{"id":487,"date":"2006-10-23T18:18:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/10\/23\/internet-librarian-day-1-getting-started\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T18:31:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T23:31:32","slug":"internet-librarian-day-1-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/23\/internet-librarian-day-1-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Librarian Day 1: Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am in beautiful Monterey now, having left the Wine Country this weekend to head to Internet Librarian. The vacation was everything I needed it to be and I\u2019m here at the conference, refreshed and excited to learn new things. Sadly, wifi is a bit hard to come by around here, so I’m blogging on this decidedly 1.0 off-line application called Word. Hey, whatever works. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I did a preconference yesterday on wikis (you can find coverage of it on Rick\u2019s blog<\/a>). I was a little disappointed in my own performance, but I guess you are always your own worst critic since the surveys I collected were very positive. I feel like I\u2019m still learning to be a good speaker \u2013 I\u2019m a work in progress. I definitely have the information that would be useful to people. I can impart the information fairly clearly, but I definitely talk too fast, I forget to explain terms like RSS, PHP and MySQL, and I probably used the word \u201ccool\u201d about a hundred times during my talk. It gets easier and better every time though. Really. Everyone learns something new every time they give a talk that they can incorporate into future talks. If you aren\u2019t learning something when you speak, then you probably aren\u2019t paying enough attention. If I based my view of my ability to speak on the first talks I ever gave (presentations at job interviews), I would have quit straight away. I know there are a lot of people who are as terrified of public speaking as I was a year ago, so do consider that you could be doing a preconference at Internet Librarian next year with a little practice and a lot of chutzpah. <\/p>\n

I think Information Today will be publishing my slides later on, but if you\u2019d like to get to them directly, you can access my slides from Wikis: Basics, Tools and Strategies here (PPT)<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m giving three more talks at Internet Librarian: a CyberTour called Wikis for Beginners<\/em> on Tuesday; a talk with Paul Pival, called The RSS and JavaScript Cookbook<\/em> on Tuesday; and am going to be part of an amazing panel on Wikis in Libraries<\/em> on Wednesday. So today I get to be just an attendee. The program at Internet Librarian this year is so exciting! So many really interesting sessions, and I plan to blog some of the more fascinating ones (especially the ones where I don\u2019t see Sarah Houghton-Jan, since I couldn\u2019t hold a candle to her blog coverage).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m now listening to J. A. Jance talk about her very interesting and rather traumatic early life in her keynote. Jance is a writer of mystery books. It\u2019s so interesting listening to writers talk about how they write and where they get inspiration from (and hers came from interesting places \u2013 local news, her alumni newsletter, offensive e-mails, etc.). I couldn\u2019t write fiction to save my life; it\u2019s so hard for me to create a realistic and well-rounded character. So I am in awe of people who can keep doing it for more than 30 books. I\u2019ve always loved writing, but I never really found the right genre for me until I started blogging. Blogging for me opened a floodgate of inspiration that is amazingly still flowing almost two years later. I\u2019m very gratified that I have had the opportunity to write on topics that I\u2019m passionate about and that you all choose to read it. I hope you find some of it useful at times.<\/p>\n

OK, enough jibber jabber (as the great Mr. T would say). On to the sessions! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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