think forward: revitalizing your keeping up habits
DESCRIPTION
Keynote address for the Library Communications Conference Do you feel like you get behind on all the new technology innovations, e-books, communications, PR, and library and information science? This session will take a look at important resources for keeping up, and attendees will have an opportunity to share their experiences and methods they use for keeping up.TRANSCRIPT
REVITALIZING YOUR
KEEPING UP HABITS
THINKFORWARD
ASKING QUESTIONS
SHARING IDEAS
be thinking about how you keep up to date on trends in our field...
INTERACTIVE
"We can do more with less..."
SOAPBOXMOMENT#1
Budget lines for PR & CE are a must!
SOAPBOXMOMENT#2
What is important?
KEEPING UP WITH THE RIGHT SUBJECTS
What are some of the important reasons we do what we do? – Big Picture
How do you keep up with trends about what we do?
REASONS FOR KEEPING UP
KEEP UP TO DATE WITH STATS
Keep up by looking critically at current reports and relate them to how you do things...
IMPORTANTSTATS
DIRECTMAIL
15% of nonprofits don’t plan to send print appeals in 2014
1. at your table or in small groups, someone with excellent penmanship volunteer to be scribe, another person volunteer to report
2. take a few minutes to discuss how you personally keep up to date in our field of library communications
3. also discuss which SPECIFIC resources you use to keep up with library communications
4. scribe will take notes and if possible, list URLs of resources
5. reporter for group will give feedback
BRIEFEXERCISE
Feedly.com is a news aggregatoriOS and AndroidCustomizableReplaced Google Reader in March 2013
How many of you use Feedly?
USING FEEDLY
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DR. CURTIS R. ROGERSCOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORSOUTH CAROLINA STATE [email protected]
THIS PRESENTATION IS AVAILABLE AT SLIDESHARE.NET/CRR29061
THANKYOU!