If you've been reading this blog or Conference Connections, you know that SLA 2009 is just around the corner (conference-related activities begin on Friday, 12 June, and the Opening General Session is on Sunday, 14 June), and we're looking for a few good bloggers...no experience required!
Blogging on SLA Blog is not a full-time commitment. Even one or two posts will enhance the conference experience for attendees and keep those who are not at the conference in the loop.
Don't know what to write about? Here are some ideas for post topics: unit activities, sessions, meetings, what's cool in the INFO-EXPO (including the Unit Idea Showcase), and general musings about your experiences. Please see this list of sessions we would especially like to hear about.
Wi-fi will be available throughout the convention center for your blogging convenience. No laptop or BlackBerry? No problem. Computers are also available in the Cyber Connection in the SLA Registration Center and outside the INFO-EXPO.
Sign up today! If you'd like to blog on SLA Blog, please contact me at csosnowski (at) sla (dot) org.
Blogging about the conference on your own blog? Let us know, pick up your Blogger ribbon at the Information Booth, and don't forget the sla2009 tag (that's #sla2009 on Twitter)!
I'd like to kick off a blog about the Opening General Session; specifically, about the choice of Colin Powell as keynote speaker.
As the world knows, General Powell lied outrageously in his speech to the United Nations setting the stage for the Iraq invasion and occupation. This seems to have been a case of "just following orders" (not, as we know from the Nuremberg Trials, an acceptable excuse for war crimes) since it is difficult to believe he was so stupid as to have believed the lies he told.
Earlier in his career, as a Major in Vietnam, Powell participated in keeping the story of My Lai under wraps -- another example of "go along to get along", as Sam Rayburn used to say.
The Special Libraries Association is all about getting accurate and timely information to people who need to act on it. General Powell is an example of someone who spent most of his career hiding accurate and timely information from the American public and the world.
This is not someone who should be honored at the SLA Conference, or anywhere else for that matter.
Posted by: Bob Michaelson | 08 June 2009 at 01:13 PM