The week starts on the 1 st December with the Manuscript Central European User Conference 2008. This is very well attended and has been quite popular in the past. It is held in London and I am looking forward to seeing what they have in store this year and of course the reception after.
2-4 December is of course Online Information 2008 at the Olympia Grand Hall in London. This is where everybody meets, this is the place to be if you are a techie or a publisher or from the media, you name it and it will be there. Ok not everything but most things, there are 6 sections it covers, they are: Online content resources, e-publishing, library management systems, content management expo, web 2.0 technologies, search solutions.This is a good place to see what others are doing and a great place to talk to others to see what you are not doing. Even if you do not register for the conferences then just go for the exhibits it will be worth it.
There is also more fun and frivolity on the Tuesday night as Thomson Reuters are holding a reception at the Victoria and Albert museum, a good place to take part in a little conversation over a light refreshment (ha).
Friday 5 th brings us the Fifth Annual European Editorial Manager User Group. This too is well attended and a great opportunity for European users to learn more about Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager and to network with industry peers.
After all this fun and frivolity I will need a week off in the office, keep an eye out next week as the blog will be regularly posted to keep you posted. Enjoy.
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Sounds like the refreshments are flowing generously at these meetings. The V & A is a great venue to meet as well.
ReplyDeleteIs there anything you've seen that might affect our daily routines in the future? Seems like more editorial offices are facing demands to develop an enhanced web presence. Either editorial offices are going to have to be front and center implementing these or will be required to manage content flow with the publisher or a vendor.
By the way, after attending this meeting, can you offer a definition of what Web 2.0 is? It seems like the most nebulous of concepts. But then I am someone who is sat patiently waiting for Irene's article to appear in EON about RSS feeds so I can figure out how to be alerted when you post on the blog - a luddite in other words.