RootsTech released the following announcement for selected free online sessions:
RootsTech Conference Will Broadcast Select Sessions Free Online
SALT LAKE CITY—RootsTech, a leading family history and technology conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2-4, 2012, announced today that fourteen of its popular sessions will be broadcasted live and complimentary over the Internet. The live broadcasts will give those unable to attend worldwide a sample of this year’s conference content. Interested viewers can watch the live presentations at RootsTech.org. Note that all sessions are on Mountain Time. Scroll down the RootsTech Home page and find links to each of the live sessions. The second-year conference has attracted over 3,000 registered attendees.
The free online sessions include the keynote speakers and a sampling of technology and family history presentations. Following are the fourteen broadcasted sessions and speakers. All times are in Mountain Standard Time (MST):
Thursday, February 2
- 8:30-10:00 am, Inventing the Future, as a Community (Keynote Address) by Jay L. Verkler
- 11:00 am-12:00 pm, Do I Trust the Cloud? by D. Joshua Taylor
- 1:45-2:45 pm, Effective Database Search Tactics by Kory Meyerink
- 3:00-4:00 pm, Twitter – It’s Not Just “What I Had for Breakfast” Anymore by Thomas MacEntee
- 4:15-5:15 pm, Eleven Layers of Online Searches by Barbara Renick
Friday, February 3
- 8:30-9:30 am, Exabyte Social Clouds and Other Monstrosities (Keynote Address) by Josh Coates
- 9:45-10:45 am, Publish Your Genealogy Online by Laura G. Prescott
- 11:00 am-12:00 pm, Optimize Your Site for Search Engines by Robert Gardner
- 1:45-2:45 pm, Genealogists “Go Mobile” by Sandra Crowly
- 3:00-4:00 pm, Google’s Toolbar and Genealogy by Dave Barney
Saturday, February 4
- 8:30-9:30 am, Making the Most of Technology to Further the Family History Industry (Keynote Address) by Tim Sullivan and Ancestry.com Panel
- 9:45-10:45 am Genealogy Podcasts and Blogs 101 by Lisa Louise Cooke
- 11:00 am-12:00 pm, Future of FamilySearch Family Tree by Ron Tanner
- 1:45-2:45 pm, Privacy in a Collaborative Environment by Noah Tatuk
How can I access these online sessions?
Where do we go to listen to these presentations?
Just go to RootsTech.org and scroll down the home page to find links to the sessions.