IFEG Advanced Search, Statistics & Market Research

I have now uploaded the slides for my workshop at the Information for Energy Group (IFEG). As usual, I have uploaded them to several different web sites in case one or more are blocked by corporate firewalls. If you have problems accessing any of the locations, let me know and I’ll sort out some other means of getting the presentation to you.

Workshop: Advanced Internet Searching for Energy Information & Market Research
Organised for:
Information for Energy Group
Venue: The Energy Institute, New Cavendish Street, London.
Date: Thursday 13 May 2010

PowerPoint Presentation (download from the RBA site – 7.5 MB)
authorSTREAM
Slideboom
Slideshare

Presentation: A day in the life of…

Phil Bradley and I are doing a double act on social networking tools tomorrow (May 10th, 2010) at the Dental Librarians Group Annual Meting 2010. My presentation is a run through the tools that I regularly use in my personal and working life. I’ve called it “A day in the life of…” but is really “2-3 days in the life of….”!  Some I do use on a daily basis but I may access others every other day or just once a week, so I suppose it could be one day if I picked the right one.

The presentation can be found on the following presentation sharing sites:

authorSTREAM
Slideboom
Slideshare

You can also download it from the RBA web site at http://www.rba.co.uk/web2/2010KarenBlakemanBDAADayintheLife.ppt

Tweetminster maps turnout in UK election

Tweetminster, Channel 4, The Guardian and the New Statesman are teaming up to map voter turnout in the UK general election today (6th May 2010). See http://tweetminster.tumblr.com/post/568070812/help-us-map-voter-turnout-on-may-6th for details. Twitter users are being asked to tweet #ukvote followed by the first half of their postcode and the information will be plotted on a map in real time at http://tweetminster.co.uk/. Voters do not have to reveal who they voted for.

Obviously the map will be biassed as it will only include information from those on Twitter but the aim is to encourage more people to vote and to help get a sense of turnout during the course of the day and across the country. You may recognise the format as being similar to the #uksnow maps, which inspired this initiative.

If you haven’t come across Tweetminster before, this was set up in 2009 to enable people to follow MPs and UK politics on Twitter. You can track the tweets of MPs, Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs), as well as political journalists, comentators and news sources. Further details of the 2009 launch of Tweetminster can be found in The Independent and Tweetminster team up to launch Twitter-based service

Online Information 2010 – call for speakers deadline extended

The deadline for submission of papers for the Online Information Conference 2010 has been extended to Sunday. May 9th.

If you have been considering submitting a proposal for a conference paper, a show floor seminar (part of the exhibition) or a  pre-conference workshop, but have no yet done so, now is the time to do it. For information on conference themes, making your submission and review criteria follow the links below:

1. Review Criteria and Submission Requirements
http://email.online-information.co.uk/c/1aYQlbxqT9IvAyDPvae
2. Example Abstracts
http://email.online-information.co.uk/c/1aYQlYMpJXVP14CcanR
3. Conference Themes
http://email.online-information.co.uk/c/1aYQmM1oAM98rAAyPBu
4. Delegate Profile
http://email.online-information.co.uk/c/1aYQnzgnrAmrS6yVuP7
5. Conference Committee
http://email.online-information.co.uk/c/1aYQomvmiozLiCxia2K
6. Guidelines for Exhibitors
http://email.online-information.co.uk/c/1aYQpWZk010o9Eu1uu0
7. Submit your paper online
http://email.online-information.co.uk/c/1aYQqKeiQPdHAaso9HD