it open and follow the stream below – latest posts will always be on the bottom of the widget below. Feel free to comment or tweet - I’ll respond as fast as I can!

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Wednesday’s Live Blog From EDUCAUSE 2011

Stan Bogdanov — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:00:11 +0000

Wednesday’s Educause 2011 Sessions

RSS Feed of YouTube videos for Educause 2011 Conference

Stan Bogdanov — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:45:17 +0000

Since YouTube removed their RSS feature for search results it’s been getting harder and harder to get up-to-date videos only on topics you are interested in. Taken that I am at the 2011 Educause Conference right now, I decided to use some trickery and set up a Yahoo Pipe that will pull ONLY YouTube videos related to this year’s Educause conference and output them on my site and as an RSS feed. As a bonus, I also included a feed within this one that pulls public images from Flickr relevant to Educause. So what are you waiting for? Get the RSS feed here:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=3d11e16bc720b78bde697e9837b929d5&_render=rss

or simply click on the links below. Make sure you refresh manually the feed from time to time because – since there probably won’t be too many subscribers – it won’t refresh often enough on its own. I expect there to be more content coming in as Educause progresses. Cheers!

Most recent videos/images from the feed mentioned above:

A Twitter Paper for the 2011 Educause Conference

Stan Bogdanov — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:58:48 +0000

This Twitter-based paper pulls articles, videos, and images from the #EDU11 Twitter hashtag. It is updated dynamically. Enjoy!

Blogging at the 2011 Annual EDUCAUSE Conference

Stan Bogdanov — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:42:37 +0000

This academic year I decided to attend the 2011 Annual EDUCAUSE conference instead of my usual Computers in Libraries (which I attended in Spring 2011, but won’t be attending in Spring 2012). I am very excited as I think this conference may be more applicable to my interests and the things I work with. It is also HUGE! Granted – I booked the hotel and made the reservation last minute, but I must have called over 30 different hotels in the area until I found a room (well there were a few in the “ungodly” price range).

In any case – I have decided to cover my experience on this blog and I’ll attempt to take some informative videos and images for those of you who can’t make it or who are interested in the sessions I will attend. If you check out some of the other postings I have below (such as the ones from Computers in Libraries), you’ll get the general idea of what I may do. I am not a big fan of “live tweeting” because it spams all my followers who DON’T care about the conference, so I will be live-blogging on occasion. Feel free to come here and check the blog section often after tomorrow or just subscribe to the RSS feed.

As always – feel free to chime in the comments or ask me any questions – both here and on Twitter. Cheers!

It’s Been a While!

Stan Bogdanov — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:28:24 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted something on my personal website. Mostly because I’ve never been a fan of re-posting and re-discussing things that have already been re-posted and re-discussed in thousands of other blogs and websites on the web. I think I see a trend actually where people feel like they have to keep chiming in on issues just for the sake of chiming in – not actually bringing anything new to the table or the argument. If you wanted to have a blog with new posts all the time, you can just go out there to 5-10 tech websites and just pick a paragraph from one, a paragraph from another, and there you go! You feel important. You have a blog with relevant content. And I see this happen way too much. What’s the point? Just tweet a link to the articles you found interesting – no need to re-post things if you don’t add anything new! But anyway – we all have the freedom to set up and maintain online blogs that get 50 visitors per month.

End rant.

In any case – I should probably try to share more on here to stay relevant and “build up my brand.” However, I’ve always been more keen on doing than writing about doing so I’m not sure how this will turn out . In any case – I’ll actually blog a bit about Educause 2011 this week. I am attending this conference for the first time and am quite excited to learn some new things and meet new people. Should be fun. Depending on my internet connection – I may or may not put up videos and pictures, but as I know myself well – I’ll try to snap a few interesting shots or videos !

Hope you stick around and I hope you find some postings informative – I’ll try to be objective with what I learn and add, what I think is, my unique perspective on things .

wtfdreams.me – A Site for Sharing Your Dreams

Stan Bogdanov — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:31:32 +0000

I recently had the opportunity to work with Christa Zedlovich on a little website dedicated to dream sharing. It’s in its early stages of development, but already has some interesting dreams on there. Check it out at wtfdreams.me and be sure to post your dreams!

My Program for Computers in Libraries 2011 Conference

Stan Bogdanov — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:00:41 +0000

I decided to briefly post here a list of the sessions I plan to attend at Computers in Libraries 2011. As last year, I will try to cover parts of the event and include some helpful information and videos for people who can’t attend. Cheers!

Monday, March 21st

D101 – Promoting With Web 2.0
B102 – Improve Your Website Now!
B103 – Mining Data to Learn About Libraries & Users
D104 – Innovative Marketing Tools and Strategies
D105 – Performance Measures: Illustrating Value to Your Community

Tuesday, March 22nd

A201 (Learning from Inspirational Libraries) or B201 (Community Tagging)
A202 – MetaSocial: Making Online & Mobile Interactions Rock
A203 – Teching Up Traditional Library Programs
C204 – eBooks and Their Growing Value for Libraries
C205 – eBooks and Their Growing Value for Libraries continued

Wednesday, March 23rd

D301 – Digital Preservation Strategies: Value Through Longevity
E302 – Creating 21st Century Information-Literacy Programs
D303 – Repositories: Strategies and Practices
C304 – Mobile Usability
B305 – Social Media Strategy and Goals

Headshots for Stephanie Falkowski, Dancer

Stan Bogdanov — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:36:17 +0000

These are some of the recent headshots I took of the beautiful dancer – Stephanie Falkowski.

Mobile Applications Design Poster Session

Stan Bogdanov — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:57:02 +0000

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12/10/2010 – “Mobile Apps Design Through The Eyes Of Adelphi Libraries” – Poster presentation at ACRL/NY 2010 Symposium.

For more details on this poster session, please contact Stan or look through the “Downloads” section!