Rob Coers and I met for the first time last year at ILI 2004. What amazed me is how similar our training back grounds are: training public librarians for many years, etc. From that meeting, we began chatting and decided to propose a session on technology training for 2005 and presented “Twenty Technology Training Tips for Trainers” yesterday. I was excited about the idea of two trainers from different parts of the world coming together to share experiences and insights. What an incredible session it was! With most planning and discussion carried out via IM and other tools, we had […]
Yearly Archives: 2005
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Thoughts about Tags: “…the key is to tag sparingly and with focus, using words that are highly descriptive.” WIRED Reverse Thinking as well… Tips from Top Taggers http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Keywords/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ TAGFIGHT! http://www.netomer.de/flickrtagfight/fight http://www.last.fm/user/mstephens7
My presentation: Tools.pdf Aaron is talking about flickr!! Here are the photos uploaded with the “ili2005” tag! Aaron’s Presentation Brian is speaking: “E-Mail Must Die!”
Greetings from the workshop!
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6261414.html The whole cover thing blows me away… wow! I can’t thank the group of people pictured there and Brian and the LJ folks for one of the best conversations I’ve had this year! Flickr set of the session: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/517913/ I was very happy to work with Brian Kenney on this article and gather the bloggers featured. I was impressed with their insight, candor and ideas for the future. Also, don’t miss my interview with The Feel Good Librarian – in its full-length Web version! Update: Meredith weighs in and I agree: I wish we had more space… the conversation […]
This is one to add to your aggregator!! I linked below but here’s Michael Casey’s blog: http://www.librarycrunch.com/ I’m intrigued by the twist “Library 2.0″… I just added it to Safari’s RSS feeds. Michael – I want to hear more about your work and your library… UPDATE: I am so excited to read these new voices of the Biblioblogosphere… and just looking at the last series of posts from Mr. Casey, I want to keep reading more. Someday, I want to sit across a table from him and talk all about this stuff! Wowza.
Congrats to my cohort colleague Mary Jo Venetis! She and dr. Maurice whheler have published “Evaluation of Web access to historical sheet music collections and music?related iconography” online! http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/wheeler/index.html
This morning I’m speaking at the District 1 meeting of the Indiana Library Federation. I love to meet with Indiana Librarians and I’m especially happy because these folks are from my “hometown” — District 1 includes all of my county and the counties across northern Indiana. Here’s the talk, a new version of “Optimizing Tech” today: PPT File as 6 slides per page Bibliography
Greetings! I’ll be off to England tomorrow. Internet librarian International begins Sunday October 9th with workshops and then the conference takes place over Monday and Tuesday. We’ll be in residence at the Millennium Copthorne Tara Hotel. I am looking forward to a few things: Presenting with Aaron and Brian Kelly on Digital Tools Presenting with my chum Rob from the Netherlands on Tech Training Rubbing some international librarians’ elbows at various lunches, dinners and meet-and-greets. Note that there will be “Dine Arounds” and Aaron and I are hosting a “Technology in Libraries” Thai dinner on Monday. Sign Up here. Then, […]
I have another post up at the ALA TechSource Blog entitled Web 2.0 for Librarians. Don’t miss Theresa’s coverage of Roy Tennant speaking at LITA as well!