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Date = June 24, 2007

Group = Electronic Resource Management Interest Group

Chair = Michelle Boule and Karen Coombs

Reporter = Michelle Boule

Email = mboule@gmail.com

Conference = Annual

Meeting = Interest Group business meeting

Attendees = 10-15

Current Activities:

Jason Griffey, In-Coming Chair

What is BIGWIG? A working IG interested in social and emerging technologies.

Our current structure is as follows: We have an incoming chair, two co-chairs, and an outgoing chair. One chair is always in movement up and down. This will give the group continuity needed for projects as there will always be a chair with experience in office. We also have a Technical Coordinator who does back end work on the blog and a Volunteer Coordinator who organizes blogging efforts for conferences.

Michelle Boule, Co-Chair
Blog Update

• categories are now above the fold
• archives are now in a drop down box
• old pages are a level down so they are not visible in the navigational menu
• their URLs are still the same
• possible that we may do some subcategories and fly out menus in the future

Wiki Update

• Aaron Dobbs - Can we web committee pages on the wiki?
• Action item Michelle: bump up Aaron's account
• Wiki Co-Coordinators needed: Aaron Dobbs and Michelle Boule agree to take this on

Do we want a checklist for what goes on the blog and what goes on the wiki? Shelved for discussion on the listserv

Social Software Showcase

Success!
A managed discussion space is the kind of physical space we want. We need to have a good description for the official ALA program. We will discuss speakers at Midwinter. Maybe we could have a Meebo Room wrangler during the f2f portion of the Showcase?

Do we want to try to do back channels for TTT or other LITA Tracks? Forum? Action: Michelle Boule to post this to listserv for discussion at a later date.

Future Activities:

Do we want to try to do back channels for TTT or other LITA Tracks? Forum? Action: Michelle Boule to post this to listserv for discussion at a later date.

Karen Coombs, Co-Chair
Forum, Midwinter, Annual - plans for stuff

The virtual piece to ALA conferences is missing. Karen would like to see us capturing things at Forum. Slides as a flash and with audio feed, audio, interviews, etc. What would the equipment needs be? If we only have audio then people would have to find the slides. Is it better to have both where people can choose either the audio or visual or both? At a minimum we can do the keynotes. Forum will be pilot for this type of reporting. Action: Karen Coombs start talk on listserv about logistics at Forum

New Officers

• Michelle Boule stepping down to be Outgoing Chair
• Jason Griffey will step up to be Co-Chair
• Karen Coombs continues as Co-Chair
• Jonathan Blackburn was voted in as the new incoming chair and will be stepping down as Volunteer Coordinator.
• Tiffany Smith new Volunteer Coordinator
• Kevin Clarke will continue Technology Coordinator
• David Lee King - Podcast Coordinator (maybe with the podcasts we will need co-wranglers?)

Additional Comments:

The above is a reconstitution of out meeting notes which can be found here: http://litablog.org/2007/07/03/bigwig-business-meeting-notes-annual-07/

Actual attendee list was mailed separately by Jason Griffey. We had a couple people float in and out so meeting attendance is estimated here.