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Category Archives: Presentations

Join the Social

Recently I had a chance to speak at one of our member institutions about collaborating with social tools. Slides from the talk are now available. Many of the staff spent their lunch break learning how social tools can be used to collaborate with others.
I could tell that many in the room were seeing [...]

Optimizing SQL Presentation by Jay Pipes

Last week I got to see Jay Pipes speak at a local PHP users group meeting. He did a 2-part talk on optimizing SQL (Join-Fu, as he calls it). I managed to keep up and follow part 1, but I have to admit that part 2 was largely over my head. Below [...]

CO-ASIS&T Presentation

Last night I had an opportunity to speak at a CO-ASIS&T event at Columbus Metropolitan Library. I spent the hour sharing some tips and tricks for getting better results from Google.
You can find the slides on Google Docs. Thanks to everyone for the great questions and discussion! I hope to make it [...]

Got Gadgets?

Last week Ohio Library Council’s IT Division held its annual bootcamp. I spent the afternoon talking about gadgets in libraries. Slides from my talk are now available.

CiL 2008: Open Source Applications

Today I’m presenting in the Open Source track at Computers in Libraries 2008. The slides are available to view or print on Google Docs. I discuss the ways that libraries are giving back to the open source community.
Update: The slides can also be found on SlideShare.