be2camp Birmingham: Thursday August 12th (Free)

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We are just fine tuning our talk for tomorrows Be2Camp in Birmingham - an 'unconference' about social media, digital tools and the built environment held at Birmingham Library Theatre, on 12 August 2010 from 12.00 - 8.00pm

There are tickets left and its free so if your in Birmingham or around town it looks like an event well worth going to. You can Register Here.





Part of the agenda this year will aim to explore the possibilities for the new Library of Birmingham building and discuss how digital tools might change the way we experience a 21st century library.
The speakers and topics confirmed so far are as follows:

Speaker: Brian Gambles – Head of BCC Library Services
Introduction to Library of Birmingham Project
Speaker: TBC

Second Life and the Virtual Library of Birmingham
Speaker: TBC

Wifi, interaction design and the Physical Library of Birmingham
Paul Wilkinson & Martin Brown - Be2Camp

Be2Camp Awards - The final shortlist

Proboscis – http://bookleteer.com
Self publishing + augmented reading

Andy Hudson-Smith – http://www.digitalurban.org (ie us!)
http://www.talesofthings.com

Michael Kohn – SliderStudio
Democratic Design: StickyWorld

Andy Hartwell – Substrakt
Mobile & Web Apps in the Built Environment

Nick Corbett with Geoff Henderson – Urban Living & DNA
Web2.0 & Sense of Place urban design project

Nick Booth – http://podnosh.com
The Librarian at Large

James Thomson – http://www.burohappold.com
Building Information Modelling: Virtual Reality, Parametric Geometry, Google Earth

Bob Leung – Woobius
Getting your web 2.0 fix in large companies

Alison Smith – Pesky People
Disability & Digital Accessibility