Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Another day out today - no wonder I'm not getting anything done! - as the law librarian roped me into doing a presentation to a meeting of college librarians. We kind of did a 'dark side of the web / light side of the web' double act where I enthused about the positive aspects of Web 2.0 things and how we were using them in the Library and she warned about some of the downsides and negatives (e.g. privacy or the undeleteable nature of some content people blithely publish about themselves).

I even got in some stuff on creativity and how to encourage it in the Library and reference my former colleague S and some of the papers / work we've done together.

Seemed to go down well - although as ever I really should learn to self-edit better. I was fine - but could have been excellent perhaps if I contained some of my sidetracks and enthusiasm. On the other hand it's kind of why I'd been invited to present so it's a fine balance.

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