Trends in Social Media and Usability That Work to Your Advantage
Date: Saturday, October 10th, 6-9 PM
Location: Elephant's Deli Garden Room, 115 NW 22nd, Portland, OR 97210
Presented by: ORSLA, with generous underwriting by Reprints Desk and IEEE
Cost: $30 students, $35 members, $40 non-members
7 reasons why you should attend:
Aaron Schmidt. As the Digital Initiatives Librarian for the District of Columbia Public Library, Aaron's insights will provide you with tools you can begin applying immediately.
Web 2.0: Can you really learn too much about it? Aaron's interactive talk will introduce trends in social media and usability that work to your advantage.
Career agility and collaboration. Not only will you learn from Aaron's insights, you'll also have the opportunity to share best practices with other attendees. Come collaborate and engage with your community of practitioners.
Students are always welcome. There are many career paths outside of public and academic libraries. Come learn about exciting opportunities in special librarianship. Financial support for students is available -- contact Cindy Romaine.
Meet leaders. Get introduced to the people who are working to make ORSLA an organization benefiting all information professionals. We'll be introducing the 2010 ORSLA board members. Use this opportunity to let them know your thoughts and concerns.
Networking. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet new people and catch up with colleagues. Remember to bring those business cards!
Meet SLA's newest President-Elect! Cindy Romaine, current ORSLA President, has just been elected SLA President-Elect for 2010. She will be in attendance at our banquet, and is excited to meet and talk to her constituents.
To RSVP, follow this link and answer a few questions about your Web 2.0 use (responses will be kept anonymous).
More about Aaron Schmidt:
Aaron Schmidt is the Digital Initiatives Librarian for the District of Columbia Public Library. He helps plan forward thinking, fun projects for the library, helping them connect to the community and teach them about the Read/Write Web. He also assists with website visioning, conducts usability testing, leads the library's Library 2.0 Interest Group and helps coordinate and generate ideas for the library's digital research and development project called DC Library Labs.
Aaron has published articles on social media and libraries in publications such as Library Journal and Online and has presented on the topic of library technology and usability throughout the United States, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands and Spain. In 2005 he was named a Library Journal "Mover & Shaker." You can find him online at his library technology and usability weblog Walking Paper.
