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By Robert Nagle

O'Reilly logoO’Reilly having a Tools of Change for Publishing conference in June. Here are the tutorials and (sketchy) list of sessions and a speaker list. The price is about $1000 although there are discounts.

Kassia Kroszer wonders why more publishing types didn’t flock to South by Southwest Interactive (cost: $200-300) where one recurring theme is (coincidentally) digital storytelling:

What we don’t have is a coterie of publishing house representatives. This is bad, dear publishers, very bad. What is happening on the ground in this fair city in Texas is what you will pay consultants big bucks to execute in two years. You, dear publishers, will be reacting to a menu of buzzwords and must-do action items that, we suspect, will make little to no sense, but you will be leaping into action regardless. Because you are told you must.

Though we certainly hope it is already happening — given that the trend is well into its fourth year — you will hold meetings about community and building community and retaining community and the future of publishing and how you can really differentiate yourself in a fragmented world. These topics have been part of the SXSW conversation for some time…to the point where the more complex questions of identity management are not abstracts but areas for debate.

Kroszer also remarked about the Future of the Book panel (already meta-blogged about at teleread).

Frankly, the conference that excites me is MIT 5 conference on creativity, collaboration and ownership in the digital age (cost: free). Dates: April 27-29, 2007 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Oddly, registration is closed for this conference–I suppose it was limited to begin with. (I would have loved to be there, but it was incompatible with my schedule). Jill Walker has a blogpost about the upcoming papers to be presented there, and I expect there to be some noteworthy blogging about it.

For those who can’t make these shindigs, Oreilly and SXSW have generally been good about providing podcasts to their talks.

 
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