Lots of activity on the conference front.

Information Today added Philadelphia to its schedule for WebSearch University so I’ve been busy pulling together the schedule for that. Some really interesting topics this year–Ran Hock’s doing a preconference on CSS Stylesheets, Tara Caslishain’s talking about information trapping, Chris Sherman’s got a session on social search, as well as his annual update on what major search engine companies are up to, Mary Ellen Bates will be talking about her special search techniques, and I’m doing a pre-con on business research and a session on open access. That’s just a taste, there’s lots more.

Dates for Philly are April 30 and May 1, 2007, with preconferences on Sunday, April 29th.

We’ll also do WebSearch in Washington DC in September. The exact dates are Sept. 17 and 18, with precons on the 16th.

Hope to see you at one of the WebSearches!

Before I go to Philly, though, there’s the Buying & Selling eContent conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. I’m looking forward to a warm time in Arizona. Should I mention that it’s 0 degrees outside here at the moment? We’ve trying out a somewhat new format this year, stressing conversations among attendees rather than nothing but panels and formal speeches. Should be both entertaining and educational.

The other conference in which I’m involved in planning for ITI is Internet Librarian International. That’s October 8-9, 2007 in London (UK). The Call for Speakers is now live, as I mentioned in an earlier post.

In April, I’ll be speaking at Computers in Libraries and blogging the conference for ITI.

There are other conference besides those from ITI, however. I’ll be going directly from CIL to Minneapolis for the AIIP annual conference. But I’m particularly excited about the IOLUG 25th anniversary meeting. That will be on May 4, 2007 in Carmel, Indiana. Details should be on the web site soon. I’ll be speaking on Online 3.0 and Pat Ensor from Houston will be giving a retrospective on the online world. Should be fantastic–and we’ve priced it quite low for what you’re going to get!

My main task for today, however, besides staying warm, is editing articles for the next issue of ONLINE.