ILI 2005 Conference - October 2005

The following talk was given at the Internet Librarian International 2005 Conference held at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, on Monday 10^th - Tuesday 11^th October 2005, with workshop sessions on Sunday 9^th October 2005.

Please note that three other contributions were made at the conference.

Digital Tools for Collaboration: Email Must Die!

Title

Digital Tools for Collaboration: Email Must Die!

About the session

Brian Kelly gave a talk on "Email Must Die!" in a session on "Digital Tools for Collaboration" with Aaron Schmidt and Michael Stephens.

Abstract

The talk describes the limitations of well-established communications tools such as email (and attending conferences!) and review their limitations. The advantages of technologies such as Blogs, Wikis, instant messaging, Podcasting, etc. will be described, and reasons for the difficulties in such technologies taking off will be explored.

Date And Time

The session will take place in the "Blogs, Wikis & Collaboration Tools" session from 10:30-11:30 on 10 October, 2005.

Materials

Slides

[MS PowerPoint] - [HTML]

Feedback

The following feedback on this talk is available:

• Email Must Die!, Karen Blakeman, <http://www.rba.co.uk/rss/2005/10/email-must-die.html>
• Email Must Die!, Elucidate, Vol. 3 Issue 1, January/February 2006 ISSN: 1742-5921
  "One particularly provocative paper was from Brian Kelly, Email Must Die!, in which he suggests a whole plethora of alternative methods of communicating information that enable collaboration or that provide information to the gadgets or programs that people use in real life, such as RSS feeds from blogs, instant messaging, wikis, podcasts, and so on. He feels it won't be too long before our users will expect libraries to be able to communicate using these channels, so we'd be well advised to explore them now!
  In a way, that was the central theme to this conference: there's a lot going on that could be put to effective use in the library setting to enable knowledge collaboration and dissemination.
  <http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/pdfs/eLucidate3-1.pdf>
• Collaboration Tools Session at ILI2005, Marydee Ojala, Editor of ONLINE, - see <http://www.onlineinsider.net/2005/10/collaboration-tools-session-at-ili2005.html>
• Email Must Die!, Richard Akerman,
  <http://ili2005.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/EmailMustDie>
• ILI2005: Emailen er død... (email is dead let us bury it), Erikhoy.Blogspot.com, <http://erikhoy.blogspot.com/2005/10/ili2005-emailen-er-dd-lad-os-begrave.html>

A rought translation of part of the Danish Blog follows:
Library users are using alternatives [to email, such as instant messaging, Blogs, Wikis, ...] so librarians should do so too. Drawbacks are: many weblogs [Blogs] may be poor, chat can be disturbing, there is spam and wikis get invaded. But the opposite is also true, so why not have a try? Brian Kelly then gave lots of examples. Otherwise Librarians may be perceived as slow to adapt.