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

Lunch Menu

Hi Everyone,

Below is the menu for SDD lunch. Lunch will be delivered by Lee Epting Catering. This menu is for 80 people and will be a total of $900.

All vegetable dishes on the menu are vegan. Also, both unsweet tea and sweet tea will be provided.

-SDD Food Committee

Staff Development Day

Delivery to Athens Clarke County Library

September 27^th, 2007

~ Chunky Chicken Salad with Grapes & Walnuts ~

Accompanied by Croissants

~ Sliced Ham ~

Accompanied by Cheese Biscuits

~ Grilled Veggies with Balsamic Vinaigrette ~

~ Grilled Tofu ~

Marinated in a Sesame - Teriyaki Sauce and Grilled

Served with Multi-Grain Bread

~ Vegetable Pasta Salad ~

~ Fruit Salad with Fresh Melons & Berries ~

Fresh Cantaloupe, Honeydew,

Pineapple, & Strawberries

~ Pick-Up Sweets ~

Lemon Bars, Brownies, & Assorted Cookies

~ Lightly Sweetened Iced Tea ~

Meeting Reminder

The next Staff Development Meeting is tomorrow, August 28 at 9:30 a.m. in the Small Conference Room.

New Speaker

Cliff Landis, who recently gave two presentations on Library 2.0 at the GOLD/GALILEO meeting, is our new Staff Development Day speaker. He works at the library at Valdosta State University, and was recommended by staff who heard him at the GOLD meeting, as well as Helene Bowers (who was unable to come). He's very enthusiastic, and I think he'll be a great opening speaker for us. Check out his blog at http://www.clifflandis.net

Attention trainers!

Please send me any web sites you will be using for your training, whether it's the main site, like Google, or a site that you're referring to (I know Karen has some of these). I'm going to put them all in del.icio.us and use it for my hands-on session. E-mail them to me at tgreen@athenslibrary.org or post them in the comments here. I'm not in any big hurry, so just get them to me by Sept. 7 so they can be ready for our practice run on Sept. 11.

Thanks!

Meeting minutes and schedule

Here are the minutes from our July 31 meeting. Please check over the proposed schedule. I seem to have an extra 5 minutes toward the end of the day.

To see them, you'll have to log into Google docs with the arls.sdd gmail account.

South Carolina & Emerging Technologies

Michael Stephens at ALA TechSource writes about the success of the State Library of South Carolina's emerging technologies training. What's so interesting to me is the responses to the Before and After survey and comments (best seen through the pdf file). "Before" comments were "emerging technologies are scary," and "I ... take a wait and see approach." But after completing the training, the librarians were thinking of new and exciting ways to use what they've learned.

Hopefully, we'll see similar results from our Learning 2.0 workshop!

Trudi (team del.icio.us)

Meeting minutes

Here are the minutes from our last meeting.

Training and Hands-on Sessions

I have uploaded a few images for you to review when you have a moment. After our last meeting, I think we resolved how and where the training and hands-on sessions will occur on staff development day.

Please send me a quick email if you would like for me to send you the actual Publisher file. You may want to print that file in color for further review. If you have other ideas or a better suggestion, please leave a comment or post to this blog.

Thanks,
Karen

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Adding an RSS feed

At the bottom of this page, there's a link that says Subscribe to Post Atom. Click on this. You'll get a page of code, but the only thing you need is the address in the address box. Click on it to select it and do an Edit, Copy.

Now go to your athenslibrary.org mail and click on the Feeds tab (across the top: Email, Contacts, Feeds is last). Click the Add Feed button. Paste the URL you just copied into the URL box and click Continue. It should come back with the name of the blog and then you just click Save.

You'll get an update when someone adds a post, but not when someone adds a comment.

Speakers!

We have our speakers now. Karen Schneider, moderator of PubLib and author of the Free Range Librarian blog, will be our kick-off speaker in the morning. If you're not familiar with her or her work, definitely check her out at Free Range Librarian. She is the author of The User is Not Broken meme, which is well worth the read if you haven't already seen it. I'm very excited that she is going to be our speaker.

Carrie's professor, Dr. Christina Jaskyte, will be the afternoon speaker. You can read more about her at her website.

We're off to a great start!

Web 2.0 - The Way to Go!

Since we’re going to be training most of the staff on Web 2.0 sites, I thought a blog would be a great way to communicate. We can discuss ideas here, and you can set up RSS feeds to know when the blog has been updated. See? Web 2.0 has practical uses in our everyday lives.