Digital Media in a Social World talk
On my way out the door this morning to give my talk at DMSW event at OSU. Finally finished my slides. Here they are:
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On my way out the door this morning to give my talk at DMSW event at OSU. Finally finished my slides. Here they are:
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I'm heading out tomorrow for my second Athens talk in 30 days. The first one required a cramped 10 hour plane ride, so I'm really looking forward to the second one because it's only a 2 hour car drive - which also means I'll be home for movie night. :)
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Event was part of the Megaron Plus Lecture Series - Athens, Greece (Nov 11, 2009).
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Friday I keynoted the GOLD/GALILEO conference in Athens, GA. Although the humidity seemed uncomfortably high (I swear I thought nimbus clouds were going to form in the lecture hall before my talk was over) it was great to be back in the south surrounded by so many soothing southern drawls. :)
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Had a great morning helping to close the Canadian Library Association annual conference in Montreal. Thanks to all who attended my talk & a special thanks to Derrek, Lorianne, Marie-Anne & Amanda for assisting me with some bubble fun on the big stage. :)
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Every time I do this talk, I change things up slightly or add something new. Here's the most recent version of Innovation Starts with "I", a webinar I presented for Project Play this morning.
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When Eric Boekesteijn quoted me on the stage during his talk with Paul Holdengraber at Computers in Library last month, I knew I had pull the idea into a new talk for my keynote at the UGame, ULearn conference in Delft this Thursday.
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Lot's of nice buzz this am about my talk on New Strategies for Digital Natives. Here are my slides for those that asked. Thanks for attending
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My 6 am flight to Chicago for the Illinois Computing Educators conference this morning came far earlier then I anticipated -- Good news is that a double dose of Starbucks did the trick. :) -- but I managed to keep my energy level up for my three back-to-back spotlight sessions.
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Getting up @ 3:45 am this morning is not my idea of a sunshine start. Finding out that your 6 am flight is delayed nearly two hours makes me appreciate Starbucks even more.
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My final talk for this year was yesterday and it couldn't have been a better venue or audience. The staff at Boulder Public Library seriously rock and in touring their Main library and community, it was easy to see why Tony Tallent jumped at the opportunity to become BPL's Library & Arts Director.
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Encouraging innovation at an organizational level can be a stretch for many libraries. “How do I change the culture?” is one question I’m asked often at conferences when I speak and more often the question goes further depending upon who is asking it. From front-line employees and middle management it’s “if administration/management isn’t willing to change.” From administrators and upper managers, it’s “if our front-line managers/employees aren’t willing to change.”
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Yesterday I spent some time at OCLC conference center speaking to a great group of folks from IABC Columbus about social media strategies for businesses. The power outages we experienced earlier this week from hurricane Ike -- Yes, for those of you that may not have been aware, Ike caused major damage in central Ohio with winds speeds that measured at a category 1 level. In fact there are may still with out power (5 days now) and the clean-up is still in progress. – kept me from updating this talk completely for a non-library audience. But even so, I managed to find a few good examples of local businesses that were taking advantage of social media tools to engage their customers.
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I’m starting a marathon month of presentations tonight after taking the whole summer off from speaking engagements. In a way, I’m glad that I have six presentations stacked up over the next 16 days to do -- I take it as a good challenge -- even though it means that I’ll also be giving up numerous evenings just to prepare for them. It was not my intention to jump back into the swing of things by doing three back-to-back presentations in one week. But when I booked the first two opportunities over 6 months ago, I had no idea that I’d get so many requests locally to speak. The subject of developing social media strategies is really hot right now. And from the number of inquiries I've received, I can attest that there are lots of organizations out there trying to figure this new landscape.
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I’m a few days delayed in posting my slides from my recent workshop for the North Texas Regional Library System. But since I’m determine to go green (no handouts) with all my workshops and talks these days, I feel a little bad that I didn’t have up on before hand.
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It’s been just at a week since I spoke at the OhioNet board annual planning meeting, so I have to apologize to those in attendance at the delay in getting the slides from my talk posted.
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I’m both keynoting and speaking at my first Ohio library conference tomorrow and am really looking forward to it. It’s a brand new talk, which has actually been a work in progress since last August, but since most of my available time for speaking is booked out months in advance, it’s taken me this long to find the perfect opportunity to test it out.
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As I sat in the airport waiting for my flight home, I just couldn’t get this song out of my head. I’m a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan and one of my favorite albums was the one he cut with his brother, Family Style, just before the crash.
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When I saw that the Innovation & Change track that I was moderating was up on the 3rd floor a bit away from the center of the all the other conference activity, I was a little worried. But when you have a great line up of speakers and good topic, it more than makes up for the elevator ride.
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Wow! What a great day of ideas bounced around this afternoon during the pre-conference that Michael Porter and I gave on “un-marketing.” And thanks to Nicole Engard and her skillful picture taking, we also have all the post-it note ideas capture on Flickr.
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Two presentations today, spanning five hours of talking -- that my voice is extremely tired this evening, I don't think should surprise anyone. :)
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Thanks to all in the audience this morning for the WebWise session, Introduction to Web 2.0 for Libraries & Museums. The panel discussion was great, but not long enough (at least IMHO) I really wanted to see more of Holly’s great slides and also hear more thoughts from Rob, Beth & Paul.
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Doing the closing keynote for the SCLA conference this morning was fun. And what made it completely enjoyable was that neither Michael nor I had prepared any speaking notes. Instead we decided to "2.0 it" and just share thoughts and reflections related to "Interesting Snippets" created by Lynette Webb.
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One would think that after nearly a year of speaking about Learning 2.0 that I would be tired of the subject -- and in some ways I am -- but like this morning, once I get started talking about the importance of incorporating and encouraging “play” into the work flow, I discover a renewed energy for the subject.
“ Since the program was both voluntary and optional for staff to participate in, and provided a reward, it was important that it not be discriminatory. Besides, it’s not only those that work with the public that need to be familiar with these new tools. In our library system we’ve also incorporated many of these tools in our staff communication on our intranet. For example, our system wide strategic plan is available for all staff via a wiki and many departments use blogs for communication. With this in mind, it would be shortsighted to only think that public service staff could benefit from the program. Everyone who works in libraries should be given the opportunity to learn.”
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Wow, what a full day here at Internet Librarian International. In addition to finally meeting in person several people that I've come to know through either their blogs, Flickr or Facebook, I also attended several great sessions.
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I’ve always wanted to see the Columbus Metropolitan Library system and Tuesday I got my chance. After talking to a great crowd of staff about 2.0 stuff for two hours, I received a fast (but fantastic) world wind tour of four of their branches (Linden, Gahanna, Northern Lights & New Albany).
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By east coast time it’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon, but here in Santa Cruz it’s still morning and I’ve just finished talking to staff members from both the SCPL and UCSC about web stuff, library stuff and 2.0 stuff - yup! "things" :)
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I’m at the airport right now and heading back home after a quick turnaround trip to upstate NY to speak to library system directors at the PULISDO gathering in Utica. Driving over from Syracuse I phoned my hubby, who is from this area. “How’s it look?” he asked. “Nice & green” I responded with a smile.
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My feet are killing me tonight. After delivering two sessions today at the New South Wales State Library, I walked all over the Sydney harbor area taking a last look before my flight home tomorrow.
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If I've learned anything so far during my visit down under it’s these two things:
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It's been an amazing week of conversations and good company. Each and everytime I spoke with either an individual or a group of German librarians, I walked away with not only a wonderful feeling that the world has indeed grown smaller, but also that the issues facing libraries are more global then ever.
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If I seem a bit absent around here for the greater part of the month of July, it’s for good reason…
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With so many ways to explore the use of web 2.0 technologies as marketing and outreach tools, I decided to focus my 20 minutes at the podium (or rather on the floor) this morning talking and providing examples that related to this one slide:

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in Loudoun County Public Library’s staff day along with Stephen Abram (I never tired of hearing Stephen speak). It was great day of conversation which culminated in an idea and brainstorming session with their entire staff about how to use 2.0 tools to improve library services.
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As promised, here are my slides from the Metropolitan Library System and North Suburban Library System's joint staff workshop, Library 2.0: Delivering Twice the Value.
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Well I finally got around to trying Slideshare and I must say I’m impressed. Uploading my slides was cinch and the flash player can be embedded into my blog with ease.
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For those of you in the audience for my CIL talk tomorrow, here's some links to the slides and follow up references:
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Being the last speaker for the day is always a hard spot to fill, especially after all the audience members have been saturated with lunch, dessert and a monster cookie break ... and it also doesn't help to be the only obstacle left before the complimentary cocktail hour. :) Anyway, for those of you in attendance for my talk this afternoon at the SirsiDynix Institute Executive Conference, here are the slides from my presentation on Learning 2.0
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Tomorrow the folks at the Tampa Bay Library Consortium are kicking off their Learning 2.0 Challenge. It’s great to see more libraries jumping on board with these types of learning opportunities for staff and from the looks of it TBLC has put together an awesome program. Labels: Presentations
I can't tell you how relieved I am to have today's SirsiDynix Institute talk on Learning 2.0 behind me. With my training background and all the hours that I've logged standing in front of group of people, it seems very rare for me these days to work up a good sweat about speaking in public. But for some reason this online thing really threw me for a loop. The main thing I find mind boggling about it, is that 1) there's no way to see the faces of the people you're talking to so you can judge their reactions, and 2) you also don't have audio (laughter, chuckles, moans) to go by. For 50 - 60 minutes straight, your voice just has to fill a dead space in the hopes that some of what you may be saying is making sense to your audience.
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Speaking to the Tidewater Area Library Director’s Council this morning about Web 2.0/Learning 2.0 in Williamsburg, VA was a pleasure. The conversation was enlightening. The accommodations, enjoyable. And the companionship, engaging (thanks again Elizabeth for serving as my tour guide) – Yup, there are those “e” words again.
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