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By: Have Interest – Will Adopt New Conference

Have Interest – Will Adopt New Conference — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:19:19 +0000

[...] experience last week reinforced this for me. I had a great conference! But reading Kathryn’s post, I realized that what we all want is a different conference to attend. We want something that falls [...]

By: anne beaumont

anne beaumont — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:02:53 +0000

Kathryn,
As a VALA scholar you will be presenting at the conference next year. Can I suggest that you contact David Feighan with your suggestions about speakers getting together? I think it is a good idea.
About more technical presentations, VALA has tried that and been criticised. In fact the comments that some of our sessions were too technical led to the L-plate pre-conference sessions last time.

By: Library Attack » Blog Archive » Rewarding conference speakers? What about doing it for “the kids”?

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:47:58 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:17:28 +0000

I agree with your point about getting more from the people than the presentations. I often say I learn more at the bar at the end of the day than I do at the conference proper (and I’m not just saying that to justify a trip to the bar). The point of the presentations, for me, is more to nurse the friendships I have and to figure out who else I would like to meet. The presentations are more of an audition, if you will.

I also like the idea of having a presenters’ session or maybe some kind of pre-conference workshop. And also Aaron’s idea for a post-conference unconference. My brain is often spinning after CiL or IL and could use some time to hash out what it is I learned. Of course, these ideas would turn a 3-day conference into a 6-day conference. In an ideal world, I think that would be the most productive approach.

By: eclectic librarian » a response to rewarding conference speakers

eclectic librarian » a response to rewarding conference speakers — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:05:06 +0000

[...] Kathryn Greenhill writes, “I suspect it’s not that I *know* it all, but that I know how to find out at point of need and that I am more likely to use my human networks than to look back at conference notes or handouts to find out.” I rely heavily on my human networks, both in person and online, to keep me informed of the things I need to know — much more so than professional literature and formal presentations. However, sometimes even those things can spark an idea or clarify something that was previously muddy in my mind. I’m happy to reap the benefits of shared information, regardless of what format is used to deliver it. [...]

By: Anna Creech

Anna Creech — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:08:28 +0000

I have more to say in response to this, but for now, I am compelled to note that your comment, “I think it would be a real incentive for new people to step up to the plate and start presenting,” assumes that ITI is interested in having new people present or that new people aren’t submitting proposals. My observational experience tells me otherwise. Sure, ITI wants to keep the conference content fresh and new, but they seem to be going back to the same people every year to cover certain topics, and only a handful of new speakers are given an opportunity to present their work.

By: Aaron the Librarian

Aaron the Librarian — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:49:08 +0000

The conference piece that’s missing, for me, is a post-conference unconference. All on out own, we all got together and hit the various sessions which intrigued us, then we chatted out on the carpets, in the lobbies, or at restaurants. While we talked and/or listened, we made sense, for each other, of the stuff we heard or spoke about and we mashed up the points and embraced and extended each others’ understandings.

Imagine what an open unconference immediately after the energy expended at the conference could be like – we all would have had 2 or 3 days of getting into the groove, the ideas would be at the forefront of our minds, and we could self-select ourselves into the discussions which interested us.

Personally, I’d prefer an almost completely unmoderated unconference – sort of LobbyCon writ large with whiteboards, large pads of paper, and enough seating…

By: Jill Hurst-Wahl

Jill Hurst-Wahl — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:53:32 +0000

I’m sorry I didn’t get to chat with you at CIL, but glad that I did get to see you! I like the idea of holding a different level of session for those who not only are speakers, but repeat attendees at CIL. Or provide a real space for lobbycon/carpetcon, which is where many of these people (including me) hung out.

I’d also like to see something that gets attendees interacting with the speakers more.

By: Dave Pattern

Dave Pattern — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:07:47 +0000

This reminds me a something I was chatting to Richard Wallis (Talis) about before giving a presentation at the UKSG conference last week — PowerPoint could do with a button to randomly jumble the slides around. I tend not to rehearse presentations too much and I quite like not being 100% sure what’s on the next slide …kinda keeps you on your toes! ;-D

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