Thing 7 was about F2F networking and conferences and I wrote about conferences I remembered attending. Thing 15 is encouraging librarians to attend, present and organize conferences. My Thing 15 task is to discuss using these questions as guides:
- What worked and what didn’t work? I remember that the AUCRIL conference I attended covered topics that were way above my level of understanding. On the other hand, The Georgia COMO conference with the theme: Beaches, Blogs, and Books, was very interesting to me. It related more to my every day job. I learned to look at things differently and I enjoyed having a real live author as a presenter. I have also attended conferences for libraries in the University System where I work. Those have been useful. Generally what did not work is the information overload; giving too much information in too little time. Also, I am a Toastmaster. I automatically listen for distracting filler words and tend to be turned off if the presenter is disorganized or speaks in a monotone.
- The Future:
- Are there conferences you’d like to attend? The past two years I attended conferences in my state online. I prefer F2F contact for conferences but in lieu of that I would love to attend Georgia COMO online but so far this is not an option.
- If you have a burning idea for a great event, now would probably be a good time to talk about it! Since the technology is constantly changing, some of these very topics covered in CPD23 would be good: Reference Management Tools, Collaboration Tools, Social Networking for Librarians.
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