Events in the pipeline

A clutch of forthcoming events.

1. 17 May, Brussels. Citizen Connect. The concluding event of the URBACT Information Society Network, which concerns how technology can connect citizens, combat social exclusion, stimulate economic local development, and put the citizen at the heart of the democratic process. (Thanks to reader Martine Tommis for this.)
2. 24 May - 9 June, online.  Identifying Successful Business Strategies for Online Programs.  An online workshop with Steve Schiffman, Chris Geith, and Karen Vignare, organised by the Sloan Consortium. "This workshop marks our most ambitious effort to date to map the business models of the online industry and present them in a context that will actually help to improve the success of your online programs. This workshop includes ongoing research that has been collected over the course of the past two years from top institutions and has included the input and work of several top researchers in this area. And as with all of our workshops, it is provided in a way that adapts to your busy schedule. If you are a top level administrator in an online program, you don’t want to miss this workshop." (Workshops like this one have in the past produced very useful outputs, for example Effective Workload Management Strategies for the Online Environment [84 kB PDF].)
3. 2 June, London. ‘blog.ac.uk’, the UK's "first educational blogging conference bringing together practitioner and research based expertise to explore cutting edge issues surrounding the educational use of weblogs and weblogging software". With keynote contributions from Stephen Downes and Barbara Ganley.
4. 6-7 July, York. 6th International Meeting of JISC and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). With keynote speeches from: Reg Carr, Director of University Library Services at Oxford University; Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC; Derek Law, Librarian and Head of Information Resources, University of Strathclyde; Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, CNI; Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, CNI; David Nicholas, University College London. (If I was not going to be on holiday at that time I would stump up the £350 residential fee for this event.)
5. 5-7 September, Edinburgh. ALT-C 2006 - the next generation. Keynote speeches from: Stephen Heppell; Diana Oblinger, Vice-president of EDUCAUSE; Tim O'Shea, Principal of the University of Edinburgh. Theme speakers: Terry Anderson, Athabasca University; Phil Candy, UK National Health Service; Gilly Salmon, University of Leicester; Chris Yapp, Microsoft. (I work half time for ALT as its Executive Secretary.)