Yearly Archives: 2004

In my technology training workshop Sunday one of my points was that if you are doing a presentation you have to be ready to roll with any glitches that pop up. Monday I got to practice what I preach. My CyberClinic was about new technologies in libraries and I created a small PPT to use. I copied it from my Mac to my JumpDrive and was good to go — or so I thought…. In the room…with minutes before the start — an maybe 40 folks waiting — the PPT would not open! It would not open on another laptop […]

Danny Sullivan Web Search: A Look Ahead It’s no longer Google Google Google Consolidation of Search Engines means a strong “search voice” – good for searchers What will help an engine win the search wars? Sullivan says it will be personalization and “invisible tabs” may be the way to win. For example, entering “pictures of cats” in the search box yields pictures of cats in Yahoo and Ask Jeeves. Google offers a small link: “Looking for pictures? Try Images.” Sullivan likened this to the search engine acting as a librarian by interacting with the searcher. Search shortcuts also create sticky […]

I posted the Stonehenge pics this weekend and I got a note from Rob Coers, an Internet trainer I’ve e-mailed with in the past besed in the Netherlands. He had just checked his RSS aggregator and saw my posts and realized I was in England for the conference and he was coming too! Rob e-mailed me and said he’d look for me at the conference. We met and got to spend some time talking about training public librarians. He worked in a public library and then went out on his own to do training for librarians. How cool! We went […]

What a great way to end the first day of Internet Librarian International: a conference wide reception in the hotel’s conservatory. I got to chat with folks from my workshop, conference goers from Lebanon, Japan, The Netherlands, the UK, etc.

I taught the half day workshop that Scott Brandt and I developed on Sunday morning for a small but most cool group of folks from Finland, South Africa, Japan and Greece! We focused on 5 steps to make sure technology training works. The best part was the interaction with the group — from questions to “this is how I do it” tales from particpants.

We arrived at 11am Thursday morning after a most pleasnat trip over the Atlantic… why? because we upgraded to Business Class and could actually stretch out! Nice! Friday was spent touring the Salisbury plain and Stonhenge…which was one of the places on my list of notable sites to see in my lifetime! Now it’s Saturday night– today we visited the British Museum. I just saw some cool InfoToday folks in the lobby so things are about to start. I’m at Starbucks, connected to T-Mobile for a bit… Here’s the Stonehenge Gallery!

I depart late Wednesday night for London and the 2004 Internet Librarian International conference. Steve is going with me and we are staying 3 extra days to take in more of the sites. Adam, Steve and I were there in 2002 and I’m so excited to get back! Watch the blog for reports from the conference! MS, Trafalgar Square, December 2002