By learning some simple skills and techniques, networking with colleagues in person or online doesn’t have to be scary or intimidating. Join Dr. Curtis Rogers, SCSL Communications Director, for an informative session on networking skills for library staff members. In this session, attendees will learn how to network in various situations and a blend of skills for different personality types. Online resources will be provided and there will be opportunities for Q&A and discussion.
Presenter:
Dr. Curtis Rogers is the Director of Communications for the South Carolina State Library and Coordinates the South Carolina Center for the Book and has been working in the library and information science field for 32 years. He has worked at the Union Carnegie Library, the Charleston County Public Library and has taught courses at the USC School of Library and Information Science. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Geography, Master of Library and Information Science, and Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Carolina. In 2001, he completed the University of the Azores Summer Study Course in Azorean Portuguese Culture and Language and in 2002 completed the Certified Public Manager credential. In 2008, he was President of the SC Library Association.
Location:
This webinar will take place virtually using Zoom. Instructions for joining will be emailed to those who are registered prior to the meeting.
Proactive Approaches for Building a Professional NetworkDonna Kridelbaugh
Slides from a webinar that I presented for the Association for Women in Science in November 2012. The objectives of the webinar were to 1) provide an overview of various environments to meet other people; 2) outline several proactive techniques on how to target and approach contacts of interest; and 3) offer suggestions on how to ensure the setup of a networking event will be successful.
Presented at PLAIN 2013 in Vancouver, BC
Plain language is an efficient, effective, and human approach to practical communication. Consider your reader's knowledge, reading ability, interest, motivation, and the circumstances under which they will encounter your document. Rethink, reorganize, reword, and redesign your document to meet your reader's needs. Search for that perfect match between your audience, your purpose, and your message to create clear communication.
Collaborative Information Architecture (ias17)Abby Covert
You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most IA professionals.
In this workshop, Abby will share her techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
Abby will share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And she’ll share techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
I want to focus on the soft skills that make someone good at IA. So the lessons here are really about leveling up in skill set. Including:
- Conflict Resolution in IA
- Selling IA to others in your organization
- Improving stakeholder interviews
- Facilitating Low Fidelity Conversation about language
- Visualizing language with simple pictures to get clarity
You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most user experience professionals. In this deck, I share my techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
I also share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
Proactive Approaches for Building a Professional NetworkDonna Kridelbaugh
Slides from a webinar that I presented for the Association for Women in Science in November 2012. The objectives of the webinar were to 1) provide an overview of various environments to meet other people; 2) outline several proactive techniques on how to target and approach contacts of interest; and 3) offer suggestions on how to ensure the setup of a networking event will be successful.
Presented at PLAIN 2013 in Vancouver, BC
Plain language is an efficient, effective, and human approach to practical communication. Consider your reader's knowledge, reading ability, interest, motivation, and the circumstances under which they will encounter your document. Rethink, reorganize, reword, and redesign your document to meet your reader's needs. Search for that perfect match between your audience, your purpose, and your message to create clear communication.
Collaborative Information Architecture (ias17)Abby Covert
You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most IA professionals.
In this workshop, Abby will share her techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
Abby will share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And she’ll share techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
I want to focus on the soft skills that make someone good at IA. So the lessons here are really about leveling up in skill set. Including:
- Conflict Resolution in IA
- Selling IA to others in your organization
- Improving stakeholder interviews
- Facilitating Low Fidelity Conversation about language
- Visualizing language with simple pictures to get clarity
You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most user experience professionals. In this deck, I share my techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
I also share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
With our rapidly increasing and instantaneous access to information, it can be difficult to help people slice through the “data smog” and become fluent with information while critically assessing its value and purpose. This webinar introduces a variety of technical resources and research tools, and provides tips to help make learning more meaningful, engaging, and relevant, with the ultimate goal of providing learners with opportunities to create something new and exciting. The end goal is to help learners enrich their lives by constructing a personal learning environment, online or face-to-face, that is conducive to information discovery, sharing, and lifelong learning.
This presentation has been used to guide workshops on research and academic writing conventions for upperclassman and first-year graduate students. However, it could be adapted for a first and second year student audience. The content is rich, emphasizing reflection, research/inquiry, as well as grammar. This material also demonstrates how to use new media as part of an overall research strategy. The presentation is designed to be presented interactively with writers across the disciplines, multilingual writers, and any writer unfamiliar with the academic writing process. The content is not linear, as many slides could be clipped and customized for integration into a first-year writing course, or even a session or workshop for graduate student writers of any classification.
Met het project tWEEThetMee experimenteerde KBC met het principe van 'Working out loud' - met resultaat! Je ziet het in deze presentatie, die collega Geert Nijs opstelde met Isabel Declercq van Wolters Kluwer.
Tips & Best Practices for Aspiring Policy ScholarsAdam Thierer
A short presentation by Adam D. Thierer offering tips and best practices to aspiring policy scholars looking to develop their personal brand and be more effective in public policy discussions.
Slides from Kelly Osborn at the U.S. government's National Archives, from an event January 16, 2014, Driving Employee Engagement Through A Social Intranet.
Marie O'Neill Tips for Getting Ahead in Interviews in the Information and Lib...LAICDG
Presentation by Marie O’Neill, Head Librarian Dublin Business School at Library Association of Ireland Career Development Group CV & Interview Workshop "On the Road to Success" on 14th April 2018 in Trinity College Dublin.
Could your library’s signage do with a makeover? This interactive session will look critically at many types of library signs and review positive and negative aspects of library signage. We will also address how to conduct an internal signage audit, the importance of library branding, and have an open discussion about COVID-19 signage.
With our rapidly increasing and instantaneous access to information, it can be difficult to help people slice through the “data smog” and become fluent with information while critically assessing its value and purpose. This webinar introduces a variety of technical resources and research tools, and provides tips to help make learning more meaningful, engaging, and relevant, with the ultimate goal of providing learners with opportunities to create something new and exciting. The end goal is to help learners enrich their lives by constructing a personal learning environment, online or face-to-face, that is conducive to information discovery, sharing, and lifelong learning.
This presentation has been used to guide workshops on research and academic writing conventions for upperclassman and first-year graduate students. However, it could be adapted for a first and second year student audience. The content is rich, emphasizing reflection, research/inquiry, as well as grammar. This material also demonstrates how to use new media as part of an overall research strategy. The presentation is designed to be presented interactively with writers across the disciplines, multilingual writers, and any writer unfamiliar with the academic writing process. The content is not linear, as many slides could be clipped and customized for integration into a first-year writing course, or even a session or workshop for graduate student writers of any classification.
Met het project tWEEThetMee experimenteerde KBC met het principe van 'Working out loud' - met resultaat! Je ziet het in deze presentatie, die collega Geert Nijs opstelde met Isabel Declercq van Wolters Kluwer.
Tips & Best Practices for Aspiring Policy ScholarsAdam Thierer
A short presentation by Adam D. Thierer offering tips and best practices to aspiring policy scholars looking to develop their personal brand and be more effective in public policy discussions.
Slides from Kelly Osborn at the U.S. government's National Archives, from an event January 16, 2014, Driving Employee Engagement Through A Social Intranet.
Marie O'Neill Tips for Getting Ahead in Interviews in the Information and Lib...LAICDG
Presentation by Marie O’Neill, Head Librarian Dublin Business School at Library Association of Ireland Career Development Group CV & Interview Workshop "On the Road to Success" on 14th April 2018 in Trinity College Dublin.
Could your library’s signage do with a makeover? This interactive session will look critically at many types of library signs and review positive and negative aspects of library signage. We will also address how to conduct an internal signage audit, the importance of library branding, and have an open discussion about COVID-19 signage.
If your library is interested in starting a podcast and you want to know the ins and outs from start to finish, this session is for you! Podcasting is "the practice of using the Internet to make digital recordings of broadcasts available for downloading to a computer or mobile device," and for a lot of libraries that have blogged in the past, it's the next logical step in promoting your programs, collection, services, and events.
Could your library’s signage do with a makeover? The session will look critically at many types of library signs and review the positive and negative aspects of library signage. We will also address how to conduct a signage audit and the importance of library branding. Dr. Curtis Rogers is the Communications Director for the South Carolina State Library and has been working in the library and information science field for 31 years. He has worked at the Union (SC) Carnegie Library, the Charleston County Public Library and has taught courses at the USC School of Library and Information Science. He has conducted seventy-six signage audits to date in South Carolina.
Could your library’s signage do with a makeover? The webinar will look critically at many types of library signs and review positive and negative aspects of library signage. We will also address how to conduct a signage audit and the importance of library branding. Attendees will learn practical approaches and inexpensive and free ways to improve the library’s image and to develop library brand recognition. Also addressed will be issues of customer service and how not to use signage to solve library problems.
Conferece session for the 2018 SCLA/SELA Joint Conference - Greenville, SC. Attendees will learn about the podcasting process from what equipment can be used, selecting topics, editing recordings, and using a podcasting service such as Podbean.
Presentation for the Kershaw County Library Sytem staff education day. Library public relations, digital photography, and image editing basics are discussed.
Presentation for PDI #2 Career Development Practitioners: Creating a Tool Box for Excellence - NCDA Career Practitioner Institute
"Practical Techniques and Strategies for
Career Development Practitioners"
February 8-9, 2018
The Francis Marion Hotel
Charleston, South Carolina
Attendees will learn the basics about using a digital camera, settings, image framing and composition, as well as how to use free online image editing tools. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own digital cameras. There will be time for Q&A.
Could your library’s public spaces do with a makeover? The workshop will include step-by-step instructions for conducting an image audit as well as suggestions on how to address things found confusing in the library’s public area signage. The emphasis will be on practical approaches and inexpensive if not free ways to improve your library’s image and to develop a type of brand recognition for an individual library. Also addressed will be issues of customer service and positive messages as key factors in the minds of others when they envision the library.
Welcome to the Program Your Destiny course. In this course, we will be learning the technology of personal transformation, neuroassociative conditioning (NAC) as pioneered by Tony Robbins. NAC is used to deprogram negative neuroassociations that are causing approach avoidance and instead reprogram yourself with positive neuroassociations that lead to being approach automatic. In doing so, you change your destiny, moving towards unlocking the hypersocial self within, the true self free from fear and operating from a place of personal power and love.
2. Overview
• Welcome and Introduction
• TIP: Rename yourself to include your library
name.
• Please use chat window to introduce
yourselves: library & job title
• This will be an interactive session!
• Define Networking
• Exercise (5 minutes)
• Review Resources
• Personality Types
• Internal Social Media
• Internal Project Planning
• Networking during COVID-19
• Wrap up/Q&A (but feel free to ask
questions throughout in chat)
3. Networking Defined
“Networking is about forging long-
term, reciprocal relationships that
can help you and your colleagues do
your jobs better.”
From Networking with Ease at
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2017/10/
academic-networking
Jennifer M. Bonds-Raacke, PhD
4. Quotes from article
• “If you really want to do your
job well, you have to know
and work well with others in
the field.”
• “You cannot just isolate
yourself and not interact with
people; you need to interact.”
5. Exercise (5 minutes)
1. Think about how you
could network online.
What are two methods
you can come up with to
do this?
2. When meeting someone
in person and they ask
what you do, what is a
unique way you can tell
them?
6. 7 networking tips for the reluctant
librarian
1. Be interested in their library
goals, passions and experiences.
2. Find your niche within the
librarian tribe.
3. Ask for library career help.
4. Offer to give help by sharing your
LIS expertise and career
experiences.
5. Be open to everyday
opportunities to connect.
6. Develop a connection mindset.
7. It’s okay to skip that networking
event
https://www.libgig.com/7-networking-tips-reluctant-librarian/
7. Homework
Assignment
• Visit 16personalities.com
and take the test to
determine your personality
type (10-15 minutes)
• Read through your results
and relate them to how
you think you interact with
others on a daily basis
NERIS Analytics Limited
https://www.16personalities.com/articles/our-theory
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13. WHO IS A COMMANDER
(ENTJ)?
A Commander (ENTJ) is
someone with
the Extraverted, Intuitive,
Thinking,
and Judging personality
traits.
They are decisive people
who love momentum and
accomplishment. They
gather information to
construct their creative
visions but rarely hesitate
for long before acting on
them.
16. Internal Project Planning
• Trello is a
collaboration tool that
organizes your
projects into boards.
In one
glance, Trello tells
you what's being
worked on, who's
working on what, and
where something is in
a process.
19. 5 WAYS TO KEEP NETWORKING
DURING COVID-19
1. You’ve got a built-in
icebreaker
2. Everybody’s now a zoom
master
3. Organizations are adapting to
the new realities
4. Social media is tailor-made
for this challenge
5. Learning-centered
networking opportunities
abound
By : Matt Youngquist
June 30, 2020
https://www.pce.uw.edu/news-features/articles/5-
ways-to-keep-networking-during-covid-19
20. THANK YOU!
Feel free to contact me at
crogers@statelibrary.sc.gov
(803) 465-2153 (work cell/text)
Editor's Notes
What do you think is meant by reciprocal relationships when it comes to networking with library staff members not only at your library but across the state and anywhere for that matter?
How does working well with others in the field related to being able to do your job well?
What are some interacting methods for library staff members ???
Possible responses
1. Introduce yourself in the chat or message box without being asked to
Rename yourself to include your library’s name
When asking a question, state your name and where you work and job title
2. Hand them a business card and ask if they have a library card
Say that you’re in Knowledge Management then explain
One of the keys to successful networking is understanding others and how to best communicate with them.
What does this say about how I handle networking with colleagues?