Wiki Article

I presented my forced migration wiki as a case study for an article in Library Hi Tech News. See "Using a Wiki to Publish a Research Guide" for more details.

FMO Podcast

A new podcast from Forced Migration Online (FMO): "Obama’s policy challenges and the future of US immigration." You can listen to it online or download it.

FMO on Delicious

Forced Migration Online (FMO) has started two sets of delicious bookmarks, one for new documents added to its digital library and the other for RSC working papers. As I've mentioned before, the handy thing about delicious is that it offers RSS feeds for tags created to describe one's bookmarks. So users can subscribe to feeds for both the aforementioned bookmark lists, here and here. Very handy for keeping up-to-date on FMO content.

Social Media Consultancy

UNHCR is advertising for a social media consultant, someone with "experience in the field of Social Networking and Web 2.0 interactive platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Google Earth, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter."

The closing date for applications is 20 March.

ISCRAM 2009

The 2009 meeting of the International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) will be held in Göteborg, Sweden, 10-13 May 2009. While the window for submitting CFPs for the general programme is closed, several other opportunities for contribution are still available, including:

- a PhD colloquium (deadline 10 March)
- a student poster session (deadline 10 March)
- a pre-conference workshop on mobile information technology for emergency response (deadline 20 March)
- a practitioners' workshop (deadline 2 April)

Papers and presentations from the 2008 and 2007 ISCRAM proceedings are available on the conference site.

Peace Palace Library RSS Feeds

The Peace Palace Library has expanded its offerings of RSS feeds:

- If you would like to be kept up to date about new additions to the library's collection, you can subscribe to keyword feeds (e.g., Refugees and displaced persons, Human trafficking, Humanitarian assistance, etc.). Any time a record for a new journal article, book chapter, report or book that includes one of your keywords is added to the catalogue, your feed will be updated.

- You can also subscribe to a journal feed to be alerted when a new issue of a journal is received by the library.

- If you prefer to be notified of new tables of contents for individual journals that you specify, you can do so from the journal TOC page.

- You can even conduct a search across journal articles and then create a custom RSS feed for those results. Choices include searching on the journal title, the article title or the author.