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Olivia Mitchell, presentation trainer and blogger, provides 9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations With Social Media at Mashable. This helpful article offers tips for encouraging audience participation and feedback via new media tools such as Twitter and Facebook.
Build Relationships With Your Audience
Recruit a Backchannel Team
Create a Separate Hashtag
Welcome the Backchannel
Reach Out to Your Virtual Audience
Make Your Key Points Tweetable
Audience Participation Through Social Media
Display the Backchannel When You Want to Focus on It
Today I presented a talk on Next-Generation Libraries at the Online Information Conference in London, England. Here’s a slidecast of my talk if you’d like to check it out.
Bill Drew, Librarian at Tompkins Cortland Community College Library, has created a Google Site for his recent presentation titled Why Twitter?: What can Twitter do for my library & my community? This website resource provides a Twitter tutorial aimed at public libraries, along with articles, videos, Twitter tools, abbreviations, and other helpful materials.
I was just at the North Suburban Library System in Chicago where I gave a workshop on card sorting which is a type of usability test to discover how your users think about your website content so that your can organize it in a way that’s findable. I have made the content of the workshop available in a wiki if anyone is interested in learning about how to conduct card sorts. Here’s a description of the workshop:
“Web users spend an average of 8–10 seconds and three clicks on your Web site looking for what they need before they get frustrated and click away. Whether you are developing a new Web site or redesigning an existing one, it is imperative to determine an intuitive and usable navigational structure and taxonomy for your user community. Card sorting is a technique used in the information architecture field to determine a classification scheme that speaks to your user population. Discover how to use this quick and inexpensive technique to understand how your users think about your Web site and its content. Learn how to run both an open and a closed card sort, analyze the results, and make recommendations based on your data. This workshop explores both online and offline card-sorting techniques as well as analysis software. Make sure your information is findable and increase usability by involving your users in the process of designing your Web site — they will thank you for it!”
Max Atkinson, author of Speech-making & Presentation Made Easy, writes for BBC News Magazine about The problem with PowerPoint. The article discusses several potential problems with PowerPoint presentations including:
Kathryn Greenhill, Emerging Technologies Specialist at at Murdoch University Library in Australia has posted her recent presentation - Emerging Technologies: background, tools and challenges for Higher Education at Librarians Matter. The post includes her 92-slide presentation as well as many helpful additional recommended resources.
Digital Inspiration sums up the differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 and provides six related presentations which discuss Web 3.0 in detail.
Google Wave, a new type of communication tool, was unveiled at the Google IO conference yesterday. A combination of email, instant messaging, and many other collaborative features, this new application will be available to the public later this year. Additionally, Google plans to make the application Open Source. PCWorld asks Is Google Wave a Twitter Killer? and TechCrunch provides a detailed review of the new tool with plenty of screenshots. Below is the keynote from yesterday’s conference in which the application in fully demonstrated.
Speaking expert Olivia Mitchell guest posts at Pistachio about How to Present While People are Twittering. This timely article discusses how the conference back channel can work for you, and is a must-read for those speakers preparing for conference season. the post is divided into the following sections:
Benefits of the back channel to the audience
What about the speaker?
Managing the back channel
Also, for those still getting up and running on Twitter, Derek Halpern at Prevential has created an Ultimate Twitter resource guide organized into chapters of useful links and articles pertaining to the popular microblogging application.
Chapter 1: Twitter for Newbies
Chapter 2: How to Use Twitter Effectively
Chapter 3: How to Increase Your Twitter Followers
Chapter 4: Why Twitter Helps Bloggers (and How they Can Use It)
Chapter 5: The Ultimate Guide to Twitter for Business
Chapter 6: Here are the Best Twitter Marketing Resources… Period
Chapter 7: Does Twitter Provide Any SEO Benefits?
Chapter 8: Where Else Does Twitter Apply?
Chapter 9: Twitter Case Studies: What are People and Companies Doing?
Cameron Moll at Authentic Boredom presents a guide to better conference speaking, providing detailed suggestions based on his own experiences over the last four years as a public speaker. The article’s guidelines are broken down into the following sections:
I had the chance to present on Social Software, Online Community, and Libraries at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Staff Day event today. Here are my slides for anyone who would like to have a look. And the companion wiki for the talk can be found here.
Today I’ll be giving a half-day workshop at METRO, the Metropolitan Library Council here in NYC, these are my presentations for anyone who is interested in “open” topics. The main topics I’ll be covering include Open Source Software, Open Access, and Open Education and how they are relevant to libraries. I’ll also be discussing open licenses, open conferences and camps, open textbooks, and new open Web initiatives.
The SlideShare blog has recently begun a series of blog posts called Slide Tips which are incredibly useful articles from the world’s leading presentation experts. You can subscribe to the series via RSS or have it delivered to your email box. A couple that I found particularly helpful are:
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