My Mountain Plains Library Association Talk

Just got back from Salt Lake City yesterday - I gave a breakfast talk titled The Future is Not Out of Reach: Trends & Transformations for MPLA’s annual conference. Some of you might enjoy the pdf of the slides, too - feel free to click and peek!
James Rettig, of all people, attended my presentation (hey [...]

Video on the Web Presentation

A couple days ago, I gave a workshop on videos and videoblogging to the fine folks at the Long Island Library Resources Council. It was a fun presentation to give (see the video above)!
Here’s a list of videos we watched during the class:

Me - Changing a Tire
Rocketboom
Steve Garfield
Jay Dedman
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library - [...]

David’s Current Speaking Schedule

Here’s where I’ll be speaking (and/or attending) this spring. Come say hi!

March 3 - April 11: Basics of Library Web Site Management (online class)
March 6-12: Attending SXSWi 2008! I’m pretty psyched to go…
March 19: participating in Library Camp Kansas
March 25-29: attending my first Public Library Association conference!
March 31: Long Island Library Resources Council.
April 6: CIL08 [...]

Salt Lake City Public Library Presentations

Yesterday, I spoke at Salt Lake City Public Library’s staff day. I actually gave three presentations - one keynote and two breakout sessions… all three were extremely fun talks!
Salt Lake’s staff day theme this year was “Transform.. Adapt… Grow.” Transformation is a strong theme with them right now - for example, take a peek [...]

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 [...]

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!
 

Lee County Library System Presentation

On Monday, I spoke about Web 2.0 and emerging trends at the Lee County Library System’s staff day in Fort Myers, Florida. The day before, I worked extremely hard, as you can tell from the accompanying photo
Anyway… here’s the pdf of my presentation. And an FYI for those of you who are thinking [...]

My LITA Forum 2007 slides

Last Saturday morning, I gave a keynote at the LITA Forum - very fun crowd! So, as promised, here’s a pdf of my slides.
But wait - there’s more! Why not browse through the slides while listening to the podcast version of my talk? If you think that’s fun… we can even go one further… how [...]

Web 2.0 Presentation at the Allegheny County Library Association

I just gave a presentation at the Allegheny County Library Association on Web 2.0 and emerging trends. it was fun! This group of librarians is very lively - during the presentation, there were lots of great questions were asked and there was some fun discussion, too. That type of interaction certainly makes it much easier [...]

Education Institute Webcast: Planning and Implementing Library 2.0

I just finished up a talk for the Education Institute on planning and implementing library 2.0 tools and services. It went well!
Here’s a version of my slides, in the new Google Presentations (let me know if this doesn’t work).

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