think forward: revitalizing your keeping up habits

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 LIBRARY803-734-8928CROGERS@STATELIBRARY.SC.GOV

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