There is an online conference: HigherEd BlogCon 2006: Transforming Academic Communities with New Tools of the Social Web taking place 3- 28 April 2006 at http://www.higheredblogcon.com There is a call for presentations which closes on 31 January. It is "Presented by Thomson Peterson's, PRNewswire, and The Council for Advancement and Support of Education ... All presentations will be made available on the event Web site at no charge to participants (with the exception of the live, Web/audio CASE Online Speaker Series events). Modeled after Global PR Blog Week 2.0 http://globalprblogweek.com/ *, Higher Ed BlogCon 2006 will focus on the use of blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, vblogs, and other digital tools in a range of areas in academe."* There's some useful stuff on this if, like me, you're interested in marketing.
Photo by S. Webber: Bluebells, Hailsham, April 2005. It's a really grey day here, so I thought I remind myself spring is only a few months away...