Posts Tagged ‘presentations’
I’m very pleased to say that I’ll be presenting to the Atlanta Emerging Librarians group again on September 27. I gave a 20-minute talk last month on Promoting Yourself With a Personal Website. I was really sick that day, and I’m glad they liked me well enough to ask me back! For 50 minutes this time, even.
Anyway. I’m tentatively titling next month’s talk “RSS Tools for Emerging Librarians.” The organizers have asked me to include discussion of blogs and podcasting, and I’m looking forward to making this more than just a 101-style basics talk. I’ll probably do a 5-minute “What is RSS” bit at the beginning and then get into some nitty gritty examples of actual applications and what I think of as “stupid RSS tricks.” (And by stupid I mean “clever,” of course.)
I love presenting to this group. I feel like they’re my peers, and it’s informal enough that I can include LOLcat slides and dumb jokes to keep it fun, as long as I don’t sacrifice the good information. I’m planning to record the audio and post it here, of course.
These are my slides and notes from a talk I gave on July 12 at the Atlanta Emerging Librarians meeting at Georgia State University. I had a great time presenting, despite having a 101 degree fever and a voice rather like Dr. Girlfriend’s. I promised that when I posted these I’d also include a link to Creative Commons, which came up during the Q&A. Grab the Powerpoint file, or the slides are also up on Slideshare.
Attention Atlanta MLIS students, new grads and other library job-seekers. Copying and pasting from the event flyer:
Join us for the second meeting of the Atlanta Emerging Librarians Meetup Group! This group is intended to help library students and new librarians in the Atlanta area to learn and network.
Belinda DeLisser of Cadence Group will discuss how to prepare and interview for open positions and demonstrate an incorrect and a correct interview.
Jason Puckett of Emory University will discuss creating a personal website as a tool for networking and personal promotion: how to set up a site, how to make it a portfolio that’s more engaging than your resume and how to use it to connect with other online librarians.
There will also be time for you to mingle and snack with your colleagues. Library science students, new librarians, and job seekers are all welcome to attend.
When: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 3:30-5:30pm
Where: Georgia State University Library, Classroom 1 (on the first floor of Library North)
Cost: Free!
Getting There: Detailed directions from the roads and MARTA are available here:
http://www.library.gsu.edu/directions/.
Visitor parking in G Deck (located off Collins Street) is $6.00. If you’d rather not drive, The Five Points and GSU MARTA train stations are within close walking distance of the University Library. Campus map: http://www.gsu.edu/map.html
Registration: Seating is limited to 60, so please register for this event at: http://www.library.gsu.edu/gla/emerginglibrarians.asp
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