ASIST 2008

ASIST 2008 was in Columbus, Ohio this year in October 24-29. I spent some time locating a reasonably priced hotel close enough to the conference hotel that I could walk or within a reasonable bus ride from the hotel. I scored a hit with a hotel that was "just down the street" in other words a 29 minute walk away, but had two buses that would take me to the conference... plus this hotel had free wireless and breakfast.

Columbus has what appeared to be a relatively heavily used bus system, Columbus Ohio Transit Association (COTA). There is actually a bus from the airport, but in order to get downtown you have to transfer at an out of the way location. The building behind the bus is a church, so it was actually busy Sunday when I flew in.



At ASIST I presented a poster which continued on from work I had presented the previous year in 2007. Both this year's poster and last year's poster are now available online.

I also spoke as part of a panel titled Tagging as a Communication Device. This panel grew out of a collaboration on an ASIST panel in 2007 and the work we did in turning the 2007 panel into an article for Ariadne.

A number of people commented favourably on the panel, which is terrific since we worked hard to make the panel interesting. I was quite pleased with how well the various sections fit together. So try the following for some notes and perspectives on the panel:

• heidi go seek: ASIS&T 2008 - Tagging as a Communication Device
  
• Christina's LIS Rant: ASIST2008: Tagging as a Communication Device
  
• Spinstah: ASIS&T 2008: Tagging as a Communication Device
  
• Laura K: ASIST08: Tagging as a Communication Device
  
• Enterprise Search and Usability: ASIS&T 2008 - Tagging as a Communication Device: Every tag cloud has a silver lining
  
• Off the Mark: ASIS&T 2008
  

One last picture from Columbus: