Tampa Bay Library Consortium Presentation

I just gave an Introduction to Web 2.0 presentation in Tampa, Florida (here’s the link to my presentation) at the annual meeting of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium. TBLC members - you rock!
Everyone else - seriously, they DO rock. In my short time there, I watched them mention a teen YouTube contest and during the [...]

IL2007: Presentations I Gave

Here are PDF files to the three presentations I gave at Internet Librarian 2007:

Introduction to Videoblogging (part of a preconference)
Setting up the New Stuff: Planning and Implementing Library 2.0
Topeka’s Second Life: Experiments in a Digital World

IL2007: Podcasting & Videoblogging Bootcamp

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David Free and I gave a preconference on podcasting and videoblogging at Internet Librarian 2007 - it was a blast. This video was created by the attendees - class-takers did the filming, volunteered to be talent… and the video shows the podcasting part - someone did the voiceovers and someone else [...]

Mississippi Library Association Presentation

I recently spoke at the Mississippi Library Association’s annual conference, held in Vicksburg this year. I had a blast! My first job out of library school was in Mississippi, so I was able to hang with old friends - very nice indeed.
And here’s a link to the 2.0/emerging trends presentation I gave.
Enjoy!
 

IL2007, Day 3: Blurring Boundaries

Liz Lawley did the closing keynote, and had a bunch of good stuff to say.
TerraNova - blog on virtual worlds
TarrorNova - WoW guild made up of people involved with TerraNova
showed a pic of a library science professor who plays WoW
How can we make the real world more like games?
Make tasks delight us!
make us want to [...]

IL2007, Day 3: Do You Need a Videographer?

Nick Baker
He started out by taking a digital storytelling workshop. That started him paying attention to storytelling in film.
Anyone can do this! Nick is not a professional videographer - he’s a reference and web services librarian who took a class or two on video and (more importantly) had an interest.
His administrators support him - even [...]

IL2007, Day 3: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services

Casey Bisson (met him for the first time - nice guy!)
“Libraries are much larger than our books and our OPACs”
Catalog challenges:

usability
findability
remindability

We use Linux daily - it’s the dominant platform of most social web apps
IBM saves over $900,000,000 annually because of LInux
Scriblio.net (used to be his WPOPAC) - very cool. He’s making this easily available to [...]

IL2007, Day 2: Encouraging and Building your Techie Team

Michael Stephens and Sarah Houghton-Jan
Building your techie team: tips for training staff - they were creative - this presentation was built around the word “experiment:”
Engage - use real world examples, stay relevant, highlight tips and tricks
Xenagogue - become a guide through a strange land, be available and accessible, encourage student independence
Play - encourage exploration, allow [...]

IL2007, Day 2: Helene Blowers and Meredith Farkas talk about learning

Meredith Farkas - building a foundation with five weeks to a social library

issue - lots of people don’t have access to continuing education programs
hands-on learning is important
online courses can be run cheaply

talked about Five Weeks to a Social Library: had 40 participants, all kinds of libraries
tools used:

drupal - it allows multiple blogs, all in the [...]

IL2007, Day 3: Organization 2.0

Rebecca Jones - Ain’t What it used to be… & never will be again

New collaborative and connecting technology are changing the entire concept of where our organization/job/work starts and stops
mentioned the Cluetrain Manifesto
very few professionals are talking about it stil!
organizational decisions - hardest and last thing to do. It’s fundamentally about choices and changes, which [...]

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