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Upcoming: SLA and SSP - come say Hi!

Next week is going to be a busy week for us here at CR. We'll be at SLA 2007 in Denver, sharing a booth with our colleagues at Information Express. And then we'll also be at SSP later in the week, though that requires a lot less travel as it is in San Francisco and those of us going already work out of our California offices. I hope that if you're around either of those that you'll track is down to say hello.

You might also notice a new ad on the front page of Computing Reviews - we're partnering to promote SIGGRAPH '07. The ad will be running through the month of June.

CODiE Awards

Happy new year! I hope 2007 has been off to a successful start for everyone.

I thought it worth mentioning that we've had some good news early in the year as Computing Reviews is a finalist for a CODiE award in the Best Online Science or Technology Service content category. Tough competition there though but we think we stack up and have our tuxedo ready to go just in case. No matter what we'll be hanging around the SIIA Content Forum anyway so please find us and say 'hi'!

So... what's new with you this year?

BlogHer '06

I'm out of the office today at yet another conference, this time BlogHer '06. BlogHer is, as you probably can guess, a blogging conference for and by women. They started last year and this year have expanded the conference to two days and at least double the number of attendees (and sponsors, sessions, speaker, schwag, etc.). I'm hoping to learn how to better use some of the technologies around podcasting, screencasting and video blogging to bring some more interesting content to you here.

Don't let my lack of updates fool you into thinking that we've all been on vacation here at CR. We're finalizing the newest hot topic, experimenting some some interface changes and continuing to work on back end improvements to search and alerting.

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The Night Before SLA Starts

The final updates from SSP aren't really ready yet. I'm still thinking about some of the ideas I had, and heard, while I was there up to and definitely including the final town hall meeting. I am dying to talk to someone about them and get a more rational perspective (I don't know if I ever really trust the "post-conference high" you get right away - though obviously you want to take advantage of that enthusiasm).

And now I'm up in Baltimore for the SLA conference where I'll be manning the booth and talking to people about what we have to offer right now. The shift in mindset there is subtle but I can use the momentum from SSP to carry through and I hope my enthusiasm and the ideas continue.

Computing Reviews is at booth 1201, right inside the entrance to the exhibit hall, sharing with Information Express (I work on both if the cross-posting on the blogs hasn't made that clear. And I am blogging over there also). Please drop by and see me. And if you do read this blog ask to see my new business cards and I'll show you my new nifty, strange, job title. I just got the new ones today and the title makes me laugh.