Recap SLA 2011 Philadelphia

Today’s Agenda

• Meet the SLA President-Elect Candidates

• Recap SLA Conference– RMSLA Chapter– Rio Grande Chapter– Virtual Component

• Next Year

SLA President-Elect Candidates

• David Cappoli

• University of California-Los AngelesLos Angeles, California USA

• Deb Hunt

• Information EdgeSan Leandro, California USA

Highlights from SLA 2011

Julie CavenderPresident, Rocky Mountain Chapter

jjcavender@gmail.com

Loyalty

• Results of Loyalty Survey– 1,667 response (~10%)– 58 responses from Rocky

Mountain chapter• Closing Sessionhttp://www.jameskane.com/storage/sla/slahandout.pdf

6%

43%

45%

6%

Loyalty Pilot Program

• Rocky Mountain!!• Washington DC/

Maryland• Florida/Caribbean• Minnesota• Southern California• Australia & New

Zealand

Some Sessions from RMSLA Members

• Mary Ellen Bates– Creating Client Luv, Elevator Speeches + more: http

://batesinfo.com/extras/• Scott Brown – 60 Apps in 60 Minutes: http://slidesha.re/mKmGo5 – Using social media in the workplace: http://

slidesha.re/iGJYYi• Lee Ann Benkert– Success Stories of Solos

More Sessions!

• Folksonomies for Knowledge Sharing• 60 Sites in 60 Minutes

http://slidesha.re/iLyWH2• "Opening" the Special Library: Open Source, Open

Data & More http://slidesha.re/lSSrrM• Using the Internet to Research Private Companies

http://slidesha.re/jb6WbR

http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/sla2011

Quotables

• "Average is officially over" ~ Thomas Friedman• “Google answers the who, what, where but sucks

at answering why & how questions.” ~ Stephen Abram

• “Finding better beliefs is fun & will remove my pain” ~ Hyrum Smith

• “Does anyone else think it's sick that university presses are suing universities for teaching with their work?” ~Dorothea Salo

Something Different - Tech Zones & Unconferences

Highlights from SLA 2011Nora K. Stoecker,

President, Rio Grande Chaptern.stoecker@nksinfoservices.com

Tech Zone Sessions

“Create & Deploy How-To Modules”

• 90 minutes; hands-on; two modules

• #1 - Screen-casting with Adobe Captivate

• #2 – Audio presentations with Powerpoint and “Brainshark”

Useful for creating tutorials

Lovely addition to communications initiatives

Me about to record audio for a screencast

Hands-on format & small-group setting made the extra $40

well worth it!

Why? Reach new clients; deploy info in new, accessible ways.

Why? Additional, complementary, new ways to search.Tech Zone Sessions

• Listorious: for finding experts

• Sulia: filtering Twitter stream by topic – for finding info sources & experts; monitoring

• Quora: crowd-sourced Q&A site – for finding experts

• LinkedIn: for finding info sources & experts; monitoring

• Zanran: “not really social media” – search engine for data/statistics; examines images for data

Bing (bing.com/social): integrates with Tw. & FB – for finding info sources

Twitter Search: for finding info sources & experts; monitoring

Twitt(url)Y: ranks tweeted URLs– for finding info sources & monitoring

Twiangulate: see who influential people follow – for finding “micro-influentials”

Twitter Sentiment: need Google acct. – for analysis/monitoring

“Top 10 Free Social Media Tools”

Unconferencing

“Unconference”

• Free-form”, somewhat facilitated, participant-driven, participant-led, around a topic

• Extended “hallway con-versation” – exchange of ideas

• Could be daylong or unconference session within a conference or staff development session; etc.

Comfortably casual unconference session!Future Ready Session

8+ topics; 3 groups; groups each selected

My group – “How are you changing the face of librarianship?”

All – lively discussion; report-outs; post-session buzz

Why? Tap technical knowledge & related experiences of participants; revitalize professional development.

Virtual Conference Component

• Day 1http://bit.ly/mUA5rJ

• Day 2http://bit.ly/jR0u4u

• Day 3http://bit.ly/iqkjLi

SLA 2012 Annual ConferenceChicago, IL

July 15 - 18