On the call were Andrea Snyder, Kate Kosturski, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Paul Signorelli and Maurice Coleman. The topic for today was “The Size of the Room.” How do we extend and expand a conference conversation easily, quickly and at a low cost (or free).
- Using social media, one easy why is to create a unique hashtag and use that hashtag for a Twitter chat after the event is over.
- Do post-conference recap sessions for librarians in your area (geographic or topic). This could be done face-to-face or online (virtual).
- Do pecha kuchas for staff. One group creates a slidedeck with slides from different sessions that people want to to discuss.
- Rather than being at a distance and saying that you’re not there, consider asking how people at the event want you to interact with them in the moment.
Paul reminded us that it is a room with an open door, which means you can enter or not, and enter when you want to.
Paul’s takeaway from the Association for Talent Development (ATD) Annual Conference is to end conversations with action plans, so that things occur. This moves people to be doers. This is actually something Paul has had us do on T is for Training.
Paul mentioned the closing keynote by Jeremy Gutsche. A version of his talk is in Youtube:
Andrea’s takeaway from the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference, included these topics:
- Cultural awareness and inclusivity as topics of sessions
- Empathy
- Libraries as creation spaces, which is not just technology
- The fact that everyone has biases
PLA organized a handout and post-conference conversations through Facebook so help people extend the learning.
Andrea mentioned this talk from Verna Myers, who was the “Big Ideas” keynote speaker:
Recaps of the conference are at http://rcplpla2016.blogspot.com/.
BTW we invested a new term, which is “pottycast.” You’ll have to listen to the show to understand why or how.
You can listen to the show here.
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