There is an upcoming mobile event in Boston put on by neasist. Here are the details:

Mobile Mania: Developing information services for portable devices

Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 8:30am - 4:00pm
Kotzen Center, Simmons College, Boston, MA

This event is co-sponsored by NEASIS&T and the Simmons College Student Chapter of ASIS&T

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Detailed Program Schedule

NEASIS&T Events blog

While devices like PDAs, portable phones, and digital music players have been on the scene for almost a decade, mobile devices have now reached an unprecedented level of popularity. Devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, and Kindle, are no longer simply tools for communication–they are now a primary channel through which everyday people interact with news, music, blogs, wikis, television, video, books, academic content, the world wide web, and more. Platforms like Windows Mobile, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and the new Google Android will continue to challenge information service organizations to deliver content in new ways, and embed services within these virtual environments.

This day-long NEASIS&T event will provide a context and vision for delivering information through mobile devices. The program will begin with an overview of the current state of mobile platforms and devices, and then describe the use of mobile devices within academic libraries, hospitals and medical schools. The program will highlight innovative mash-up applications for mobile devices to connect people to Wikipedia information about geographical locations in real-time using mobile-readable barcodes, geo-tagging, Flickr.com and GoogleMaps (Semapedia.org). The speakers and lively panel discussion will explore the development of mobile technologies and how they can help us connect the physical and virtual realms. We will address the successes and challenges of developing mobile applications for information environments like libraries, academic institutions, medical environments, and more.

SPEAKERS:

Andrew Yu is the Mobile Devices Program Manager for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ellyssa Kroski is an Information Consultant, Reference Librarian, writer and speaker in the field. She blogs at iLibrarian and InfoTangle.

Michelle Kraft a Senior Medical Librarian at the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library, and author of “The Krafty Librarian”, a blog for medical librarians discussing medical library technologies and applications.

Alexis Robin Rondeau and Stan Wiechers are the founders of Semapedia.org, a non-profit, community-driven project that connects the physical and virtual worlds. Semapedia-Tags which are cellphone-readable physical hyperlinks to the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia (or any of Wikipedia’s sister projects such as Wikibooks and Wikinews).

SCHEDULE:

08:30-09:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:15 Welcome & Introduction
09:15-10:15 Andrew Yu
10:15-10:45 Networking break
10:45-11:45 Ellyssa Kroski
11:45-01:15 Lunch (included with registration)
01:15-02:15 Michelle Kraft
02:15-03:00 Alexis Robin Rondeau and Stan Wiechers
03:00-04:00 Panel

REGISTRATION INFO:

• Online registration or pre-registration must be received by Thursday, October 30, 2008.
• Registration fee includes lunch and refreshments.
• Registrations will be processed on a first come, first served basis. Space is limited, online registration is encouraged.

Register online and pay with a credit card:

OR, register by mail and pay with a check: PRE-REGISRATION online is required for all check payments.

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