Posts Tagged ‘Paul Signorelli’

ALA Preconference Making it Stick: Designing, Delivering & Surviving Presentations

On Friday we had a fabulous audience for the CLENE Round Table’s preconference session Making it Stick: Designing, Delivering & Surviving Presentations. Presenting with me was Paul Signorelli who I have had the privilege of working with on many projects including a book on leadership in libraries for trainers that should be out just in [...]

Sleep by PowerPoint?

Here is a different take on “Death by PowerPoint.” I’m not sure of the source of this cartoon as someone left it in my mailbox a few years ago, but it serves as a reminder that PowerPoint does not equal presentation.
Do you have tips for using PowerPoint as a tool in presentations? If so please [...]

Get Virtual! Designing Learning for Second Life

My friend and associate Paul Signorelli’s ASTD Chapter is hosting an exciting event later this month on designing learning for Second Life in Second Life. Details follow.

Get Virtual! Designing Learning for Second Life
Tuesday, Apr. 21, 2009 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Virtual worlds are proving to be engaging, rewarding and fun [...]

ALA Midwinter Wrap Up

ALA Midwinter 2009 has been over for just over a month now and as I’ve found with other conferences and travel, I get so far behind while I’m away, it gets hard to catch back up.
This was my second ALA event and first time at Midwinter. While ALA Annual is about the programs, ALA Midwinter [...]

Training’s Place at the Library Table

Be sure to read your copy of American Libraries this month! Paul Signorelli and I wrote a piece titled “Are You Following Me?” about learning and leadership in libraries. Anyone involved in training should read this–more importantly slip a copy under your manager’s door!
If you are not an ALA member you can access full [...]

ASTD Board Member

Last month I was elected to be on the board for the Charlotte Chapter of ASTD. I’ve been a member of ASTD on and off for about nine years and am excited about serving on the board for such a great chapter.
Tomorrow I am headed to Arlington, Virginia for the ASTD Chapter Leaders Conference. The [...]

Library Day in the Life: Thursday and into Friday

8:30am

Wake up. Get dressed. The usual. Plan to go in a little later today because it’s going to be a long day. If only I’d known what was to come.

9:00am

Leave for work.
Remember that I need to research taking the bus because gas is not going to get cheaper.

9:20am

Arrive at work.
Last night I had a chance [...]

ALA Part I: Thursday and Friday

It’s been nearly a week since I returned from ALA, and I am still exhausted. As I mentioned before this was my first library conference and I could not have picked a better conference or location.

I arrived in Anaheim Thursday afternoon, registered and received my orange tote, unpacked, ironed, and sorted out the 60lb [...]

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