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If you have ever thought that your library should start a Learning 2.0 program, but don’t know where to begin here’s your chance!

On Tuesday, March 3rd you’ll have 2 hours to listen to representatives from 23 Things on a Stick and Baker’s Dozen, Michael Sauers, and me share best practices and lessons learned about our respective programs and then ask questions about implementing your own 23 Things style program!

If you are involved with library training, if you are thinking about implementing a 23 things style program, or if you have already implemented a 23 things style program and want to share what you’ve learned, we’d love for you to join this discussion!

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WebJunction, MaintainIT, the State Library of Kansas, and the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library have collaborated to create this unique event.

I read Indexed every day, I think Jessica is brilliant, she can say so much with a graph on an index card.  I share a lot of them through google reader if you follow that me on FriendFeed.  This one I had to share on the blog too.

If you’ve been presenting for a while you know that Twitter has changed the audience.

• Presenting pre-Twitter – you saw a sea of faces looking at you
• Presenting during the age of Twiter – you see a sea of heads looking at laptops or smart phones

It can be disconcerting if you’re not used to it.  Pistachio has a great article on How to Present While People are Twittering covering topics such as

Benefits of the back channel to the audience- As a presenter, the idea of presenting while people are talking about you is disconcerting. But to balance that, there are huge benefits to the individual members of the audience and to the overall output of a conference or meeting

What about the speaker? Yes, presenting with the back-channel is challenging. Prepare yourself for what it will be like. We’re used to having eye contact with our audience and using that eye contact and audience reaction to measure how well we’re engaging the audience. Now when you say something brilliant, instead of nods of appreciation, there will be a flurry of tapping.

Managing the back channel – We used to suffer in silence through bad presentations. Today, the audience is now connected. They get to know that others are suffering too – and that changes the way they react.

Nina Smith created this awesome graphic to go with her post How much time does Web 2.0 take?  One of the most common questions or protests new comers to web 2.0 have is about time.  Nina shows how much you can accomplish based on your time commitment.  She’s broken it down nicely in the blog post, too.

In case you missed it Facebook reverted to its previous terms of service.

But that shouldn’t stop you or me from thinking about what happened and what it means. Some recommended reading

• Facebook Battle Ends in Major Victory for Users, But the War Continues
  a good look at what happened
• 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know just what it says, using Facebook? Go learn these
• What Libraries Can Learn from Facebook Peter Bromberg looks at the privacy issue from a libraries and librarian point-of-view. He makes some great points and  I agree with him
• Matters of Policy Steve Lawson compares the  Facebook incident to  OCLC policy changes.

What I saw happen yesterday – a LOT of people blogging, twittering and linking to articles about Facebook’s change to their Terms of Service. ( If you don’t know about it see links at the bottom. I’m not writing about that, 50 bagillion other people already have.)

What I didn’t see happening – a mass exodus of friends from Facebook. I hear some people are removing content, but they aren’t leaving (I’m sure someone will leave a comment pointing out people who have left)

I even asked on Twitter this morning – did you delete your account? As of writing this no one has answered yes.

What this tells me – that people are mad at Facebook, maybe even really really mad, but they aren’t mad enough to leave.  Which means, that whatever they are getting from Facebook, they are willing to accept the new TOS to get it.

Now what that means is a whole different blog post.

• Facebook: A lesson in power-grabbing
• Public Service Reminder 1: facebook
• Facebook: “We have never claimed ownership” of members’ content | The Industry Standard
• What Facebook’s revised terms of use mean for your content | Jacobson Attorneys: the new media law firm
• Wake Up to How You Share on the Web | chrisbrogan.com
• Facebook Clarifies Terms Of Service: “We Do Not Own Your Stuff Forever”
• Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.

As librarians we often say we’re in the information business.  But do you really know what information is?

I know I’m guilty of confusing the medium with the message, maybe not always, but definitely sometimes

blatantly stolen from the MLxperience