The staff of the Institute feel that it’s important to capture and preserve as much of the thinking that takes place at each Symposium as possible.  Our fellows will be taking notes at the morning table discussions, and we will be photographing and filming much of the day.

We encourage participants to share their thoughts about the event, in real time if possible, using Twitter.

WiFi Access
If you wish to use Baruch’s wireless network while at the Symposium, we’ll need to register you for access. If you’re planning to bring a laptop or some other wifi enabled device and would like access to Baruch’s wireless network, please let us know by the end of business on Wednesday (4/29) by sending an email to Thomas.Harbison@baruch.cuny.edu with the subject line “Wifi access.”

Twitter
If you are a Twitter user and wish to comment on the day’s activities, please use the #blsci hashtag in your updates. We will set up a large display in our break area and will follow Symposium tweets in real time. Placing #blsci in your tweets will make it possible to easily aggregate all the day’s tweeting.

The fine folks at Common Craft specialize in creating clear and simple animated explanations of important but often confusing concepts and technologies, anything from social bookmarking and computer hardware to zombies and the electoral college. Here are their brief guides to three Web 2.0 tools that will no doubt be much discussed over the course of the day on May 1: blogs, wikis, and Twitter. Please feel free to comment if you find these useful, instructive or provocative.