Setting up your presentation can sometimes feel overwhelming, so here’s a checklist to help you spend more time sharing your passion for Mendeley with your colleagues, students or friends.

PlanWhat are your audience’s needs?What you would like them to know by the time they leave? How will you be able to see if you’ve achieved this goal?

What is the best way to present the information?A hands-on workshop? A demo? A live presentation? A webinar?

Where can you host the event?If it’s hands-on, a computer lab or a space where people can bring their laptop might be best.

Consider timing.What are the busy times in your audience’s schedules? How long do you want to take? Remember to allow time for Q&A.

PromoteRegister your event.Visit www.mendeley.com/events and register the details of your event. We’ll advertise your event via our events calendar and help you to track attendees who sign up.

Submit a merchandise request.As part of the event registration process you can request merchandise to distribute at your session. Give us 10 days’ notice to ship your swag!

Share your event link.You’ll also receive a unique ID when you register your event. You can use this link to invite people to your session.

Advertise!Think about how you get information on seminars. This could be a message on a departmental listserv or a Facebook group. Maybe you need a poster in the library or perhaps you can rely on word of mouth.

PresentPractice.Run through your presentation at least once, and make sure to read it out loud. This helps to �nd any stick-ing points and �gure out a way around them.

Be prepared.What are some of the questions you had about Mendeley when you started using it? Try to mentally address those issues �rst.

Take a deep breath.Try not to talk too fast. Taking a deep breath may help you from getting overwhelmed.

You’ll do great!Just be who you are, you’re a Mendeley Advisor after all!

Let us know how your event goes!The Mendeley team loves getting updates from around the world, so please send us email to tell us about your event.We also love seeing pictures - so be sure to take a few snaps during the session. We’ll share these through our Flickr account and feature some of the best on our Events page - community.mendeley.com/events

email: mendeley-community@mendeley.com

Start thinking about your next eventWhat went well with your event? What would you like to do better next time? What did the attendees have to say about it?Learning lessons from your event can help to make your future sessions even better. You’re not on your own, however, so if you get asked a tricky question you can open it up to the Mendeley Advisor Community for help!

Keep in touch with your attendeesWhen people start using Mendeley for the �rst time, they sometimes have a lot of questions about how to best manage their research. We recommend keeping in touch with those who attend your events so that you can help them with any issues they face.You might want to give them your email address - or even set up a Mendeley group so you can keep in contact.

www.mendeley.com/groups/665771/