thoughts and rants

well that was awesome and terrifying.

my first presentation at Internet Librarian. i think it went pretty well. i know i spoke way too fast but i was worried that we wouldn’t have enough time.

click here to go to my list of presentations and check out our slides.

many thanks to erik and jaap of the shanachies who were on the same panel, and the wonderful mary auckland for organizing the whole enchilada.

yesterday was day one at internet librarian. actually it was day -2 since it was all preconference stuff. i attended “practical project management” which got my juices flowing about how i can apply the tricks i learned to all the projects that i’m currently involved with at mpow. it was great, and the facilitators (sadie honey, kathleen cameron, and leslie wolf) were very well prepared and interesting speakers. it was awesome. yay!

after the precon i met up with my roommate krista and steven cohen for drinks at the crown and anchor. this quickly turned into all kinds o’crazy as people started filtering in. it was awesome to finally “meat” (as in meet in the flesh) the folks that i chat with in social networks like: merry, jez, colleen, robin, bobbi, laura, steve, and undoubtedly some peeps i’ve forgotten. it was great to also see a bunch of folks that i met very briefly at computers in libraries.

i must admit i feel a bit less like a groupie at this conference than i did at CiL. maybe it’s because i’m a librarian now - for realz - but really i think it’s because this group of folks is so welcoming and supportive, they make me feel like one of the cool kids. i am one lucky chiquita.