BookCamp Toronto 2009

I attended the first BookCamp Toronto unconference over the weekend and left the iSchool with plenty to think about. I enjoyed it immensely and hope it will become an annual event. It was attended by small to large publishers, marketing people, authors, journalists and other interested parties and I found that the mix was a good one, with enough diversity of opinion to make the discussions interesting. I’ve included a list of the presentations I attended below, and I encourage you to go to the conference website and spend some time reading and following the links. You won’t be disappointed.

• Artefatica: an open publishing experiment. Christine Prefontaine (Artefatica)

• Relating better. Ghazaleh Etezal (InternetOfLife.com)

• At the intersection of video game & narrative. Erin Robinson (Wadjet Eye Games)

• Stories from the trenches of online bookish communities. Hugh McGuire (Book Oven/LibriVox)

• Toward the sBook: simple, searchable, smart, social, sustainable, scalable. Greg Van Alstyne, Bob Logan (Strategic Innovation Lab) Peter Jones (Redesign Research)

• Putting print in its place: the importance of the local in a world of globalized words. Amy Lavender Harris (Imagining Toronto)