Archive for the 'Training' Category

How time flies and Project Management Skills

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

Those two things *are* actually related – keeping track of schedules while managing a project is pretty important. While I have managed to keep track of my schedule in planning the project of my upcoming Project Management class, I have still been surprised by the passage of time. The class starts tomorrow!! I’m finalizing content [...]

Connections — Keynote – securing the human

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

The Connections conference started with a keynote from SANS about securing the human part of your network. Lance started talking about his background in Info Security, honeypots and work with Sun Microsystems (starting originally with work in tanks in the military). “the simplest way to steal your password is to ask for it – the [...]

Self-motivation and staff training

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Last week, David Lee King posted a note on his blog about your boss being you and it got me thinking about staff training and the “will to learn” by library staff. I like to think of myself as fairly self-motivated. I learned HTML, XHTML, CSS and PHP without taking any classes – just reading [...]

ALA Techsource Webinar

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

I, along with the ever-cool David Lee King, will be presenting a 2-part webinar for ALA Techsource on the 1st and 8th of December (both at 2:30 EST aka 1:30 CST (I just put that last Central time reminder in there for me, honestly…)). We’ll be talking about: Collaboration with libraries and patrons using YouTube, [...]

Making the leap to online – session 1

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Regan Harper is presenting on converting face-to-face training into a web-based environment. The idea is to take face2face training that we give for LITA and adapt it for online environments. 2 tips fof online – 1)give less of it & 2) organize into small units planning – is the topic good for online? synchronous or [...]

The Intersection Of Libraries, Computers and Web Trivialities.