SDD 2008 ideas

(Anyone still "feeding" here?)

When do we start thinking about SDD 2008?

As I've gone around to all my branches and tried to find out what most of the Managers' feel they need my help with, email overload has come up time and time again as a major problem for them. At our recent Branch Managers' meeting last week I went over some email management ideas with them (creating contact groups; using email filters; moving stuff from inbox and sent into folders) and a few of them were very glad to hear about some these options -- for the first time. I gave them some printouts of screen shots and they thought that would help them put some of the features to better use. I've already heard back from two who are having better luck with their email now.

Anyway, they thought some of these email management techniques (and not just the technical stuff, but some ideas about time allotment, cutting back on cc'ing, and judgments about when/if to use email v. phone and/or in-person) would be good for all staff to know, so I told them I'd pass the request on to the SDD team for consideration for a Staff Development Day in the future.

Remembering SDD...

I have enjoyed viewing the photos taken on Staff Development Day. I hope you do too.

Cliff Landis

ARLS staff - flickr


-Karen

Cliff's presentation

If anyone wants a sneak peek at what Cliff Landis is going to be talking about next week, here's the link to the PowerPoint presentation: Keeping Your Barriers in the New Digital Landscape

Dr. Kristina Jaskyte

Our closing speaker will be spending the day with us - or at least as much of the day as possible. She is looking forward to it! Also, she plans to use Power Point. As with Cliff, we need to plan her into the folders, session assignments, and lunch.
Cheers,
Clare

Logo

I'm sorry I didn't think to post this sooner. If anyone would like to put the logo on their handouts, here are three different sizes attached.

Training: Redundancies?

EDIT: (Authored by Mike)

I was thinking about my presentation and training, specifically about explaining some basic Web2.0 concepts and the schedule of the sessions. Here is a list of 2.0 concepts that Flickr demonstrates well:

Tags/Tag clouds/Folksonomy
Ajax
Shared/Creative Commons/Open API
Comments
Feeds

It's occurred to me, though, that some of these concepts will already have been introduced in another training session--obviously Karen will explain feeds in the morning, and I imagine Greg will outline AJAX. In the afternoon, Trudi and I will both be dealing with tags (she more than I). 20 minutes isn't a ton of time--should we be taking into consideration what other sessions will cover, maybe divvying up some of these broader themes to each session?

What specifically led me to thinking about this was realizing that both Trudi and I (and our assistants) will be dealing with tags in back to back sessions, and wondering if we should coordinate. What I mean is, in our respective first sessions we explain what a tag is, what a tag cloud is, etc., then in our second sessions we can say "As Trudi/Mike showed you with delicious/flickr, we once again see tagging at this site..." That led me to think, "hey, I bet they'll all have been introduced to rss and AJAX earlier in the day!" Or is all this just going to complicate things? Alternatively, are these concepts complicated enough for newcomers that they should be covered repeatedly?

Obviously, it would be easier to coordinate our presentations if everyone had finished them already [hangs head in shame].

SDD test presentation on September 11

Would someone please list what we should bring to that meeting? I think it was 20 copies of each of our handouts. Am I correct? Was there anything else?

-Karen