BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Florida Library Training//NONSGML v1.0//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Florida Library Training X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Florida Library Training X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130712T100000 DTEND:20130712T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130522T152806 LAST-MODIFIED:20130522T152846 UID:6115@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY: FEL Friday – Back to School DESCRIPTION: Join other Florida Electronic Library (FEL) users online for a chance to learn some tips and tricks. Each month we’ll focus on a different topic, database, or service.In July we’ll talk about how you can use the FEL to help you prepare for students going back to school in August. What databases might be appropriate? Do you have ideas for sharing information with local teachers? How can you create resource lists for common assignments? There will be plenty of time to answer your questions.For more information about the Florida Electronic Library, contact Stephanie Race, FEL Program Manager at stephanie.race@dos.myflorida.com or 850.245.6630. Register Event number: 312 910 609 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/22/fel-friday-back-to-school/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130621T100000 DTEND:20130621T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130522T151928 LAST-MODIFIED:20130522T152004 UID:6111@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:FEL Friday – What IS the FEL? DESCRIPTION: Join other Florida Electronic Library users online for a chance to learn some tips and tricks. Each month we’ll focus on a different topic, database, or service. In this first of a monthly series, we’ll talk about the five main components of FEL Program. You’ll learn how your library can take advantage of all aspects of this service to better serve your community. How many of these services does your library make available? There will be plenty of time to answer your questions. For more information about the Florida Electronic Library, contact Stephanie Race, FEL Program Manager at stephanie.race@dos.myflorida.com or 850.245.6630. Register Event number: 319 267 585 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/22/fel-friday-what-is-the-fel/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130709T080000 DTEND:20130709T170000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130521T162701 LAST-MODIFIED:20130521T162720 UID:6107@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:research and policy recommendations on role of libraries in early reading DESCRIPTION:A webinar discussing recent Pew research and an IMLS policy report focused on the role and impact of libraries on the lives of early reading development. The importance of early childhood education was underscored by President Obama in his most recent State of the Union address: "Study after study shows that the sooner a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road." Join us to hear Susan Hildreth, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, present on a recent policy report, developed with the Campaign for Grade-level Reading, that highlights the role of libraries in early learning. The report also offers a plan of action for policy makers to build on current research and include libraries in early learning strategies. Attendees will learn about best practices for enhancing reading programs and how to participate in your community’s efforts to address literacy concerns. In addition, Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, will describe the Project’s newly released report about the special role that libraries play in the life of families with children. Attendees will learn what matters to parents about their library experiences with their children, and how library programs and outreach can address those needs. Presented by: Susan Hildreth, director, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Lee Rainie, director, Pew Research Center Internet & American Life Project. Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Tweet: #wjwebinar @US_IMLS and @pewinternet Register LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/21/research-and-policy-recommendations-on-role-of-libraries-in-early-reading/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130709T140000 DTEND:20130709T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130521T162322 LAST-MODIFIED:20130521T162333 UID:6103@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY: Trends and Issues in E-Government Services DESCRIPTION: Join Pam Thompson and the E-Government Workgroup for their monthly meeting. The group discusses issues, trends, problems and solutions in the delivery of E-Government services and the workforce recovery efforts in Florida's public libraries. Register Event number: 642 387 476 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/21/trends-and-issues-in-e-government-services-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130626T100000 DTEND:20130626T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130521T161949 LAST-MODIFIED:20130521T162125 UID:6099@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY: E-Government in Florida Public Libraries: Overview of GCFLearnFree.org Online Learning Resources DESCRIPTION: GCFLearnFree.org creates and provides quality, innovative online learning opportunities that your patrons can use to improve their technology, literacy, and math skills needed to be successful in both work and life. By delivering over 750 different lessons to millions of people in over 200 countries and territories, GCFLearnFree.org is a worldwide leader in online education. Join Jessica Meadows, Marketing Specialist and Pam Thompson, E-Government Consultant, for a tour of this free programming resource from Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC, Inc. Register Event number: 641 084 120 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/21/e-government-in-florida-public-libraries-overview-of-gcflearnfree-org-online-learning-resources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130807T140000 DTEND:20130807T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130520T112829 LAST-MODIFIED:20130520T112847 UID:6091@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Fair Use Pt. 2: Creative Commons Licenses and Media Labeled for Reuse (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION: The two-part Fair Use of Copyright Materials webinar series is geared toward school media specialists and youth services staff in public libraries. Many digital content creators WANT you to reuse their media, which broadens your classroom opportunities far beyond Fair Use.  These licenses are particularly important for online publication where copyrighted materials cannot be utilized since they may impact the owner’s rights.  This webinar will explore music, images, and other media that your students may use more freely in their own content creation. This 60-minute webinar will be delivered via Adobe Connect. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course. Presented by: Michelle Cates Michelle’s school library programs strive to invigorate research and literature through digital technology, games, acting, and excitement… an engaging dynamic derived from sixteen years’ experience, a master’s degree in Curriculum & Instruction, as well as master’s in Library Science. With Common Core, our library profession is changing; these new standards epitomize the programming we librarians have advocated for years, providing an exciting opportunity for leadership and patron services unparalleled in our careers. National Board Certified, twice-winner of the Florida Power-Library School Award and recipient of the 21st Century Library Media Specialist certification, Michelle presents webinars and workshops for librarians through which we will define our role in Common Core and the future of education. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/20/fair-use-pt-2-creative-commons-licenses-and-media-labeled-for-reuse-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130731T140000 DTEND:20130731T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130520T111952 LAST-MODIFIED:20130520T112924 UID:6086@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Fair Use Pt. 1: Copyright Law and Best Practices for School Media Specialists/Youth Services Staff (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:The two-part Fair Use of Copyright Materials webinar series is geared toward school media specialists and youth services staff in public libraries. In the past few years, educational fair use guidelines have undergone major revisions expanding opportunities for teachers and students to use copyrighted materials. Common Core Standards specify digital media use and publication, implying fair use will be a common topic in all ethical classrooms. This webinar will overview copyright concepts such as public domain and will detail five Best Practices for digital media use. This 60-minute webinar will be delivered via Adobe Connect. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course. Presented by: Michelle Cates Michelle’s school library programs strive to invigorate research and literature through digital technology, games, acting, and excitement… an engaging dynamic derived from sixteen years’ experience, a master’s degree in Curriculum & Instruction, as well as master’s in Library Science. With Common Core, our library profession is changing; these new standards epitomize the programming we librarians have advocated for years, providing an exciting opportunity for leadership and patron services unparalleled in our careers. National Board Certified, twice-winner of the Florida Power-Library School Award and recipient of the 21st Century Library Media Specialist certification, Michelle presents webinars and workshops for librarians through which we will define our role in Common Core and the future of education. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/20/fair-use-pt-1-copyright-law-and-best-practices-for-school-media-specialistsyouth-services-staff-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130604T130000 DTEND:20130604T170000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130520T111344 LAST-MODIFIED:20130520T113036 UID:6080@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Alzheimer’s Care Training for Library Staff - Afternoon (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This workshop will provide tools and information geared towards library staff who work with patrons and communities facing the realities of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. In addition, staff who have friends or family that are affected by this disease will learn what resources are available so that they can best support their loved ones. The presenters will discuss the normal functions of the brain and normal aging vs. dementia. Attendees will learn the common treatable causes vs. non-treatable causes of dementia and receive an overview of the dementia disorders. We will review the diagnostic process and a more specific overview of Alzheimer’s disease. Presented by: Janet Zweiback, RN, Senior Family Nurse Consultant, Alzheimer’s Community Care and Mark Cornett, Chief Operating Officer, Alzheimer’s Community Care Location: Palm Beach County Library System - Multipurpose Room 3650 Summit Blvd West Palm Beach, FL 33406 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register LOCATION:3650 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL, United States, 33406 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/20/alzheimers-care-training-for-library-staff-afternoon-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130604T080000 DTEND:20130604T120000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130520T110926 LAST-MODIFIED:20130520T113059 UID:6076@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Alzheimer’s Care Training for Library Staff - Morning (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This workshop will provide tools and information geared towards library staff who work with patrons and communities facing the realities of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. In addition, staff who have friends or family that are affected by this disease will learn what resources are available so that they can best support their loved ones. The presenters will discuss the normal functions of the brain and normal aging vs. dementia. Attendees will learn the common treatable causes vs. non-treatable causes of dementia and receive an overview of the dementia disorders. We will review the diagnostic process and a more specific overview of Alzheimer’s disease. Presented by: Janet Zweiback, RN, Senior Family Nurse Consultant, Alzheimer’s Community Care and Mark Cornett, Chief Operating Officer, Alzheimer’s Community Care Location: Palm Beach County Library System - Multipurpose Room 3650 Summit Blvd West Palm Beach, FL 33406 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register LOCATION:3650 Summit Blvd, West Palm Bech, FL, United States, 33406 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/20/alzheimers-care-training-for-library-staff-morning-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130717T100000 DTEND:20130717T113000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130515T125622 LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T125704 UID:6070@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Completing the Online State Aid Application DESCRIPTION: The Division of Library and Information Services will be implementing an online application process for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 State Aid to Libraries Grant Applications. Applications must be submitted using the Florida Libraries and Grants System (www.fllibraries.org ). Applications must be submitted online on or before October 1, 2013 and additional documents must be submitted online on or before December 1, 2013. For 2013-2014, the Florida Legislature allocated $22,298,834 for the State Aid to Libraries Grant program. The Division of Library and Information Services is pleased to provide public libraries the opportunity to learn more about this program. Join Marian Deeney, Grants Program Manager for the Division of Library and Information Services, to learn how to successfully complete the State Aid to Libraries Grant application by the October 1, 2013 deadline. Topics will include: • Types of State Aid to Libraries Grants available to public libraries. • Criteria for grant funding calculations. • Tips for completing the State Aid to Libraries Grant application. For more information about these sessions, contact Marian Deeney at marian.deeney@dos.myflorida.com or 850.245.6620. Register Event number: 644 420 169 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/15/completing-the-online-state-aid-application/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130624T140000 DTEND:20130624T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130515T125303 LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T125315 UID:6067@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Chat with Jana – Reading to Animals DESCRIPTION: Chat with Jana is an open monthly chat with library staff who work with youth to ask questions, bring ideas and concerns up so a conversation can begin and initiatives can be developed. June’s chat will focus on children reading to therapy animals. Register Event number: 640 590 380 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/15/chat-with-jana-reading-to-animals/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130611T140000 DTEND:20130611T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130515T124801 LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T124815 UID:6064@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Trends and Issues in E-Government Services DESCRIPTION: Join Pam Thompson and the E-Government Workgroup for their monthly meeting. The group discusses issues, trends, problems and solutions in the delivery of E-Government services and the workforce recovery efforts in Florida's public libraries. Register Event number: 642 387 476 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/15/trends-and-issues-in-e-government-services-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130717T130000 DTEND:20130717T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130514T114422 LAST-MODIFIED:20130514T120011 UID:6053@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Leading Organization Change DESCRIPTION:In a rapidly changing world, every leader needs to understand how to effectively guide organizational change. Change may be necessary for many reasons, such as meeting new customer demands; implementing a strategic plan; upgrading technology systems; or coping with challenges. Leaders often wonder how to promote buy-in and engagement during what is sometimes a difficult process. This webinar for staff and board members will focus on: principles of change; understanding how people react to change; common mistakes and how to avoid them; working with resistance; and maintaining open communication. You will learn practical tips and be introduced to resources for further learning. Presenter Bob Greene, has over 16 years experience serving as a trusted “thinking partner” who helps organizational leaders reframe issues and identify solutions. He works with emerging and established leaders to identify how to lead change; foster a team-oriented culture; address organizational causes of conflict; and develop their self-awareness, cultural competence, and effectiveness. With warmth and humor, Bob asks pertinent and provocative questions that help surface assumptions, clarify values, and identify concrete action steps. Register Here! LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/14/leading-organization-change/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130730T140000 DTEND:20130730T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130514T112445 LAST-MODIFIED:20130514T115027 UID:6048@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Proposal Budgeting Basics DESCRIPTION:This session, geared to the novice grantseeker, will cover such topics as: What is included under the "personnel" section and how to calculate it? What level of detail do you need to include for non-personnel expenses? How do you determine reasonable costs? What types of expenses are considered "overhead"? What other financial documents will funders want to see? Prior attendance at Proposal Writing Basics is strongly recommended. Register Here! LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/14/proposal-budgeting-basics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130625T130000 DTEND:20130625T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130514T112141 LAST-MODIFIED:20130514T115158 UID:6045@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Proposal Writing Basics DESCRIPTION:For those new to proposal writing, this class will cover: How the proposal fits into the overall grantseeking process What to include in a standard proposal to a foundation Tips for making each section of your proposal stronger What funders expect to see in your proposal and attachments Tips for communicating with funders during the grant process Additional resources on proposal writing, including sample proposals. Register Here! LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/14/proposal-writing-basics-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130719T080000 DTEND:20130719T170000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130514T093926 LAST-MODIFIED:20130514T094023 UID:6042@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Summer Meeting DESCRIPTION:Please join your fellow SWFLN members for some food, fun, and a tour of Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO). A short, introductory 12-minute video will begin the afternoon, followed by a farm tour and library visitation. A short business meeting/SWFLN update can be followed by browsing in the bookstore, and enjoy light refreshments with your colleagues and friends. Register now! LOCATION:17391 Durrance Road, Fort Myers, FL, United States, 33917 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/14/summer-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130613 DTEND:20130614 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130513T151921 LAST-MODIFIED:20130513T151921 UID:6040@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Generate Leads With Webinars the Sales Team Will Love DESCRIPTION:Research shows that marketers love the power of webinars for lead generation, but what about when leads alone are not enough? The good news: Webinars are also a powerful platform for a trust-based marketing approach to improve lead quality and nurture the pipeline. Join Roger Courville, author of The Virtual Presenter’s Handbook for a practical learning session that will transform your webinars from “another piece of content” to data-rich marketing opportunities. Attend this interactive webinar to learn how to • Avoid the single biggest mistake marketers make with webinars • Determine what to require in webinar registration forms • Optimize enhance data gathering to improve lead quality • Improve opt-in rates for end-of-webinar questionnaires LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/13/how-to-generate-leads-with-webinars-the-sales-team-will-love/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130607 DTEND:20130608 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130513T151747 LAST-MODIFIED:20130513T151747 UID:6038@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Perfecting RTB - How Advanced Attribution Improves Programmatic Buying DESCRIPTION:Programmatic buying encapsulates a number of growing platforms, including DSPs, performance ad networks, and search bid management. These platforms allow marketers to make quick decisions about media buying, leveraging behavioral targeting, context, multiple inventory sources, multiple creatives or keywords, and automating that buying process to generate the best results. Combining these platforms with modern, multi-touch attribution systems offers even more opportunity to marketers. Good attribution platforms access data across multiple channels for the advertiser and model interaction behavior that drives a consumer to make a decision at multiple points in a sales funnel – showing how search interacts with display for example, or how different sites interact with each other for a given audience. Individually, programmatic buying platforms and multi-touch attribution systems improve marketing results, but combined these advancements set a new standard for performance in advertising technology. Please join Adometry and featured guest Forrester Research, Inc. as we discuss: -The current state of programmatic buying -Industry perspective on the pillars of digital marketing success: programmatic buying, audience segmentation, and multi-channel measurement -How advanced, or multi-channel,attribution improves programmatic buying Joanna serves Interactive Marketing Professionals and covers display marketing, ad targeting, optimization, and measurement. She focuses specifically on marketer and vendor best practices in using display and measurement technologies and tactics, as well as how to optimize results over time. Joanna joined Forrester in July 2010. Joanna has more than 10 years of experience in the interactive marketing industry. She started at Avenue A in New York and was a founding member of Razorfish's ATOM Systems agency trading desk. Most recently, she ran brand relations for the Audience on Demand practice at VivaKi, helping advertising clients target and optimize broad-reaching interactive campaigns. Joanna has been a frequent panelist at industry events including OMMA AdNets and BlueKai, TARGUSInfo, and Nielsen data summits. Joanna graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in psychology. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with departmental and general honors. John co-founded Adometry in 2008 with 20 years of technology and leadership experience. Prior to Adometry, John was an executive for the Walt Disney Internet Group, and where he was responsible for technical direction and implementation of Disney advertising technologies. Before joining Disney, John was the VP of Engineering for educational software startup Stone Tablet Education, responsible for all technical implementation and operations. John has also held leadership positions in other technology companies including Primus Knowledge Solutions, Sierra On-Line, and Click2Learn. John has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Seattle University, a master’s degree from the University of Washington in educational technology, and has pending patents for advertising forecasting and delivery algorithms. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/13/perfecting-rtb-how-advanced-attribution-improves-programmatic-buying/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130523 DTEND:20130524 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130513T151558 LAST-MODIFIED:20130513T151559 UID:6036@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Expanding Social Brand Engagement DESCRIPTION:Do you have the right strategies and processes in place to achieve your social engagement goals? Brands in every industry have started to look beyond establishing a social presence and growing their audience. Now the name of the game is to drive meaningful engagement across an ever-expanding number of social properties. As a company’s social footprint expands, most social teams grapple with increased complexity and the realization that they need more sophisticated planning, process and execution than ever before. Join Jim Rudden, CMO of Spredfast, Ricky Cadden, Social Media Manager, Radio Shack and Michael Bepko, Global Online Community Manager, Whole Foods as they discuss winning strategies and tactics to define and expand quality engagement for your business. Ricky has been the Social Media Manager at RadioShack for over 2 years, after previously working in ad sales at Time Warner Cable and running his own tech blog. He manages RadioShack’s official social presence across various platforms and oversees their internal social training program, which is being launched to RadioShack’s 4,500+ corporate-owned stores in the U.S. later this summer. Better known in social spheres as @Bepkoboy, Michael Bepko is the global online community manger for Whole Foods for over 2 years and is the person who lives behind the logo that resides among a social community of over 3.5 million friends, followers and fans. When @Bepkoboy isn’t busy managing Whole Foods Market’s growing social communities, he enjoys: #Food #Wine #Beer #RollerCoasters #Dogs and #Oversharing and has a tendency to communicate thoughts and ideas in 140 characters or less. Jim Rudden is responsible for all aspects of Spredfast's marketing efforts as well as overall customer success. Prior to Spredfast, Jim was VP of Global Marketing at Lombardi Software (acquired by IBM) where he was responsible for brand and product marketing and all demand generation. He has more than 20 years experience in software marketing and implementation in the areas of enterprise software - including business process management (BPM), business rules management (BRM) and enterprise middleware technologies. He has held positions in Product Management, Marketing, Consulting, and Sales at Lombardi Software (acquired by IBM), BetweenMarkets Software (acquired by Innovis) and Trilogy Software. Jim holds a B.A. in American Studies from Stanford University. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/13/expanding-social-brand-engagement/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130529T140000 DTEND:20130529T144500 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130508T082130 LAST-MODIFIED:20130508T082327 UID:6032@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY: Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute Year 10 Q and A (Quick Overview and Application Information) DESCRIPTION: Are you thinking about applying for the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute (SSLLI)? Do you want to hear more about SSLLI before your encourage staff to apply? This interactive webinar will provide you with information about the upcoming Institute (October 2013 – July 2014) with time for participants to ask questions. Register Event number: 648 816 879 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/08/sunshine-state-library-leadership-institute-year-10-q-and-a-quick-overview-and-application-information/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130612T140000 DTEND:20130612T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130507T152947 LAST-MODIFIED:20130522T160509 UID:6024@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Support Patron Learning in Small Spaces with Small Budgets DESCRIPTION:This webinar will showcase how small and rural libraries can provide effective training to patrons even with limited staff, resources, or space. In small communities, libraries can often be the only provider of free public access to technology and the internet. And as more people turn to their library to learn technology skills, even the tiniest of libraries are faced with the challenge of providing training to patrons with limited staff, resources, and space. Learn from small and rural libraries who are making training a reality for their patrons, using volunteers, leveraging partnerships and integrating learning into everyday interactions. Whether the technology training you do (or want to do) is one-to-one, on-the-fly or a more formal program, this session will include tips and suggestions for improving the effectiveness of the training you provide. This webinar is hosted in collaboration with TechSoup for Libraries and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries. Presented by: Brenda Hough and Stephanie Gerding, consultants, TechSoup for Libraries and Wendy Street, director, Pella Public Library, Iowa. Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Tweet: #wjwebinar @TechSoup4Libs and @RuralLibAssoc Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/07/support-patron-learning-in-small-spaces-with-small-budgets/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130522T130000 DTEND:20130522T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130507T152803 LAST-MODIFIED:20130507T152820 UID:6020@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Broadband Adoption Toolkit DESCRIPTION:A webinar with the creators of the Broadband Adoption Toolkit discussing how to implement strategies for building digitally inclusive communities. Increasing access and use of information technologies is essential for communities and individuals. Libraries, local government, community-based organizations and businesses are creating a variety of solutions. Building a digitally inclusive community requires multiple strategies, collaborations and creativity. Some digital inclusion strategies are referred to as “broadband adoption” which includes technology training, broadband awareness, low cost internet service and low cost home computers. In May, 2013, NTIA released the Broadband Adoption Toolkit (pdf). Join us for a conversation with the creators of the Broadband Adoption Toolkit to discuss what they learned and how the broadband adoption pieces fit together. Presented by: Laura Breeden, Team Leader, BTOP Program at the U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIA John Horrigan, Vice President and Director, Media Technology Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Angela Siefer, Digital Inclusion Program Manager at OCLC To help you get the most out of this webinar, we are also inviting representatives of the projects highlighted in the NTIA Broadband Adoption Toolkit to participate in the chat. Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific Tweet: #wjwebinar LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/07/broadband-adoption-toolkit/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130709T130000 DTEND:20130709T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130503T095349 LAST-MODIFIED:20130503T095712 UID:6016@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Build Websites Like Hollywood Builds Movies DESCRIPTION:In this webcast, we'll look at the lifecycle of various Web development projects through the lens of Hollywood storytelling. Learn how to deliver successful projects that are on time, on budget, and meet customer expectations through a comparison of how the narrative structure of various films compares to different process models for site development. Not only will you come away with a better understanding of how to approach your next Web development project, but you'll also gain a greater appreciation for the life lessons taught by some of your favorite Hollywood films. George DeMet is the founder and CEO of Chicago-based Web development firm Palantir.net, a member of the Drupal Association advisory board, and the co-chair of DrupalCon Chicago 2011. With more than over 17 years of experience in Web design and development, he's overseen the development a full range of custom interactive Web sites, and Internet-enabled software for corporate, educational, cultural, and non-profit clients. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/03/how-to-build-websites-like-hollywood-builds-movies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130605 DTEND:20130606 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130502T130033 LAST-MODIFIED:20130502T130033 UID:6014@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Hungry to Read or Just Plain Hungry?: Helping Patrons Navigate ACCESS DESCRIPTION:One in four eligible Wisconsinites is not claiming their nutrition assistance benefits! How do you respond to patrons who are looking for ways to make ends meet? Do they struggle with computers and signing up for "food stamps"? Learn about the benefits of the Wisconsin FoodShare (food stamp) program and how you can help your patrons quickly and easily use the ACCESS website to apply for this underutilized government benefit. Laura Wichert currently works at Sequoya Library and offers Food Share Assistance outreach at several libraries through Second Harvest of Southern Wisconsin. She recently graduated with her MA in Library & Information Studies from UW Madison. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/02/hungry-to-read-or-just-plain-hungry-helping-patrons-navigate-access/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130612 DTEND:20130613 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130502T125414 LAST-MODIFIED:20130502T125414 UID:6012@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Community Led Library Service Development DESCRIPTION: -Do you want to find a way to provide public library services needed and wanted by diverse community sectors—without adding projects or increasing budget? -Do you believe the library can play and important role in community members’ civic engagement? -How do you determine what staff should be doing in order to offer the best library services for your community? Community-led service development has a long history in British public libraries and a nearly decade-long track record in Canada. Instead of adding projects or tasks to library staff in an effort to promote library services, the community-led approach establishes the library staff as trained listeners and brokers of awareness to provide service development for both marginalized and comfortable community sectors. The community-led approach helps the library to identify which traditional library roles are now redundant, and thus of little worth to the community, allowing both professional library staff and support staff to concentrate on those services that are meaningful to the public. Community-led service development allows both the community and its library staff to grow, become engaged in the civic sphere they share and find the best venues for individuals to pursue their aspirations for their primary needs of health and welfare, as well as life-long learning and the support of personal values. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: -Be able to identify the key aspects of community-led service development that differentiate it from traditional outreach and/or customer service approaches. -Be prepared to identify and research model community-led public library service providers that match your library’s size and staffing levels. -Be able to determine whether community-led library service development can improve your local library’s potential as a civic service agency. -Understand and be able to communicate to public library stakeholders the major issues associated with the community-led service development approach – including training, tax support, and mission realization. This webinar will be of interest to public library directors, managers, trustees and commissioners, as well as library educators. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/02/community-led-library-service-development/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130606 DTEND:20130607 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130502T125259 LAST-MODIFIED:20130502T125259 UID:6010@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Accessible Website: If You Build It, Everyone Can Come DESCRIPTION: -Is your library website open, user friendly and accessible to people with disabilities? or -Does an invisible door close when they try to use your site? Libraries strive to be welcoming, friendly places for users of all types, including those with disabilities. From wheelchair ramps and handicapped parking to simple offerings such as large print books and good signage – these are some of the things that make a library’s physical space accessible. But what about the library’s online presence? This webinar will shed light on some of the common barriers faced by certain users and will provide techniques for identifying and fixing the problems. By the end of the one-hour webinar, participants will: -Be aware of accessibility issues that people with disabilities encounter when accessing online content on websites -Be able to utilize tools for checking websites, Word documents and ---PowerPoint slide presentations for accessibility problems -Be able to name at least three techniques for creating accessible content This webinar will be of interest to all library staff who need an understanding of web content accessibility issues by users with disabilities, including administrators, managers, librarians, IT personnel and web developers. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/02/the-accessible-website-if-you-build-it-everyone-can-come/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130604 DTEND:20130605 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130502T125141 LAST-MODIFIED:20130502T125141 UID:6008@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:LibraryBox: Portable Private Digital Distribution DESCRIPTION:-Looking for an inexpensive way to distribute digital materials to non-library locations and enhance your traditional library services? -Have someone on your staff or a volunteer who likes to tinker with gadgets? LibraryBox is an open source project designed to allow for the distribution of digital materials (books, music, movies, datasets) in the absence of reliable Internet connectivity. The hardware that LibraryBox uses is very inexpensive ($35) and the code is freely available, making it an attractive option for outreach and service to underserved areas for libraries. LibraryBox is a key that can unlock many possibilities for your services. This webinar will discuss how you can build your own LibraryBox, use-cases (systems to accomplish a particular goal), the development of the project from its beginnings, and where it’s headed in the future. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: -Understand the scope of the LibraryBox Project and why it is beneficial to libraries and their customers. -Understand “use cases” and how they apply for LibraryBox for different types of libraries. -Know how to build a basic LibraryBox of their own. This webinar will be of interest to any library or librarian who is interested in digital distribution of materials to non-library locations. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/02/librarybox-portable-private-digital-distribution/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130724 DTEND:20130725 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130502T124937 LAST-MODIFIED:20130502T124937 UID:6006@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity DESCRIPTION:The workplace is an unprecedented minefield of constant demands from other people, technology, and a nonstop workday. We are forced to make critical decisions under pressure, creating a personal energy crisis that prevents us from thinking clearly and achieving extraordinary results. To succeed in this new work world, we need to learn how to make good decisions, focus our attention, integrate our technology and sustain high energy day in and day out. What You Will Learn Attend this webcast and learn about FranklinCovey’s program called “5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity.” The program, supported by science and years of experience, will give you an overview, key concepts and elements of a process that has helped countless individuals yield a measurable increase in their productivity. It will also give you hope, a renewed sense of engagement, show you how implementing these tools and concepts can make or break your ability to achieve the most important outcomes in your work and personal life. -The difference between acting on the important as opposed to reacting to the urgent -Why you should go for extraordinary and not settle for ordinary -Focusing on the big rocks, not the gravel -Why it’s important to rule your technology, not let it rule you -Fueling your fire so that you don’t burn out Kory Kogon is a global productivity practice leader, trust expert, and speaker with FranklinCovey. Before joining FranklinCovey, Kory spent more than 11 years as the Executive VP of Worldwide Operations for AlphaGraphics, Inc. She also led the implementation of ISO 9000, supervised the move of the corporate headquarters from Tucson to Salt Lake City, and managed the installation of the first companywide global learning system. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/02/5-choices-to-extraordinary-productivity-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130814 DTEND:20130815 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130502T124801 LAST-MODIFIED:20130502T124801 UID:6004@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Stiletto Networks: How Women Build Power Circles for Career Success DESCRIPTION:Stiletto Networks are already changing the world. A movement has begun. In numbers never seen before, ambitious women are joining forces in every major American city, forming salons, dinner groups, and networking circles—collaborating to achieve clout and success. Why shouldn't more women back each other? Why shouldn't they be banding together and tipping the scales? Girls’ networks are alive are changing all of the old rules about how power is allocated and business practiced. It doesn't matter if you're a public company CEO, a middle manager, an entrepreneur, or a freelancer. You don't need to be famous or fabulous to create a Stiletto Network, and you need not begin with major connections. You can do this. What You Will Learn In this webcast, Pamela Ryckman explains that while each Stiletto Network is as unique as the women it convenes, these groups do have common characteristics. You’ll hear how these groups mine their collective wisdom to realize their dreams or champion a cause, how they lift up their friends and push them forward, ensuring that each woman gets what she needs—be it information, an introduction, a recommendation, a partnership or a landmark deal. And you’ll discover lessons and tips to help you build your own Stiletto Network. Pamela Ryckman is a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times, Financial Times, and, The New York Sun among other publications and websites. Before becoming a journalist, Ryckman performed strategy work for Merrill Lynch’s Global Markets and Investment Banking Group and for Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Equities Financial and Strategic Management Group. She began her career at Mitchell Madison Group, a management consulting firm. She is author of Stiletto Network, published by AMACOM. For more information, visit http://www.pamelaryckman.com/ LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/02/stiletto-networks-how-women-build-power-circles-for-career-success/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130513 DTEND:20130514 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130501T130948 LAST-MODIFIED:20130501T130948 UID:5999@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Are You Prepared to Meet the Literacy Needs of African American Male Youth? DESCRIPTION:The need for quality literacy education is strong, particularly for certain underserved populations. One group in critical need of improved literacy instruction is African American males. According to the National Association for Educational Progress 2011 Report Card, only 14% of African American 4th and 8th graders performed at or above the proficient level on national reading tests in 2011 and males scored 9 points lower on average than females. This webinar will explore the role of the education community, including librarians, in: 1) closing the literacy achievement gap, 2) nurturing the resolve of African American male youth, helping them reconcile their different identities, and reimagine their place in the world, and 3) enabling African American male youth to take action in their own lives and in their communities. Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Ph.D., is a professor and coordinator of the School Library Media Program in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her current research she focuses on social justice issues in youth library services and the role of school library media specialists in education reform. She teaches courses in services to diverse youth populations, materials for young adults, and the development of school library media programs. Amanda Hitson is a graduate student and research assistant at the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She will graduate with a Master of Library Science degree in May of 2013 and hopes to begin working as a school library media specialist the following school year. Her research has primarily focused on the literacy of African American male youth and multimodal forms of storytelling. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/01/are-you-prepared-to-meet-the-literacy-needs-of-african-american-male-youth/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130509 DTEND:20130510 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130501T130636 LAST-MODIFIED:20130501T130636 UID:5997@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Great Fundraising DESCRIPTION:Would you like your fundraising program to be truly great? -Do you struggle with engaging other people (board members and staff) in the fundraising process -Are you tired of not getting help from others? -Does it feel like other people are stalling the important work of your development office? -Are you ready for things to start improving? We’ve heard it before. Fundraising is all about relationships – both with those outside of our organizations and inside our organizations. Since starting in fundraising 18 years ago, I’ve seen it time and time again: fundraising professionals struggling with growing advocates from within their organizations (and yes, I’ve certainly struggled with this as well). To be truly great, we need to have truly great communications. Join us as we explore some ways to overcome this internal struggle and to begin taking the steps to building a strong (and ultra-successful) fundraising team. We’ll cover four characteristics of Great Fundraising teams, the role of the development office and introduce four communication styles. Key takeaways: 4 qualities of development offices that help them get great fundraising results (you’ll want to share these with your board and other staff leadership). These are from the recent study, Great Fundraising, by Adrian Sargeant and Jen Shang and commissioned by Clayton, Burnett and Associates). -Why fundraising is everyone’s job (and how you can persuade others to do their part) -How you can get out of your own way when it comes to communicating with both internal and external stakeholders -Ways to effectively persuade others to help -How to learn more about building teamwork, increasing your fundraising results and persuading others Kirsten Bullock, CFRE, MBA is a nonprofit coach who works with entrepreneurial nonprofit leaders to help them involve more people in their organizations and raise the money they need. She earned her designation as a Certified Fund Raising Executive in 2002. Since 1995, Kirsten has worked with health care organizations, social service providers, national and local ministries, and international membership associations. These have included organizations such as AIDS Interfaith Ministries of Kentuckiana, Presbyterian Women National Offices, Community Health Centers, Inc. and the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation. Kirsten is currently serving as immediate past president of the Association for Fundraising Professionals Greater Louisville Chapter. She is an AFP Master Trainer and has presented for the Indiana Library Federation, Business First (Louisville), Kairos Prison Ministry International, Steward’s Staff and Boys and Girls Clubs of America. In addition, she compiles Kirsten’s Fundraising Headlines Blog, authors the Growing Your Donors blog and is the author of Simple Steps to Growing Your Donors. Kirsten is a licensed fund raising consultant in Kentucky. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and a Master’s of Business Administration. When not working to equip and empower people in the nonprofit sector, Kirsten sculpts, is attempting to learn to speak Danish and enjoys living in the Highlands in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband Rob. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/01/great-fundraising/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130611 DTEND:20130612 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130501T081534 LAST-MODIFIED:20130501T081534 UID:5995@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Hurricane Preparedness Workshop: The Importance of Planning DESCRIPTION:What do Irene, Igor, Felix, Katrina, Wilma and Fabian have in common? They are all retired names for North Atlantic hurricanes. But more important than knowing this year’s list of names is having a solid plan to be well-prepared for when a hurricane, or any disaster, strikes the Florida peninsula. This workshop will satisfy the appetite of storm enthusiasts but also meet the practical needs of library leaders who are often called upon during disasters and community crises. Laura Spears will present effective strategies for hurricane preparedness, review key disaster-preparedness resources, and lead the attendees through development of a disaster plan outline using the Information Institute’s Hurricane Portal. Attendees will leave with clear, next steps to take to prepare their organization for their communities’ needs. Workshop Agenda: • Introduction • Attendee Disaster Preparedness Survey • Hurricane Preparedness Presentation • Break • Service Role Exercise • Outline YOUR Preparedness Plan • Next Steps Spears began working for the Information Use Management & Policy Institute at Florida State University as the Information Institute Fellow. Before working at the Institute, she worked as the Director of the Society of the Four Arts King Library in Palm Beach, FL. She has also taught a variety of graduate classes as an adjunct faculty professor for FSU’s School of Library and Information Studies. Her professional background includes participation as a board member for the LSTA Advisory Council for the State of Florida Division of Museum and Library Services as well as for the Palm Beach County Library Association and the Florida Library Association. Her professional interests are in library leadership and advocacy, the intermediation of individual data streams. She has also actively researched the challenges of deploying broadband technologies in Florida rural communities and supports the IMLS National Forum Project, iMapLibraries, led by Dr. Christie Koontz. Laura holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, and a Master of Science in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University. She entered the FSU Doctoral program in Library and Information Studies in the Fall of 2011.+ REGISTER NOW LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson BoulevarD, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/05/01/hurricane-preparedness-workshop-the-importance-of-planning/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130611 DTEND:20130612 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130430T151834 LAST-MODIFIED:20130430T151834 UID:5993@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 3 – Basic Editing and Record Processing DESCRIPTION:This online course provides instruction on working with MARC bibliographic records in Connexion Browser, including using MARC field help, editing MARC records, updating holdings, and exporting MARC records. After completing this training, learners will have the knowledge to complete basic record actions in Connexion Browser. This course is intended for learners who are new to Connexion Browser and copy cataloging but have a basic familiarity with the MARC record. Established, but basic, users of Connexion Browser may also benefit from the class by thorough review of the MARC record editing process and by learning about enhanced functionality such as record validation. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Note: To access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/30/connexion-browser-module-3-basic-editing-and-record-processing-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130605 DTEND:20130606 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130430T151639 LAST-MODIFIED:20130430T151639 UID:5991@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 1- WorldCat, MARC, and Browser Basics DESCRIPTION:This course provides instruction on the structure of the WorldCat bibliographic database, an introduction to the MARC bibliographic record format, as well as an introduction to the setup and basic navigation of Connexion Browser. After completing this web-based training, learners will have the foundational knowledge required to begin using Connexion as a copy cataloging tool. Learners will also be able to navigate the interface and set up Connexion Browser to begin a work session efficiently. This is the first part of a three module series designed to enable basic copy cataloging work in Connexion Browser. This course is intended for learners who are new to Connexion Browser and copy cataloging. Established, but basic, users of Connexion Browser may also benefit from the class by filling in foundational knowledge that will allow them to work with Browser more effectively. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/30/connexion-browser-module-1-worldcat-marc-and-browser-basics-10/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130618 DTEND:20130619 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130430T151500 LAST-MODIFIED:20130430T151500 UID:5989@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 7 – Original Cataloging DESCRIPTION:This web-based course explains OCLC standards for original bibliographic records in WorldCat, and provides instruction on techniques for creating these records in Connexion Browser. This course does not cover AACR2 or other cataloging rules, MARC, subject headings, or authority control. This course is intended for learners who are familiar with current cataloging rules (such as AACR2 and LC Rule Interpretations) and MARC, and are comfortable with using Connexion Browser to search WorldCat, navigate through search results, and do basic editing. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who have created original bibliographic records in their local catalog but have not yet contributed records to WorldCat, and to technical services managers who oversee original cataloging operations. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Please note, that to access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/30/connexion-browser-module-7-original-cataloging-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130619 DTEND:20130620 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130430T142549 LAST-MODIFIED:20130430T142549 UID:5987@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 8 – Authority Control (OCLC) DESCRIPTION:Authority control is the process by which consistency of form is maintained in headings for names, uniform titles, series titles and subjects used in a library catalog. Authority control can also be used to provide “see” and “see also” references, to disambiguate similar headings, and to collocate records for the same work (such as translations or classical music). This course provides instruction on how to use OCLC Connexion Browser to perform authority control work within bibliographic records. After completing this web-based training, learners will be prepared to: interpret authority records, search and browse the OCLC authority file, and link headings in bibliographic records to appropriate authority file records. This course does not cover Authority History, the OCLC Terminologies Service, the Chinese Name Authority File, nor procedures for NACO libraries. This course is intended for learners who have a basic understanding of cataloging principles and MARC, have some cataloging experience, and are comfortable with using Connexion Browser to search WorldCat, navigate through search results, and do basic editing. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who create original bibliographic records or who do extensive editing of existing records, to library staff who need to find and export authority records to provide cross-reference structures in their local catalog, and to technical services managers who oversee these activities. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Please note, that to access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/30/connexion-browser-module-8-authority-control-oclc/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130603 DTEND:20130604 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130430T142224 LAST-MODIFIED:20130430T142224 UID:5985@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:CatExpress: Copy Cataloging with CatExpress DESCRIPTION:This live online course provides instruction on copy cataloging using the CatExpress interface. This course covers the copy cataloging workflow including searching, holdings maintenance, exporting and downloading records. After completing this course, the learner will be prepared to fully utilize the CatExpress service. This course is intended for users who are new to, or have limited experience with, the CatExpress service. It will also be beneficial to existing users who may not be making full use of the service. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Please note, that to access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/30/catexpress-copy-cataloging-with-catexpress-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130514T140000 DTEND:20130514T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130425T112541 LAST-MODIFIED:20130425T112629 UID:5980@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Trends and Issues in E-Government Services DESCRIPTION:Join Pam Thompson and the E-Government Workgroup for their monthly meeting. The group discusses issues, trends, problems and solutions in the delivery of E-Government services and the workforce recovery efforts in Florida's public libraries. Register Event number: 642384118 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/25/trends-and-issues-in-e-government-services-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130516T140000 DTEND:20130516T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130425T112155 LAST-MODIFIED:20130425T112155 UID:5975@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Chat with Jana – Partnerships and Sponsorships DESCRIPTION:Chat with Jana is an open monthly chat with library staff who work with youth to ask questions, bring ideas and concerns up so a conversation can begin and initiatives can be developed. May’s chat will focus on sponsorships/partnerships with guest panelists Linda Goff, Youth Services Coordinator for Lake County Library System and Anne Crawford, Youth Services Coordinator for St. Johns County Public Library System. Register Event number: 643426473 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/25/chat-with-jana-partnerships-and-sponsorships/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130423 DTEND:20130424 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130418T163210 LAST-MODIFIED:20130418T163210 UID:5962@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Defend the Freedom to Read: Reporting Challenges DESCRIPTION: Join ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom for this interactive webinar discussing challenges: formal requests that materials in libraries and schools be removed due to their content or appropriateness. We’ll discuss the current state of challenges – what’s causing controversy right now – and talk about ALA’s efforts to document as many challenges as possible in order to raise awareness about this fundamental intellectual freedom issue. Attendees will learn about the resources and support ALA can offer when libraries are preparing for or responding to challenges. Whether you’re a veteran intellectual freedom fighter or a newbie, this webinar will provide you with information and ideas to help advocate for the freedom to read in your community. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/18/defend-the-freedom-to-read-reporting-challenges/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130430 DTEND:20130501 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130418T145911 LAST-MODIFIED:20130418T145911 UID:5960@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Thrilling Mysteries: Can’t-Miss Crime Fiction for Spring DESCRIPTION: May is Mystery Month at Booklist, a time when we indulge our taste for crime. Booklist Online editor Keir Graff will preview online-exclusive feature content, while publishers AudioGO, HarperCollins, Poisoned Pen Press, Seventh Street Books, Random House, St. Martin’s, and Severn House will share the best titles for libraries from their forthcoming lists. Our mystery webinar gets bigger and better every year! LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/18/thrilling-mysteries-cant-miss-crime-fiction-for-spring/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130516T140000 DTEND:20130516T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130416T155338 LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T155356 UID:5956@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Chat with Jana – Sponsorships/Partnerships DESCRIPTION: Chat with Jana is an open monthly chat with library staff who work with youth to ask questions, bring ideas and concerns up so a conversation can begin and initiatives can be developed. May’s chat will focus on sponsorships/partnerships with guest panelists Linda Goff, Youth Services Coordinator for Lake County Library System and Anne Crawford, Youth Services Coordinator for St. Johns County Public Library System. Event number: 643 426 473Register LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/16/chat-with-jana-sponsorshipspartnerships-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130712 DTEND:20130713 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130416T151556 LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T151556 UID:5953@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Introduction to Reference Services DESCRIPTION: With budgets and staffing stretched thin, many libraries are calling on staff from across departments to provide reference services to their clientele. If you're new to reference or curious about it, this webinar is for you! We will cover essentials that will help you feel comfortable providing high-quality service, regardless of what type of library you work in – public, academic, school or special. Topics include: • Standards and decorum • The reference interview • Ethics of reference services • And more! Kim Reycraft earned her MLIS in 2008 from Florida State University and has over eight years of experience working in public and academic libraries. Since 2007 she has worked in the Reference, Research and Instruction Department of the Florida Gulf Coast University Library, first as a Reference Assistant and now as the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Librarian. Kim loves reference work and looks forward to sharing what she knows with others! REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/16/introduction-to-reference-services/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130731 DTEND:20130801 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130416T132903 LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T132903 UID:5951@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Keys to Improving Project Team Performance Using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator DESCRIPTION: If there weren’t people involved, my project would have been delivered on time and under budget! Sound familiar? Unfortunately, the reality is that people are involved in the execution of every project and not even the most sophisticated software or project template can change that fundamental truth. Communication, interpersonal skills, and an understanding of team dynamics are a project manager’s greatest asset for driving optimal project performance, and the MBTI tool can fast forward that competence exponentially. This webcast will present an overview of personality type and how the different types can be leveraged to form a team that harnesses the best of all of them. What You Will Learn •How Project managers can use personality type to drive project team performance •The four MBTI(R) dichotomies and how they relate to project management •How knowledge of the MBTI assessment can help you realize outstanding project results when you have no formal authority •Personality type and its role in managing multi-cultural project teams Linda Kirby, Ph.D. is a consultant, trainer, and writer. She consults with organizations, designs training programs, develops training materials, and delivers training for organizations, with a focus on organizational change, leadership development, and team effectiveness. She is a certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® practitioner, applying the MBTI® instrument nationally and internationally. She has written and edited a number of books and chapters, including The Challenge of Change in Organizations, Developing Leaders, and Introduction to Type. In addition, she is coauthor of Type and Culture. Robert Smith is the director of Canadian Operations of Gershenson & Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm. He has more than 20 years of experience with information systems, technical consulting, training and staff development and project management. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/16/keys-to-improving-project-team-performance-using-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130710 DTEND:20130711 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130416T132741 LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T132741 UID:5949@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye to Achieve Professional and Personal Success DESCRIPTION: Lessons in Moving Beyond What Stands Between You and Career Advancement Joe and Bob Azelby are seasoned business executives who believe that a career stalls because an individual lacks a certain skill or has a behavior that makes them a less qualified candidate. We all have weaknesses, which the Azelby brothers refer to as “BUTs.” For example: •Bill is a hard worker BUT he can't influence people •Larry is a great producer BUT he is a lousy manager •Samantha is good at tasks BUT is not a strategic thinker. Most people do not have any idea how their BUTs are inhibiting their career advancement because their colleagues and even their managers are unwilling to provide much needed candid feedback. The bottom line is that most of us carry around our BUTs for years and never know that this is the reason our careers are not advancing. What You Will Learn The Azelby brothers understand how difficult it is to identify, acknowledge and manage your own BUTs, however, they know this is the key to career advancement. This webcast will help you identify your BUTs and provide the tools necessary to shrink them. In addition, they’ll explore the importance of strong managers and demonstrate how a manager’s BUT can have a negative impact on his or her team. Bob Azelby is the vice president and general manager of the oncology unit of a large West Coast biotechnology firm, responsible for more than $5 billion in annual revenue. He also served as vice president of that firm’s U.S. Oncology Sales Team, overseeing more than 500 representatives. He received his undergraduate degrees in economics and religious studies from the University of Virginia and his MBA from Harvard University. He is coauthor of the book Kiss Your BUT Goodbye. Joe Azelby is the managing director and CEO of the Global Real Assets Group of a large financial firm, leading a team of more than 400 investment professionals. A graduate of Harvard University, he earned an MBA in finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business. While at Harvard, he was the captain of the football team and then went on to play professionally with the Buffalo Bills. He is coauthor of the book Kiss Your BUT Goodbye. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/16/kiss-your-but-good-bye-to-achieve-professional-and-personal-success/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130626 DTEND:20130627 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T172752 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T172752 UID:5946@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Managing Conflict During (and After) Non-profit Mergers and Collaborations DESCRIPTION: In today’s environment, many non-profits are called on to strategically collaborate, or merge, in order to continue to fulfill their mission, serve their clients and have an even greater impact. While these collaborations and mergers can be in the best interest of a non-profit’s fiscal health and ability to thrive, they can spark conflict, tension and misunderstanding among staff, board and constituents. Takeaways: -The top three causes of conflict during mergers/collaborations and how to avoid them -How to manage conflict to surface deeper issues, concerns and understanding -A step by step process for successfully manage the three C’s of collaboration and merger: communication, conflict and culture Claudette Rowley, MSW, CPCC partners with executives and teams to improve performance. She is an executive coach and organizational development consultant, and an expert in helping individuals and organizations resolve conflict, build teams, and communicate more effectively. Since 2000, she has coached and consulted internationally, guiding professionals, corporations and non-profits through collaborative, strengths-based strategic planning, team building and leadership development processes. Claudette is an experienced Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Core Values Index and Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument practitioner and facilitates individual and team development using the instruments. She specializes in teaching and training people to develop the self-awareness, perspectives and skills to communicate, resolve conflict and lead successfully. Author of the book Embrace Your Brilliance: How to Align Yourself with Your Unique Potential and co-author of the book A Guide to Getting It: A Clear, Compelling Vision, her articles have been published in hundreds of online and print publications. Prior to launching her coaching and consulting company MetaVoice, Inc. in 2000, Claudette worked in the public and private sectors, specializing in leadership and program development. She holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan, a certification from the Coaches Training Institute, and the Professional Certified Coach credential through the International Coach Federation. She has completed additional training in organizational development, conflict resolution, mediation and relationship systems coaching. MetaVoice is a coaching and consulting company that partners with executives and teams to improve performance. Through a collaborative process, we help you capitalize on your strengths, learn from your conflicts, and design strategies for optimal performance. We offer organizational development services, executive coaching, and training. We also specialize in conflict, leadership and career assessments, and their application for resolving conflicts and identifying individual and team strengths. We help you achieve the results you want, increase your satisfaction, and make a positive impact on the bottom line. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/managing-conflict-during-and-after-non-profit-mergers-and-collaborations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130524 DTEND:20130525 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T143641 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T143641 UID:5942@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Who Killed My Battery: Analyzing Mobile Browser Energy Consumption DESCRIPTION: Despite the explosive growth of smartphones and growing popularity of mobile web browsing, the energy consumed by a phone browser while surfing the web is poorly understood. While web pages are often optimized for speed and beauty, little attention is given to the amount of energy needed to download and render the page. In this webcast presentation, we present an infrastructure for measuring the precise energy used by a mobile browser to render web pages. We then measure the energy needed to render financial, e-commerce, email, blogging, news and social networking sites. Our tools are sufficiently precise to measure the energy needed to render individual web elements, such as cascade style sheets (CSS), Javascript, images, and plug-in objects. Our results show that for popular sites, downloading and parsing cascade style sheets and Javascript consumes a significant fraction of the total energy needed to render the page. Using the data we collected we make concrete recommendations on how to design web pages so as to minimize the energy needed to render the page. We conclude by estimating the point at which offloading browser computations to a remote proxy can save energy on the phone. Our approach gives another dimension for evaluating mobile web sites and helps web developers build more energy efficient sites and improve user experience. Dr. Angela Nicoara is a Senior Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Silicon Valley Innovation Center, USA since 2008. She received a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2007, where she was the leader, designer and builder of the PROSE open source system. After two years building search engine and information logistics systems at the German software company Caatoosee, Dr. Nicoara joined ETH Zurich, working on adaptive software architectures. Dr. Nicoara joined Google Inc in Mountain View, California for the summer of 2004. Her research interests are in the areas of services and mobile platforms, adaptive software architectures, virtual machines, middleware for mobile and distributed computing, and distributed systems. Her current research activities include the development of open and programmable mobile platforms (e.g., Android) and novel information technology services to shape the emerging trends in fixed and mobile infrastructure and services sectors. Dr. Nicoara's work has been published in numerous leading scientific conferences, workshops and symposia proceedings, and is a regular speaker and panelist at major international scientific and industry conferences. Dr. Nicoara received several prestigious awards and honors for her research and technical contributions, the most recent ones include the Best Paper Award from IEEE RTAS 2012 and Best Student Paper Award from ACM WWW 2012 . Her work has been quoted by the press and media, as well as she chaired and served as a technical program committee (TPC) member of multiple industry and academic conferences. Dr. Nicoara is a member of ACM and IEEE societies. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/who-killed-my-battery-analyzing-mobile-browser-energy-consumption/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130521 DTEND:20130522 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T143316 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T143316 UID:5940@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Zero to App in Two Weeks DESCRIPTION: In working with top tier app partners, the Windows Ecosystem Team has seen developers produce an app in a little as two weeks, whereas others meander around for months with little to show. Why this discrepancy? What are the factors that make the difference between struggle and success? In this webcast, Kraig Brockschmidt will share the experiences that he and his team has gained from working with these partners to help you get your productivity in high gear for your own app-building efforts. Kraig Brockschmidt has worked with Microsoft since 1988, focusing primarily on helping developers through writing, education, public speaking, and direct engagement. Kraig is currently a Senior Program Manager in the Windows Ecosystem team working directly with key partners on building Windows Store apps and bringing knowledge gained in that experience to the wider developer community. His most recent book is Programming Windows 8 Apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (a free ebook from Microsoft Press); his blog is kraigbrockschmidt.com/blog. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/zero-to-app-in-two-weeks/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130516 DTEND:20130517 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T143202 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T143202 UID:5938@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Debugging Mobile Apps DESCRIPTION: In this interactive webcast presented by Jonathan Stark author of Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, 2nd Edition, and Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript we will discuss mobile app development still being in its infancy and because of this, the tools available for troubleshooting are quite limited. Debugging apps - especially cross- and multi-platform - can be extremely difficult. Fortunately there are a few cutting edge technologies and techniques that can ease the pain while we wait for more mainstream solutions. What will be covered in this webcast? •Webkit developer tools •Remote JavaScript console with JS Console •Remote DOM inspection with WEINRE •Web debugging proxy with Charles •Remote hardware access with DeviceAnywhere Who is this webcast for? This webcast is for front-end designers and developers who are interested in creating web or hybrid mobile apps. A working familiarity with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is recommended. Jonathan Stark is a mobile consultant, web evangelist, and confessed techno-utopian who believes that wireless computing will transform every aspect of human society. Jonathan is the author of three books on mobile and web development, most notably O'Reilly's Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript which is available in seven languages. His Jonathan's Card experiment made international headlines by combining mobile payments with social giving to create a "pay it forward" coffee movement at Starbucks locations all over the U.S. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/debugging-mobile-apps/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130423 DTEND:20130424 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T141916 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T141916 UID:5935@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks: Your Annual Dose of Data DESCRIPTION: What’s going on with nonprofit email, fundraising, and social media? In short: Online revenue is up, monthly giving is booming, and social media audiences are growing too. But there are also some bitter truths about last year that you need to know about. When it comes to online fundraising and advocacy, “in short” just isn’t going to cut it -- you gotta dive deep. We’ve put all the data and details you need in the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, the one and only indispensable guide to what’s happening online for nonprofits. Join M+R Strategic Services and NTEN for a webinar to get the story behind the numbers in the study and see if your organization is leading the way or getting left behind. Session Takeaways: 1.Find out the latest in online fundraising, advocacy and email trends 2.See where your metrics fall compared to industry standards 3.Learn how to track and use your own benchmarks Sarah DiJulio launched and directs the online advocacy and fundraising division of M+R Strategic Services. Sarah has provided strategic consulting and training on online advocacy and fundraising to major nonprofits, served as a spokeswoman about Internet campaigns for major media outlets, and led innovative and successful nonprofit online marketing campaigns. Currently, Sarah provides strategic consulting to a number of M+R clients including Oxfam America, Mercy Corps, Easter Seals and the Mayo Clinic. Cameron Lefevre serves as M+R’s senior technology strategist and leads a team of designers and developers who conceptualize and build creative, cutting-edge websites and online tools for M+R clients. Cameron specializes in building effective campaign-driven websites, evaluating and optimizing websites and constituent management systems, and developing mobile-optimized emails and webpages. He also helps to coordinate and implement online advocacy and fundraising campaigns for M+R clients such AARP. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/2013-enonprofit-benchmarks-your-annual-dose-of-data/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130605 DTEND:20130606 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T140256 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T140256 UID:5933@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Leadership Engagement as an Operations Strategy DESCRIPTION: Organizations frequently overlook the “critical middle”–how the exercise of leadership at all levels and how the application of a well-integrated operations strategy contribute to results and outcomes. This webinar offers a practical framework for integrating defined leadership and management practices into a holistic operations strategy in order to maximize organizational outcomes. Strategic plans are crucial. Policies and systems are practical. But without an explicit operations strategy and a unified approach to leading and managing the human systems across an organization, significant promise is left unattained. Takeaways: Understanding of “operations strategy” and its relevance to any organization. Guidelines for setting operations strategy while integrating the leadership and management practices component. A foundation for defining the core leadership and management practices relevant to one’s own organization. Daniel Doucette, leadership adviser, coach and operations strategist, is the founder of Windfires: Leadership Engagement Strategies (www.windfires.com), offering coaching, workshops, consulting and keynotes that elevate individual and organizational performance across civil society. Daniel also currently serves as Chief Operating Officer for EngenderHealth, an international NGO that improves the lives of women and their families by increasing access to, and improving the quality of, family planning services in under-served communities worldwide. Daniel previously has served as CFO and VP of Operations for Rainforest Alliance and as VP of Finance for American Cancer Society/Eastern Division. He has been board chair for several community-based organizations and currently volunteers for the Trevor Project conducting workshops on suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth. He has also held positions at AFS Intercultural Programs and World Wildlife Fund. Daniel holds a BS and MS in international affairs from Georgetown University, as well as a MA in Organization Development and a Certificate in Evidence-Based Coaching from Fielding Graduate University. Windfires: Leadership Engagement Strategies was launched in December 2010 by founder Daniel Doucette with a mission to accelerate achievement of strategic and operational goals by elevating individual and organizational performance across civil society. Through coaching, workshops and keynotes, Windfires’ principal Daniel Doucette makes enhanced leadership effectiveness real, and facilitates the development of operation strategies that bring strategic plans to life. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/leadership-engagement-as-an-operations-strategy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130605 DTEND:20130606 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T140017 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T140017 UID:5930@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How Leaders Build Virtual Trust and Influence DESCRIPTION: Creating Trust and Trustworthiness in Virtual Relationships Increasingly, managers lead teams that are part global, distributed, or virtual. Yet, traditional management best practices are based on high-touch, in-person techniques. How do virtual managers build trust, engagement and influence without being physically present? In this webcast, leadership development experts Charles H. Green and Kristi Hedges, explore how successful leaders are using influence best practices in creative and unique ways suited for managing in a virtual environment. You’ll hear “from the trenches” perspectives that explain common issues in leading virtual teams with concrete advice for solving the problems that arise from them. As virtual management becomes the new normal, this webcast equips you with practical tools to be a trusted, present leader in any environment. What You Will Learn •The foundational components of trust and presence for any leader—virtual, remote or in-person •Strategies to gain commitment and buy-in for ideas remotely •How to increase trust and cohesion among team members who rarely see each other in person •Ways to overcome conflict, resistance, and accountability challenges •Techniques for establishing leadership presence without being physically present Kristi Hedges is an executive coach, leadership development consultant, and author of Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others (AMACOM). Her proprietary presence coaching model has been utilized by clients spanning Fortune 500 corporations, global professional services firms, entrepreneurial businesses, national associations, and the U.S. government. She's a leadership contributor to Forbes.com and Entrepreneur.com, and a speaker for Vistage International and The Founder Institute. She can be found on twitter @kristihedges or at her Communicate Leadership blog at kristihedges.com. Charles H. Green is an author, speaker and world expert on trust-based relationships and sales in complex businesses. Founder and CEO of Trusted Advisor Associates, he is author of Trust-based Selling, and coauthor of the The Trusted Advisor and its follow-up, The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook. His articles have been published in several journals, including Harvard Business Review, Directorship Magazine, and Management Consulting News. He is a contributing editor at RainToday.com. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/how-leaders-build-virtual-trust-and-influence-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130717 DTEND:20130718 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T135704 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T135704 UID:5928@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Library Social Media Use DESCRIPTION: This webinar will cover how to create, administer, moderate, and leverage your library’s online presence using popular social media tools. Over half of the world’s 2 billion internet users interact with social media tools to create, share, and exchange information and ideas while online. Libraries are using these tools to market programs and services, and to connect and engage with their communities beyond the library walls. Join us as we explore Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest as examples of tools that are being used successful by libraries. The webinar will cover how to create, administer, moderate, and leverage your library’s online presence. Some basic security settings for each social media tool will be discussed as well. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/library-social-media-use/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130604 DTEND:20130605 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T135544 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T135544 UID:5926@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Amp Up Your Technology Training DESCRIPTION: A webinar on technology training for communities. Learn how OASIS Connections classes are helping communities build skills and confidence using computers, the Internet and today's technology. More Americans than ever are coming to their libraries to access the Internet and get help connecting with their families, the job market and online services. Many library visitors lack basic computer skills, or need to learn the essential technology skills to apply for and land a job. With continual technology change, libraries are challenged to provide quality, up-to-date curriculum for their communities. OASIS Connections, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting successful aging through lifelong learning, healthy living and social engagement, has partnered with urban and rural libraries across the country to provide a cost-effective training solution that helps adults of all ages develop technology skills and confidence. Learn how different library systems have adopted the program to serve varying local needs. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/amp-up-your-technology-training/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130605T140000 DTEND:20130605T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T130500 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T130512 UID:5923@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Creating Your Own Ebook (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This two-part online class will be held on June 5 and 12, 2013 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm. Students must attend both sessions. The eBook format gives everybody the opportunity to become their own publisher. With this two-part class,  we will go from creation to final product - providing participants with the options libraries and local authors will have to publish their own work. The classes will focus on: The growing trends in publishing and the movement toward self-publishing Understanding formats and DRM issues Creating covers and cover art Frequent issues and the fixes How to use Kindle Publishing and Calibre to create your ebook Options authors and libraries have for distributing and selling their ebook Between classes, participants will be asked to work on creating their ebook from personally created content and/or open source information. Presented by: Diana Silveira, Novare Library Services Registration deadline:  5/31/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/creating-your-own-ebook-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130613T100000 DTEND:20130613T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T124057 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T124110 UID:5919@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Introduction to Prezi (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This two-part online class will be held on June 13 and 20, 2013 from 10:00 - 11:00 am. Students must attend both sessions. Prezi is cloud-based presentation software used by businesses and educational institutions throughout the world. Prezi allows users to create presentations on a virtual canvas, with capabilities to zoom in and out and navigate in a 2.5D environment. During this interactive, two-part class you will: Set up a free Prezi account Learn how to use Prezi templates Learn how to navigate on the canvas Learn how to add content to a presentation Create a practice presentation Explore a few of the millions of freely available Prezi presentations on the Web You will set up and learn how to create your practice presentation during the first session, and then add content to your presentation between sessions. We will discuss your progress and questions during the second session along with additional tips for successful Prezi presentations. Attendees are required to have Internet access between classes so they can work on their presentations. Presented by: Carlene Reeves, Novare Library Services Registration deadline:  6/7/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/introduction-to-prezi-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130606T140000 DTEND:20130606T153000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T114145 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T114204 UID:5916@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Emotional Intelligence: What It Is and Why It Matters in Your Workplace (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This two-part online class will be held on June 6 and 13, 2013 from 2:00 - 3:30 pm. Students must attend both sessions. Emotional Intelligence – maybe you’ve heard the term, but what in the world does it mean? The short answer is simply being intelligent about emotions – yours and others’.  The longer – and much more interesting – answer will fascinate you. Don’t miss this intriguing 2-part online series! Session 1 In the first session, we’ll discuss the idea of Emotional Intelligence and why interest in the field is increasing. We’ll delve into how our behavioral styles can affect our levels of emotional intelligence. We’ll also take a closer look at emotions: What are emotions anyway? Are we even aware of them when they happen? Can we control them? Then we will “look in the mirror” and begin to explore the first of the four elements of Emotional Intelligence. Session 2 In the second session, we will investigate the other three elements of Emotional Intelligence – by probing how we deal with our own emotions and how our emotions affect our interactions with others. We’ll also discover the potential for improving our emotional intelligence, why that matters in the workplace, and why it might be challenging to do so. Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  6/1/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/emotional-intelligence-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters-in-your-workplace-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130530T100000 DTEND:20130530T113000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T113718 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T113734 UID:5913@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Coaching Others for Success (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:What comes to mind when you think of the word “coach?” It’s likely that you’ll think of words like encourage, teach, help, develop, grow, train, instruct, mentor, and advise. Whew! That’s a big job! And the reason it’s such a big job is that effective coaching is critical to “winning” – or as we say in the workplace – “success.” Success doesn’t just happen though, does it? It often takes someone coming alongside to coach and mentor others to give them the best chance for succeeding. Indeed, feedback through coaching is a roadmap of sorts. A good coach sees when someone is veering off-course and gives feedback to help that person get back on track. In this 90-minute session, we’ll discuss helping others set meaningful goals and all that entails. We’ll learn why understanding obstacles, listening to their concerns, and helping them move forward is so important in helping them achieve what you both want – a job well done. Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  5/23/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/coaching-others-for-success-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130523T120000 DTEND:20130523T130000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130415T113313 LAST-MODIFIED:20130415T113335 UID:5910@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Introduction to CSS (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This two-part online class will be held on May 23 and 30, 2013 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm. Students must attend both sessions. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) help describe basic design elements like colors and shapes, so that a webpage will display exactly as a Web designer wants it to appear on the Web.  Essentially, CSS helps give a webpage a distinct look and feel.  In this 2-part webinar you will: Learn what CSS does and appreciate its importance in Web design Recognize and use general CSS grammar (e.g., syntax, semantics, vocabulary) Understand how to link a CSS file to an HTML document Create a Web designers toolbox Design a basic webpage using CSS Participants will be given server space to create their own page. Presented by: Chad Mairn, Novare Library Services Registration deadline:  5/16/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/15/introduction-to-css-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130513T133000 DTEND:20130513T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130411T165620 LAST-MODIFIED:20130411T165656 UID:5904@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:eBooks: It’s Easier (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Many find getting the wonderfully free library eBooks to an eReader or tablet is not easy. And as eBook usage continues to grow, changes and improvements to library offerings are also on the rise. Library staff may find it daunting to keep up to date on the latest functionality but will be happy to learn is now getting easier for library customers to download and read eBooks on their devices. In this 90-minute webinar, learn how to take advantage of these latest functionality offerings and just how “it is easier”.  Learn the basic operation of popular eBook readers, tablets and portable devices and how to access and download library content. Presented by Technology Petting Zoo Trainer Jan Johnson Jan Rhees Johnson currently serves as Librarian, Technology and Information Services, for the Parkland Library and obtained her MLIS from the University of South Florida. She develops and presents the Library's technology instruction including the popular More Than Google program and she is chair of the SEFLIN Training Administrators Committee.  In addition to her library credentials, Jan is a diversified business professional with extensive experience in information technology, project management, business analysis, training, customer service, and merchandising. Registration deadline:  5/7/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/11/ebooks-its-easier-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130507T160000 DTEND:20130507T170000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130411T165033 LAST-MODIFIED:20130411T165117 UID:5898@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core Standards #5: Servicing Common Core in Public Libraries (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Join us for programming tips for public libraries supporting the Common Core initiatives of their communities and patrons. These ideas are the result of interviews with directors of South Florida public libraries and with librarians of public schools. We will also open the chat room for your Common Core ideas to grow our bank of strategies. Note: The webinars will be focusing on the ELA Standards as opposed to the Math Standards. Presented by: Michelle Cates Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/11/common-core-standards-5-servicing-common-core-in-public-libraries-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130430T160000 DTEND:20130430T170000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130411T164728 LAST-MODIFIED:20130411T164735 UID:5895@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core Standards #4: Model Common Core Lessons (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Including standards, scales, and step-by-step activities, this webinar demonstrates school library Common Core lessons, at both elementary and secondary levels. Note: The webinars will be focusing on the ELA Standards as opposed to the Math Standards. Presented by: Michelle Cates Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/11/common-core-standards-4-model-common-core-lessons-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130423T160000 DTEND:20130423T170000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130411T164408 LAST-MODIFIED:20130411T164418 UID:5892@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core Standards #3: Digital Primary Sources (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:K-12 Common Core requires analysis of visual sources and 6-12 Literacy in History specifies primary and secondary source analysis. What a perfect match for our school librarian world! In this webinar, you will travel to the best websites to find digital primary sources and you will learn some great lessons that you can use right away. Note: The webinars will be focusing on the ELA Standards as opposed to the Math Standards. Presented by: Michelle Cates Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/11/common-core-standards-3-digital-primary-sources-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130416T160000 DTEND:20130416T170000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130411T163944 LAST-MODIFIED:20130411T164003 UID:5889@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core Standards #2: The Nitty Gritty and How We Can Help (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:According to the DOE Common Core Implementation Timeline, all K-12 teachers including content teachers should already be implementing complex text. Lead the charge by providing expertise and services at the outset. This 60-minute webinar will look more closely at the Comprehension Instructional Sequence, text complexity analysis, and text exemplars. Note: The webinars will be focusing on the ELA Standards as opposed to the Math Standards. Presented by: Michelle Cates Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/11/common-core-standards-2-the-nitty-gritty-and-how-we-can-help-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130516T140000 DTEND:20130516T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130409T155739 LAST-MODIFIED:20130409T155752 UID:5884@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Chat with Jana – Sponsorships/Partnerships DESCRIPTION: Chat with Jana is an open monthly chat with library staff who work with youth to ask questions, bring ideas and concerns up so a conversation can begin and initiatives can be developed. May’s chat will focus on sponsorships/partnerships with guest panelists Linda Goff, Youth Services Coordinator for Lake County Library System and Anne Crawford, Youth Services Coordinator for St. Johns County Public Library System. Event number: 643426473Register LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/04/09/chat-with-jana-sponsorshipspartnerships/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130508 DTEND:20130509 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130329T081302 LAST-MODIFIED:20130329T081302 UID:5876@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Library Staff Day DESCRIPTION:Formerly known as Paraprofessional Day, Library Staff is an exciting, information-filled day, reaching out to all Library Staff, in a fun and interactive way. Keynote Presentation by Dr. Bob Bitting: If All Else Fails, Laugh Description: What’s so funny? Not much, apparently. The news out there depresses you. You fret too much. Your best friend is getting divorced. Budgets are tight. You're afraid that you might be the next one to get "downsized”. So, what should you do? What keeps you going in the face of all this bad news? A big part the answer is something that many of us often forget we have, and therefore often don't use. You used it much more when you were younger and much less now that you're older. And it's one of your most effective weapons in handling the ups and downs of everyday life. It's your ability to laugh at the absurd, acknowledge the incongruous, and appreciate the ridiculous. It's your sense of HUMOR. It's a uniquely human quality that can come to your rescue during difficult times. This workshop examines some of the key elements of humor and it’s relationship to the change process. Practical applications to using humor in the workplace will be discussed, including managing conflict, motivating others, improving communications, increasing creativity, and reducing stress and increasing morale. _____________________________________________________________________ Four Presenters... A Total of 8 sessions with a Keynote Presentation... One GREAT day for Librarians! Artistic Literacy(Session A) Incorporating Dramatic Play in your Library Programs (Session B & C) Afternoon Tea, Steampunk Style Dr. Bob Bitting(Session B) Working with Emotional Intelligence (Session C) Actively Managing Conflict and Negativity in the Workplace Linda Bruno(Session A) Find Your Bliss @ Work - Really? Yolanda Cuesta(Session A) Customer Service in a Diverse & Multicultural Community, Part I (Session B) Customer Service in a Diverse & Multicultural Community, Part II (Session C) Serving Customers with Mental and Physical Challenges After registering below, you will receive a link to the LSD Session Selection System TWO WEEKS BEFORE the scheduled date. The system will allow you to choose your prefered session in each of the 90-minute track segments. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:16410 Corporate Commerce Way, Fort Myers, FL, United States, 33913 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/29/library-staff-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130515 DTEND:20130516 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130329T074737 LAST-MODIFIED:20130329T074737 UID:5873@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Effective Strategic Planning part 3: Measure, Monitor, Report DESCRIPTION: No matter how rewarding a planning process is in cultivating your stakeholders, focusing your board and staff, and developing your organization, and no matter how promising the goals and objectives of your plan, strategic planning cannot be successful unless it drives action. A bit of wisdom from the business world is that we manage what we measure. This webinar rounds out our strategic planning series with a look at selecting what to measure and how to use, track and report the data. Takeaways: Why metrics are critical to management, mission, sustainability and funding How to use different kinds of data (trends, norms, and performance) The difference between outputs and outcomes Different ways to report metrics Sam Frank founded Synthesis Partnership to assist nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. He advises and has served on the boards of local and national nonprofit organizations addressing arts and culture, education, health care, preservation, homelessness and the environment. Sam frequently offers workshops on planning at national conferences and writes an e-newsletter, Critical Issues in Strategy, Planning and Organizational Development (http://bit.ly/SyParchive) and a blog on nonprofit issues (http://bit.ly/blogSyP). He conceived and directs the Wednesday Webinars at nonprofitwebinars.com. Prior to Synthesis Partnership Sam was Director of Architecture and Design at Corning Incorporated, and Dean of Architecture and Design at Rhode Island School of Design. He was educated in English literature at Princeton University, architecture at Harvard University, and architectural history, theory and criticism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Synthesis Partnership assists nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. The foundation of our approach to any assignment is attentive listening to the situation, needs, culture and aspirations of the client. Our clients have represented a variety of sectors (including education, arts and culture, health care, and social services), sizes (no staff to hundreds of staff; budgets in the low six figures to the high eight figures), maturities (start-ups to well over a century old) and experience (organizations new to planning and organizations with extensive history and experience of planning). Our breadth of understanding of nonprofit sectors and issues helps us to ask the right questions and explore the relevant concerns to assure integrated explorations and solutions. Case studies of some of our projects and articles on strategy, identity, capacity and facilities can be found at www.synthesispartnership.com LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/29/effective-strategic-planning-part-3-measure-monitor-report/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130508 DTEND:20130509 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130329T074047 LAST-MODIFIED:20130329T074047 UID:5871@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Managing Fundraisers; for the Non Fundraising Executive DESCRIPTION: Specifically designed for President’s, CEO’s, Executive Directors and others without a fundraising background. This webinar will discuss the components of development planning, questions to ask, answers to expect, and potential red flags. Proper roles for executive leadership,ways to champion an increasingly effective office as well as techniques to bolster lesser results. Your organization deserves the best fundraising department and personnel possible. Be it a one person shop or much larger, how that department is managed will determine their effectiveness and in turn the number of dollars raised. Takeaways: 5 ‘i’s of cultivation 4 components of a comprehensive development program and their purposes Helpful ratio’s for judging effectiveness Keys to hiring & retaining effective staff Hints to engaging board members in the fundraising process Effectively structuring your time with your fundraisers Like many of us Gary Broussard “backed into the development field.” Gary was asked to create a recruiting and admissions office for a private high school where he taught because he was “good with people.” Hard work paid off and they were successful and enrollment grew. A new president joined the school and he asked if Gary could build a development office because Gary was “good with people.” Again, hard work paid off, they were very successful and before he knew it Gary was hooked and on his way to becoming a development professional. One thing Gary has learned for sure; being “good with people” is about the least important attribute of an effective development professional. Since those early days Gary has held leadership roles in nonprofits ranging from department head to directorships to the executive level. Including serving as Executive Directer of the Central Arizona College Foundation and as Vice President for Institutional Advancement at St. Gregory’s University – a wonderful Catholic university in Oklahoma and founded GPB Associates LLC in 2007. GPB Associates LLC is a nonprofit consulting firm that is “in love” with major gifts. Leading edge major gift execution and training emphasizing learning by doing. Development audits, Board Training and Education, Capital Campaigns, Annual Fund Growth, Major Gift Programs, and Legacy Programs – all pointing to major gifts. Founded in 2007, GPB Associates LLC of Tucson, Arizona is owned by Gary P. Broussard. We bring more than 30 years of hands on, non-profit experience in management and fundraising successes, and yes, even a few humbling experiences. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/29/managing-fundraisers-for-the-non-fundraising-executive/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130508 DTEND:20130509 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130329T073937 LAST-MODIFIED:20130329T073937 UID:5869@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Three Languages of Appreciation DESCRIPTION: More and more Neuroscience and Brain research is once again showing the importance of recognition and appreciation for personal, interpersonal and team development. This session will look at three general areas and many different, specific ways to express appreciation for others. Takeaways: The impact of appreciation upon personal, interpersonal and team development The languages of appreciation of Nelson Mandela as a model Active Perception Linguistic Affirmation Servant Leadership Gilbert Brenson-Lazan is a social psychologist, psychotherapist, facilitator, coach and educator. He has been a pioneer in Latin America in transactional analysis, brief systemic therapy, organizational facilitation, transcultural communications, stress management and disaster and crisis intervention. He is the author of twenty-nine books and is Founder and Managing Partner of Amauta Internacional, LLC, organization dedicated to optimizing the efficacy of processes of organizational transformation, with offices in Bogotá, Colombia and West Hartford, CT., USA. He is currently dedicated to executive team coaching and mentoring, OD Consulting and writing. He was a founding member of the Change Facilitation Associates Network, an Associate Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Global Leadership Alliance, Co-Founder and Past President of the Global Facilitator Service Corps and International Vice-Chair of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). He has done ninety-seven presentations and workshops in national and international conferences since 1974. Whether your organization is seeking to meet a particular challenge, initiate a change process or improve its general ability to continually learn and improve, your own people are your key resource to facilitate the process, we at Amauta International, LLC can help you to help them unlock their potential. We train and mentor facilitators, leaders and executive teams that want to create and support the processes with which groups, organizations and communities can define and achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Group mentorship, as we have developed it, is an ongoing, facilitative accompaniment of an organizational or community team that wants to increase its effectiveness through a dynamic and integral process of group, personal and professional development. We creatively combine the most effective methods of face-to-face group mentoring and facilitation, with the most modern technologies of Internet, intranet and virtual online mentoring. We have ample experience with many different organizational and ethnic cultures and appreciate the uniqueness of every client, approaching each one’s needs with a systemic and holistic perspective, backed by expertise in facilitation of organizational and community development and change. Our facilitators are accredited by and/or members of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and are active in its global leadership. Amauta International can help your organization or community to prepare its own leaders and internal facilitators with the necessary competencies for effective intervention in: Ø change management Ø team building, Ø process restructuring, Ø crisis intervention, Ø organizational cultural transformation, Ø community building, Ø conflict resolution, Ø transformational leadership, Ø competency development. Finally, we provide continuity through effective follow-up monitoring sessions and virtual support (virtual conferences, WBT, bibliographic support, e-lists, etc.). Our approach of training and mentoring your own in-house talent, is not only a more effective way to facilitate organizational transformation, but also much more economical than contracting outside trainers and facilitators. Let us show you how a program of facilitator mentorship can increase the productivity and success of your organization. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/29/the-three-languages-of-appreciation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130424 DTEND:20130425 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130329T073453 LAST-MODIFIED:20130329T073552 UID:5866@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:You Got the Grant! Now What? DESCRIPTION: Learn best practices in reporting and communicating to deepen relationships with foundations. This class is designed to help you successfully manage life after the grant. You will learn about the best practices in managing the reports and the communication required to build long term partnerships with foundations, ultimately leading to more opportunities for support.Topics covered include: •Understanding the grant relationship •Managing the grant process •Tips for engaging the funder during the life of the grant •Reporting on the grant, and preparing for the next one LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/29/you-got-the-grant-now-what/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130424 DTEND:20130425 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130329T073115 LAST-MODIFIED:20130329T073115 UID:5864@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Scouting Out New Books DESCRIPTION: In 2011, there were almost 350,000 books published (according to Bowker) and that number doesn’t include the over 211,000 titles that were self-published! How do we figure out which books are going to be the ones that our patrons will ask for without reading 24/7? There are a couple new and some not-so-new tools out there that can help. LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Edelweiss are just a few of the sites that Jean will cover in this fast-paced, interactive webinar. Come prepared to share your favorite book blog or website with the group. We’ll post all the sites after the webinar. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/29/scouting-out-new-books/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130416 DTEND:20130417 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130329T072809 LAST-MODIFIED:20130329T072809 UID:5862@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Bozarthzone! Turning Stress into Power DESCRIPTION: Managing stress effectively has less to do with managing external events – things you can’t control – and more to do with better managing yourself. This session focuses on strategies for taking charge of your own responses to stress and turning them to more productive reactions and behaviors. Audience: All staff. Jane Bozarth is North Carolina's self-appointed "E-Learning Goddess". While her specialty is in finding ways to cut the high costs of e-learning, Jane is also a popular classroom instructor and motivational speaker. Dr. Bozarth enjoys business writing and author of E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring, Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint, From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers, and Social Media for Trainers. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/29/bozarthzone-turning-stress-into-power-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130502 DTEND:20130503 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130329T072247 LAST-MODIFIED:20130329T072247 UID:5860@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Keep Your Stories Straight: Align Social Media and Content Marketing Strategies DESCRIPTION: With the continued emergence of social media channels as viable components of the marketing mix, are you properly aligning your social and content strategies to tell the right story to potential buyers? Join Ardath Albee, B2B marketing strategist and CEO of Marketing Interactions, and Paige Musto, Senior Manager, Public Relations and Social Media for Act-On, as they discuss: •Creating a continuous, consistent program to align social media and content marketing disciplines over time •Buyer touch points and lead nurturing throughout different stages of each strategy •The shifts to make as social media permeates today's marketing landscape •Metrics for measuring contribution of social media to marketing performance •Success stories and case studies to give you ideas about how to get started Ardath Albee Ardath applies 27 years of business management and marketing experience to help B2B companies with complex sales create eMarketing strategies that use contagious content platforms to turn prospects into buyers. Ardath authors the popular Marketing Interactions blog and is a frequent industry speaker. Her book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale was published by McGraw-Hill. Ardath was recently selected as one of the 50 Most Influential People in Sales and Marketing for 2012 by Top Sales World and the Sales and Lead Management Association. Clients include Cisco, Adobe, BMC Software, Sykes Enterprises, Teradata, SEEBURGER, and CoreMedia. Paige Musto Paige brings 8+ years’ experience in public relations and social media for high technology companies in the IT Security and SaaS industries. In this position she heads up all PR/AR and Social Media programs, driving Act-On’s brand and product awareness as well as leveraging social media to optimize lead generation. Prior to joining Act-On, Paige was Manager, Public Relations at NetSuite where she drove corporate, channel and partner PR and thought leadership programs, as well as established the company’s social media program. Paige has held various communication roles at companies including VeriSign, Check Point Software, and RSA, the security division of EMC. Paige holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Communication from the University of California at Davis and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with an emphasis in Marketing Management from California State University-East Bay. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/29/keep-your-stories-straight-align-social-media-and-content-marketing-strategies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130409T140000 DTEND:20130409T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130318T155723 LAST-MODIFIED:20130405T153817 UID:5841@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Trends and Issues in E-Government Services Online Meeting DESCRIPTION:Online E-government meeting with Pam Thompson, E-Government Consultant Register Event number: 644 461 441 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/18/trends-and-issues-in-e-government-services-online-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130412T100000 DTEND:20130412T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130312T160213 LAST-MODIFIED:20130320T130904 UID:5834@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Chat with Jana, Your Youth Services Consultant DESCRIPTION: Chat with Jana is an open monthly chat with library staff who work with youth to ask questions, bring ideas and concerns up so a conversation can begin and initiatives can be developed. April’s chat will focus on summer statistics. Register Event number: 646 104 065 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/12/chat-with-jana-your-youth-services-consultant/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130522 DTEND:20130523 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130312T155025 LAST-MODIFIED:20130312T155025 UID:5830@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Conversations Across the Invisible Yellow Line – Board and Staff Roles DESCRIPTION: If you’ve ever watched a football game on television, you’ve seen the yellow line that appears on the screen, showing the placement of the next down. We can see it, but those on the field cannot. It’s invisible to the players. The same is true in many board and staff relationships. There is a yellow line that defines who does what, but it is invisible. This fast paced webinar will share some of the basic on both sides of the yellow line and suggest ways to make it less ‘invisible’ to the players in a nonprofit. Takeaways: -Clarification of basic board and staff roles in governance, financial management, human resources, resource development and more. -Suggestions for effective ways to define roles of board and staff. Jean Block has more than 45 years of experience in the nonprofit sector as both board and staff leader. She is now a nationally recognized consultant and trainer on nonprofit management, fundraising, social enterprise and board development. She has written two nonprofit resource books: Fast FUNdraising Facts for Fame & Fortune and The ABCs of Building Better Boards. Three more nonprofit resource books will be released in 2013. Jean Block consulting, Inc. was formed in 1996 to allow Jean to share her considerable expertise in the nonprofit sector. Social Enterprise Ventures, LLC was formed in 2006 to focus on guiding nonprofits through the process to launch a social enterprise venture. The company now has nine senior consultant/trainers across the US. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/12/conversations-across-the-invisible-yellow-line-board-and-staff-roles/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130501 DTEND:20130502 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130312T154626 LAST-MODIFIED:20130312T154626 UID:5828@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Recruiting Professional Volunteers DESCRIPTION: Finding qualified professionals to contribute as volunteers can be a challenge. This webinar provides leaders of non-profit organizations and social purpose businesses with tips and logistical steps to successfully engage professional volunteers, access new relationships, and build board membership. Takeaways: -How to find and recruit professional volunteers -How to keep your professional volunteers engaged -Building your board Drew Tulchin’s professional experience spans the for-profit, non-profit, public, and banking sectors. He has helped launch 15 start-ups, and his work has generated more than $100 million for triple bottom line efforts. Consulting has taken him across the U.S., to numerous Native American nations, and to nearly 40 countries. He has written dozens of socially entrepreneurial business plans. Prisma Microfinance’s co-written plan was a Global Social Venture Competition award winner, published, and used to raise $1.2 million in private equity capital. He was Director of a U.S. microfinance organization, the CDFI called ECDC/Enterprise Development Group, which served immigrants and low-income people. He was also Program Officer for Grameen Foundation (GF), serving as the founding staff person of the Capital Markets Group. Social Enterprise Associates is a consulting firm offering business acumen, managerial experience, financing opportunities, and practical research to business and community efforts seeking social good. We foster ‘triple bottom line’ solutions supporting entrepreneurs, their organizations, and industries where they operate. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/12/recruiting-professional-volunteers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130409 DTEND:20130410 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130312T154009 LAST-MODIFIED:20130312T154009 UID:5824@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Boot Camp Training Model for Maturing Your Field DESCRIPTION: Foundations, associations and “hub n’ spoke” organizations that support a community of smaller affiliated offices, independent chapters, or even volunteer groups face a shared challenge: how to mature the whole field? The organizations under their umbrella are often out of step with critical new technology, new best practices and organizational thinking and often out of step with each other.Community building orgs are looking to create programs to teach affiliate’s new skills and build shared capacity, but what is a model that works? This webinar will outline our “Boot Camp” model for capacity building for any organizations that provide training, coaching and incentives to help their grantees/affiliates advance their fields. We’ll highlight the Boot Camp approach and focus on top tips for how to use gamification and incentives to get otherwise reluctant affiliates/umbrella orgs to learn and apply new thinking and technologies. We will cover: What the Boot Camp community capacity building model is and how it applies to your field. A breakdown of the barriers that “umbrella” orgs face in capacity building. Examples of effective incentive-based programs that get results with case studies from the field. Smart tactics to create connections between your affiliates and keep them engaged with (and learning from) each other. Takeaways: -A breakdown of the Boot Camp model and how it can be applied to any org/community -How your org can create a Boot Camp that gets participants to learn AND do -How to create connections between participants and pros who can provide coaching Michael Hoffman is a leading authority in online marketing for nonprofits and a long-time consultant to nonprofit leaders on online fundraising, advocacy and community engagement strategies. He started his career as a political consultant and Washington-based nonprofit fundraiser before joining a venture investment firm to develop internet start-ups. Hoffman founded See3 to bring together his belief in the power of the web and his passion and experience with nonprofit fundraising, advocacy, and education. He is a frequent blogger and tweeter on nonprofit marketing and is a nationally sought-after speaker on topics such as online cause marketing, web video, and social media for social change. See3 uses new media to activate people and advance social causes. We craft online strategies and campaigns aimed to meet your organization’s most important goals: fundraising, advocacy, awareness, recruitment. We believe online media and interactivity deepen relationships and make a difference for your issue. LAUNCH NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/12/the-boot-camp-training-model-for-maturing-your-field/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130322 DTEND:20130323 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130312T153628 LAST-MODIFIED:20130312T153628 UID:5822@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Achieving Intelligent Leadership DESCRIPTION: What makes a truly great leader? In today’s business world of fast-and-furiously changing global competitors and precarious economic conditions, determining the answer to this question—and finding people who embody it or could—is urgent. One of today’s most respected experts on identifying and developing high-potential leaders, John Mattone defines great leaders by the strength of their strategic and tactical capabilities as well as their character. In this webcast you’ll hear about his unique leadership self-assessment and development tools and discover how leadership is built on a foundation of three equally critical components: outer-core competencies, inner-core values, and maturity. What You Will Learn For leaders who striving to overcome their own limiting thoughts and habits and who want to become more effective, strategic, and balanced … join us to learn how to: •Assess your capability in nine core strategic and tactical competencies •Evaluate where you stand and how naturally you act on six critical elements of character: courage, diligence, gratitude, honesty, modesty, and loyalty •Understand your predominant leadership trait and style •Build rapport, trust, and credibility with individuals who exhibit different predominant traits from your own •And much more. John Mattone is the president of JohnMattonePartners, Inc., a global leadership consulting firm. He has been recognized by the prestigious Thinkers50 as one of the world's leading management thinkers and by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of the world's top independent leadership consultants, executive coaches, and speakers. He has written for The Huffington Post, CEO Magazine, CLO Magazine, CIO Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Harvard Business Review, among others. John Mattone and his work are the subject of a 30-minute documentary produced by PBS. In addition, Mattone teaches in the executive MBA program at Florida Atlantic University and is the author of Talent Leadership and Intelligent Leadership (AMACOM). LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/12/achieving-intelligent-leadership/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130606 DTEND:20130607 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130312T153458 LAST-MODIFIED:20130312T153458 UID:5820@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How Leaders Build Virtual Trust and Influence DESCRIPTION: Creating Trust and Trustworthiness in Virtual Relationships Increasingly, managers lead teams that are part global, distributed, or virtual. Yet, traditional management best practices are based on high-touch, in-person techniques. How do virtual managers build trust, engagement and influence without being physically present? In this webcast, leadership development experts Charles H. Green and Kristi Hedges, explore how successful leaders are using influence best practices in creative and unique ways suited for managing in a virtual environment. You’ll hear “from the trenches” perspectives that explain common issues in leading virtual teams with concrete advice for solving the problems that arise from them. As virtual management becomes the new normal, this webcast equips you with practical tools to be a trusted, present leader in any environment. What You Will Learn •The foundational components of trust and presence for any leader—virtual, remote or in-person •Strategies to gain commitment and buy-in for ideas remotely •How to increase trust and cohesion among team members who rarely see each other in person •Ways to overcome conflict, resistance, and accountability challenges •Techniques for establishing leadership presence without being physically present Kristi Hedges is an executive coach, leadership development consultant, and author of Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others (AMACOM). Her proprietary presence coaching model has been utilized by clients spanning Fortune 500 corporations, global professional services firms, entrepreneurial businesses, national associations, and the U.S. government. She's a leadership contributor to Forbes.com and Entrepreneur.com, and a speaker for Vistage International and The Founder Institute. She can be found on twitter @kristihedges or at her Communicate Leadership blog at kristihedges.com. Charles H. Green is an author, speaker and world expert on trust-based relationships and sales in complex businesses. Founder and CEO of Trusted Advisor Associates, he is author of Trust-based Selling, and coauthor of the The Trusted Advisor and its follow-up, The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook. His articles have been published in several journals, including Harvard Business Review, Directorship Magazine, and Management Consulting News. He is a contributing editor at RainToday.com. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/12/how-leaders-build-virtual-trust-and-influence/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130410 DTEND:20130411 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130307T121140 LAST-MODIFIED:20130307T121140 UID:5817@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:No Cost and Low Cost Teen Programs - NEFLIN in Orange Park DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, April 10, 9 am - 12 noon at NEFLIN in Orange Park For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A331230 LOCATION:2233 Park Avenue, Suite 402, Orange Park, FL, United States, 32073 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/07/no-cost-and-low-cost-teen-programs-neflin-in-orange-park/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130418T100000 DTEND:20130418T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130305T134053 LAST-MODIFIED:20130305T134053 UID:5811@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Seniors and Tech: Helping Some of our Most Loyal Navigate the Technology Terrain DESCRIPTION:Senior citizens are one of the most loyal demographics when it comes to brick and mortar library usage. Libraries are often the first place they think of when they need a helping hand with the difficulties of current technology. Meeting their instructional needs can be challenging. Join us for this webinar as we discuss how to meet the needs of our “Seniors” including: best practices for instruction, recommended resources for continued learning, focusing attention on their online privacy and security and hardware considerations. Jackie Papke is a former librarian and degreed teacher with a passion for “people + information + technology.” Teaching technology allows her to connect all three at once. While in her former position as a Reference Librarian and Webmaster for the Northwest Regional Library System, Jackie co-wrote the first Social Media Policy for the system, managed the Bay County Public Library Facebook Page (proudly doubling the fans!), and taught both peers and patrons. Jackie left the public library in May 2012 to launch Eye4Insight, her own Independent Research and Technology Instruction Company. Jackie holds a Master’s degree in Library & Information Studies with a concentration in Technology Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Education. April 18, 2013 10:00 - 11:00 am CT (11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET) Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/05/seniors-and-tech-helping-some-of-our-most-loyal-navigate-the-technology-terrain/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130613 DTEND:20130614 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T134841 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T134841 UID:5764@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Creating Screencasts with Jing: 2-Part Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Thursdays, June 13 and 20, 2-3 pm ET on your DESKTOP You must attend both sessions. For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A332255  LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/creating-screencasts-with-jing-2-part-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130612 DTEND:20130613 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T134708 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T134708 UID:5762@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Back to Basics: Polishing Your E-mail, Voice Mail and Telephone Etiquette: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, June 12, 2-3 pm ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A331861 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/back-to-basics-polishing-your-e-mail-voice-mail-and-telephone-etiquette-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130611 DTEND:20130612 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T134514 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T134514 UID:5760@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Being an Effective Facilitator: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, June 11, 2-3 pm ET on your DESKTOP To register or for details see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A331490 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/being-an-effective-facilitator-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130606 DTEND:20130607 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T134344 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T134344 UID:5758@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Read It, Make It, Take It: A Year's Worth of Storytime Crafts: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Thursday, June 6, 2-3:30 pm on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A332009 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/read-it-make-it-take-it-a-years-worth-of-storytime-crafts-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130604 DTEND:20130605 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T134144 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T134144 UID:5756@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Becoming a Better Project Manager: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, June 4, 2-3 pm on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A332197 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/becoming-a-better-project-manager-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130528 DTEND:20130529 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T133900 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T133921 UID:5753@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Risky Business Part 2: Administration, Marketing and Outreach in Teen Services: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, May 28, 10-11 am ET on your DESKTOP This is a 2-part webinar series and you can register to attend one or both sessions. For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A331841 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/risky-business-part-2-administration-marketing-and-outreach-in-teen-services-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130521 DTEND:20130522 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T133718 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T133718 UID:5751@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Risky Business Part 1: Serving Teens Through Strong Collections and Technology: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, May 21, 10-11 am ET on your DESKTOP This is a 2-part webinar series and you can register to attend one or both sessions. For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A331840 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/risky-business-part-1-serving-teens-through-strong-collections-and-technology-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130515 DTEND:20130516 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T133438 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T133438 UID:5749@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Special Copyright Issues for Social Media: 2-Part Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays, May 15 and 22, 2-3:30 pm ET on your DESKTOP You must attend both sessions. For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A332045  LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/special-copyright-issues-for-social-media-2-part-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130513 DTEND:20130514 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T133242 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T133242 UID:5747@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Leveraging Drupal's Rules Module: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Monday, May 13, 9 - 11 am ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A332104 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/leveraging-drupals-rules-module-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130507 DTEND:20130508 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T133101 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T133101 UID:5745@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets: 2-Part Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays, May 7 and 14, 10-11 am ET on your DESKTOP You must attend both sessions. For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A332189 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/introduction-to-cascading-style-sheets-2-part-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130506 DTEND:20130507 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T132904 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T132904 UID:5743@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Introduction to Responsive Website Design: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Monday, May 6, 9 - 11 am ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A332101 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/introduction-to-responsive-website-design-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130424 DTEND:20130425 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T132718 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T132718 UID:5741@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Coaching Employees for Success: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, April 24, 2-3 pm ET on your DESKTOP To register or for details see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A331858 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/coaching-employees-for-success-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130423 DTEND:20130424 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T132459 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T132459 UID:5739@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:HTML 5 Fundamentals - 2 Part Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays, April 23 and 30, 10-11 am ET on your DESKTOP You must attend both sessions. For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A332184  LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/html-5-fundamentals-2-part-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130416 DTEND:20130417 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T132223 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T132223 UID:5735@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Media Policies for the Library: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, April 16, 10-11 am on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A331857 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/social-media-policies-for-the-library-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130411 DTEND:20130412 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T132023 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T132023 UID:5731@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Readers' Advisory: Nonfiction Genres: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Thursday, April 11, 10-11 am ET, on your DESKTOP To register or for details see  http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A329359 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/readers-advisory-nonfiction-genres-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130302 DTEND:20130303 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T125617 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T132256 UID:5727@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What Library IT Staff Wants You to Know: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Thursday, April 4, 2-3 pm ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A331194   LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/what-library-it-staff-wants-you-to-know-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130302 DTEND:20130303 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130301T125110 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T132239 UID:5721@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Working with Vendors: Goals, Principles and Tactics: Webinar (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, April 2, 10-11 am ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A331193 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/03/01/working-with-vendors-goals-principles-and-tactics-webinar-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130507 DTEND:20130508 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T155020 LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T155020 UID:5717@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:LibraryYOU: Library as Content Creator DESCRIPTION: A webinar exploring LibraryYOU, a project encouraging community members to share their knowledge and learn how to communicate through digital media formats. Learn how the Escondido Public Library partnered with local experts to create digital content for the library’s collection. Funded by an LSTA grant, the LibraryYOU project consists of a digital media studio, a website, and public training classes encouraging community members to share their knowledge and learn how to communicate through digital media formats. LibraryYOU helps strengthen connections with local businesses, establishing the library as a technology leader in the community. This webinar covers how Escondido set up LibraryYOU and how other libraries, large and small, can set up similar community content creation projects. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/libraryyou-library-as-content-creator-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130430 DTEND:20130501 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T153018 LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T153018 UID:5715@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Extending access to e-books for public libraries: New strategies DESCRIPTION: A webinar discussing recent research and data around public library e-book purchasing and exploring strategies being developed around public policy, data collection and the library’s value in the e-book supply chain. Access to e-books is one of the most important issues facing public libraries today. With a planning grant (The Big Shift) funded by IMLS, OCLC has gathered recent research and data around public library e-book purchasing to aid the discussion and inform public library leaders who are assessing tactics for extending e-book access. A January 2013 convening of public library leaders from across the U.S. resulted in a set of strategies that they have agreed to pursue. The strategies include public policy, data collection and clearly defining the library’s value in the e-book supply chain, and outlining how libraries themselves can become vital participants in the emerging models for content creation and delivery. We will talk about how these strategies are progressing, how this work fits with other initiatives to extend e-book access, and we’ll touch on how you can get involved with these efforts. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/extending-access-to-e-books-for-public-libraries-new-strategies-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130403 DTEND:20130404 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T152749 LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T152749 UID:5711@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:So Many Devices, So Little Time DESCRIPTION: This webinar shares practical guidance on how libraries can help patrons with a variety of mobile devices whether through formal training or one-on-one assistance. Our library patrons want help in learning how to use their mobile devices—such as an e-reader, smartphone, or new tablet--and it can feel like an insurmountable task to help them all. Join us for some practical guidance on how libraries can help patrons with a variety of gadgets. We’ll share tips for how to set up realistic formal training sessions and how to best offer one-on-one assistance. You will also gain examples of practical training outlines, how-to guides, and video tutorials. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/so-many-devices-so-little-time-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130403 DTEND:20130404 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T152532 LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T152532 UID:5709@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How Women Succeed in Competitive Business Environments DESCRIPTION: Jump-Start Career Growth by Boosting Your Competitive Skills •Do you feel that you are more task oriented and perfectionist while the people that are advancing faster than you seem to be focusing on networking and know all the right people? •Do you feel that there is no one at work who supports you, gives you honest feedback and applauds your success? •Do you feel you are too nice and well liked yet you aren’t invited to key meetings or don’t get on critical assignments? Women leaders tend to be caught between impossible choices – trying to conform to traditional masculine leadership behaviors and those of femininity. This situation makes it challenging for women to bring their best self to work which is required if you are going to succeed in today’s highly competitive environments. It’s like playing in the super bowl wanting to be liked by the opposing team and aspiring to win at the same time. During this webcast, Kathryn Mayer will take you through a quick assessment to help you understand how you approach competition and your responses will be compared to the results of the 40 successful women she interviewed to write her book, Collaborative Competition™: A Woman’s Guide to Succeeding by Competing. Then she will provide a proven strategic approach to competition and how to form partnerships which will jump start your career growth. What You Will Learn: •Gain a snapshot of your current approach to competition and competitive situations •Identify a strategic mindset and a personalized, healthy approach to competition •Learn how to form partnerships within competitive environments that will enhance your performance and reduce stress. Kathryn Mayer is president and founder of KC Mayer Consulting, Inc., a strategic leadership development firm. Mayer has been a leadership professional for over twenty years and she currently leads workshops and does executive coaching work focusing on developing high potential women leaders. She is the author of Collaborative Competition™: A Woman’s Guide to Succeeding by Competing. For more information, visit: www.kcmayer.com LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/how-women-succeed-in-competitive-business-environments/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130314T080000 DTEND:20130314T080000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T121814 LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T121814 UID:5702@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Everyday Library Ethics DESCRIPTION:The roots of library ethical standards come from the same sources as do the foundations of local government: The Bill of Rights, the Rule of Law, the Magna Carta, and English common law. The right to privacy, transparent governance, access to information, and equal treatment are what all employees, volunteers, visitors, and users of academic libraries should expect. Many ethical issues have nothing to do with plagiarism, cheating on tests, and copyright violations, three favorite academic library concerns, or material challenges in public libraries. Topics include ethics at the library's front line and back room, civility and the ethics of supervision and management, how ethics impact other professions, when ethical systems and cultures collide, and due process in making decisions. AGENDA Introduction: Ethics and Libraries: A Short History What are ethics Is being fair the same as being nice? The Key Idea: Ethics Applies To Everyone In All Situations What Do Your State Library Laws Say and how do they apply to academic libraries The Four Main Principles Privacy Regarding What You Read: Protecting Students and Faculty Transparency: Decision-Making Guided By Open Meeting Law Access To Information: Open Stacks And Circulating Collections Equal And Fair Treatment: Do The Elite Get The Best Books First? Practical Considerations Leaders and managers: Walk the talk. Ethical policies When ethical systems collide What it takes to do make ethical decisions and actions? OUTCOMES Recognize and fix ethical violations in your library. Develop an ethics program for all employees and volunteers. Institute a transparent process for addressing ethical concerns. Pat Wagner is a library trainer and consultant, who has been working for academic, public, and special libraries since 1978. For several years, she was a presenter with the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute and is a frequent visitor to Florida libraries. Pat has presented on topics related to ethics, governance, and leadership at ALA, SLA, PLA, and other state and national library conferences. She is known for her practical and good-humored presentations. Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:1500 S. Martin Luther King Blvd, Tallahassee, FL, United States, 32307 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/everyday-library-ethics-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130403T130000 DTEND:20130403T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T115201 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T145658 UID:5698@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:So Many Devices, So Little Time DESCRIPTION:This webinar shares practical guidance on how libraries can help patrons with a variety of mobile devices whether through formal training or one-on-one assistance. Our library patrons want help in learning how to use their mobile devices—such as an e-reader, smartphone, or new tablet--and it can feel like an insurmountable task to help them all. Join us for some practical guidance on how libraries can help patrons with a variety of gadgets. We’ll share tips for how to set up realistic formal training sessions and how to best offer one-on-one assistance. You will also gain examples of practical training outlines, how-to guides, and video tutorials. Presented by: Jennifer Birnel, BTOP Technology Trainer, Montana State Library Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific Tweet: #wjwebinar Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/so-many-devices-so-little-time/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130430T130000 DTEND:20130430T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T114920 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T145804 UID:5694@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Extending access to e-books for public libraries: New strategies DESCRIPTION:A webinar discussing recent research and data around public library e-book purchasing and exploring strategies being developed around public policy, data collection and the library’s value in the e-book supply chain. Access to e-books is one of the most important issues facing public libraries today. With a planning grant (The Big Shift) funded by IMLS, OCLC has gathered recent research and data around public library e-book purchasing to aid the discussion and inform public library leaders who are assessing tactics for extending e-book access. A January 2013 convening of public library leaders from across the U.S. resulted in a set of strategies that they have agreed to pursue. The strategies include public policy, data collection and clearly defining the library’s value in the e-book supply chain, and outlining how libraries themselves can become vital participants in the emerging models for content creation and delivery. We will talk about how these strategies are progressing, how this work fits with other initiatives to extend e-book access, and we’ll touch on how you can get involved with these efforts. Presented by: Jennifer Pearson, OCLC Community Relations Programs Manager Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific Tweet: #wjwebinar Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/extending-access-to-e-books-for-public-libraries-new-strategies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130410T130000 DTEND:20130410T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T114804 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T145636 UID:5692@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Engaging Stakeholders, the First Step to Creating a Digitally Inclusive Community DESCRIPTION:A webinar exploring the Broadband Rhode Island digital inclusion stakeholder engagement process with representatives from multiple sectors. WebJunction.org is proud to be hosting an engaging discussion of Rhode Island’s digital inclusion stakeholder engagement process. We’ll discuss why Broadband Rhode Island (BBRI) decided it was important to create a process of engaging stakeholders in order to discuss technology access and use. Key collaborators will explain their involvement, how various sectors were engaged, the impact of NTIA funded projects upon the stakeholder engagement process, and how policy recommendations were created and prioritized. Target audience: Local or state leaders (libraries, community-based organizations, government, business) interested in building digitally inclusive 21st century communities. Panelists: Stuart Freiman, Broadband Program Director at Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation Howard Boksenbaum, Chief Library Officer for Rhode Island Pam Christman, Director of User Support Services at Rhode Island College former Chief Operation Officer at OSHEAN Anne Neville, Director, State Broadband Initiative, NTIA Moderator: Angela Siefer, Digital Inclusion Program Manager at OCLC. Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific Tweet: #wjwebinar Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/engaging-stakeholders-the-first-step-to-creating-a-digitally-inclusive-community/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130319T140000 DTEND:20130319T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T114431 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T145431 UID:5688@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Signature Events for Small Libraries DESCRIPTION: From "chocolate in the stacks" tastings to 5K runs to off-site literary dinner parties, small libraries are getting creative in offering signature events that raise funds and create friends. This webinar will be a "show and tell" of library fundraisers, with quick tips on how to get started in your community. This webinar, hosted by WebJunction in collaboration with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries, is an encore presentation of one of the most highly-rated sessions at the ARSL conference. Presented by: Cassie Guthrie, Executive Director, Pioneer Library System (NY) Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/signature-events-for-small-libraries/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T114259 LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T114331 UID:5684@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Worth a Thousand Words: Library Snapshot Day DESCRIPTION:A webinar exploring ways to use Library Snapshot Day to grow an image collection that can be used to build community awareness and to demonstrate the impact and reach of your library's services. By capturing photos of all that happens in a single day at your library, you can tell a powerful story about the importance of your library to the community. Libraries of all types and sizes have used Library Snapshot Day build community awareness and to demonstrate the impact and reach of library services. Panelists from Ohio Snapshot Day will share their templates and tips for successful planning and implementation, and will explore other ways images can be used to tell your library’s story. Learn how you can take a vivid snapshot of your library, whether it’s on your own, with others in your state or region, or in conjunction with National Library Week in April. Presented by: Marsha McDevitt-Stredney, Marketing & Communications Director, State Library of Ohio and Jenaye Antonuccio, Communications Coordinator, Athens County Public Libraries. Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Tweet: #wjwebinar Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/worth-a-thousand-words-library-snapshot-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130313T140000 DTEND:20130313T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T114100 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T145339 UID:5682@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Future of Online Learning: a changing landscape DESCRIPTION:Join us as we explore what education innovators are doing to increase engagement through learner-centered discovery, flipped classrooms, and enhanced online learning. As a leader in online learning for ten years, WebJunction has watched the practice evolve from the earliest webinars to the latest in social media tools. We know it has enriched lifelong learning opportunities, yet we also know the possibilities are still expanding. Join us as we explore what education innovators are doing to increase engagement through learner-centered discovery, flipped classrooms, and enhanced online learning. Let’s learn from each other in this interactive webinar. Help us map a future for elearning so WebJunction can better support your lifelong learning journey. Presented by: Betha Gutsche, WebJunction Program Manager, and Joann Flick, MS Ed., Continuing Education Coordinator, Montana State Library. Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific [Note earlier start time] Register Tweet: #wjwebinar Archive viewing options: View full Archive (combined archive of audio, chat, and slides) Coming Soon View slides (pdf) View chat (xls) Coming Soon Related Resources: Learner Guide Hodgins, W. (2004). The next big thing is getting small (report on presentation at the October 2003 AECT Convention, Anaheim, CA). Tech Trends. Volume 48, Number 1. Hodgins, W. Snowflaked Mashups: Future of Learning Content http://www.slideshare.net/WayneH/ Jonassen David H. & Land, Susan (1999). Theoretical foundations of learning environments. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. M. David Merrill (2002) First principles of instruction. https://www.indiana.edu/~tedfrick/aect2002/firstprinciplesbymerrill.pdf National Research Council (2000). How People Learn; Brain, mind, experience and school. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. Wiley, David A., Ed. (2002). The instructional use of learning objects. Bloomington, IN: Agency for Instructional Technology and Association for Education Communications and Technology. Daniel Pink on Motivation: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html Dr. John Medina’s Brain Rules: http://brainrules.net/ Flipped classroom: http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/how-the-flipped-classroom-is-radically-transforming-learning-536.php MOOCs Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/ Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/ Self-Directed Achievement webinar: http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/Self_Directed_Achievement.html Games, Learning and new media: http://www.thedailydogooder.com/2013/02/09/games-learning-and-new-media/ DragonBox Algebra game ($$): http://dragonboxapp.com/ Choose your own adventure children’s books: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/02/choose_your_own_adventure.html Mozilla’s Open Badges project: http://openbadges.org/en-US/ February WebJunction feature by Betha, Running the River of Lifelong Learning LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/the-future-of-online-learning-a-changing-landscape-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130401T100000 DTEND:20130401T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T113911 LAST-MODIFIED:20130320T130954 UID:5680@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:GED Testing 2002 Closeout Webinar DESCRIPTION:Starting on January 2, 2014, there will be a new GED® test. The current version of the GED test is expiring at the end of 2013. Partial scores will also expire for 50,000 candidates in Florida if they don't finish and pass the test by then. Join Diane Vaccari, GED Testing Program Manager, Florida Department of Education and Pam Thompson, E-Government Consultant, Division of Library and Information Services for a webinar exploring the resources available to Florida libraries to help your patrons who have not yet completed the test. April 1, 2013, 10:00-11:00 AM EST Register Event number: 642 087 571 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/ged-sun-setting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130328T100000 DTEND:20130328T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T113422 LAST-MODIFIED:20130320T131042 UID:5678@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Services to State Employees: Newspapers at the State Library of Florida DESCRIPTION:This webinar will include information about the newspaper resources available at the State Library of Florida. An emphasis will be placed on online, print and microform formats and will include online searching capabilities as well as references to other resources that are available outside the library. Questions about webinar content or the State Library’s newspaper holdings may be directed to Cheri Ellison at 850-245-6641 or cheri.ellison@dos.myflorida.com. Register Event number: 641 566 801 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/services-to-state-employees-newspapers-at-the-state-library-of-florida/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130320T100000 DTEND:20130320T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T113303 LAST-MODIFIED:20130318T155316 UID:5676@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Do you Día? Program Planning for El día de los niños/El día de los libros. DESCRIPTION:El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), is a celebration every day of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. The celebration emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Join this webinar to learn about the history and importance of Día. Dr. Naidoo, Associate and Foster-EBSCO Endowed Professor, University of Alabama and Ms. Gonzalez, Library Director, North Miami Public Library and Past-President of REFORMA, will share ways to celebrate children and connect them to the world of learning through books, stories and libraries. Time will be available for participants to share program activities. Register Event number: 643 710 847 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/do-you-dia-program-planning-for-el-dia-de-los-ninosel-dia-de-los-libros/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130315T100000 DTEND:20130315T113000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T113114 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T144916 UID:5673@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:One Book One State: Online Book Discussion for Public Library Directors: The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change DESCRIPTION:Join Gene Coppola, Director, Palm Harbor Public Library and Sandy Newell, Library Administration Consultant with the Bureau of Library Development for One Book One State: Online Book Discussion for Public Library Directors: The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change. Register today. Space is limited. This session is sponsored by the Division of Library and Information Services. The Florida Library Association’s Leadership Development Committee http://www.flalib.org/one_book_one_state.php is responsible for the statewide program. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/one-book-one-state-online-book-discussion-for-public-library-directors-the-dragonfly-effect-quick-effective-and-powerful-ways-to-use-social-media-to-drive-social-change/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130314T100000 DTEND:20130314T113000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T112921 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T144349 UID:5671@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Using Florida Memory to Enhance Your Viva Florida Events and Programming DESCRIPTION:2013 marks the 500 year anniversary of the arrival of European and African peoples in the land now known as Florida. The encounter between Juan Ponce de León's expedition and the Native Peoples of Florida in April 1513 initiated a process that forever changed life on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Institutions around the state are holding Viva Florida events to recognize this important turning point in World History. This webinar provides an overview of materials available on the Florida Memory Program website suitable for Viva Florida events and programming. The Florida Memory Program is a web initiative from the Florida Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services. Florida Memory provides online access, free of charge, to significant photographs, films, sound recordings and archival documents from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida. Thursday, March 14 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Eastern In the online classroom Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/using-florida-memory-to-enhance-your-viva-florida-events-and-programming/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130308T100000 DTEND:20130308T224500 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T112750 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T144132 UID:5669@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Viva Florida 500 Wildflower Project DESCRIPTION:n 1513, Ponce de Leόn made landfall on new soil and called the place La Florida, meaning land of flowers, based on its beauty and vitality. The Viva Florida 500 Wildflower Project is a collaborative effort between the Florida Department of State and libraries statewide in celebration of Florida’s native plants, perhaps the very same flowers which Ponce himself saw upon arrival. In recognition of this special and enduring piece of Florida history, the Viva Florida 500 team invites your library to join in our webinar and becoming a wildflower partner. During this presentation, you will learn more about the best methods for planting your own garden with wildflower seeds supplied by the Florida Wildflower Foundation. The brief overview will last about 30 minutes and allow for Q&A at its completion. For more information, please contact Samantha Stratton, Viva Florida 500 Wildflower Coordinator, at Samantha.Stratton@dos.myflorida.com or 850.245.6537. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/viva-florida-500-wildflower-project/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130305T140000 DTEND:20130305T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130226T112549 LAST-MODIFIED:20130301T142730 UID:5667@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Trends and Issues in E-Government Services DESCRIPTION:Monthly online meeting discussing E-Government services led by Pam Thompson, E-Government Consultant Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/26/trends-and-issues-in-e-government-services/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130411 DTEND:20130412 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130225T162835 LAST-MODIFIED:20130225T162835 UID:5664@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What’s New in Children’s Literature: 2013 Update DESCRIPTION: •Frustrated that you cannot think of a recommendation when a child asks for a “good book to read?” •Tired of recommending the same books because you can’t think of anything new to recommend to a child visiting the library? Discover the new books that you can recommend to children who use your library! Hear about books published in Fall 2012, and upcoming Spring 2013 titles, that will be popular with children ages 0-12. These include picture books, easy readers, transitional fiction, genre fiction for middle grades, graphic novels, poetry, nonfiction, and more! Hear about books that will appeal to the “reluctant reader,” boys who may have drifted away from reading, and books that will have popularity with a wide audience of children. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: •Be able to identify “read-alikes” – other books you can recommend to children after you find out their favorite book •Discover books that will grab the attention of reluctant readers, including the newest graphic novels for kids, nonfiction, and popular culture titles •Be able to name some new books relating to the Common Core •Hear a recap of the recent ALA awards (such as Newbery, Caldecott, etc.) and other recent children’s book awards, to make sure you have these available to recommend •Take away a list of helpful websites to use when doing readers’ advisory, and sites that will help you keep up-to-date on the latest children’s books. This webinar will be of interest to: any library staff or volunteer who serves children ages 0-12, in either public or school libraries. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/25/whats-new-in-childrens-literature-2013-update/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130417 DTEND:20130418 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130225T161945 LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T113021 UID:5661@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Becoming a Library & Information Professional DESCRIPTION: Are you considering getting your Master’s in Library and Information Studies? Learn about the School of Library & Information Studies’ Florida State University and School of Library & Information Science, master’s degree program. Dr. Christie Koontz from FSU will be there to share information about the 36 hour completely online master’s degree programs. If you are working in a library or an organization that requires the expertise of an information professional -- and wondering what it would take to get a Master's Degree to become a professional Library or Information Professional or School Media Specialist-- then this informative workshop is for you. The presenter will cover the degree programs at Florida State University including admission requirements, distance learning options, costs and financial aid availability. Join this session for all your questions to be answered. Dr. Koontz is a faculty member at Florida State University since 1990. Her academic training and work life are in communications, including journalism, advertising, and marketing. Her Ph.D is from the School of Information Studies at FSU. Koontz pioneered the critical need to understand the geographic and spatial nature of individual libraries, by collecting data that describe people who use a single library, and what Koontz' research is the basis of the U.S. Public Library Geographic Database (accessible through this site.) The database includes relevant US census data and library use data from 16,000 communities. Koontz teaches marketing domestically and abroad. Koontz is an associate in research at the School of Library and Information Studies, facilitating recruitment, and teaching marketing and storytelling. She is chapter advisor to the ALA Student Chapter which won “Best in the Nation 2012.” REGISTER NOW LOCATION:10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Library 325 East, Fort Myers, FL, United States, 33965 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/25/becoming-a-library-information-professional/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130613 DTEND:20130614 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130215T162637 LAST-MODIFIED:20130422T132041 UID:5658@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Write Bulletproof Emails - Managing Your E-Mail DESCRIPTION:Many people have developed a "love-hate" relationship with E-mail: while e-mail is one of the most universal forms of communication, many of us love it for its convenience and quick access, yet hate its intrusiveness and constant demands for attention. E-mail can become a true asset as a communication tool, one that will deliver the results you want and create credibility for you as the writer. This session, which focuses on both the writer and the reader, will enable you to: -Develop e-mail correspondence that gets your point across - quickly, effectively, and persuasively -Write openings that capture people¡¦s attention and closings that command action -Utilize a six-step process to understand and communicate with your reader -Create a foolproof e-mail template to save time and increase productivity -Make use of e-mail "etiquette" to always do the right thing. Robyn Winters, M.A., President of Stand Up, Stand Out! International, Inc., is a communication and presentation expert. For more than 20 years, she has worked with organizations and business professionals to achieve a world-class presence. Robyn's unique approach combines the art of communicating with the science of whole brain thinking, resulting in interactions that are targeted specifically to listener thinking styles. Robyn is an international speaker and presenter, and holds a master's degree from Wesleyan University. She is a certified practitioner of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). For fifteen years, Robyn was an adjunct faculty member of Cornell University¡¦s Management Development Program in New York City. Her clients include the American Society of Association Executives, Delta Air Lines, the University of South Florida, and Home Shopping Network. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:15000 Livingston Road, Naples, FL, United States, 34109 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/15/write-bulletproof-emails/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130613 DTEND:20130614 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130215T162427 LAST-MODIFIED:20130422T131816 UID:5656@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Write it Right! DESCRIPTION:Whether you write e-mails, prepare one-page letters and memos, or develop multiple-page reports, proposals or other documents, few tasks are as challenging as “putting it in writing” in a way that achieves the results you want. However, writing doesn’t have to be difficult: you can learn tools and master techniques to organize your thoughts and present your messages in ways that accomplish your goals. In this session you will learn to: -Write for “busy” readers and get your correspondence read -Weed out jargon, clichés, and excess verbiage that can muddle your message -Improve grammar and punctuation -Form an instant connection with your readers that keeps them interested -Inform and influence others to see your point of view Robyn Winters, M.A., President of Stand Up, Stand Out! International, Inc., is a communication and presentation expert. For more than 20 years, she has worked with organizations and business professionals to achieve a world-class presence. Robyn’s unique approach combines the art of communicating with the science of whole brain thinking, resulting in interactions that are targeted specifically to listener thinking styles. Robyn is an international speaker and presenter, and holds a master’s degree from Wesleyan University. She is a certified practitioner of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). For fifteen years, Robyn was an adjunct faculty member of Cornell University’s Management Development Program in New York City. Her clients include the American Society of Association Executives, Delta Air Lines, the University of South Florida, and Home Shopping Network. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:15000 Livingston Road, Naples, FL, United States, 34109 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/15/write-it-right/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20131119 DTEND:20131120 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T155249 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T155249 UID:5652@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Ways and Techniques to Ease Your Organization into Your Next Change Initiative DESCRIPTION: Most, if not all, organizations are going through dramatic change. And, they are attempting to manage the changes in many ways, which unfortunately, usually fail. This webinar will explore various organizational and behavioral methods for ensuring that your change efforts will succeed. As a participant, learn: œ How to begin bringing the work of transition management into organization œ How to increase productivity and decrease anxiety during periods of change œ Tools and a new framework to make these changes work and help renew commitment and creativity LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/ways-and-techniques-to-ease-your-organization-into-your-next-change-initiative/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130917 DTEND:20130918 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T155150 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T155150 UID:5650@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Mastering the Art and Science of Coaching Leaders DESCRIPTION: In this free webinar with Linkage Consultant, Dave Vaughn, learn how to coach your leaders to become catalysts for change within your organization and to heighten personal and organizational productivity. As a participant, you will learn: œ The five basic principles of coaching leaders œ The four stages of Linkage's proven Coaching Leaders Model œ New tools and techniques to coach leaders to facilitate productive change in persons, teams, and systems LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/mastering-the-art-and-science-of-coaching-leaders/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130514 DTEND:20130515 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T154628 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T154628 UID:5648@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Learn the Disciplines and Behaviors that Shape a Results-Focused Culture DESCRIPTION: Itfs a long way from winning strategies to genuine results. Great leaders distinguish themselves by taking a disciplined approach to executing against their plans, and ensuring that the work gets done. Join this free webinar with Linkage Principal Consultant, Roger Young, and learn the culture-shaping leadership behaviors to: œ Ensure greater commitment upfront œ Foster surer initiative taking, and decision making, as the work unfolds œ Promote more consistent follow through to achieve desired results LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/learn-the-disciplines-and-behaviors-that-shape-a-results-focused-culture/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130612 DTEND:20130613 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T154258 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T154258 UID:5646@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Brain-Based Approach to Building Brilliant Teams DESCRIPTION: How to Build, Maintain and Extend Your Dream Team We all want to lead teams where the members act like owners, take performance personally, and are high-energy and ready to rock. In today’s bottom-line business world, results are what it’s all about. And consistent exceptional results require a dream team. In this program you’ll discover the keys to: •Optimizing human performance and engagement by applying the latest neuroscience techniques •Cultivate Passion in your teams and yield more effective leadership and innovation in your organization You’ll identify 5 proven tools that yield key results for leaders including: – Ways to gain between 5 and15 more hours per week of free time – Keys to building a team that is 35%+ more productive in 6 months or less – Secrets for Team members whose emotional engagement is increased by 67 to100% Christine Comaford is author of the bestselling Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality. As an entrepreneur, she has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. . She is also the author of SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together, available in June 2013. In addition, Comaford is a leadership columnist for for Forbes and has appeared on numerous television programs, including "Good Morning America." For more information, visit www.ChristineComaford.com LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/the-brain-based-approach-to-building-brilliant-teams/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130508 DTEND:20130509 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T153800 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T153800 UID:5644@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity DESCRIPTION: The workplace is an unprecedented minefield of constant demands from other people, technology, and a nonstop workday. We are forced to make critical decisions under pressure, creating a personal energy crisis that prevents us from thinking clearly and achieving extraordinary results. To succeed in this new work world, we need to learn how to make good decisions, focus our attention, integrate our technology and sustain high energy day in and day out. Attend this webcast and learn about FranklinCovey’s program called “5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity.” The program, supported by science and years of experience, will give you an overview, key concepts and elements of a process that has helped countless individuals yield a measurable increase in their productivity. It will also give you hope, a renewed sense of engagement, show you how implementing these tools and concepts can make or break your ability to achieve the most important outcomes in your work and personal life. •The difference between acting on the important as opposed to reacting to the urgent •Why you should go for extraordinary and not settle for ordinary •Focusing on the big rocks, not the gravel •Why it’s important to rule your technology, not let it rule you •Fueling your fire so that you don’t burn out Kory Kogon is a global productivity practice leader, trust expert, and speaker with FranklinCovey. Before joining FranklinCovey, Kory spent more than 11 years as the Executive VP of Worldwide Operations for AlphaGraphics, Inc. She also led the implementation of ISO 9000, supervised the move of the corporate headquarters from Tucson to Salt Lake City, and managed the installation of the first companywide global learning system. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/5-choices-to-extraordinary-productivity/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130321 DTEND:20130322 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T153636 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T153636 UID:5642@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Win at Search, Social & Content Marketing DESCRIPTION: There’s no doubt. Online, content is king. Last year, businesses spent nearly $20 billion developing content for online marketing. Google rewards quality content and update frequency in its continuous algorithm updates. When you combine engaging content, Internet search and social media, you have created one of the most powerful opportunities available for you to outperform your competitor’s and grow your business. While social media continues to grow wildly in both use and functionality, search continues to grow more powerful every year; but how do they play into the content marketing formula? In this webcast you will learn: •What exactly Content Marketing is and how to excel at it •How to increase your odds of being found in search and social media •How search and social tactics can be combined and leveraged to work better together than individually •How content fits into the equation and why you should consistently create content that your target market will enjoy Arnie Kuenn is the president of Vertical Measures, a search, social & content marketing company helping their clients get more traffic, more leads, and more business. Arnie has held executive positions in the world of new technologies and marketing for more than 20 years. He is a frequent speaker and author of the award winning content marketing book Accelerate!Moving Your Business Forward Through the Convergence of Search, Social & Content Marketing available on Amazon. You can find Arnie on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and LinkedIn. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/how-to-win-at-search-social-content-marketing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130507 DTEND:20130508 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T153257 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T153257 UID:5638@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Inbound Marketing: The Latest Techniques to Attract More Donors and Volunteers DESCRIPTION: Nonprofits’ efforts to find supporters are rapidly being supplanted by the need for supporters to easily find you. Learn about specific, low-cost marketing and fundraising techniques that will drive more traffic to you online, and increase your “conversion rate” so more of them become donors, event attendees, and other supporters. We’ll examine how to implement inbound marketing by combining techniques like search engine optimization, pay-per-click, blogs, articles, websites, landing pages, calls to action, links, social media, and more to promote and leverage your content, boost online traffic, generate leads, and convert those leads into supporters. We’ll also discuss how to easily measure results to validate that your fundraising programs are working. Takeaways: -Build/maintain an interactive website designed to convert visitors to leads -Drive online traffic to your website and social media -Maximize the likelihood prospects can find you -Keep traffic on your site with lots of functionality (i.e., “stickiness”) -Convert leads into donations and other forms of support (i.e., “conversion”) -Track results Allan Pressel is founder/CEO of PowerSite123 (formerly CharityFinders), which helps nonprofits and for-profits create world-class websites, social media, and online marketing to further their mission. PowerSite123’s unique technology enables any organization to have its own powerful website quickly, affordably, and with no technical skills required. Allan has done thousands of presentations for the nonprofit and business community worldwide, almost always to rave reviews. Allan has been designated as one of the world’s leading e-philanthropy speakers. Allan is the co-author of Internet Management for Nonprofits. He was given the Volunteer Service Award by President George W. Bush. Previously, Allan was co-founder of i-Cube, which had a highly successful IPO, and was later acquired by Razorfish. i-Cube helped large corporations through software/web development. Prior to founding i-Cube, Allan was a technology strategy consultant at Arthur Anderson and First Consulting Group. Allan holds an M.B.A from UCLA, and is an All-American springboard diver. Powersite123 helps small- to mid-sized organizations create beautiful, interactive websites integrated with marketing programs to: – Help drive traffic – Convert leads – Generate revenue Now you can have access to powerful functionality, such as the ability to collect funds securely within your site (not on a 3rd party site!), build a database of constituents, facilitate search engine optimization, sell products, register people for events, and manage your own content. By providing your constituents with lots to see and lots to do, your website and marketing can make you money, not just cost money. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/inbound-marketing-the-latest-techniques-to-attract-more-donors-and-volunteers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130501 DTEND:20130502 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T153137 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T153137 UID:5635@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:When the Traditional Communications Office is No Longer Enough DESCRIPTION: The channels nonprofit organizations can use to engage their various audiences continue to proliferate…which is both a blessing and a curse. This session will deliver practical, actionable advice on how to build a team and a program that can achieve your goals, while working within your organization’s resource realities. Takeaways: -Understand the difference between a traditional communications function and an integrated marketing communications function…and know which your organization needs -Understand how to evaluate the skill set you need to meet your marketing communications goals -Discuss how to hire, redirect, etc. in order to get the best possible team -Learn how to build a culture of marketing across your entire organization Michele Levy considers herself a brand therapist for nonprofits, start-ups and what she refers to as “other entrepreneurial organizations.” With an approach that is equal parts energy, accessibility and common sense, Michele makes brand strategy and communications topics relevant and understandable for a range of participants. She has worked with a range of nonprofit and corporate clients, adeptly bridging the sectors and leveraging best practices from both. Her work includes research, brand strategy, message development, communications planning, and training. She has spoken on branding to a variety of organizations, including Association of Fundraising Professionals, American Association of State and Local History, National Association of Independent Schools, and New England Museum Association. She is a valued trainer with Center for Women & Enterprise, Interise and Social Innovators Forum. An honors graduate of Harvard College, Michele received her MBA from Boston University. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/when-the-traditional-communications-office-is-no-longer-enough/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130320 DTEND:20130321 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T152941 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T152941 UID:5633@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Intermediate Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Office 2010 (Level 200) DESCRIPTION: Get even more out of the Microsoft Office 2010 System. As someone who has worked with the Microsoft Office system for some time, you will discover efficient ways to configure, customize and utilize Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook to get the most out of Microsoft Office. The presentation will demonstrate useful tips and tricks for Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel. In addition, you will see useful ways to interact between these Microsoft applications. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/intermediate-tips-tricks-for-microsoft-office-2010-level-200/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130314T090000 DTEND:20130314T160000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130212T141335 LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T141623 UID:5626@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Everyday Library Ethics DESCRIPTION:The roots of library ethical standards come from the same sources as do the foundations of local government: The Bill of Rights, the Rule of Law, the Magna Carta, and English common law. The right to privacy, transparent governance, access to information, and equal treatment are what all employees, volunteers, visitors, and users of academic libraries should expect. Many ethical issues have nothing to do with plagiarism, cheating on tests, and copyright violations, three favorite academic library concerns, or material challenges in public libraries. Topics include ethics at the library's front line and back room, civility and the ethics of supervision and management, how ethics impact other professions, when ethical systems and cultures collide, and due process in making decisions. AGENDA Introduction: Ethics and Libraries: A Short History What are ethics Is being fair the same as being nice? The Key Idea: Ethics Applies To Everyone In All Situations What Do Your State Library Laws Say and how do they apply to academic libraries The Four Main Principles Privacy Regarding What You Read: Protecting Students and Faculty Transparency: Decision-Making Guided By Open Meeting Law Access To Information: Open Stacks And Circulating Collections Equal And Fair Treatment: Do The Elite Get The Best Books First? Practical Considerations Leaders and managers: Walk the talk. Ethical policies When ethical systems collide What it takes to do make ethical decisions and actions? OUTCOMES Recognize and fix ethical violations in your library. Develop an ethics program for all employees and volunteers. Institute a transparent process for addressing ethical concerns. Pat Wagner is a library trainer and consultant, who has been working for academic, public, and special libraries since 1978. For several years, she was a presenter with the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute and is a frequent visitor to Florida libraries. Pat has presented on topics related to ethics, governance, and leadership at ALA, SLA, PLA, and other state and national library conferences. She is known for her practical and good-humored presentations. Register at PLAN's website LOCATION:1500 S. Martin Luther King Blvd, Tallahassee, FL, United States, 32307 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/12/everyday-library-ethics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130314 DTEND:20130315 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130211T144720 LAST-MODIFIED:20130211T144720 UID:5623@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Mobile Website Design for Libraries DESCRIPTION:Did you know: •At the end of 2011 there were more than 1 billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide? •More library customers are using mobile devices and assume your library can be accessible from anywhere, at any time, and on most any device? This webinar will help you learn how to easily and effectively make your library’s website accessible and useful to mobile users. Chad Mairn will describe and demonstrate various tools, tips, and techniques for creating mobile websites, making them interactive and engaging, and integrating them with other resources, services, and systems available through your library. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will be able to: •Identify 3 innovative library mobile website designs. •Explain how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together to build mobile websites. •Describe what a mobile framework is and why they are used. •List 3 existing mobile services/apps that can be included in library-created mobile websites. •Describe the best practices in mobile Web development •Use a step-by-step guide for implementing a mobile website. This webinar will be of interest to library administrators, librarians, and library and IT staff members in all types of libraries who are interested in the design and creation of mobile websites. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/11/mobile-website-design-for-libraries/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130312 DTEND:20130313 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130211T144434 LAST-MODIFIED:20130211T144434 UID:5621@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Ebooks and Libraries: Legal Issues for Library Administration and Staff DESCRIPTION: •Does your library have Kindles, Nooks and iPads for loan or in-house use? •Do you have accessible e-readers available to customers who are print disabled? •Do you know the legal requirements to make your services accessible? Ebooks present both opportunity and challenge as the dominant delivery is via electronic license, governed by contract law rather than by copyright law. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: •Understand the difference between eBook content licenses and ownership •Be brought up to date on the latest legal issues, including the settlement agreement between the National Federation of the Blind and the Sacramento Pubic Library Authority •Learn how the Califa Library Group (http://www.califa.org/) has fared in buying (not just licensing) eBook content for use by its customers. This webinar will be of interest to library administrators and staff involved in policy decisions and purchasing of eBooks readers. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/11/ebooks-and-libraries-legal-issues-for-library-administration-and-staff/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130221 DTEND:20130222 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130207T152458 LAST-MODIFIED:20130207T152458 UID:5614@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Creating the Perfect Communications Plan DESCRIPTION: There are many marketing communications tools which are available to us which makes its easy to forget a few as we remain focused on the others. This webinar will remind you that there is more to life than just Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. I will remind you of all the tools you could and should be using and then show you how you can make time for it all by creating the perfect communications plan. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/07/creating-the-perfect-communications-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130227 DTEND:20130228 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130207T152226 LAST-MODIFIED:20130207T152226 UID:5612@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Pinterest for Libraries DESCRIPTION: Did you know that Pinterest crossed the 10 million-user mark faster than any other standalone site in history? In this webinar, we'll get to know the hottest social network going and explore a myriad of ways that libraries can use Pinterest for creative marketing, outreach, and fun. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/07/pinterest-for-libraries/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130228 DTEND:20130301 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130207T152108 LAST-MODIFIED:20130207T152108 UID:5610@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Readers' Advisory: Spotlight on Nonfiction DESCRIPTION:Sarah Statz Cords is an author, presenter, and blogger with plenty of public library experience. Her specialty is Readers' Advisory. Learn about some basic, easily-applicable readers' advisory techniques, and then we'll hone in on nonfiction readers' advisory. This webinar is co-sponsored by IFLS, NWLS and WVLS. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/07/readers-advisory-spotlight-on-nonfiction/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130214 DTEND:20130215 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130207T151609 LAST-MODIFIED:20130207T151847 UID:5606@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Are Books Your Brand? How Libraries Can Stay Relevant to Readers DESCRIPTION: The core mission of libraries – providing books for readers – is as relevant today as it was years ago. In fact, it’s what people overwhelmingly identify as THE reason for libraries. Formats might change, and library patrons might only visit the library virtually, but the library is still the place where readers go to find books. Libraries should embrace this role in their communities – and become “Centers for Readers.” But how? Join us for a free webinar with several librarians who are keeping readers at the forefront of the library mission. The panel will discuss: -Shifts in how people are using the library -Examples of successful library programs and services for readers -Strategies and tools for engaging communities of readers LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/07/are-books-your-brand-how-libraries-can-stay-relevant-to-readers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130409T093000 DTEND:20130409T163000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130207T141429 LAST-MODIFIED:20130325T082048 UID:5601@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Customer Service Boot Camp (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:“I believe one of the biggest problems facing us right now in the world of social media, customer service and business as a whole is that we’re not looking far enough ahead into the future.” – Peter Shankman Customer Service for Libraries continues to be redefined and reshaped. The impact of the Social Customer is already being felt, yet many libraries have yet to successfully address how to connect with and serve this growing customer group. And worse yet, many libraries don’t have a plan to move forward. The interactive and fun Social Customer Service Boot Camp will give you the information that you need to connect, keep and communicate more effectively with your Social Customers! There will be plenty of case studies to explore and best practices to take back to your library! In our SCS Boot Camp, attendees will create an SCS plan while learning how to: Put together a Social Media Customer Service Team Deal with the Happy, Mad and Unreasonable Social Customers Fail at Social Customer Service including the Four Rules of Social Customers Win-Over Customers You May Rarely or Never Actually See Make Social Customers Loyal Customers Brand your Library for the Social Customer Connect with the Social Customer the Way They Want You To Use the 6-2-2 Marketing Approach for Delighting the Social Customer on Facebook and Twitter Presenter: Andrew Sanderbeck Registration deadline:  04/02/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION:1100 Coconut Creek Blvd., Coconut Creek, FL, United States, 33066 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/07/social-customer-service-boot-camp-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130403T100000 DTEND:20130403T233000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130207T140804 LAST-MODIFIED:20130207T141023 UID:5596@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Understanding Compassion Fatigue in the Library (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:You love your job. You love your library. You love helping your patrons prepare for a job interview or apply for benefits. But... There are days when you’ve given just about all you have to give. At the end of the day you feel drained, or irritated, or both! You feel like you’ve helped everyone you can help – but there are more job seekers who still need you. “Compassion Fatigue” is a term normally heard in a medical/caregiver environment, describing a caregiver's reaction to chronic stress that results in feelings of hopelessness, anxiety, self-doubt, lack of focus and fatigue. Yet isn’t that what you are, too...a “caregiver”? Especially for those looking for jobs or applying for benefits, sometimes they just need to know that someone really does care – and you’re happy to let them know that. At the end of the day, though, when every single solitary person you have seen has required extra “care,” your energy level can be depleted. How do you deal with that depth of fatigue? Understanding Compassion Fatigue in Your Library is an overview of just what “compassion fatigue” is. What kinds of situations cause that energy drain? How can we recognize it? How does it affect our working environment? What can we DO about it? We’ll explore ways to take care of yourself so you can continue to show compassion and give your patrons the care they need. Join us for this 90-minute webinar and leave with a better understanding of why you feel the way you do and how you can deal with it more effectively. Presented by: Linda Bruno Linda has been developing and conducting training seminars for more than ten years. Certified with Development Dimensions International and Achieve Global, she also offers her own workshops on Customer Service, Supervisory Skills, Personalities, Organizational Skills, Effective Communication, Returning Balance to Your Life, and many other topics. Registration deadline:  3/27/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/07/understanding-compassion-fatigue-in-the-library-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130717 DTEND:20130718 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130201T170556 LAST-MODIFIED:20130507T130803 UID:5591@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Quick & Easy on Helping Unemployed Patrons DESCRIPTION:Libraries exist for the benefit of the mind, right? Well as we all know when it comes to services for the unemployed libraries are usually the “go to” place. It is mandatory now for the unemployed to now enroll online. Presenter Nelson Villaverde will give hands-on experience to show how easy it is to direct Job seekers to Southwest Florida Works where they complete the application process for unemployment. Training Outline: 1.) Unemployment presentation • How to file a new claim online o How to Create Pin # o How to find Claim Information o Skills Test Requirement • How to claim weeks online o How to enter a One Stop Visit 2.) Employ Florida Marketplace presentation • How to fully register o Completing Background information o Up loading/creating resumes § Up to five Resumes o Turn-on virtual recruiter § Up to Ten virtual recruiters o Create an E-mail if needed • How to use job search tool 3.) What does Southwest Florida have to offer: • Offer free workshops o Computer Classes Basic o Microsoft Word & Excel Classes Basic o Advanced Word & Excel Classes o Resume, Job interview, job search workshops • Veterans workforce program o Veteran or Eligible Spouse o One on One assistance with respect to self sufficiency • Adult & Youth programs o GED Classes o Training Opportunities • Ticket To Work Workshop o 18-64 receiving SSI/SSDI become self-sufficient ..….and much more! Tammy Benoit lived in the Estero/Bonita Springs area for over 20 years. She worked in the construction industry for most of that time transferring her skills from field to office as a Human Resource Manager. Due to the economy, Tammy was unemployed for seven months. She was hired by Southwest Florida Works in May of 2012. She is responsible for tactfully, courteously, and effectively speaking to Florida citizens regarding their unemployment compensation compliance issues while explaining the unemployment program in a clear and understandable manner, continually assisting claimants with compliance satisfaction. Recently, Tammy Benoit presented SWFL Works RIT workshop and also their Center Orientation on the Fox4 News station in January of 2013. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:21100 Three Oaks Parkway, Estero, FL, United States, 33928 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/01/the-quick-easy-on-helping-unemployed-patrons-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130619 DTEND:20130620 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130201T170419 LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T170419 UID:5592@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:High-Impact Communication Skills DESCRIPTION: Nearly all work involves interaction with others and communication of some sort. Clear, persuasive communication—between individuals, within teams, among departments—is a vital part of any successful organization. This training offers valuable insights anyone can use to enhance their communication style while earning the respect and cooperation of others. As a result of this training, participants will have the confidence to voice their ideas and suggestions… be better able to represent the team, department, or organization during external or internal functions… complete projects quickly, with fewer hassles and less stress. Your entire organization will operate more seamlessly, as people put their new communication skills and strategies into action. This course provides hard-skills training in how to: •Use the techniques of influence and persuasion to build productive and rewarding relationships with all kinds of people •Control your emotions and stay composed and effective while under pressure •Overcome fears of public speaking, and voice your thoughts and opinions readily •Handle high-stakes situations, mistakes, and crises with confidence As a result, people will talk to each other more, and about each other less. They’ll be more willing to collaborate and work together as a team when communication is clear and direct. Anyone, regardless of title, responsibilities or length of service, will see an increase in communication skills after this training. Experience: -Key Learning Points -Performance improvements you can expect -26 skills and insights to help you communicate powerfully As a Personal Growth Advisor, Ana has dedicated her life to the excitement and wonder of self-discovery and awareness. She provides attendees with an exciting day of training, as her energy gradually increases throughout the day. Ana conducts her sessions with inspiration and personal attention to all attendees unique attributes. Ana’s eagerness to learn fosters an electric environment tailored to attendees’ particular industries or individual questions. Capitalizing on the fact that knowledge is power, Ana explores how her material can put each individual on the career path they seek, while instilling a thirst for information. Using humor, positive interaction, and a passionate style, Ana knows attendees genuinely retain the information necessary to resolve challenges and promote a knowledgeable future. Training topics Ana specializes in include grammar and writing, management skills, communication and planning, public speaking, and many more. In addition to being a fluent Spanish speaker, Ana has lent her expertise to many different industries, including marketing, public relations, and owning her own retail business. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:21100 Three Oaks Parkway, Estero, FL, United States, 33928 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/01/high-impact-communication-skills/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130225 DTEND:20130226 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130201T092117 LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T092117 UID:5588@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Play with RDA DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE SECOND OF TWO SESSIONS IN TRACK ONE ON FEBRUARY 25, 2013. Please see the link below to register for the afternoon session. Afternoon session: Cataloging with RDA, including specific examples of a variety of formats. This workshop will address Resource Description and Access (RDA) the new cataloging rules being implemented in 2013. Discussion will include the FRBR and FRAD concepts and their role in RDA, as well as the role of user tasks and cataloger tasks. The correlation between AACR2 and RDA, including specific examples of a variety of formats, will be presented. Dr. Shawne Miksa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Sciences and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Information Science PhD Program in the College of Information (COI), University of North Texas. She has published and taught in the areas of Information Organization, Cataloging and Classification, Information Representation and Subject Analysis since 1998 and is currently writing a cataloging textbook on Resource Description and Access (RDA) for ALA Publishing. In 2009 she completed a 2-year term as Chair of the RDA Implementation Task Force for the Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS) under ALA’s ALCTS division. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:5901 College Road, Key West, FL, United States, 33040 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/01/play-with-rda/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130225 DTEND:20130226 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130201T091837 LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T091837 UID:5586@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Everything You Wanted to Know about Reference but were Afraid to Ask DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE FIRST OF TWO SESSIONS IN TRACK TWO ON FEBRUARY 25, 2013. Topics to be discussed are: •The reference interview •When to use a book versus a database versus Google •Accessing eGovernment reference •Genealogy reference •How to keep up with what’s available and coming on the horizon REGISTER NOW LOCATION:5901 College Road, Key West, FL, United States, 33040 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/01/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-reference-but-were-afraid-to-ask/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130225 DTEND:20130226 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130201T091712 LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T091712 UID:5584@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Right Service at the Right Time (Introduction with Hands-On Q & A) DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE FIRST OF TWO SESSIONS IN TRACK TWO ON FEBRUARY 25, 2013. Do you like being Right? Then you need to be a part of the Right Service at the Right Time! The Right Service at the Right Time is an easy to use resource that connects people with e-gov and social services. And now, we are bringing the Right Service right to you! On January 18, we will be offering two workshops to get you on the right path. The morning workshop, 9:30am-11:30am, will cover what Right Service is, why it is important, how to participate, how to use it, free and inexpensive ways to promote it, and other great info. The afternoon workshop, 1:30pm-4:00pm, will be a hands on session, navigating the library and service provider consoles, creating user accounts, managing services and finding and entering resources. It is suggested that you attend both sessions, but if your schedule does not allow it, please attend whichever one you can. If you are attending the afternoon session, please bring some resources (service provider information) with you to enter into the database – for example, information about your local Goodwill industries location, what services they offer, address, eligibility requirements, etc. Or just bring the urls for the services you refer customers to. Please sign up Right now for these free workshops and learn how this free resource gets Right the heart of what your customers need. The Right Service at the Right Time has been funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Florida Department of State, State Library and Archives of Florida. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:5901 College Road, Key West, FL, United States, 33040 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/01/right-service-at-the-right-time-introduction-with-hands-on-q-a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130225 DTEND:20130226 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130201T091523 LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T091523 UID:5582@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Intro to RDA DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE FIRST OF TWO SESSIONS IN TRACK ONE ON FEBRUARY 25, 2013. Morning session: Overview of FRBR and FRAD concepts and their role in RDA, user tasks and cataloger tasks, and comparison of RDA to AACR2. This workshop will address Resource Description and Access (RDA) the new cataloging rules being implemented in 2013. Discussion will include the FRBR and FRAD concepts and their role in RDA, as well as the role of user tasks and cataloger tasks. The correlation between AACR2 and RDA, including specific examples of a variety of formats, will be presented. Dr. Shawne Miksa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Sciences and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Information Science PhD Program in the College of Information (COI), University of North Texas. She has published and taught in the areas of Information Organization, Cataloging and Classification, Information Representation and Subject Analysis since 1998 and is currently writing a cataloging textbook on Resource Description and Access (RDA) for ALA Publishing. In 2009 she completed a 2-year term as Chair of the RDA Implementation Task Force for the Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS) under ALA’s ALCTS division. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:5901 College Road, Key West, FL, United States, 33040 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/02/01/intro-to-rda/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130626 DTEND:20130627 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130129T151028 LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T151028 UID:5578@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Marketing Your Library Using Social Media DESCRIPTION: Is your library using social media to reach your patrons or students? Are you thinking about it? Whether you're just starting with social media or want to improve your library’s use of it, this webinar will discuss how social media is different than other marketing methods. We'll cover professional use of social tools, content, workflow and maintenance. We’ll also have time for the burning questions you have about effectively using social media. Scott Brown is owner of Social Information Group, an independent information practice that focuses on the effective use of social networking tools for sharing and finding information. He also is adjunct faculty for the library & information schools at San Jose State University (California, USA) and University of Denver (Colorado, USA). His forthcoming book on finding information via social media tools, Social Information: Gaining competitive and business advantage using social media tools was published in 2012. He has over 20 years of experience in library and information organizations, in public, academic and corporate settings. He is also a professional coach, specifically working with information professionals. You can email him or connect to him on LinkedIn. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/29/marketing-your-library-using-social-media/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130130 DTEND:20130131 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130129T150725 LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T150725 UID:5574@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Dealing Effectively With Difficult Patrons and Students DESCRIPTION: We all dread – and we’ve all dealt with – difficult patrons. Why is dealing with difficult patrons and students so – well, difficult? You’re not alone in facing tough situations. In this webinar, you’ll come away with a better understanding of some of the elements of difficult interactions; you’ll learn some simple tools to help deal with difficult patrons and students more effectively; and you’ll discover ways to use your sense of humor and perspective to survive those encounters. Scott Brown is owner of Social Information Group, an independent information practice that focuses on the effective use of social networking tools for sharing and finding information. He also is adjunct faculty for the library & information schools at San Jose State University (California, USA) and University of Denver (Colorado, USA). His forthcoming book on finding information via social media tools, Social Information: Gaining competitive and business advantage using social media tools was published in 2012. He has over 20 years of experience in library and information organizations, in public, academic and corporate settings. He is also a professional coach, specifically working with information professionals. You can email him or connect to him on LinkedIn. REGISTER NOW LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/29/dealing-effectively-with-difficult-patrons-and-students/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130510 DTEND:20130511 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130129T150445 LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T150445 UID:5572@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Tools for Finding Company, Business and Industry Information DESCRIPTION:What are the key social media tools and approaches business librarians need to know? Traditional resources for business and company information can be complemented by the effective use of social media tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter feeds, social networking groups and other social tools. This “crash course” session will get business librarians in any library setting thinking differently about these tools as information resources. We'll cover some of the richest sources currently available, and you’ll walk away with ideas you can start using immediately, no matter your library setting. Scott Brown is owner of Social Information Group, an independent information practice that focuses on the effective use of social networking tools for sharing and finding information. He also is adjunct faculty for the library & information schools at San Jose State University (California, USA) and University of Denver (Colorado, USA). His forthcoming book on finding information via social media tools, Social Information: Gaining competitive and business advantage using social media tools was published in 2012. He has over 20 years of experience in library and information organizations, in public, academic and corporate settings. He is also a professional coach, specifically working with information professionals. You can email him or connect to him on LinkedIn. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/29/social-tools-for-finding-company-business-and-industry-information/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130417 DTEND:20130418 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130129T144755 LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T144755 UID:5570@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Diversity Awareness for Effective Nonprofits DESCRIPTION: Today’s workforce and organizations are increasingly diverse. Effective non-profits need to be capable of welcoming, including, utilizing and working with diverse people, perspectives, styles, and experiences for overall success and capacity. This presentation offers practical tools and concepts designed to resolve tensions, utilize strengths, support collaboration, and create more welcoming environments. Takeaways: -How having an inclusive enough model of diversity is crucial -How role awareness helps integrate diverse people, views, styles, and experiences -How the roles of mainstream, minority, and marginal are important, apparently here to stay, and need to be related with each other -How outer representation of diversity is often not enough without the inner diversity awareness and relationship skills -How effective non-profits benefit from being inclusive and welcoming Bill Say, M.A. has over twenty years experience with diversity awareness training, community capacity building, group facilitation, and mental health counseling and training. His organizational consulting experience is with health, mental health, and educational organizations in the US and abroad including with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, UN refugee health organizations in the Middle East (UNRWA), Independent Thought and Social Action in India, New Energy in China, and the Highlander Research and Education Center in TN. Bill’s successful trainings have included two year, six month, weekend, and daylong training groups that focused upon diversity issues, relationship and team building, conflict resolution skills, leadership development, and participation in decision-making and governance. He has facilitated diverse groups facing issues ranging from racial tensions, decision making power, sexism, community and cultural traumas, AIDS, economic distress, socio-economic class, ageism, to relationship issues and conflicts. He has successfully facilitated diversity and conflict facilitation and trainings to various organizations; small and large groups of board and staff in sensitive explorations of marginalization; work with groups of seniors with diverse consciousness states and conflict; a large consortium of domestic violence, mental health, legal services, and veteran groups in their burgeoning partnership; a city open forum on youth issues with youth activists, rap artists, police, re-entry strategists, city Mayor, and school principals and teachers; a large group of mental health experts exploring post earthquake trauma issues in China; and subtle connection and communication training to family members and medical staff serving patients in minimally communicative, comatose, and persistent vegetative states. For Process Work Consulting Bill Say has certification in the Process Work approach to organizational development and change management. He is a former faculty member of JFK and Naropa Universities, and San Francisco director of Deep Democracy Institute. He directs the Community Healing & Leadership Training and Process Work Consulting LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/29/diversity-awareness-for-effective-nonprofits/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130226 DTEND:20130227 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130129T131951 LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T131951 UID:5567@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Customer Service and the Future of Libraries DESCRIPTION: Libraries are going through what may be the most difficult period in their history. The great recession has been taking a toll on library budgets at exactly the time when libraries must be at their sharpest and smartest to deal with changing customer demands. Libraries must remain vitally important to the communities they serve. E-books and other digital media pose real dangers to libraries unless staff can overcome the many obstacles and fully integrate them the library program. This workshop will help participants: •Take a fresh look at the ways your customers use the library. •See the library building through the eyes of an outsider. •Prepare for the rocky road into the future with less money and more strategic thinking. •Rethink priorities. What will help the library survive and thrive? What can be swept under the carpet? •Bring more people into the library and transform them into strong library supporters. •Market the library to a generation who log on rather than walk in. Jeannette Woodward is a principal of Wind River Library and Nonprofit Consulting. After a career in academic library administration, most recently as Assistant Director of the David Adamany Library at Wayne State University, she began a second career in public libraries as the Director of the Fremont County Library System in the foothills of the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. Woodward is the author of several books including “The Transformed Library,” “A Librarian’s Guide to an Uncertain Job Market,” Countdown to a New Library, 2nd Edition” (ALA 2010), “The Customer-Driven Academic Library” (ALA, 2008), “What Every Librarian Should Know about Electronic Privacy” (Libraries Unlimited, 2007), “Creating the Customer Driven Library: Building on the Bookstore Model” (ALA, 2005), “Nonprofit Essentials: Managing Technology (Wiley, 2006), and “Countdown to a New Library: Managing the Building Project” (ALA, 2000) Woodward is also the author of “Writing Research Papers: Investigating Resources in Cyberspace”(McGraw Hill, 1999) and “Finding a Job after 50: Reinvent Yourself for the 21st Century” (Career Press, 2007). She holds a masters degree in library and information science from Rutgers University with doctoral study at the University of Texas at Austin. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:5901 College Road, Key West, FL, United States, 33040 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/29/customer-service-and-the-future-of-libraries/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130301 DTEND:20130302 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130128T153709 LAST-MODIFIED:20130128T153709 UID:5565@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Big Data-Fueled Marketing Intelligence: Six Ingredients to Smarter Marketing DESCRIPTION: Corporate marketing is undergoing a sea change in the way it operates and data is the key to that process. However, recent surveys indicate 70% or more of CMOs “feel ill-equipped to deal with the data coming at them from all directions.” Big data is fundamentally changing every aspect of the business world and with the deluge of data comes expectations that modern marketers become more data-driven. Join Domo and the American Marketing Association for an informative webinar exploring how new insights emanating from your own Big Data sources can lead to a dramatic increase in your organization’s marketing IQ. Discussion topics Include: •Overview of Big Data •The Explosion of Marketing Data •6 Ingredients to Big Data-Fueled Marketing •Lessons Learned from an Data-Driven Marketer •New Marketing Dashboard Technologies Tom has spent the last seven years developing, optimizing and marketing successful SaaS startups. His affinity for innovative technologies led him to Domo, where he currently holds the position of Senior Director of Product Marketing. As part of this role, Tom enjoys the opportunity to produce content strategies for data-driven marketing campaigns. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/28/big-data-fueled-marketing-intelligence-six-ingredients-to-smarter-marketing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130306 DTEND:20130307 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130128T135340 LAST-MODIFIED:20130128T135340 UID:5563@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Client Module 08 - Original Cataloging DESCRIPTION: This live online module provides instruction on how to use Connexion Client to create original records to add to the WorldCat database. After completing this web-based training, learners will be prepared to use Connexion to efficiently create original records using a variety of methods, including blank workforms, deriving records, and extracting metadata from digital resources. The course will also explain financial incentives for adding new original records to WorldCat. This course is intended for learners who are familiar with current cataloging rules (such as AACR2 and LC Rule Interpretations) and MARC, and are comfortable with using Connexion Client to search WorldCat, navigate through search results, and do basic editing. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who have created original bibliographic records in their local catalog but have not yet contributed records to WorldCat, and to technical services managers who oversee original cataloging operations. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/28/connexion-client-module-08-original-cataloging-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130221 DTEND:20130222 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130128T134911 LAST-MODIFIED:20130128T134911 UID:5561@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Client Module 06 - Editing Master Records DESCRIPTION: This online module provides instruction on how to use Connexion Client to take quality control actions on records in the WorldCat database. Emphasis is on actions available to members with Full level cataloging authorizations (i.e. you do not need “Enhance” authorization to benefit from this course). After completing this web-based training, learners will be prepared to contribute to the library cooperative by taking actions to improve the quality of records in the WorldCat database, while taking advantage of the financial incentives for quality control contributions. This course is intended for learners who are comfortable with the editing functionality of Connexion Browser and have sufficient knowledge of cataloging guidelines to contribute quality metadata to the WorldCat database. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who are spending time doing quality control editing at the local level, or technical services managers who wish to reduce OCLC cataloging costs through increased credits. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/28/connexion-client-module-06-editing-master-records-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130220 DTEND:20130221 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130128T134454 LAST-MODIFIED:20130128T134454 UID:5559@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Client Module 05 - Automation and Customization DESCRIPTION: This online module provides instruction on the use of Connexion Client’s tools for automation and customization. After completing this web-based training, learners will be prepared to complete editing tasks more efficiently and to customize Connexion Client to fit their individual workflow. This course is intended for learners who are familiar with Connexion’s basic copy and/or original cataloging functions and are looking make the process faster and easier. This course will be particularly beneficial for catalogers that do a significant amount of consistent editing or follow repetitive manual processes for copy or original cataloging. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/28/connexion-client-module-05-automation-and-customization-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130219 DTEND:20130220 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130128T133057 LAST-MODIFIED:20130128T133057 UID:5557@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Client Module 04 - Save Files, File Management, and Batch Processing DESCRIPTION: This online module provides instruction on using Connexion Client to perform high volumes of searches and record actions using the efficiency of batch processing, including the use and management of Save Files. After completing this web-based training, learners will know how to use Connexion’s file management tools to manage online and local save files effectively, and will be able to enter multiple search keys and record actions, process batches, and perform batch actions by OCLC number, This course is intended for learners who already use Connexion client to do individual searches, set/delete holdings, and export records one at a time; but want to use Connexion client’s batch processing features to increase their efficiency in processing large numbers of records. This course will be of particular benefit to library staff members who do acquisitions or copy cataloging for large orders of materials, or who process large numbers of holdings deletions. Supervisors who oversee these activities and manage workflows will also find it useful. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/28/connexion-client-module-04-save-files-file-management-and-batch-processing-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130325 DTEND:20130326 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T155233 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T155233 UID:5555@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 7 – Original Cataloging DESCRIPTION: This web-based course explains OCLC standards for original bibliographic records in WorldCat, and provides instruction on techniques for creating these records in Connexion Browser. This course does not cover AACR2 or other cataloging rules, MARC, subject headings, or authority control. This course is intended for learners who are familiar with current cataloging rules (such as AACR2 and LC Rule Interpretations) and MARC, and are comfortable with using Connexion Browser to search WorldCat, navigate through search results, and do basic editing. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who have created original bibliographic records in their local catalog but have not yet contributed records to WorldCat, and to technical services managers who oversee original cataloging operations. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Please note, that to access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/connexion-browser-module-7-original-cataloging-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130319 DTEND:20130320 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T153907 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T153907 UID:5553@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 5 – Editing Master Records DESCRIPTION: This course provides instruction on OCLC’s rules and process for editing and improving master records in the WorldCat database with a standard, full-level cataloging authorization. After completing this web-based training, learners will be ready to apply their existing knowledge of cataloging rules to the process of improving master records in the WorldCat database. Trainees will also learn the financial incentives for improving master records, identify in-depth resources to assist them in the process of improving master records, as well as learn procedures for reporting record errors that cannot be fixed by members with full-level cataloging authorizations. This course is intended for learners who are comfortable with the editing functionality of Connexion Browser and have sufficient knowledge of cataloging guidelines to contribute quality metadata to the WorldCat database. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who are spending time doing quality control editing at the local level, or technical services managers who wish to reduce OCLC cataloging costs through increased credits. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Note: To access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/connexion-browser-module-5-editing-master-records-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130313 DTEND:20130314 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T153733 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T153733 UID:5551@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 2 - Basic Searching in Connexion Browser DESCRIPTION: This online module provides instruction on performing basic bibliographic searches using OCLC’s Connexion Browser cataloging software. After completing this web-based training, learners will be able to conduct basic searches for bibliographic records in WorldCat, and evaluate whether a given record matches the item to be cataloged. This is the second part of a three module series designed to enable basic copy cataloging work in Connexion Browser. This course is designed for learners who have little or no previous experience with Connexion Browser, and who may be new to library work. This class will be of particular benefit to new copy catalogers. It will also be beneficial to original catalogers who need to determine, before they create an original record, that no matching record exists. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Note: To access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/connexion-browser-module-2-basic-searching-in-connexion-browser-6/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130311 DTEND:20130312 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T153604 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T153604 UID:5549@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 1- WorldCat, MARC, and Browser Basics DESCRIPTION: This course provides instruction on the structure of the WorldCat bibliographic database, an introduction to the MARC bibliographic record format, as well as an introduction to the setup and basic navigation of Connexion Browser. After completing this web-based training, learners will have the foundational knowledge required to begin using Connexion as a copy cataloging tool. Learners will also be able to navigate the interface and set up Connexion Browser to begin a work session efficiently. This is the first part of a three module series designed to enable basic copy cataloging work in Connexion Browser. This course is intended for learners who are new to Connexion Browser and copy cataloging. Established, but basic, users of Connexion Browser may also benefit from the class by filling in foundational knowledge that will allow them to work with Browser more effectively. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/connexion-browser-module-1-worldcat-marc-and-browser-basics-9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130318 DTEND:20130319 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T153420 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T153420 UID:5547@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Copy Cataloging with CatExpress DESCRIPTION: This live online course provides instruction on copy cataloging using the CatExpress interface. This course covers the copy cataloging workflow including searching, holdings maintenance, exporting and downloading records. After completing this course, the learner will be prepared to fully utilize the CatExpress service. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/copy-cataloging-with-catexpress-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130211 DTEND:20130212 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T153300 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T153300 UID:5545@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Copy Cataloging with CatExpress DESCRIPTION: This live online course provides instruction on copy cataloging using the CatExpress interface. This course covers the copy cataloging workflow including searching, holdings maintenance, exporting and downloading records. After completing this course, the learner will be prepared to fully utilize the CatExpress service. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/copy-cataloging-with-catexpress-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130212 DTEND:20130213 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T083321 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T083321 UID:5543@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Brandraise to Fundraise DESCRIPTION: Wondering how branding can help your fundraising? Based on Sarah Durham's book "Brandraising: How Nonprofits Raise Visibility and Money Through Smart Communications", (Jossey-Bass, 2010) this session will show how effective brandraising will help you spend less time reinventing and more time reinforcing the right messages so your prospects are more likely to understand what you do and why you do it. Sarah will show how an effective brand can make it easier to create compelling fundraising campaigns that do more with less. Attend this webinar and take away the following: •How to build a solid communications foundation to benefit your organizations future fundraising campaigns •How to use positioning and personality to help keep all your work on track •How to speak with a unified organizational voice across all channels, in all tools Sarah Durham is the Principal and Founder of Big Duck, the leading communications firm that works exclusively with nonprofits. She was named a top fundraiser under 40 by Fundraising Success Magazine in 2006, and one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company magazine in 2010. The author of Brandraising: How Nonprofits Raise Visibility and Money Through Smart Communications, is a regular speaker at Association of Fundraising Professionals and Nonprofit Technology Network conferences. Sarah is also an adjunct professor at NYU's Wagner School where she teaches aspiring nonprofit communications nerds. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/brandraise-to-fundraise/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130409 DTEND:20130410 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T075615 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T075615 UID:5541@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Innovate How You Innovate DESCRIPTION: Join us for a free webinar with Shannon Bayer and discover that innovation isn’t just about generating occasional new ideas. Participants will learn to create an organization capable of innovating; while defining challenges more clearly through asking better questions. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/innovate-how-you-innovate/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130313 DTEND:20130314 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T074315 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T074315 UID:5539@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Influence within Your Organization to Achieve Business & Diversity Result DESCRIPTION: We know that there are multiple ways to influence within an organization to achieve the desired results. However, we must tailor messages specifically focused on diversity to each industry, geography, and even division to ensure the best possible outcome. In this webinar, you will learn to: • Discuss revenue, market share and competitive advantage while making it credible and grounded in externally validated evidence to build influence. • Engage with your teams early and often by immersing yourself in their issues, developing their leaders, and investing your time in areas where you need to develop as a subject matter expert. • Understand what is keeping your senior leaders up at night, and link your strategy to addressing these issues, opportunities, and concernS LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/how-to-influence-within-your-organization-to-achieve-business-diversity-result/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130305 DTEND:20130306 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T073013 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T073013 UID:5537@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Talent Measurement: Overcoming Assessment Assumptions DESCRIPTION: Most organizations measure their people—what they think, how well they perform, how they work in teams, etc.--but people measurement can fail when incorrect assumptions about performance metrics take hold. In this webinar you’ll learn how to combat common people measurement misunderstandings and increase the effectiveness of your organization. In this session, you will learn: • Specific tools and techniques to eliminate incorrect assumptions and maximize the effectiveness of performance assessments • How to use metrics to help your organization unleash its unique power • To understand strengths and weaknesses of people measures Linkage’s Charley Morrow, has over 20 years of experience developing assessments and methodologies for individual, team, and organizational motivation and performance. His current work focuses on increasing accountability, insights, motivation, and alignment by skillfully using organizational measurement systems. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/talent-measurement-overcoming-assessment-assumptions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130305 DTEND:20130306 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T072843 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T072843 UID:5535@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Become a Strategic Leader DESCRIPTION: Do you want to think more strategically about your work and its value to your organization? Join us for a free webinar with Rich Rosier and learn practical approaches for identifying key strategic issues and opportunities. Leave the session knowing how to build strategic thinking into your own work regimen. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/how-to-become-a-strategic-leader/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130211 DTEND:20130212 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T072724 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T072724 UID:5533@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Impact Your Organization’s Bottom-line in Measurable Ways Using Business Acumen DESCRIPTION: Join us for a free webinar with Craig B. Clayton, Sr. and learn how to fully understand your business needs and in turn, quickly and effectively consult on how D&I can support those business goals and improve your organization’s outcomes. In this session, participants will learn how to: • Make an impact on their organization’s top-line, bottom-line, and pipeline in tangible, measurable ways • Understand and apply broader business concepts when developing and implementing an organizational D&I strategy • Appreciate the importance of business acumen to moving diversity beyond representation LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/impact-your-organizations-bottom-line-in-measurable-ways-using-business-acumen/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130214 DTEND:20130215 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T072617 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T072617 UID:5531@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:5 Steps to Turning Big Data into Behavior DESCRIPTION: Marketers are collecting a ton of customer information, but too many aren’t using it to yield results. In addition to missing a big opportunity, they risk being shunned by a more educated, sophisticated and demanding customer who expects to be marketed to as an individual. Learn 5 things you can do to deliver amazing customer experiences, including building a centralized database, segmenting, personalizing the website experience, using dynamic content and getting personal via automation. Dave Walters is a 20-year digital marketing veteran with a career split almost equally among Fortune 50 corporations, Top 5 interactive agencies and, most recently, the technology start-up world. As the final businessperson before IT, he typically sits at the intersection of business need and technical build—most often with a marketing-driven view of the world. As a product evangelist, Dave works hands-on with Silverpop customers to sharpen their marketing strategies and architect technology solutions that solve business problems. He most often works with cross-functional stakeholders to bridge the organizational gaps between marketing, IT, operations and executive management. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/5-steps-to-turning-big-data-into-behavior/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130313 DTEND:20130314 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130125T072447 LAST-MODIFIED:20130125T072447 UID:5529@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tipping Sacred Cows: Kicking Bad Work Habits That Masquerade as Virtues DESCRIPTION: Unmasking Corporate "Virtues" Whose Importance We Take for Granted You work hard to do the right thing: work well with others, treat them fairly, and never settle for mediocre work. But too often, virtues like collaboration, fairness and excellence are revered beyond question. But when these virtues become "sacred cows" — ideas revered beyond reason — they lead to wasteful, career-limiting behaviors. Instead of zealous pursuit of seemingly virtuous traits, leaders must appreciate the unintended consequences of their good intentions. You will improve your ability to see when your own values and virtues, and the values and virtues of the people you lead, backfire. This webcast covers: •Developing practical strategies to know when and how you help your organization most by going it alone, instead of collaborating with others. •Learning how the instinctual drive for fairness leads to spite and sameness, and develop habits to overcome this naturally destructive tendency. •Expanding your notion of excellence to understand when high standards help, and when they hurt by leading to paralyzing perfectionism in yourself and others. Jake Breeden is one of Duke Corporate Education’s most active faculty members. Breeden has taught leaders in 27 countries. He has also taught for the Association of National Advertiser’s School of Marketing and as an adjunct professor of marketing for UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Over the past ten years he has completed additional research and teaching in leadership, culminating in the book, Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits That Masquerade as Virtues. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/25/tipping-sacred-cows-kicking-bad-work-habits-that-masquerade-as-virtues/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130123 DTEND:20130124 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130122T140856 LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T140856 UID:5524@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Business Resources from FEL DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview Gale's business resources available to libraries for free through the Florida Electronic Library. These resources will help entrepreneurs and small business owners build and develop their businesses. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. LAUNCH NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/22/business-resources-from-fel-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20131115 DTEND:20131116 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130122T140550 LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T140550 UID:5522@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Library Impact Webinar DESCRIPTION: No matter where you are or what type of library you work in, you are faced with budget cuts and even closures. You need to prove the impact your library has on your patrons, students and community. This one hour webinar will help you prove your library’s value and impact by learning to gather the right kind of library stories. These stories you can use when reporting on the library to the news media, when asking for additional budgets from local and state governments and when applying for grants. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. LAUNCH NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/22/library-impact-webinar-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20131018 DTEND:20131019 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130122T140424 LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T140424 UID:5520@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Homework Help using the FEL Resources DESCRIPTION: This course will provide users with an overview of the best FEL resources to assist elementary, middle, and high school students with homework assignments. A practical and multidisciplinary approach will be used to enlighten attendees about the FEL resources geared for the library staff and a student audience. Practice reference questions and student assignments will be provided to help teach the practical application of the database to real life student research. The attendees will be taught the most effective and efficient search strategies to obtain the best set of search results for patron questions and research. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. LAUNCH NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/22/homework-help-using-the-fel-resources-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130920 DTEND:20130921 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130122T140258 LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T140258 UID:5518@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:FEL Resources and Mobile Access DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview Gale's free Access My Library app for Apple and Droid devices. Access My Library allows patrons to access Gale resources provided by their library from anywhere! This webinar will cover all how to find and use the app as well as how to make sure your library is included. Access My Library is available for public, academic, and school (K12) libraries. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. LAUNCH NOW LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/22/fel-resources-and-mobile-access-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130816 DTEND:20130817 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130122T140102 LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T140102 UID:5516@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Finding eResources for Library Programming DESCRIPTION: Using the tools available through the Florida Electronic Library and Gale Cengage Learning, this one hour webinar will show you how to locate resources specifically for popular library programs like Black History Month or Poetry Month. Book and periodical titles available to Florida residents that relate to these programs will be discussed as well as strategies for easily getting these tools to patrons and students. Attendance certificates can be provided. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. LAUNCH NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/22/finding-eresources-for-library-programming-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130719 DTEND:20130720 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130122T135828 LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T135828 UID:5514@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Demographics Now Resource DESCRIPTION: This one hour webinar session will cover the updates to the New Demographics Now interface. We have demographic and statistic information for all states, not just Florida! Learn more about your community members, their interests, struggles and commonalities. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. LAUNCH NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/22/demographics-now-resource-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130621 DTEND:20130622 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130122T135658 LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T135658 UID:5512@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:FEL Resources and Reader Advisory DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview of FEL's new resource – Books & Authors, which provides reader's advisory for children's, young adult, and adult fiction and non-fiction. Books & Authors is specially designed to complement the browsing habits of today's Web user, integrating easy-to-follow menus that allow users to broaden and narrow their searches according to author, title, series, awards and other criteria. At the same time, its meticulously edited database — developed by a team of genre experts – delivers up-to-date, reliable information. The instructor will demonstrate how to efficiently and effectively get the most out of Books & Authors. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. LAUNCH NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/22/fel-resources-and-reader-advisory-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130517 DTEND:20130518 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130118T172010 LAST-MODIFIED:20130118T172010 UID:5509@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Power of Web 2.0 DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview of Web 2.0 tools available in FEL resources and how to utilize those tools to increase database usage and promote their home libraries. An overview of popular Web 2.0 websites will be provided as well. Discussion will include how to utilize these resources to increase library exposure and increase FEL usage. We'll also take a look at using www.galesites.com to create a new way to access FEL/Gale resources! Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/18/the-power-of-web-2-0-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130426 DTEND:20130427 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130118T171355 LAST-MODIFIED:20130118T171355 UID:5507@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Basic Cataloging using RDA DESCRIPTION: Resource Description and Access (RDA) will become the official cataloging standard of the Library of Congress on March 31, 2013, and catalogers will want to be prepared to use and implement it. Upon completion of this one-hour webinar you will know what the key changes from AACR2 to RDA are, and you will recognize and create basic bibliographic records in MARC using RDA. You will also be directed to the most recent and helpful resources that are available to help guide you through the transition to RDA. Participants should have basic knowledge of AACR2 and MARC21. Although knowledge of FRBR is not required, it is highly recommended. • This webinar will provide a beginning introduction to cataloging with RDA and an overview of what's different from cataloging with AACR2. • This webinar is not aimed at those who already have a moderate or higher level of familiarity with FRBR and/or RDA and consider themselves beyond a basic, introductory level. This workshop will be too simple for these people. • This webinar is not a comprehensive guide to cataloging with RDA and MARC. Rather, it will provide a general overview of changes in MARC with an emphasis on fields you will most likely encounter. • Participants will be provided with resources for further information to continue their training. • Exercises will be provided at the end for participants to complete on their own. • Those who are unfamiliar with FRBR will want to take the first webinar. Melissa Adler holds a PhD in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She has seven years of working academic library experience, primarily in the realm of cataloging. She is also a regular cataloging instructor for the UW-Madison department of Continuing Education and Library Juice Academy and has been teaching courses on RDA since June 2012. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/18/basic-cataloging-using-rda-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130419 DTEND:20130420 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130118T171227 LAST-MODIFIED:20130118T171227 UID:5505@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:GVRL Interface DESCRIPTION: This one hour class will introduce you to the new Gale Virtual Reference Library interface that will be coming soon. Attendees will learn not only about the interface changes but also the new titles that are available through FEL and the content that is available in them. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/18/gvrl-interface-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130322 DTEND:20130323 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130118T171056 LAST-MODIFIED:20130118T171056 UID:5503@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What is RDA & Why Now? DESCRIPTION: Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the new set of descriptive cataloging rules replacing the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2). This one-hour webinar will inform librarians of the reasons for the change and introduce the conceptual foundations of the new standard. We will discuss Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Authority Data (FRBR and FRAD), the relationship-entity models upon which RDA is based. After this webinar you will be able to identify Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items. You will also understand how these entities relate to each other and why the RDA is based upon the model, and you will gain an understanding of what the change to RDA means for your library. • This webinar provides a beginners-level conceptual introduction to RDA and the underlying models of FRBR and FRAD. • The webinars is intended for catalogers, students, and anyone else who has a working knowledge of AACR2 and MARC. The workshop is, however, aimed primarily at those with little or no prior knowledge of either FRBR or RDA. • The goal of this webinar is to give participants an introductory conceptual knowledge of FRBR and RDA and to provide basic resources on RDA implementation. • This webinar is not a prequisite for the second RDA webinar, but is highly recommended for anyone who is just beginning to learn about FRBR and RDA. It will provide a foundation for the second session, which will offer an overview of the changes from AACR2 and an introduction to changes in MARC cataloging. • Participants will have an opportunity to complete an exercise after the webinar. Melissa Adler holds a PhD in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She has seven years of working academic library experience, primarily in the realm of cataloging. She is also a regular cataloging instructor for the UW-Madison department of Continuing Education and Library Juice Academy and has been teaching courses on RDA since June 2012. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/18/what-is-rda-why-now-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130315 DTEND:20130316 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130118T170912 LAST-MODIFIED:20130118T170912 UID:5501@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Integrating eResources into the Classroom DESCRIPTION: This one hour Online Training webinar will instruct teachers and media specialists on how to integrate Gale eResources from the Florida Electronic Library into their daily classroom procedures. Practical instruction on how to incorporate eResources into lesson Plans, Class Websites and Practical projects will be discussed. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/18/integrating-eresources-into-the-classroom-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130220T100000 DTEND:20130220T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130116T112654 LAST-MODIFIED:20130116T112654 UID:5496@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Future of Collections: Creating and Managing Digital Content DESCRIPTION:This one-day meeting, hosted by the University of Florida, in conjunction with LYRASIS and OCLC, will focus on the future of library and cultural heritage collections. We will discuss and evaluate important decisions that impact the sustainability and value of collections—what content to preserve digitally, which tools are best for this task, which partners to engage with collaboratively, and how best to promote collections in new formats. The sessions for this meeting have been chosen to share insights from digitization, preservation and content experts related to making and implementing these decisions. Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 Time: 10AM to 3PM ET Registration Fee: Free Lunch: A boxed lunch will be provided Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Register LOCATION:Gainesville URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/16/the-future-of-collections-creating-and-managing-digital-content/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20131220 DTEND:20131221 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130111T083650 LAST-MODIFIED:20130111T083650 UID:5493@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Business Resources from FEL DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview Gale's business resources available to libraries for free through the Florida Electronic Library. These resources will help entrepreneurs and small business owners build and develop their businesses. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/11/business-resources-from-fel/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20131115 DTEND:20131116 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130111T083523 LAST-MODIFIED:20130111T083523 UID:5491@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Library Impact Webinar DESCRIPTION: No matter where you are or what type of library you work in, you are faced with budget cuts and even closures. You need to prove the impact your library has on your patrons, students and community. This one hour webinar will help you prove your library’s value and impact by learning to gather the right kind of library stories. These stories you can use when reporting on the library to the news media, when asking for additional budgets from local and state governments and when applying for grants. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/11/library-impact-webinar/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20131018 DTEND:20131019 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130111T083404 LAST-MODIFIED:20130111T083404 UID:5489@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Homework Help using the FEL Resources DESCRIPTION: This course will provide users with an overview of the best FEL resources to assist elementary, middle, and high school students with homework assignments. A practical and multidisciplinary approach will be used to enlighten attendees about the FEL resources geared for the library staff and a student audience. Practice reference questions and student assignments will be provided to help teach the practical application of the database to real life student research. The attendees will be taught the most effective and efficient search strategies to obtain the best set of search results for patron questions and research. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/11/homework-help-using-the-fel-resources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130920 DTEND:20130921 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130111T083235 LAST-MODIFIED:20130111T083235 UID:5487@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:FEL Resources and Mobile Access DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview Gale's free Access My Library app for Apple and Droid devices. Access My Library allows patrons to access Gale resources provided by their library from anywhere! This webinar will cover all how to find and use the app as well as how to make sure your library is included. Access My Library is available for public, academic, and school (K12) libraries. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/11/fel-resources-and-mobile-access-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130816 DTEND:20130817 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130111T082916 LAST-MODIFIED:20130111T082916 UID:5485@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Finding eResources for Library Programming DESCRIPTION: Using the tools available through the Florida Electronic Library and Gale Cengage Learning, this one hour webinar will show you how to locate resources specifically for popular library programs like Black History Month or Poetry Month. Book and periodical titles available to Florida residents that relate to these programs will be discussed as well as strategies for easily getting these tools to patrons and students. Attendance certificates can be provided. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/11/finding-eresources-for-library-programming/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130719 DTEND:20130720 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130111T081512 LAST-MODIFIED:20130111T081512 UID:5483@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Demographics Now Resource DESCRIPTION: This one hour webinar session will cover the updates to the New Demographics Now interface. We have demographic and statistic information for all states, not just Florida! Learn more about your community members, their interests, struggles and commonalities. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/11/demographics-now-resource/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130621 DTEND:20130622 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130111T081351 LAST-MODIFIED:20130111T081351 UID:5481@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:FEL Resources and Reader Advisory DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview of FEL's new resource – Books & Authors, which provides reader's advisory for children's, young adult, and adult fiction and non-fiction. Books & Authors is specially designed to complement the browsing habits of today's Web user, integrating easy-to-follow menus that allow users to broaden and narrow their searches according to author, title, series, awards and other criteria. At the same time, its meticulously edited database — developed by a team of genre experts – delivers up-to-date, reliable information. The instructor will demonstrate how to efficiently and effectively get the most out of Books & Authors. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/11/fel-resources-and-reader-advisory/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130517 DTEND:20130518 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130111T081230 LAST-MODIFIED:20130111T081230 UID:5479@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Power of Web 2.0 DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview of Web 2.0 tools available in FEL resources and how to utilize those tools to increase database usage and promote their home libraries. An overview of popular Web 2.0 websites will be provided as well. Discussion will include how to utilize these resources to increase library exposure and increase FEL usage. We'll also take a look at using www.galesites.com to create a new way to access FEL/Gale resources! Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/11/the-power-of-web-2-0/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130315 DTEND:20130316 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130111T080840 LAST-MODIFIED:20130111T080840 UID:5475@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Integrating eResources into the Classroom DESCRIPTION: This one hour Online Training webinar will instruct teachers and media specialists on how to integrate Gale eResources from the Florida Electronic Library into their daily classroom procedures. Practical instruction on how to incorporate eResources into lesson Plans, Class Websites and Practical projects will be discussed. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/11/integrating-eresources-into-the-classroom/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130426 DTEND:20130427 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130107T171848 LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T091216 UID:5473@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Basic Cataloging using RDA DESCRIPTION: Resource Description and Access (RDA) will become the official cataloging standard of the Library of Congress on March 31, 2013, and catalogers will want to be prepared to use and implement it. Upon completion of this one-hour webinar you will know what the key changes from AACR2 to RDA are, and you will recognize and create basic bibliographic records in MARC using RDA. You will also be directed to the most recent and helpful resources that are available to help guide you through the transition to RDA. Participants should have basic knowledge of AACR2 and MARC21. Although knowledge of FRBR is not required, it is highly recommended. • This webinar will provide a beginning introduction to cataloging with RDA and an overview of what's different from cataloging with AACR2. • This webinar is not aimed at those who already have a moderate or higher level of familiarity with FRBR and/or RDA and consider themselves beyond a basic, introductory level. This workshop will be too simple for these people. • This webinar is not a comprehensive guide to cataloging with RDA and MARC. Rather, it will provide a general overview of changes in MARC with an emphasis on fields you will most likely encounter. • Participants will be provided with resources for further information to continue their training. • Exercises will be provided at the end for participants to complete on their own. • Those who are unfamiliar with FRBR will want to take the first webinar. Melissa Adler holds a PhD in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She has seven years of working academic library experience, primarily in the realm of cataloging. She is also a regular cataloging instructor for the UW-Madison department of Continuing Education and Library Juice Academy and has been teaching courses on RDA since June 2012. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/07/basic-cataloging-using-rda/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130322 DTEND:20130323 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130107T171712 LAST-MODIFIED:20130107T171712 UID:5471@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What is RDA & Why Now? DESCRIPTION: Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the new set of descriptive cataloging rules replacing the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2). This one-hour webinar will inform librarians of the reasons for the change and introduce the conceptual foundations of the new standard. We will discuss Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Authority Data (FRBR and FRAD), the relationship-entity models upon which RDA is based. After this webinar you will be able to identify Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items. You will also understand how these entities relate to each other and why the RDA is based upon the model, and you will gain an understanding of what the change to RDA means for your library. • This webinar provides a beginners-level conceptual introduction to RDA and the underlying models of FRBR and FRAD. • The webinars is intended for catalogers, students, and anyone else who has a working knowledge of AACR2 and MARC. The workshop is, however, aimed primarily at those with little or no prior knowledge of either FRBR or RDA. • The goal of this webinar is to give participants an introductory conceptual knowledge of FRBR and RDA and to provide basic resources on RDA implementation. • This webinar is not a prequisite for the second RDA webinar, but is highly recommended for anyone who is just beginning to learn about FRBR and RDA. It will provide a foundation for the second session, which will offer an overview of the changes from AACR2 and an introduction to changes in MARC cataloging. • Participants will have an opportunity to complete an exercise after the webinar. Melissa Adler holds a PhD in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She has seven years of working academic library experience, primarily in the realm of cataloging. She is also a regular cataloging instructor for the UW-Madison department of Continuing Education and Library Juice Academy and has been teaching courses on RDA since June 2012. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/07/what-is-rda-why-now/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130327 DTEND:20130328 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130104T085741 LAST-MODIFIED:20130104T085741 UID:5467@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Data Gets Grants DESCRIPTION: To receive grant funding, it is necessary to submit a proposal that identifies and successfully documents a dire need. The need has to be compelling enough to pull at the heartstrings and substantial enough to satisfy the intellect. It is also crucial to measure the need (yes, it isn’t just important to measure outcomes!) so that the problem is articulately described and so that realistic, quantifiable objectives are created. Takeaways: -How to determine which data to gather -Simple processes to follow to locate data -Where to start when seeking data online -What to do if numbers terrify you or put you to sleep -How to measure local need Mark Goldstein, CFRE, is President and CEO of Communication Mark consulting in Arden, NC. Mr. Goldstein is most sought after as an expert proposal writer and project strategist. He is the creator of the Open Communication Fundraising Model, a system that enables all nonprofit agency stakeholders to effectively work together toward organizational and fundraising goals. Mr. Goldstein has consistently served nonprofits as a staff member, board member or consultant since 1991. He has raised millions for his clients and employers by obtaining grants for organizations of all types, sizes and locales. He is a board member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Western North Carolina Chapter and has provided training sessions through the Duke University Continuing Studies Nonprofit Management program, Philanthropy Journal, National Nonprofit Resource Directory and other venues. Communication Mark provides fundraising and organizational development services for nonprofits, particularly in the area of grant proposal writing. Our work is guided by an innovative system that has proven success with all sizes of organizations and all types of causes. Communication Mark’s mission is to promote stewardship, growth and service through communication. As such, we work with clients to devise and implement enduring solutions to fundraising obstacles. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/04/data-gets-grants/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130320 DTEND:20130321 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130104T083756 LAST-MODIFIED:20130104T083756 UID:5463@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Strategic Planning Part 1: Cultivation & Organizational Development DESCRIPTION:Strategic planning should be a means not only to produce a strategy, but also to engage and cultivate stakeholders, develop leadership, and generate new energy, commitment and consensus around mission. Its primary product is not a written plan, but strategic thinking within the organization, which is achieved through a process of planning followed by a process of implementation. A well-conceived and managed planning process can be the most effective form of organizational development. Takeaways: -What benefits to expect from an effective strategic planning process -How to approach and structure a strategic planning process -How to get broad buy-in in any organization -Tools to use for assessing your situation, engaging your constituencies, developing an effective plan, and implementing it Sam Frank founded Synthesis Partnership to assist nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. He advises and has served on the boards of local and national nonprofit organizations addressing arts and culture, education, health care, preservation, homelessness and the environment. Sam frequently offers workshops on planning at national conferences and writes an e-newsletter, Critical Issues in Strategy, Planning and Organizational Development (http://bit.ly/SyParchive) and a blog on nonprofit issues (http://bit.ly/SyPblog). He conceived and directs the Wednesday Webinars at nonprofitwebinars.com. Prior to Synthesis Partnership Sam was Director of Architecture and Design at Corning Incorporated, and Dean of Architecture and Design at Rhode Island School of Design. He was educated in English literature at Princeton University, architecture at Harvard University, and architectural history, theory and criticism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Synthesis Partnership assists nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. The foundation of our approach to any assignment is attentive listening to the situation, needs, culture and aspirations of the client. Our clients have represented a variety of sectors (including education, arts and culture, health care, and social services), sizes (no staff to hundreds of staff; budgets in the low six figures to the high eight figures), maturities (start-ups to well over a century old) and experience (organizations new to planning and organizations with extensive history and experience of planning). Our breadth of understanding of nonprofit sectors and issues helps us to ask the right questions and explore the relevant concerns to assure integrated explorations and solutions. Case studies of some of our projects and articles on strategy, identity, capacity and facilities can be found at www.synthesispartnership.com LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/04/strategic-planning-part-1-cultivation-organizational-development/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130306 DTEND:20130307 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130104T082857 LAST-MODIFIED:20130104T082857 UID:5461@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Bold Intentions for Leadership Effectiveness DESCRIPTION: Leadership effectiveness is often cited as of critical importance to nonprofits. You add it to your goals but then get side-tracked by more immediate priorities that make leadership development seem such a luxury. This webinar speaks to anyone, at any level, who wants to take responsibility–starting right now–for enhancing their own effectiveness at leading. Takeaways: -Understanding of the broad themes in leadership theory and exposure to the ‘Bold Intentions’ framework. -Insights into your own strengths and developmental opportunities among key drivers of effective leadership. -A foundation for establishing a personal plan of action directly following from the webinar. Daniel Doucette is a leadership coach and advisor as well as founder of Windfires: Leadership Engagement Strategies (www.windfires.com), offering coaching, workshops, consulting and keynotes that elevate leadership performance and accountability. In addition, Daniel currently serves as Chief Operating Officer for EngenderHealth, an international NGO that improves the lives of women and their families by increasing access to, and improving the quality of, family planning services in under-served communities worldwide. Daniel previously has served as CFO and VP of Operations for Rainforest Alliance and as VP of Finance for American Cancer Society/Eastern Division. He has been board chair for several community-based organizations and currently volunteers for the Trevor Project conducting workshops on suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth. He has also held positions at AFS Intercultural Programs and World Wildlife Fund. Daniel holds a BS and MS in international affairs from Georgetown University, as well as a MA in Organization Development and a Certificate in Evidence-Based Coaching from Fielding Graduate University. Windfires: Leadership Engagement Strategies was launched in December 2010 by founder Daniel Doucette. The Windfires mission is to accelerate achievement of strategic and operational goals by elevating leadership performance to transforming heights. Through coaching, workshops and keynotes, Windfires’ principal Daniel Doucette helps make enhanced leadership effectiveness accessible. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/04/bold-intentions-for-leadership-effectiveness/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130227 DTEND:20130228 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130104T082543 LAST-MODIFIED:20130104T082543 UID:5459@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Future of Online Learning: a changing landscape DESCRIPTION: Join us as we explore what education innovators are doing to increase engagement through learner-centered discovery, flipped classrooms, and enhanced online learning. As a leader in online learning for ten years, WebJunction has watched the practice evolve from the earliest webinars to the latest in social media tools. We know it has enriched lifelong learning opportunities, yet we also know the possibilities are still expanding. Join us as we explore what education innovators are doing to increase engagement through learner-centered discovery, flipped classrooms, and enhanced online learning. Let’s learn from each other in this interactive webinar. Help us map a future for elearning so WebJunction can better support your lifelong learning journey. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/04/the-future-of-online-learning-a-changing-landscape/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130227 DTEND:20130228 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130104T082234 LAST-MODIFIED:20130104T082234 UID:5457@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Best Practices to Build a Multichannel Campaign Plan DESCRIPTION: From your website to social media, email to mobile messages, online to offline, multichannel strategies require coordination and creative thinking across teams and departments, and a focus on the core of your work beyond any one specific call to action. In this session, we will show you how to craft an online multichannel campaign plan to meet your mission and campaign goals, and how other organizations are successfully integrating multichannel efforts into their work. For example, what happens when you tie your Facebook posts to your online fundraising appeals? What about sending text messages connected to your email actions the next day? Multichannel strategies bring your staff together and connect your community across platforms for more targeted actions. This session provides highlights from the new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to Implement Online Multichannel Strategies to Spark Advocacy, Raise Money, and Engage your Community by Allyson Kapin and Amy Sample Ward and gives you the next steps you need to start working to create real social change online and on the ground. Takeaways: -Best practices to build an effective multichannel campaign plan -Tips to roll out your multichannel campaign plan -Managing a multichannel campaign and working across teams to engage your community Amy Sample Ward is an author, facilitator, and trainer focused on leveraging social technologies for social change. In 2009, she co-authored Social by Social: A practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact, and has contributed to various other publications about social media. Her second book, Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money and engage your community co-authored with Allyson Kapin, will be available from Wiley in February 2013. Amy is also the Membership Director at NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN.org), the membership organization of nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes. NTEN aspires to a world where all nonprofit organizations skillfully and confidently use technology to meet community needs and fulfill their missions. We are the membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. Our members share the common goal of helping nonprofits use all aspects of technology more effectively. We believe that technology allows nonprofits to work with greater social impact. We enable our members to strategically use technology to make the world a better, just, and equitable place. NTEN facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information within our community. We connect our members to each other, provide professional development opportunities, educate our constituency on issues of technology use in nonprofits, and spearhead groundbreaking research, advocacy, and education on technology issues affecting our entire community. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/04/best-practices-to-build-a-multichannel-campaign-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130220 DTEND:20130221 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130104T080148 LAST-MODIFIED:20130104T080148 UID:5455@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Realize Your Mission: How to Use Employee Engagement to Reach Your Goals DESCRIPTION: Employee engagement has been one of the most common buzzwords in recent years. Many organizations think of employee engagement as a necessary evil to drive results. While engagement is absolutely critical for success, many organizations misunderstand the best ways to use it to improve employee performance, productivity, and bottom line results. Our goal is to eliminate this frustrating cycle: A series of HR initiatives (AKA “flavor of the month”) that makes a limited impact, and leaves managers and employees alike feeling annoyed with the whole idea. In this webinar we will present the fundamental principles that truly increase employee engagement. We will describe 4 steps that will lead to lasting impact on employee engagement. The result will be higher employee retention, greater productivity, greater employee and manager satisfaction, much more happiness at work, and accomplishing your goals on time. Every time. Takeaways: -Use employee engagement the RIGHT way, and save hundreds of thousands in wasted Dollars -Move away from ineffective praise to Strategic Recognition -Use our Engagement Trifecta that drives deep and lasting change -Create jobs that keep employees motivated -Stop the entitlement attitude that you see everywhere around you -Prevent the huge rush of people to the door at 5:01pm Founder of Spotlight Leadership, Dr. Eyal Ronen is dedicating his professional life to increasing business results and workplace happiness for organizations that are improving the world that we live in. Dr. Ronen he has been deeply immersed in the world of business leadership for nearly two decades and has helped numerous companies to consistently create and lead highly effective, driven, and happy work teams. As a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology, award-winning professor, and internationally recognized speaker, his knowledge of human behavior in the workplace is extraordinary in the fields of hiring, management consulting, and leadership coaching. When he isn’t bringing business results and happiness to the lives of leaders and their teams, he’s bringing happiness to his own life by playing with his two young children, chopping vegetables for his beautiful wife, making a mess in their New Jersey home, and finding piece of mind practicing yoga. At Spotlight Leadership we create systems and programs that enable leaders to assemble and engage the most fantastic teams possible, allowing them to pursue what they love most, at work and everywhere else. You could call us Industrial-Organizational Psychologists, Leadership Consultants, Statisticians, Researchers, Effectiveness Coaches, Organizational Assessors, Hiring Specialists, Motivational Speakers and on and on. It just makes more sense to say that we are the experts of crafting people solutions for lasting results. We set leaders free. We help missions come to life. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/04/realize-your-mission-how-to-use-employee-engagement-to-reach-your-goals/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130213 DTEND:20130214 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130104T075839 LAST-MODIFIED:20130104T075839 UID:5453@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Crisis Communications for Nonprofits DESCRIPTION: Sexual misconduct, embezzlements, sudden changes in leadership, defunding programs, loss of accreditation, compensation issues, misuse of philanthropic funds, labor disputes… Members of the media have spent their entire careers getting ready to interview you. Doesn’t it make sense to spend just a few minutes learning why the media doesn’t cover your story or issue the way you want? And when they do, why the story doesn’t look or read the way you think it should? Especially in today’s world of “gotcha” journalism, with tiny, digital cameras capable of sending hi-definition pictures to YouTube and CNN within minutes and reputational challenges amplified exponentially by Facebook and Twitter, “managing the media” is a necessary skill set for educational leaders. This fast-paced talk by veteran crisis communications and media specialist Bruce Hennes, from Hennes Paynter Communications in Cleveland, Ohio (www.crisiscommunications.com), will focus on a highly-strategic approach to communicating during a wide variety of situations, offering methods for establishing and maintaining “control of the message,” enabling you to move your message forward or mount a defense against a sudden press onslaught. Takeaways: -Gain insight into what the media looks for in an interview -Understand how and why the media’s objectives differ from the interviewee’s -Understand how to better and more-effectively communicate to protect the organization’s image, brand and perception in the marketplace Bruce Hennes has over 35 years’ experience working in politics and public relations. His firm now counts among their current and former clients such organizations as Kenyon College, Kent State University, Akron General Health System, The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, KeyBank, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, The Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, NASA and Westfield Insurance, as well as numerous private and public schools K-12, municipalities, large nonprofits and law firms. Hennes serves on the governing board of the Cleveland Leadership Center and The Business Emergency Planning Institute. He is one of the founders of the FBI Citizens Academy Foundation of Cleveland. He is also a Graduate Lecturer in Advanced Communications/Media Relations in the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University and he frequently speaks before bar and trade associations. Hennes is also a member of the boards of The Press Club of Cleveland and he’s on the executive committee of The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and recipient of the bar association’s first-ever President’s Award. Hennes received certification in Effective Communications from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and The Federal Emergency Management Agency. President of Leadership Cleveland’s Class of 2008, Hennes is also of counsel to Levick Strategic Communications in Washington, DC. (Crisis Manager of the Year and Litigation Communications Firm of the Year by PRNews). Hennes Paynter is one of the few agencies in the U.S. focused exclusively on crisis communications. Serving corporations, government agencies, educational and healthcare institutions and nonprofits that are “on trial” in the Court of Public Opinion, Hennes Paynter Communications also offers media training and litigation communication support to their clients. For the last three years in a row, Hennes Paynter Communications won the Gold Award from the Public Relations Society of America – Greater Cleveland Chapter for its crisis work. In 2009, Hennes Paynter won PRSA’s coveted “Best of Show” award for its work with another agency on the national peanut butter recall. For more information, please go to www.crisiscommunications.com LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/04/crisis-communications-for-nonprofits/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130212 DTEND:20130213 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130102T142355 LAST-MODIFIED:20130102T142536 UID:5450@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What Executive Directors Desperately Need to Know About Fundraising DESCRIPTION: Our webinar will focus on addressing the essence of a non-profit leader’s job function – fundraising. This is ironic because the overwhelming majority of executive directors we’ve surveyed tell us it’s the part of the job they enjoy the least. We’ll focus on why EDs struggle with this most essential of tasks and what they can do to significantly direct sufficient time and effort to ensuring organizational sustainability. Takeaways: -We’ll discuss the ‘convenient truth’ of blaming the economy and why that’s not going to help bring $ through the doors -Take part in a self-assessment survey that will “slot” your position on the ED/fundraising scale -Discover why individual donor fundraising is absolutely vital…even if and when all else fails -Learn about the serious implications inherent in ignoring fundraising to individuals Sue Rescigno spent the early years of her professional career in development at prestigious educational institutions such as Illinois Institute of Technology and St. Xavier University. During her tenure at IIT, she won an award from CASE for Sustained Performance in the Annual Fund. Sue’s degree is in Mass Communications from St. Xavier University and is a Certified Mailpiece Quality Control Specialist. She is also currently on the Postal and Government Affairs Committee of the Mailing and Fulfillment Association (MFSA). Prior to joining Rescigno’s, Ron spent 23 years in private high school education as both a teacher and administrator. He holds a BA in English from Lewis College and an MA in Educational Administration from Governors State University. Ron is responsible for new sales, research and copy-writing of materials for the annual fund, campaign material and various in-house marketing materials such as email marketing. Ron and Sue Rescigno are very active in their community. They were recently honored by the Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn with Soaring Spirit awards because of their longstanding involvement in the museum. Sue also sat on the board of Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn for 10 years and served for two years on the Christ Hospital development committee. Ron has been the vice president of the Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn for the last [6] years and recently completed a nine-year tenure on the board of St. Linus Grammar School. Rescigno’s Marketing Connections is an American small business that provides direct and social media marketing services for non-profits and direct marketing agencies. From humble garage beginnings as Rescigno’s Rapid Mailing Service in 1992, when they worked from their dining room table addressing envelopes by hand, Rescigno’s is now based in Bridgeview, Il —where computers, postal software, high-speed printers, and tabbing, stamping, and folding machines have allowed them to expand their offerings and grow their customer base. Rescigno’s has been a certified mailing expert since 1992, and over the past 19 years have become the one-stop shop for all things marketing. Whether it’s consulting, social media solutions, or mailing campaigns, the team at Rescigno’s Marketing Connections works to solve direct marketing challenges and provide results. As “thought-leaders” of a business that specializes in personalized communications, they believe in maintaining personal relationships with their customers. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/02/what-executive-directors-desperately-need-to-know-about-fundraising/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130206 DTEND:20130207 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20130102T141714 LAST-MODIFIED:20130102T141714 UID:5448@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Adding Social Media to Your Marketing Plan DESCRIPTION: Around every corner you turn these days we hear about social media, bloggers, social networking. The list goes on and on. Using social media is just one tool for developing your organization’s fundraising and marketing strategies. Social media is an entry point and can be used as part of a larger plan to help you achieve your funding goals. Learn from existing success models about how organizations can raise tens of thousands and even millions of dollars through social media. Social media is here to stay. Taking some time to learn more about the multi-channel use of marketing your organization can have a long-term impact on the knowledge about and success of your mission. Takeaways: -Foundational concepts for using any social media platform -Understand the elements of a social media plan -Learn how integrate social media into your entire organization Emily Davis has been working in the nonprofit sector as a staff member, consultant, founder, board member, and volunteer for over 15 years. Emily is the President of EDA Consulting LLC and the author of the publication, Fundraising and the Next Generation. She trains and consults on leadership development, philanthropy, and integrated online communications for small businesses, nonprofits, and philanthropists. She is a consultant on multigenerational family philanthropy with 21/64, Certified Governance Trainer with BoardSource, and serves in numerous advisory roles including Nonprofit World Magazine, Nonprofit Cultivation Center, and Social Venture Partners of Boulder County. Emily has received and been nominated for a number of awards throughout the country. Emily has her Masters in Nonprofit Management from Regis University. EDA Consulting creatively partners with small businesses, not-for-profits, and philanthropists on leadership development, philanthropy, and integrated online communications. We serve our clients to leverage every resource possible that will benefit the organizational vision, mission, and goals. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2013/01/02/adding-social-media-to-your-marketing-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121214T152521 LAST-MODIFIED:20121214T152521 UID:5446@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY: Services to State Employees: Electronic Books and Documents at the State Library of Florida DESCRIPTION: This program will demonstrate using E-Books through the EBSCO Host database, as well as accessing electronic State and Federal Documents on the State Library server Register and view the recording here LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/14/services-to-state-employees-electronic-books-and-documents-at-the-state-library-of-florida/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130124T090000 DTEND:20130124T160000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121211T101137 LAST-MODIFIED:20121211T101137 UID:5438@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Digital Camera & Digital Media DESCRIPTION:Learn to use your digital camera or smart phone in this beginning hands-on workshop and gain expertise for your library projects and support your digital media efforts. We'll provide resources for photo editing, online photo albums, storage, best practices, tips and cheat sheets. You'll learn the basics on components such as zoom, flash, and resolution. We will take photographs of various subjects using these components, then learn to download the pictures into a computer or direct upload to Social Media sites using various techniques. We'll crop, resize and edit them for use in e-mails, web sites, social networks, and library displays. We'll also talk about online photo sharing sites, creative ways to use and repurpose photos. So bring your camera or smart phone to class and get ready to have fun while you learn. Don't forget to bring extra batteries, memory cards, and your camera manual. We'll talk about these important components as well. Trainer: Dawn Jensen, Virtual Options Coaching and Training January 24, 2013 9:00 am - 4:00 pm CT Register on PLAN's website LOCATION:5230 W Hwy 98, Panama City, FL, United States, 32401 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/11/digital-camera-digital-media/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130214T100000 DTEND:20130214T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121211T100620 LAST-MODIFIED:20121211T100620 UID:5431@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Maximizing your Marketing Mix (Get the most Bang for your Buck) - Online DESCRIPTION:In todays fast paced and computer driven society, it is more important than ever for libraries to streamline and maximize their marketing efforts and to keep people aware of your library and what it has to offer. This presentation will help you understand how to craft a message that hits your target market, and how to pick the right marketing mix to make the most of your budget. Instructor: Holly Pituch is the owner of Clever Girl Marketing, Inc. She spent a large portion of her career building a successful marketing division for a large company and then two years ago ventured out on her own to build a marketing consultation business. Holly is passionate about marketing and well versed in both tried and true business marketing solutions as well as new and innovative online and social marketing initiatives. February 14, 2013 10:00 - 11:00 am CT (11:00 - Noon ET) Register on PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/11/maximizing-your-marketing-mix-get-the-most-bang-for-your-buck-online/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130314T130000 DTEND:20130314T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121205T084334 LAST-MODIFIED:20121205T084422 UID:5427@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:WordPress Basics (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This two-part online class will be held on March 14 and 21, 2013 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm. Students must attend both sessions. According to Forbes Magazine, “WordPress powers one of every 6 websites on the Internet, nearly 60 million in all, with 100,000 more popping up each day” (http://goo.gl/49F1U). This powerful Content Management System (CMS) allows users with little technical skill to set-up, design and manage websites. During the course, attendees will: Tour the back-end of a WordPress Site Learn how to do basic editing, including adding/editing media and adding and deleting pages Adding Plugins and Widgets - and explore the "essential" plugins for any site Explore the administrative abilities of WordPress Customize your dashboard Install and manage themes Customize menus and more Add, edit and manage users Between classes, attendees will each be asked to work on a web project useful to them or work within a practice WordPress site created for the class. One-on-one assistance with the instructor will be provided during this time. This class will be delivered online. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course. Presented by: Diana Silveira, Novare Library Services Registration deadline:  03/07/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/05/wordpress-basics-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130220T130000 DTEND:20130220T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121205T083908 LAST-MODIFIED:20121205T083919 UID:5423@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Fundamentals of HTML5 (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This two-part online class will be held on February 20 and 27, 2013 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm. Students must attend both sessions. HTML5 has changed the Web as we know it. The newest markup language has some exciting features that, for example, make it easy to embed and play multimedia content on the web without having to use proprietary plugins like Adobe’s Flash. In this webinar, learn: What HTML5 is and what it can do New HTML5 tags Useful coding examples Testing and validation of your site Future of HTML5 Participants will be given server space to create their own page and will be required to have a basic HTML editor like Notepad, Notepad++ or Eclipse. This class will be delivered online. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course. Presented by: Chad Mairn, Novare Library Services Registration deadline:  2/13/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/05/fundamentals-of-html5-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130124T130000 DTEND:20130124T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121205T083212 LAST-MODIFIED:20121205T083415 UID:5418@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Ultimate Course for Helping Job Hunters (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This two-part online class will be held on January 24 and 31, 2013 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm. Students must attend both sessions. This class will help prepare you to assist job seekers in your library. The course will focus on: the new rules for creating effective resumes how to create a resume using MS Word and how to customize a resume for online job applications how to utilize LinkedIn and other online job resources assisting users on saving their resume in an accessible method for future access (Cloud-computing/USBs, etc.) Between classes, attendees will each be asked to work on a project useful to them - or one suggested in class. One-on-one assistance with the instructor will be provided during this time. This class will be delivered online. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course. Presented by: Diana Silveira, Novare Library Services Registration deadline:  1/17/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/05/the-ultimate-course-for-helping-job-hunters-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130109T133000 DTEND:20130109T163000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121205T080150 LAST-MODIFIED:20121205T080209 UID:5413@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Customer Service at the Library (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This half-day program deals specifically with Attitudes, Behaviors and Connections that help promote customer loyalty and greater library usage.  It is an extremely interactive workshop, presented in a manner that makes the session an enjoyable and valuable learning experience.  The impact of the program will be reflected in improved employee job satisfaction and greater effectiveness with customers and coworkers. Topics include: Why People Stop Coming Back How Customers Evaluate Service Healthy Attitudes vs Deadly Attitudes The Impact of Words-- Words to Use vs Words to Lose The Power of a Smile The Value of Thank You Customer MAGIC (Making a Good Impression Counts) Presenter: Stephen Wishnack, Think & Do Registration deadline:  01/03/2013 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION:6620 University Drive, Parkland, FL, United States, 33067 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/05/customer-service-at-the-library-seflin-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130207 DTEND:20130208 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121204T114954 LAST-MODIFIED:20121204T114954 UID:5410@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Self-Directed Achievement: If You Give Library Staff an Hour DESCRIPTION: This webinar shares how staff at the Tooele City Library implemented a "Self-Directed Achievement" model for staff development. "Set one training goal each week achievable in one hour." This simple directive was given to every staff member of one Utah library in September 2011. The result just one year later? A sustainable, positive culture transformation. The mechanism, called “Self-Directed Achievement,” is a consistent, agile, individualized approach to staff development in a climate of constant change. It champions the basic library principle of lifelong learning. It is achievable for every individual with any level of expertise. And its impact will ripple through your organization from the staff work room to public lounge areas. Following this webinar, you will understand the model, mechanics, individual accountability, and supervisory responsibility involved in this remarkable method...and you’ll want to do it too. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/04/self-directed-achievement-if-you-give-library-staff-an-hour/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130114 DTEND:20130115 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121204T113028 LAST-MODIFIED:20121204T113028 UID:5407@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 7 – Original Cataloging DESCRIPTION: This web-based course explains OCLC standards for original bibliographic records in WorldCat, and provides instruction on techniques for creating these records in Connexion Browser. This course does not cover AACR2 or other cataloging rules, MARC, subject headings, or authority control. This course is intended for learners who are familiar with current cataloging rules (such as AACR2 and LC Rule Interpretations) and MARC, and are comfortable with using Connexion Browser to search WorldCat, navigate through search results, and do basic editing. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who have created original bibliographic records in their local catalog but have not yet contributed records to WorldCat, and to technical services managers who oversee original cataloging operations. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Please note, that to access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/04/connexion-browser-module-7-original-cataloging-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130130 DTEND:20130131 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121204T112658 LAST-MODIFIED:20121204T112658 UID:5403@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 1- WorldCat, MARC, and Browser Basics DESCRIPTION: This course provides instruction on the structure of the WorldCat bibliographic database, an introduction to the MARC bibliographic record format, as well as an introduction to the setup and basic navigation of Connexion Browser. After completing this web-based training, learners will have the foundational knowledge required to begin using Connexion as a copy cataloging tool. Learners will also be able to navigate the interface and set up Connexion Browser to begin a work session efficiently. This is the first part of a three module series designed to enable basic copy cataloging work in Connexion Browser. This course is intended for learners who are new to Connexion Browser and copy cataloging. Established, but basic, users of Connexion Browser may also benefit from the class by filling in foundational knowledge that will allow them to work with Browser more effectively. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/04/connexion-browser-module-1-worldcat-marc-and-browser-basics-8/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130128 DTEND:20130129 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121204T111153 LAST-MODIFIED:20121204T111153 UID:5401@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Client Module 09 - Authority Control DESCRIPTION: This live online module provides instruction on how to use Connexion Client to perform authority control work within bibliographic records. After completing this web-based training, learners will be prepared to search the authority file, add a selected authority record to a bibliographic field, and link headings in bibliographic records to the LC authority file. This course is intended for learners who have a basic understanding of cataloging principles and MARC, have some cataloging experience, and are comfortable with using Connexion Client to search WorldCat, navigate through search results, and do basic editing. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who create original bibliographic records or who do extensive editing of existing records, to library staff who need to find and export authority records to provide cross-reference structures in their local catalog, and to technical services managers who oversee these activities. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/04/connexion-client-module-09-authority-control-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130111 DTEND:20130112 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121204T110422 LAST-MODIFIED:20121204T110422 UID:5399@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:CatExpress: Copy Cataloging with CatExpress DESCRIPTION: This live online course provides instruction on copy cataloging using the CatExpress interface. This course covers the copy cataloging workflow including searching, holdings maintenance, exporting and downloading records. After completing this course, the learner will be prepared to fully utilize the CatExpress service. This course is intended for users who are new to, or have limited experience with, the CatExpress service. It will also be beneficial to existing users who may not be making full use of the service. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Please note, that to access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/04/catexpress-copy-cataloging-with-catexpress-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130116 DTEND:20130117 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121204T105243 LAST-MODIFIED:20121204T105243 UID:5397@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How To Incorporate Demos Into Your Marketing Webinars (AMarA) DESCRIPTION: Once people have joined your webinar, how do you keep their attention? Web conferencing software offers features that enable you to move beyond simple narration over PowerPoint slides to make your webinars more compelling, interesting, and fun to attend. Join us as Ken Molay, president of Webinar Success, explains web conferencing features and techniques you can use to more fully involve your audience. Learn how to make your webinars more effective – and enjoyable – by inviting your audience to interact rather than passively listen. Attend this webinar to learn about: • Conferencing features that support interactivity and how best to use them • When to use interactivity and when to avoid it • How to configure a presentation to incorporate interactivity • Potential pitfalls of interactivity and how to protect yourself This seminar is appropriate for anyone who presents via web seminars. It provides value for applications such as marketing, training, sales and employee communications. A live question and answer session will let you focus on the issues of most importance and benefit to your organization. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/04/how-to-incorporate-demos-into-your-marketing-webinars-amara/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130306 DTEND:20130307 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121204T105027 LAST-MODIFIED:20121204T105027 UID:5395@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Five Keys to Winning RFPs DESCRIPTION: If winning business for your company requires answering RFPs, you need to understand the difference between answering the document and winning the deal. In this high-energy webcast, you will be introduced to five of the keys that companies who win RFPs use to nab a disproportionate amount of the RFP business in their marketplace. What You Will Learn •Developing a strategy focused on the triggers of each potential reader •Differentiating their company even though there is a rigid response format •Identifying the tell-tale signs of a "rigged" RFP to avoid wasting time on no-win scenarios •Tricks to getting the most out of the RFP format to ensure your company is a finalist Tom Searcy has established himself as the foremost expert in large account sales. As an author, speaker, consultant and Founder of Hunt Big Sales, Searcy has helped his clients generate business in excess of $5 Billion. His process is documented in his books, Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Sales and Transform Your Company and RFPs Suck! How to Master the RFP System Once and for All to Win Big Business. He writes online weekly columns for Forbes, Inc., and CBS’ MoneyWatch, which have a combined monthly readership of 38 million. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/04/five-keys-to-winning-rfps/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130226 DTEND:20130227 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121204T104851 LAST-MODIFIED:20121204T104851 UID:5393@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Petition To Win: Benefits & Best Practices for Online Petitions DESCRIPTION: Pink Slime. The Boy Scouts of America. Trayvon Martin. Online petitions are all over the news these days, but the big news is that they really do work. In the information age, online petitions have become an important tactic for advocacy campaigns and a crucial channel for list growth to support direct email fundraising. Listen in to learn best practices for online petitions that Change.org has gleaned from hundreds of thousands of campaigns started on the world’s petition platform. Takeaways: -Benefits of online petitions such as engaging new supporters, generating media & pressuring decision makers -Best practices for running effective online petitions as part of advocacy campaigns -Online petitions as a key strategy for list growth and online fundraising Lawrence Grodeska is a web marketing expert with more than 12 years experience leveraging technology and new media to promote programs and campaigns for public education, cause marketing and advocacy. Lawrence serves as the Nonprofit Community Manager at Change.org, where he teaches organizations how to best leverage the world’s fastest-growing social action platform to achieve real change. Change.org is the world’s petition platform, empowering everyone to make the change that they want to see. Change.org also empowers organizations to build their movements using powerful tools that engage passionate supporters with their cause. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/04/petition-to-win-benefits-best-practices-for-online-petitions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130110 DTEND:20130111 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121204T104710 LAST-MODIFIED:20121204T104710 UID:5391@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Troubleshooting Windows 8 for Beginners DESCRIPTION: First Thursday webcast. Getting started with repairing and fixing Windows 8 can be very complex with many technical tools you need to be familiar with. This needn't be the case though. In this webcast, Mike Halsey, the author of "Troubleshoot and Optimize Windows 8 Inside Out" will show you how even non-technical people can troubleshoot and repair Windows 8. Mike Halsey is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for "Windows Expert - Consumer" and the author of many Windows books including "Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out", "Windows 8: Out of the Box", "Troubleshoot and Optimize Windows 8 Inside Out" and "The Windows 8 Power Users Guide". Mike provides technical support on his website, TheLongClimb.com. You can keep up to date with all of Mike's events, articles and get access to exclusive giveaways on Facebook and Twitter. He has worked for many years in second and third-line IT support, and also works as a teacher of English, maths and ICT, helping those without qualifications and the long-term unemployed gain what is for some, their first ever qualifications. Mike lives in Sheffield (Yorkshire) UK with his rescue border collie, Jed. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/12/04/troubleshooting-windows-8-for-beginners-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130327 DTEND:20130328 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T123305 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T123305 UID:5387@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Understanding Personalities in the Workplace DESCRIPTION: Maybe this has happened to you...you are merrily doing your work on schedule for a project that's due next week when...uh-oh! Your co-worker doesn't have the information ready that you need to finish your piece of the project. Or...you think you've made yourself perfectly clear, yet your supervisor seems confused by your thought process. Maybe you are trying to embrace change and others are frustrated by it-or you are the one experiencing frustration while your co-workers are not only accepting the change, but seem to be enjoying it! Sometimes you may even perceive someone's behavior as difficult when others think everything is fine. How can that be?? The interpersonal dynamics in our workplaces change from day to day, but what doesn't change is the variety of personalities we interact with. From supervisors to co-workers, from patrons to volunteers, there are days when personality differences seem as numerous as the books on our shelves! Clowns, ringleaders, tightrope walkers, and ticket takers; we are all so different, and yet so alike. In this full-day workshop, Linda Bruno will help us discover our own personality styles-our strengths and struggles-as well as those of each of the other styles. As you learn about yourself, you¡¦ll undoubtedly experience an "aha" moment regarding someone else (or several "someone elses"). And once you understand who YOU really are, you will find yourself better equipped to deal with THEM It's magic! We'll discuss how each of the personality styles deals with difficult people, change, and project management. We'll find out how they think-and why it seems to us that sometimes they don't! AND, we'll find out how to communicate more effectively with each of the four styles. If you've ever asked yourself, "Why did they DO that?" - or more importantly - "Why did I do that??" - come to this informative and fun workshop - and find out! REGISTER NOW LOCATION:15000 Livingston Road (Administration Building), Naples, FL, United States, 34109 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/understanding-personalities-in-the-workplace-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130320 DTEND:20130321 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T111642 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T111642 UID:5385@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Advanced Copyright for Librarians (Session Two of Two) DESCRIPTION: THIS EVENT IS THE SECOND OF TWO SESSIONS ON MARCH 20, 2013. Please see the link below to register for the morning session. Are you aware of the recent Supreme Court rulings that effect copyright? Are you knowledgeable about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Are you comfortable with the understanding of Section 108 of the US Copyright Code? Are you familiar with the Copyright Modernization Act? Are you confident everything you do or your patrons do with computers meets copyright law? If you think you may have the answer to these questions but are not definite you need this workshop. The workshop will cover recent changes to copyright law that effect libraries. At the conclusion of the workshop you will have a working understanding of these changes that will enable you to make correct decisions for your library and patrons. Janet A. Williams is an independent technology consultant with 40 years of experience in K-12 public education. She has had a successful career in teaching, administration and training at all levels. Her profession has included teaching science at elementary, middle school and high school and teaching American History. In addition to teaching K-12 students, she taught post graduate students as an adjunct professor for University of South Florida. She graduated from Florida Southern College with a BA in Social Studies and minor in Science education. She continued her education receiving a degree in Information Science and Library Media. Her ALA approved Master degree from the University of South Florida gave her the opportunity to work with K-12 students and teachers as well as public librarians. Twenty of these education years were served as administrator for Charlotte County Public Schools Library Program and chief operating officer for Special Projects Center, a four county consortium serving Glades, DeSoto, Charlotte and Hendry counties She was responsible for the coordination of the planning, development and implementation of a comprehensive Pre-K through twelve instructional library, media and technology plan. Presently, Janet is retired and is a co-owner of a consulting business, TIPS, Training in Presentation Skills. As an independent consultant, TIPS provides professional development opportunities on library information skills, interactive white boards, and integration of technology using Microsoft Office applications. Janet is a presenter at local, state and national conferences involving library, information and communication technologies. Janet currently works with leading technology and media companies to integrate 21st century hardware and software systems into the curriculum. Grant writing, technology long range planning and training for presentations, computer business applications and interactive white boards helps Janet to generate solutions to technology challenges in the classroom as well open access to all libraries. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/advanced-copyright-for-librarians-session-two-of-two/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130320 DTEND:20130321 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T111340 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T111340 UID:5383@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Understanding Basic Copyright for Librarians (Session One of Two) DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE FIRST OF TWO SESSIONS ON MARCH 20, 2013. Please see the link below to register for the afternoon session. Do you know the five absolute rights of a copyright owner? Do you know when a work of any kind becomes copyrighted or the eight categories that are always copyrighted? How does the First Sale Doctrine affect you as a librarian? Do you believe fair use covers you as long as you don‘t overdo it? If you can’t answer all of the above with a specific answer you should take this workshop. We will cover the basic copyright law needed to keep you and your library from any infringement. When you complete this workshop you will have a working knowledge of all copyright law as it refers to libraries. Janet A. Williams is an independent technology consultant with 40 years of experience in K-12 public education. She has had a successful career in teaching, administration and training at all levels. Her profession has included teaching science at elementary, middle school and high school and teaching American History. In addition to teaching K-12 students, she taught post graduate students as an adjunct professor for University of South Florida. She graduated from Florida Southern College with a BA in Social Studies and minor in Science education. She continued her education receiving a degree in Information Science and Library Media. Her ALA approved Master degree from the University of South Florida gave her the opportunity to work with K-12 students and teachers as well as public librarians. Twenty of these education years were served as administrator for Charlotte County Public Schools Library Program and chief operating officer for Special Projects Center, a four county consortium serving Glades, DeSoto, Charlotte and Hendry counties She was responsible for the coordination of the planning, development and implementation of a comprehensive Pre-K through twelve instructional library, media and technology plan. Presently, Janet is retired and is a co-owner of a consulting business, TIPS, Training in Presentation Skills. As an independent consultant, TIPS provides professional development opportunities on library information skills, interactive white boards, and integration of technology using Microsoft Office applications. Janet is a presenter at local, state and national conferences involving library, information and communication technologies. Janet currently works with leading technology and media companies to integrate 21st century hardware and software systems into the curriculum. Grant writing, technology long range planning and training for presentations, computer business applications and interactive white boards helps Janet to generate solutions to technology challenges in the classroom as well open access to all libraries. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/understanding-basic-copyright-for-librarians-session-one-of-two/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130228 DTEND:20130301 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T111020 LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T155013 UID:5381@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Library Telephone & Email Etiquette DESCRIPTION:This session is a sequel to the morning session, "Customer Service at the Library.¨ A major part of a librarians day include task done over the telephone or by email. With technology constantly advancing, it is paramount that libraries remember to keep their communication etiquette at a high priority to avoid miscues. Steve Wishnack will demonstrate simple but effective skills proven to increase any library staff's performance. In addition to attendees getting the opportunity to ask Steve Wishnack questions about various scenarios, participants will engage in hands-on exercises that make use of the learnt material. Objectives: 1.Provide language and tools for greater effectiveness in communicating via telephone and email. 2.Stimulate creative thinking about ways to enhance personal effectiveness with telephone and email communication. 3.Offer opportunities to practice telephone and email skills and techniques. Steve Wishnack is the founder of Think & Do, www.thinkanddo.us, Education and training have been at the heart of Steve's professional career. Among Steves clients are the U.S Postal Service, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, The Marriott Corporation, Fidelity Investments, as well as Municipalities, Municipal Associations, Libraries and Library Associations nationwide. Today, Steve's energies are devoted to delivering Think & Do Customer Service Workshops, Webinars, and other Online training offerings which help cultivate customer loyalty and improve employee effectiveness with customers. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:110 West Osceola Avenue, Clewiston, FL, United States, 33440 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/library-telephone-email-etiquette/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130228 DTEND:20130301 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T110755 LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T154857 UID:5379@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Customer Service at the Library - Cultivating Loyal Library Customers DESCRIPTION:This Customer-Centered program is recommended for any staff member who interacts with customers (patrons) on a regular basis. It deals specifically with Attitudes, Behaviors and Connections that help promote customer loyalty and greater library usage. It is an extremely interactive workshop, presented in a manner that makes the session an enjoyable and valuable learning experience. The impact of the program will be reflected in improved employee job satisfaction and greater effectiveness with customers and coworkers. Workshop Topics include: -Why People Stop Coming Back -How Customers Evaluate Service -Healthy Attitudes vs Deadly Attitudes -The Impact of Words- Words to Use vs Words to Lose -The Power of a Smile -The Value of Thank You -Customer MAGIC (Making a Good Impression Counts) Objectives: 1.Build awareness of customer needs and wants, and the criteria by which they evaluate service at the library. 2.Offer tools and techniques for improving effectiveness with library customers and building customer loyalty. 3.Provide practice in the use of tools and techniques that support and enrich a customer-centered library culture. Steve Wishnack is the founder of Think & Do, www.thinkanddo.us, Education and training have been at the heart of Steve's professional career. Among Steve's clients are the U.S Postal Service, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, The Marriott Corporation, Fidelity Investments, as well as Municipalities, Municipal Associations, Libraries and Library Associations nationwide. Today, Steve's energies are devoted to delivering Think & Do Customer Service Workshops, Webinars, and other Online training offerings which help cultivate customer loyalty and improve employee effectiveness with customers. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:110 West Osceola Avenue, Clewiston, FL, United States, 33440 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/customer-service-at-the-library-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130212 DTEND:20130213 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T110606 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T110606 UID:5377@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Art of Negotiating a Great Deal DESCRIPTION: This one-day workshop will provide attendees with the necessary skills to license e-resources and negotiate the best price for library resources or services. The first half of the day will focus on the negotiation techniques, strategies and tools necessary to get the lowest price with greatest amount of value. The second half of the day will focus on best-practices for license agreements, and introduce the options of using Invitations to Bid, Invitations to Negotiate, and Request for Proposals when seeking new services from outside vendors. Outcomes: •Attendees will learn about a good negotiation skill set •Attendees will learn about the planning and information gathering process when preparing to negotiate •Attendees will learn how to create effective proposals and negotiate deals. •Attendees will learn how to create a negotiation support system. •Attendees will learn about best-practices for license agreements for e-resource content. •Attendees will learn the difference between ITN, ITB, RFPs, and when each might best be employed. •Attendees will have an opportunity to share their own experiences in negotiating deals, and get advice on upcoming negotiations. Claire Dygert Claire is a graduate of the University of Washington’s Library and Information Science Program. She currently serves as E-Resources Coordinator for the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC). Claire’s responsibilities include managing the FLVC funded databases that are available to all eleven state universities, as well as negotiating e-journal packages and other shared e-resource deals on behalf of the State University System. One of Claire’s major efforts has been working with the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida and the Florida College System to build collaborative licensing efforts across the state. Prior to coming to FLVC, Claire worked at American University in Washington DC where she served as Department Head for E-resources and Serials. There she led the development of AU’s institutional repository; the library’s first digitization projects; and the library’s efforts to integrate library resources into Blackboard. Her professional interests include issues of intellectual property and scholarly communication, the impact of emerging discovery tools on the information environment, and the library’s role in the distance-learning environment. Claire’s current professional activities include serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Electronic Reserve, and as a board member of the Florida Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Becky Donlan Becky is Assistant Director for Collection Management at Florida Gulf Coast University, where she has worked since May 2000. Becky moved to Florida in 1996 to join the Lee County Library System as Head of Reference at the South County Regional Library and in 1998 became Head of Technical Services for the Lee County Library System. In her current position, Becky manages all aspects of technical services and collections, including acquisitions, cataloging, serials, collection development, digital collections, and electronic resources. A graduate of the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science, Becky has worked in public and academic libraries since 1990, in Iowa, New Jersey, and Florida, serving in reference, cataloging, serials, and children’s departments. She served as Chair of the Collections Planning Committee for the State University System (SUS) libraries from 2007-2009 and is a member of the task force developing a shared e-book PDA project for the state university libraries. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Electronic Reserve, published by Taylor & Francis. Her motto is “if you can do toddler storytime, you can do anything.” Roy Ziegler Roy is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Information and have worked to provide academic library resources to faculty and students for over 22 years. Starting as the Serials Librarian at Southeast Missouri State University and eventually becoming the Associate Dean for Collection Development at Florida State University Libraries, I have helped to maximize access to needed materials and to migrate library resources to the most convenient and usable format for library patrons. I currently manage an $8M materials budget with an eye toward reducing duplication, maintaining value, expanding coverage to needed content and for establishing strategic partnerships to build and maintain an array of resources and services. I have held leadership positions on the Collections Planning Committee for the State University System (SUS) libraries. I continue to work toward strengthening shared collection development and to advocate for effective stewardship of public funds in order to increase the chances for information organizations to have sustainable futures. I have been involved with negotiating statewide contracts to establish a preferred print and electronic book vendors. I’ve initiated a shared Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) e-book project with the University of Florida and I’m actively involved in developing a shared e-book PDA project for all libraries within the SUS. I serve on various committees associated with professional organizations, present and write about collection development and resource sharing. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:15290 Bass Road, Fort Myers, FL, United States, 33919 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/the-art-of-negotiating-a-great-deal/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130207 DTEND:20130208 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T110353 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T110353 UID:5375@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Pop Up Cards & Books DESCRIPTION:Kids of all ages love books that move, open, unfold and flap (or quack). In this workshop, learn the techniques of pop-up construction and learn some book forms to put them in! Now, write your story with your imagination, and your illustrations! Perfect for you own handmade greeting cards ! All materials included... Eliza Holliday, Author of “Brush Lettering” and renown Florida book artist is available to teach workshops in bookmaking for kids or adults! Check her students’ work out at www.theletterist.blogspot.com REGISTER NOW LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/pop-up-cards-books/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130123 DTEND:20130124 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T104814 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T104814 UID:5369@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Genealogy for Librarians: How to Best Serve Your Patrons DESCRIPTION: This session is geared toward reference librarians and other paraprofessionals who interface with genealogy patrons of all levels. This insightful workshop covers the following topics: •Types of Genealogists and What Motivates Them? •Basic Genealogy Research Steps •Types of Records Available to Genealogists •Genealogical Resources on the Internet •What Other Resources/Referrals Can You Provide? •How Can You Best Serve Your Patrons? George G. Morgan is president of Aha! Seminars, Inc. He was a key training manager for Sears, Roebuck, Co., in the 1980s. He spearheaded the development of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) implementation program for Montgomery Ward & Co. and then for Sears, Roebuck & Co. He also managed the development of an award-winning PC-based EDI software package while with Sears Technology Services, Inc., coordinated the construction of two state-of-the-art training facilities, and developed the training program to support a roll-out of the software to over 600 of Sears' smaller suppliers. George worked for Advantis, a subsidiary of IBM, coordinating development and production of over 60 training sessions for its annual customer conferences, attended by between 1,500 to 2,000 of IBM's and Advantis' largest customers. These sessions spanned a broad spectrum of mainframe, mid-range, and microcomputer applications including the Internet and email, network communication technologies such as dial, leased line, ATM, ISDN, DOV, and LAN gateway, and customers' applications using the IBM network, its products, and services. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/genealogy-for-librarians-how-to-best-serve-your-patrons/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130123 DTEND:20130124 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T104529 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T105045 UID:5367@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Using Your Critical Thinking Skills to Evaluate Websites DESCRIPTION: Being able to locate something on the Web to help satisfy a patron’s need isn’t enough anymore. Among the tens of billions of Web pages on the Internet, it is your job to provide your patrons with the very best information possible. That means that you have to be able to locate the best quality materials and to help your patrons become savvy information consumers. This workshop will teach you to hone your skills in locating and assessing the quality of Web sites: origin, authority, accuracy, currency, bias, and more. In addition, you’ll learn how to locate more quality sites in a more manageable quantity to best serve your patrons. George G. Morgan is president of Aha! Seminars, Inc. He was a key training manager for Sears, Roebuck, Co., in the 1980s. He spearheaded the development of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) implementation program for Montgomery Ward & Co. and then for Sears, Roebuck & Co. He also managed the development of an award-winning PC-based EDI software package while with Sears Technology Services, Inc., coordinated the construction of two state-of-the-art training facilities, and developed the training program to support a roll-out of the software to over 600 of Sears' smaller suppliers. George worked for Advantis, a subsidiary of IBM, coordinating development and production of over 60 training sessions for its annual customer conferences, attended by between 1,500 to 2,000 of IBM's and Advantis' largest customers. These sessions spanned a broad spectrum of mainframe, mid-range, and microcomputer applications including the Internet and email, network communication technologies such as dial, leased line, ATM, ISDN, DOV, and LAN gateway, and customers' applications using the IBM network, its products, and services. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/using-your-critical-thinking-skills-to-evaluate-websites/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130117 DTEND:20130118 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T104244 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T104244 UID:5365@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Integrating eResources into Summer Reading Programs (High School) DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE SECOND OF TWO SESSIONS ON JANUARY 17, 2013. Please see the link below to register for the morning session. Are you trying to teach more people about Online Library Resources? Want to enhance your Summer Reading Programs? This onsite training workshop will provide attendees with an overview of the Gale Cengage Learning databases available through the Florida Electronic Library. With this understanding, users will then learn how to integrate these resources into Summer Reading programs. Strategies for introducing the resources to patrons and students will be discussed, as well as practical approaches for incorporating these skills and tools into Summer Reading Programs. Attendees will come out of this session with: •An overarching knowledge of each the FEL Gale databases and which databases would be best suited for different types of reference questions. •A better understanding of how to use the Gale databases to answer real life reference questions. •Sample scavenger hunts and exercises students can do to earn “reading” credit with the Summer Reading Programs. •The ability to complete and create database scavenger hunts and exercises. •New ideas for Summer Reading Projects and programs. Agenda 1:30 – 2:30 – Review of the Resources 2:30 – 3:00 – Database Practice Exercise 3:00 – 3:15 - Break 3:15 – 3:45 – Teaching Databeses to Students 3:45 – 4:15 – Presentation Training Exercise 4:15 - 4:30 PM – Wrap Up and Survey Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:21100 Three Oaks Parkway, Estero, FL, United States, 33928 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/integrating-eresources-into-summer-reading-programs-high-school/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130117 DTEND:20130118 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T103917 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T105208 UID:5362@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Integrating eResources into Summer Reading Programs (Kindergarten-8th Grade) DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE FIRST OF TWO SESSIONS ON JANUARY 17, 2013. Please see the link below to register for the afternoon session. Are you trying to teach more people about Online Library Resources? Want to enhance your Summer Reading Programs? This onsite training workshop will provide attendees with an overview of the Gale Cengage Learning databases available through the Florida Electronic Library. With this understanding, users will then learn how to integrate these resources into Summer Reading programs. Strategies for introducing the resources to patrons and students will be discussed, as well as practical approaches for incorporating these skills and tools into Summer Reading Programs. Attendees will come out of this session with: •An overarching knowledge of each the FEL Gale databases and which databases would be best suited for different types of reference questions. •A better understanding of how to use the Gale databases to answer real life reference questions. •Sample scavenger hunts and exercises students can do to earn “reading” credit with the Summer Reading Programs. •The ability to complete and create database scavenger hunts and exercises. •New ideas for Summer Reading Projects and programs. Agenda 9:30 AM – Welcome and Introductions 9:15 – 10:15 AM - Introduction to the Gale Resources - PowerSearch 10:15 – 10:30 AM – Break 10:30 – 11:00 AM –Scavenger Hunt Exercise 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Overview of Kids InfoBits and Children’s Resources 11:45 - 12:15 – Scavenger Hunt Creation Exercise 12:15 – 12:30 – Wrap Up and Survey Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:21100 Three Oaks Parkway, Estero, FL, United States, 33928 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/integrating-eresources-into-summer-reading-programs-kindergarten-8th-grade/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130110 DTEND:20130111 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T103501 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T103527 UID:5359@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Scholarly Writing and Publishing for Librarians (Session Two of Two) DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE SECOND OF TWO SESSIONS ON JANUARY 10, 2013. Please see the link below to register for the morning session. This 2-part, full day workshop will cover both beginning and advanced topics for librarians interested in developing and/or enhancing their writing and research skills. The morning session (9-12) will focus on beginning topics such as How to get started, types of scholarly writing, networking for success, what to expect from peer review, etc. The afternoon session (1-4) will cover topics more of interest to those already writing and publishing such as So you want to write a book, How to navigate IRB regulations, and Developing a writing support group. Participants will be contacted prior to the workshop in order to gauge specific topics of interest and to assess needs. This workshop would be useful to academic librarians or others interested in scholarly writing, especially those who are required to publish as part of their job expectations. Eleanor I. Cook Eleanor I. Cook is Assistant Director for Collections & Technical Services at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, where she has worked since 2008. Prior to this she was the Serials Coordinator at Appalachian State University for 18 years. She has held a number of leadership roles over the years, most notably President of the North American Serials Interest Group (2002-2003) and President of the North Carolina Preservation Consortium (NCPC). She is also active in ALA and NCLA. Eleanor serves as Chief Editor of ACQNET-L, a discussion listserve for those interested in acquisitions issues and also is on the editorial boards of Serials Librarian and Against the Grain. Becky Donlan Becky Donlan is Assistant Director for Collection Management at Florida Gulf Coast University, where she has worked since May 2000. A graduate of the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science, Becky has worked in public and academic libraries since 1990, serving in reference, cataloging, serials, and children’s departments. She served as Chair of the Collections Planning Committee for the State University System (SUS) libraries from 2007-2009 and is a member of the task force developing a shared e-book PDA project for the state university libraries. She was a columnist for The Reference Librarian and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Electronic Reserve, both published by Taylor & Francis. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:15290 Bass Road, Fort Myers, FL, United States, 33919 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/scholarly-writing-and-publishing-for-librarians-session-two-of-two/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130110 DTEND:20130111 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T103248 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T103248 UID:5357@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Scholarly Writing and Publishing for Librarians (Session One of Two) DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE FIRST OF TWO SESSIONS ON JANUARY 10, 2013. Please see the link below to register for the afternoon session. This 2-part, full day workshop will cover both beginning and advanced topics for librarians interested in developing and/or enhancing their writing and research skills. The morning session (9-12) will focus on beginning topics such as How to get started, types of scholarly writing, networking for success, what to expect from peer review, etc. The afternoon session (1-4) will cover topics more of interest to those already writing and publishing such as So you want to write a book, How to navigate IRB regulations, and Developing a writing support group. Participants will be contacted prior to the workshop in order to gauge specific topics of interest and to assess needs. This workshop would be useful to academic librarians or others interested in scholarly writing, especially those who are required to publish as part of their job expectations. Eleanor I. Cook Eleanor I. Cook is Assistant Director for Collections & Technical Services at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, where she has worked since 2008. Prior to this she was the Serials Coordinator at Appalachian State University for 18 years. She has held a number of leadership roles over the years, most notably President of the North American Serials Interest Group (2002-2003) and President of the North Carolina Preservation Consortium (NCPC). She is also active in ALA and NCLA. Eleanor serves as Chief Editor of ACQNET-L, a discussion listserve for those interested in acquisitions issues and also is on the editorial boards of Serials Librarian and Against the Grain. Becky Donlan Becky Donlan is Assistant Director for Collection Management at Florida Gulf Coast University, where she has worked since May 2000. A graduate of the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science, Becky has worked in public and academic libraries since 1990, serving in reference, cataloging, serials, and children’s departments. She served as Chair of the Collections Planning Committee for the State University System (SUS) libraries from 2007-2009 and is a member of the task force developing a shared e-book PDA project for the state university libraries. She was a columnist for The Reference Librarian and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Electronic Reserve, both published by Taylor & Francis. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:15290 Bass Road, Fort Myers, FL, United States, 33919 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/scholarly-writing-and-publishing-for-librarians-session-one-of-two/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121205 DTEND:20121206 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T102903 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T102903 UID:5355@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Technology Day DESCRIPTION: Library services are changing with the arrival of new electronic toys, gizmos, and gadgets. As new technologies and devices become available, library staff are faced with many questions. This two-part day will provide you with an introduction, explanation, and demonstration of the various eBooks and how to load them; in addition, other toys, gizmos, and gadgets (such as iPads, Androids, and iPhones) will be available for live demos. Breakfast and lunch will be included, so plan on arriving early to network; and, please stay for live demos and Q&A afterwards. Although the Geek Squad will have devices with them for hands on demos, we encourage you to “BYOD” (Bring Your Own Device) to the workshops (9:00 AM—12:00 PM for eBooks; 1:00 PM—4:00 PM for Toys, Gizmos, and Gadgets) and follow along with your own gadget during the presentations. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:4501 Colonial Boulevard, Fort Myers, FL, United States, 33912 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/technology-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121128 DTEND:20121129 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T102533 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T102533 UID:5353@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Trends in Teen Services: Steampunk (Session Two of Two) DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE SECOND OF TWO SESSIONS ON NOVEMBER 28, 2012. Please see the link below to register for the morning session. Looking for something new and different to do with your teens this summer? Familiar with Steampunk but not sure how to build a program around this big new trend? Dig beneath the surface of this fascinating sub-genre, which has recently gone mainstream in popular books, music, television and motion pictures. Acquire prop-making skills, art techniques, and programming tips in this participative workshop guaranteed to make your first foray into Steampunk a success! REGISTER NOW LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlote, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/trends-in-teen-services-steampunk-session-two-of-two/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121128 DTEND:20121129 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121116T102356 LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T102356 UID:5351@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Teen Bootcamp: For the Newly Enlisted Teen Librarian (Session One of Two) DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS THE FIRST OF TWO SESSIONS ON NOVEMBER 28, 2012. Please see the link below to register for the afternoon session. Are you new to teen services? Looking to start programs for teens and tweens at your library? Explore the wonderful world of teen services! Learn how to deal with teens, what they are interested in, exchange programming ideas, and discuss some basic collection development best practices. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/16/teen-bootcamp-for-the-newly-enlisted-teen-librarian-session-one-of-two/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130118T100000 DTEND:20130118T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121114T152344 LAST-MODIFIED:20121114T152941 UID:5339@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:PLAN's Tech Day DESCRIPTION:Joe Murphy (Librarian and Tech Trend Spotter) explains the opportunities and challenges presented by the most current technological changes. This cutting edge session will explain the major disruptions in technology happening now and the ripples they are making in traditional library models. This workshop will use a heavy dose of motivational theory to propel us into sharp focus on practical elements of leveraging new technologies In the afternoon we will focus on how to strategically decide which tech areas to implement and exactly how to apply specific technologies including Instagram, Three Dimensional Printing, Flipboard, Foursquare, Tablets, Pinterest, iMessage, and more in your library. Registration begins at 9:30 am CT Program begins at 10:00 am CT Register at PLAN's website LOCATION:206 N Partin Dr, Niceville, FL, United States, 32578 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/14/plans-tech-day-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130327 DTEND:20130328 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T135920 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T135920 UID:5335@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:12 Magic Customer Service and Reference Phrases Library Personnel Need to Know in Spanish (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, March 27, 9 am - 4 pm ET NEFLIN Headquarters, 2233 Park Avenue, Suite 402, Orange Park, FL 32073 For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:2233 Park Avenue, Suite 402, Orange Park, FL, United States, 32073 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/12-magic-customer-service-and-reference-phrases-library-personnel-need-to-know-in-spanish-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130321 DTEND:20130322 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T135721 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T135721 UID:5333@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:20 Things You Can Do To Make Your Library Website Better (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Thursday, March 21, 2-3 pm ET On your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/20-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-library-website-better-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130315 DTEND:20130316 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T135539 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T135539 UID:5331@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Bring the Crazy to Your School Age and Tween Programs (NEFLIN) (Gainesville) DESCRIPTION:Friday, March 15, 9 am - 12 noon ET Alachua County Library District, Millhopper Public Library 3145 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville, FL 32606 For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:3145 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville, FL, United States, 32606 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/bring-the-crazy-to-your-school-age-and-tween-programs-neflin-gainesville/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130313 DTEND:20130314 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T135342 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T135342 UID:5329@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Put Down the Bullhorn: Promoting Your Library Online (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, March 13, 2-3 pm ET On your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/put-down-the-bullhorn-promoting-your-library-online-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130312 DTEND:20130313 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T135210 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T135210 UID:5327@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:A Recruiter's Perspective on Job Hunting for a Professional Library Position (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, March 12, 10-11:30 am ET On your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/a-recruiters-perspective-on-job-hunting-for-a-professional-library-position-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130307 DTEND:20130308 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T135020 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T135020 UID:5325@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Writing for the Web (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Thursday, March 7, 2-3 pm ET On your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/writing-for-the-web-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130305 DTEND:20130306 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T134910 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T134910 UID:5323@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Reading Experiences (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, May 5, 10-11 am ET On your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/social-reading-experiences-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130228 DTEND:20130301 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T133541 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T133541 UID:5320@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Teaching Digital Devices (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Thursday, February 28, 10-11 am ET On Your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/teaching-digital-devices-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130226 DTEND:20130227 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T133424 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T133424 UID:5318@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Is Your Library Website ADA Compliant? (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, February 26, 2-3 pm ET On your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/is-your-library-website-ada-compliant-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130220 DTEND:20130221 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T133258 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T133258 UID:5316@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Special Copyright Issues for School Libraries (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, February 20, 2-3:30 pm ET On your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/special-copyright-issues-for-school-libraries-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130207 DTEND:20130208 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T133140 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T133140 UID:5314@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Thursday, February 7, 10-11:30 am ET On your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/the-flipped-classroom-the-full-picture-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130205 DTEND:20130206 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T133008 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T133008 UID:5312@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Media Policies for the Library (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, February 5, 10-11 am ET On your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin   LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/social-media-policies-for-the-library-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130201 DTEND:20130202 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T132835 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T132835 UID:5310@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Genealogy Technology (NEFLIN) (Gainesville) DESCRIPTION:Friday, February 1, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm ET Alachua County Library District, Millhopper Public Library 3145 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville, Fl 32606 For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION:3145 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville, FL, United States, 32606 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/genealogy-technology-neflin-gainesville/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130130 DTEND:20130131 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T125641 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T132549 UID:5306@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Dealing with Difficult People, 3 part webinar (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This is a 3-part webinar series meeting Wednesday, January 30, February 13 and February 27, 2:00 - 3:00 pm ET. You must attend all sessions. For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/dealing-with-difficult-people-3-part-webinar-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130206 DTEND:20130207 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T121400 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T125208 UID:5289@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Special Copyright Issues for Academic Libraries (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, February 6, 2-3:30 pm ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/special-copyright-issues-for-academic-libraries-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130123 DTEND:20130124 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T121246 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T121246 UID:5287@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Special Copyright Issues for Public Libraries (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, January 23, 2-3:30 pm ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/special-copyright-issues-for-public-libraries-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130116 DTEND:20130117 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T121053 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T122115 UID:5285@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Digital Camera 101 and Digital Media for Libraries (NEFLIN) (Cocoa) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, January 16, 9 am - 4 pm ET at Brevard Central Library, 308 Forrest Avenue, Cocoa, FL 32922 For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION:308 Forrest Avenue, Cocoa, FL, United States, 32922 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/digital-camera-101-and-digital-media-for-libraries-neflin-cocoa/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130212 DTEND:20130213 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T120705 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T122440 UID:5279@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core Standards #5: Model Elementary and Secondar Common Core Lessons (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, February 12, 4-5 pm ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/common-core-standards-5-model-elementary-and-secondar-common-core-lessons-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130205 DTEND:20130206 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T120514 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T122250 UID:5276@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core Standards #4: Integrating with Marzano and Danielson (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, February 5, 4-5 pm ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/common-core-standards-4-integrating-with-marzano-and-danielson-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130129 DTEND:20130130 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T120350 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T122343 UID:5274@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core Standards #3: Digital Primary Sources (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, January 29, 4-5 pm ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/common-core-standards-3-digital-primary-sources-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130122 DTEND:20130123 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T120232 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T125021 UID:5272@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core Standards #2: Be Indispensible At Your School (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, January 22, 4-5 pm ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/common-core-standards-2-be-indispensible-at-your-school-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130115 DTEND:20130116 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T115937 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T124944 UID:5269@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core Standards #1: What is Common Core? (Online) (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, January 15, 4-5 pm ET on your DESKTOP For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/common-core-standards-1-what-is-common-core-online-neflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130114 DTEND:20130115 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121113T105737 LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T120545 UID:5260@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Art for Teens and Tweens (NEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Monday, January 14, 9 am - 4 pm NEFLIN Headquarters, 2233 Park Avenue, Suite 402, Orange Park, Fl 32073 For details or to register see http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/neflin LOCATION:2233 Park Avenue, Suite 402, Orange Park, FL, United States, 32073 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/13/art-for-teens-and-tweens/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130221T100000 DTEND:20130221T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T130833 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T130900 UID:5254@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Communication Skills for Paraprofessionals Series: Sounding and Looking Good (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Whether you have been called in to discuss your performance review or perhaps you are interviewing for another position, there are times in your life when you need to show your best “you” and dare I say “toot your own horn a bit”! You can present yourself to others in a professional and respectful manner that shows your pride without appearing to be self-centered or egotistical! This fun and interactive webinar will explore the following areas to help you when it really counts: 5 things to remember when the opportunity to toot your own horn arises The thin line between telling people about what you’ve done in an enthusiastic way vs. bragging or one-upping someone else “Without promotion something terrible happens—nothing.” ~ P.T. Barnum Presented by: Andrew Sanderbeck Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/communication-skills-for-paraprofessionals-series-sounding-and-looking-good-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130214T100000 DTEND:20130214T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T130343 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T130922 UID:5251@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Communication Skills for Paraprofessionals Series: Speaking With Confidence (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Communicating effectively when emotions are high and the pressure is building is not easy. That’s why many people choose to either “fight or run”! As we know, both of those strategies tend to add only more pressure to the situation. A different approach to handling situations including “unannounced VIP visits”, “your supervisor or manager watching you handle an angry and unreasonable customer” or even an unexpected crisis is needed. There are better ways for you to Speak Up and Be Heard when the Heat Is On and this fun and interactive webinar will explain how you can: Turn seemingly unpleasant challenges from others into opportunities to be heard and respected Use specific tips and techniques to smooth things over and create a space for understanding and compromise Overcome the three major fears in handling “hot” situations Presented by: Andrew Sanderbeck Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/communication-skills-for-paraprofessionals-series-speaking-with-confidence-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130207T100000 DTEND:20130207T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T124811 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T130941 UID:5248@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Communication Skills for Paraprofessionals Series: How to Get Others to Listen to You (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:There are those who command attention when speaking and others who barely get noticed. If you feel you're one of the “barely noticed,” remember that communication skills are just that – skills to be learned. With a little practice and a lot of determination you can use a few of the tested and tried ways to make others give you their undivided attention, and become keen listeners to you. This webinar will help you to develop effective communication skills so your words get heard. In this one-hour program we’ll examine: 5 Key Areas to Focus on When Delivering Your Message Multiple Tried and True Techniques to Keep People’s Attention and Desire to Listen to You 6 Steps to Practice Before You’re Speaking to Others Presented by: Andrew Sanderbeck Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/communication-skills-for-paraprofessionals-series-how-to-get-others-to-listen-to-you-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T075956 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T142022 UID:5245@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Nuts and Bolts of Social Media DESCRIPTION: Monday, December 10, 2012 Starting time: 3:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Jane Bozarth Description: This session will cover basics of creating and sustaining community via social media tools. Rather than theory, participants will walk away with an understanding of how to implement and utilize these applications. Briefly, we will look at several popular social media tools, such as blogs, wikis, Facebook and Twitter, then basics of using these tools for 1) Creating Community & Community Management; 2) Fostering Communities of Practice; 3) Knowledge Transfer and ManagementJane Bozarth, M.Ed., is North Carolina's self-appointed "E-Learning Goddess". While her specialty is in finding ways to cut the high costs of e-learning, Jane is also a popular classroom instructor and motivational speaker. She enjoys business writing; her book reviews appear monthly in Training Magazine. Host's name: Cindy Foster Host's email: cindy@insynctraining.com  Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/nuts-and-bolts-of-social-media/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T075840 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T075840 UID:5243@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Learn Online DESCRIPTION:Ready, Set, Learn How to Learn Online! This course focuses on learning in the live, online, synchronous environment. It demystifies the technology for participants so they have a positive learning experience. The course includes activities that use synchronous collaboration tools like whiteboard, chat, audio, and breakout rooms. Synchronous learning ground rules are covered, as well as how participants can create the optimal environment for online learning. Participants will receive a job-aid/ reference document emphasizing the key objectives taught during the course. LHTLO is held twice per month. There is no cost to participate in this course. Program Objectives: On completion of this course, you will be able to... Use basic collaboration tools to participate in a synchronous learning environment. Identify the roles and responsibilities of learners in a synchronous learning experience. Setup your learning environment for success. Participate in a collaborative breakout room activity. Prerequisites Learn How To Learn Online is a prerequisite to all other InSync Certificate programs. Target Audience This course is targeted towards those who wish to actively participate in synchronous learning programs. Learn How to Learn Online is a prerequisite for all other InSync certificate programs. Upcoming Sessions This program is delivered via WebEx Training Center or Adobe Connect, but the content is applicable to all virtual classroom platforms. Private deliveries are available - send inquiries to sales@insynctraining.com. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/how-to-learn-online/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T075646 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T075646 UID:5241@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tech Tools with Tine: Photo Fun DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special series with technology trainer, Christine Walczyk, all about popular online tools. The series is meant to be short on talk about library context and higher concepts. It's really all about the tools themselves! Our aim is to demonstrate how to use one tool in each webinar in under 60 minutes with time for Q&A built in. Christine Walczyk is currently a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas in Library & Information Science as well as an independent technology/library consultant with Trainers-R-Us.. She has 10+ years in libraries and is a former software trainer. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/tech-tools-with-tine-photo-fun/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T075515 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T075515 UID:5239@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Part 2 On Common Core – Librarians, the Secret Weapon DESCRIPTION:SPONSORED BY: Follett, Lerner Digital, Rosen Publishing, Scholastic Library Publishing, Junior Library Guild and School Library Journal EVENT DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET/12:00 - 1:00 PM PT The New York City Department of Education Office of Library Services is at the forefront of a movement to clarify the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the profession. Olga Nesi, a regional coordinator at the NYC DOE Library Services, will lead a discussion on the challenges and opportunities the CCSS present for librarians, the role of the profession in supporting the goals of the initiative, and the workshops she and her colleagues have been conducting around the state. Panelist: Olga Nesi - Library Coordinator, New York City Office of Library Services of the Department of Education Click here to register for Part 1 of this series: Getting Real: Marc Aronson and Sue Bartle Click here to register for Part 3 of this series: Making the Text Connection Can't make it on November 20? No problem! Register now and you will get an email reminder from School Library Journal post-live event when the webcast is archived and available for on-demand viewing at your convenience! Follow us on Twitter! @SLJEvent  #SLJcommoncore Need help getting registered? Send us an email describing your problem. By registering for this webcast, you are agreeing that School Library Journal may share your registration information with sponsors currently shown and future sponsors of this event. Click here to review the entire School Library Journal Privacy Policy Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/part-2-on-common-core-librarians-the-secret-weapon/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T075233 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T075233 UID:5237@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Transforming Traditional Library Services: Text a Librarian – Ideas for Best Practices DESCRIPTION:Thursday, November 15, 2012 Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM Presenters: : Thomas Peters and Mary-Carol Lindbloom Series: The Mobile Revolution and Libraries: 2nd of 4 The mobile revolution – the use of mobile devices to access information, communication, and entertainment networks and services from many locations – is one of the fastest, most pervasive technological revolutions in the history of humankind. The pace of change, the plethora of devices and new versions, the battle for operating system supremacy, and the app explosion have resulted in a dizzying matrix of problems, challenges, and opportunities for libraries and library workers. Librarians are working hard and fast to determine what services and materials can be offered on mobile devices. With each new platform (web, mobile, etc), librarians need to be familiar with it and the types of services that can be offered on each platform. In reference services, we have moved from in-person to adding instant messaging, chat, and now mobile. This one-hour seminar will provide attendees with a brief history of mobile reference services, options for mobile reference services, and best practices. At the end of this one-hour webinar, the second of a four-part series, participants will: • Understand how mobile reference services work • Identify some of the software/vendors that supply mobile reference services • Be familiar with the types of questions best answered via mobile reference • Share best practices for mobile reference services This webinar will be of interest to library staff on all levels from all types of libraries, especially public services and information technology library workers, as well as middle and senior management. This is the second in a series of four webinars presented by Tom Peters and guest speakers. Webinar 1: The Mobile Revolution and Libraries Sep 27, 2012. Webinar 2: Text a Librarian Nov 15, 2012. Webinar 3: QR Codes Jan 17, 2013. Webinar 4: Mobile Website Design Mar 14, 2013. Webinars are free of charge, you can pre-register by clicking on the Join Webinar button now or go directly to the webinar by clicking on Join Webinar on the day of the event on the Adobe Connect server. If you pre-registered you can use your email address and password you created to speed up entry to the webinar. If you did not preregister and you login with in 30 minutes of the event you can enter as a guest without a password.  Register Webinar Tips Test your browser for compatibility LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/transforming-traditional-library-services-text-a-librarian-ideas-for-best-practices/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T075118 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T075118 UID:5235@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Join the Virtual National Conversation Series on Digital Literacy and Libraries DESCRIPTION:On November 14 and December 11 at 7 p.m. EST, ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and its Digital Literacy Task Force will host the next two conversations (of a continuing series) where we explore the role of libraries in supporting and deepening digital literacy skills development for students, the general public and colleagues in other professions. Register Join us November 14 for Creating a Culture of Learning: How Librarians Keep up with Digital Media and Technology, where speakers look at the dramatic shifts in formal and informal learning and civic engagement because of the rapidly changing technology landscape, every information professional must be prepared to ensure meaningful access and skills development to our communities so all may fully participate in the digital age. But how do librarians keep up with the continual stream of new advancements in digital media and technology? A culture of learning helps information professionals stay ahead of or on the learning curve with our students and patrons as new devices, software and Internet-enabled services emerge. In this Google Hangout moderated by OITP Fellow Renee Hobbs, you’ll hear from participants who are exploring how to keep up with new technology tools and digital and media literacy competencies. We’ll discuss: How can library groups and library leaders best support library staff in the quest to stay current?” What are the perceived obstacles that interfere with the continuing education process? What resources or continuous learning models already are available to the profession, and what are their pros/cons? Our third virtual conversation Assessing Digital Literacy: Outcomes and Impact will take place December 11. Measuring outcomes and impacts are vital to demonstrating the success of any program or service so that we may improve service and advocate for additional investments. But how do we measure or assess the development of digital literacy competencies in ourselves and in our patrons? How may assessment models help us best design and implement digital literacy instruction and services? You’ll hear from participants who are exploring how to measure the community impact of digital literacy programs. We’ll discuss: What assessment is already happening, and what are we learning from this work? What tools have already been developed, and how can we better proliferate them among libraries of all types? How can we best document the impact of library training and interventions when it comes to digital literacy competencies? This series is intended to create a forum for discussing key issues and developing a vision for continued library leadership in the digital literacy sphere. The first conversation in the series took place at the ALA Annual Conference and focused on defining digital literacy and designing “what comes next.” Curious about using the Google Hangout platform for a virtual meeting? You can learn and participate by watching live-streaming of the conversation on YouTube and chatting with other viewers. You also can continue the conversation through Twitter using the hash tag #digilit12. Your questions and comments will be submitted to panelists throughout the program. Please RSVP for one or both conversations at alawash@alawash.org. We also welcome comments or questions prior to each conversation. Please use “digital literacy” as the subject line. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/join-the-virtual-national-conversation-series-on-digital-literacy-and-libraries/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T074942 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T074942 UID:5233@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Communicating Through Infographics DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, November 14, 2012 Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM Presenter: : Dawne Tortorella Have you noticed the growing trend of communicating through infographics? Do you wonder where the data comes from and how to verify information displayed in visual form? Would you rather read a 100 page report or look at a visual presentation that conveys the story in less than one minute? Would you like to tell a compelling story about your library through the medium of infographics? Visual representation of information has existed for hundreds of years in various forms and formats. Infographics (information graphics) represent the latest visual form to gain popularity. Telling an effective story through infographics requires accurate data, compelling design, and visualization tools. During this one-hour webinar, we will discuss and demonstrate: blogs and infographic search resources to find examples and track trends differences between infographics, poster art, and data visualization common data sources used in infographics (big data and local sources) suggest library-specific data and statistics appropriate for visual presentation visualization tools for experimentation This webinar will be of interest to library staff at all levels and in all types of libraries who need to present information to customers, stakeholders, and management. Senior staff and directors responsible for board reporting are especially encouraged to attend. Webinars are free of charge, you can pre-register by clicking on the Join Webinar button now or go directly to the webinar by clicking on Join Webinar on the day of the event on the Adobe Connect server. If you pre-registered you can use your email address and password you created to speed up entry to the webinar. If you did not preregister and you login with in 30 minutes of the event you can enter as a guest without a password.  Register Webinar Tips Test your browser for compatibility LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/communicating-through-infographics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T074355 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T074355 UID:5230@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:RDA: Are We There Yet? DESCRIPTION:RDA: Are We There Yet? Presented by Emily Nimsakont November 14, 2012 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time It's been a long time coming, but Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new cataloging code, will be implemented by the Library of Congress next year. Are you ready? In this session, Emily Dust Nimsakont will provide an update on the latest RDA-related developments and offer tips for RDA implementation. Emily Dust Nimsakont is the Government and Information Services Librarian at the Nebraska Library Commission. She previously held the position of Cataloging Librarian at the NLC. She holds a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia, as well as a Master's degree in Museum Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/rda-are-we-there-yet-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121106T073002 LAST-MODIFIED:20121106T073002 UID:5228@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Energize your base: Tips and tools to raise awareness and build support for library services DESCRIPTION:A webinar exploring ways to increase your community's awareness of library services and of how those services are changing lives. We know that libraries are a good investment but with tight budgets, we need to energize our base – to take action to connect more strongly with community members, to find out what excites them, and to let them know how libraries are changing lives – one connection at a time. Our panel will explore three vehicles that can help you increase awareness of library services: Library Videos – New videos from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that showcase work done in libraries which are transforming lives, by changing the way we connect. Geek the Library – A community awareness campaign offered free to libraries to help strengthen community connections and library support. Data Visualization – We collect lots of data. Learn how the Colorado State Library is helping local libraries use their data to tell a story about impact. Presented by: Karen Perry, Senior Program Officer, Global Libraries, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Jennifer Pearson, Programs Manager, OCLC Community Relations; Jamie Hollier, Project Manager with PLA and Library Consultant; and Linda Hofschire, Research Analyst, Library Research Service, Colorado State Library. Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific [Note: 90-minute webinar] Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/06/energize-your-base-tips-and-tools-to-raise-awareness-and-build-support-for-library-services-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T160958 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T160958 UID:5225@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tech Tools with Tine: Google Plus and Google Hangouts DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special series with technology trainer, Christine Walczyk, all about popular online tools. The series is meant to be short on talk about library context and higher concepts. It's really all about the tools themselves! Our aim is to demonstrate how to use one tool in each webinar in under 60 minutes with time for Q&A built in. Christine Walczyk is currently a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas in Library & Information Science as well as an independent technology/library consultant with Trainers-R-Us.. She has 10+ years in libraries and is a former software trainer. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/tech-tools-with-tine-google-plus-and-google-hangouts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T160748 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T160748 UID:5223@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Leader as Coach: Create a Culture of Development -- Shape People-Positive Outcomes DESCRIPTION:A Series of Three Webinars presented by Lauren Burnett, President of the Center for Inner Quality Harnessing people’s energy and effort is vital in today’s context of constant change. Our approach to others sets the tone for our organization as we lead by example. In turn, our employees, modeling our behavior and carrying the tone of our leadership, respond daily to co workers and customers and create a culture people want to or not want to work and “play” in. The instructor for the series is Lauren Burnett, President of the Center for Inner Quality. She provides professional development opportunities that increase the effectiveness, empowerment and emotional intelligence of people in the workplace. For maximum benefit, we encourage participation in all three live Webinar sessions, as content in each Webinar builds upon the previous session(s). In addition, the presenter may assign homework (and provide feedback) between sessions. However, if you know in advance that you cannot make it to a particular session, please go ahead and register for it. Your registration will entitle you to view the recording of the session you missed -- you will receive a link to the recording via email. Please view the recording prior to attending the next session. Session descriptions, dates & registration: Webinar # 1: Defining Culture of Development Define Culture of Development and content of series and Leader as Coach. Using coaching language in everyday conversation. Make note of your choice of words and accompanying non verbal communication that send a message. What messages are you sending? How often do you question why people take your message differently than you intended? Explore words that are accountable and engage collaboration. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/leader-as-coach-create-a-culture-of-development-shape-people-positive-outcomes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T160506 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T160506 UID:5220@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Booklist Webinar—New Common Core Connections DESCRIPTION: (Register) Date and time: Thursday, November 8, 2012 1:00 pm Central Standard Time (Chicago, GMT-06:00) Change time zone Program: Booklist Webinars Duration: 1 hour Description: The Common Core State Standards open up exciting opportunities to focus on individual titles in the classroom. Hear about terrific new fiction and informational books for youth that will help teachers and librarians implement the standards across the curriculum in to this free, hour-long presentation sponsored by Crabtree Publishing, Holiday House, Gareth Stevens/Rosen, and Scholastic Library Publishing. Moderated by Booklist Books for Youth editorial director Gillian Engberg. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/booklist-webinar-new-common-core-connections/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T160342 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T160342 UID:5218@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY: Learn How to Learn Online DESCRIPTION:Ready, Set, Learn How to Learn Online! This course focuses on learning in the live, online, synchronous environment. It demystifies the technology for participants so they have a positive learning experience. The course includes activities that use synchronous collaboration tools like whiteboard, chat, audio, and breakout rooms. Synchronous learning ground rules are covered, as well as how participants can create the optimal environment for online learning. Participants will receive a job-aid/ reference document emphasizing the key objectives taught during the course. LHTLO is held twice per month. There is no cost to participate in this course. Program Objectives: On completion of this course, you will be able to... Use basic collaboration tools to participate in a synchronous learning environment. Identify the roles and responsibilities of learners in a synchronous learning experience. Setup your learning environment for success. Participate in a collaborative breakout room activity. Prerequisites Learn How To Learn Online is a prerequisite to all other InSync Certificate programs. Target Audience This course is targeted towards those who wish to actively participate in synchronous learning programs. Learn How to Learn Online is a prerequisite for all other InSync certificate programs. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/learn-how-to-learn-online-11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T160201 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T160201 UID:5216@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Lois Lowry LIVE! DESCRIPTION:The two-time Newbery Medalist discusses Son, the sequel to The Giver. Broadcasting LIVE from The Maurice J. Tobin K-8 School SPONSORED BY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and School Library Journal SCHEDULED EVENT DATE: Wednesday, November 7, 2012– 1:00 PM ET – 60 minutes Register now! Lois Lowry’s breakthrough dystopian novel, The Giver has been read by millions of people around the world. It left many with lingering questions: What happened to Jonas and Gabriel? Is a perfect society possible? What does it mean to live a complete life? With Son, Lowry continues to wrestle with the idea of human freedom while completing the story of Jonas and the baby he rescued. Son combines elements from the first three novels in her Giver Quartet—The Giver (1994 Newbery Medal winner), Gathering Blue, and Messenger—into a breathtaking, thought-provoking narrative that wrestles with ideas of human freedom and the bonds of love. Thrust again into the chilling world of The Giver, readers will meet an intriguing new heroine, fourteen-year-old Claire. Join Lois Lowry to hear her speak about Son, the other books of The Giver Quartet, and to have a chance to ask her your questions live! Can’t make it on November 7? No problem! Register now and you will get an email reminder from School Library Journal post-live event when the webcast is archived and available for on-demand viewing at your convenience! Follow us on Twitter! @SLJEvent #sljloislowry LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/lois-lowry-live/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T160037 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T160037 UID:5214@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:NCompass Live: Nancy Drew & Friends;Or, the Case of the Neglected Books:The History (& Importance) of Youth Series Books - Online DESCRIPTION:With the proliferation of series books for children and young adults today it might come as a surprise to many librarians that for many years series books occupied a dark corner of librarianship--the books were deemed unacceptable forms of reading material and were often ignored for purchase despite their popularity with young readers. In this webinar, you will be introduced to the history of series books as a format and then learn specifically why these books are not only important to the history of youth literature but to American history and pop culture as well. Speaker: Lindsey Tomsu, Teen Coordinator, La Vista Public Library. NCompass Live is broadcast live on Wednesdays, from 10am - 11am Central Time. Convert to your time zone on the Official U.S. Time website or use the World Clock Time Zone Converter. In the Time Zone Converter, NCompass Live is broadcast from "U.S.A - Nebraska - Lincoln". Sessions are recorded for anyone who may want to see them again or who cannot attend them at the scheduled time. Registration is not required to view the archived recordings. NCompass Live is presented online using the GoToWebinar online meeting service. GoToWebinar login instructions are sent to registered attendees after registration for a session has closed. The Registration End date is listed on each session page, but usually closes on the Monday night before the date of the session. Please see the NLC Online Sessions webpage for detailed information about GoToWebinar, including system requirements, firewall permissions, and equipment requirements for computer speakers and microphones.  Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/ncompass-live-nancy-drew-or-the-case-of-the-neglected-booksthe-history-importance-of-youth-series-books-online/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T155901 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T155901 UID:5212@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Cool New Productivity Tech Tools DESCRIPTION: Topic: Bozarthzone! Cool New Productivity Tech Tools Session status: Not Started Session dates: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Starting time: 3:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Jane Bozarth Description: Join us for a tour of some old-time favorite and new tools useful for getting things done, from managing tasks to curating useful resources to planning travel. Content focuses on social media and other online tools. Jane Bozarth is North Carolina's self-appointed "E-Learning Goddess". While her specialty is in finding ways to cut the high costs of e-learning, Jane is also a popular classroom instructor and motivational speaker. Dr. Bozarth enjoys business writing and author of E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring, Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint, From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers, and Social Media for Trainers Host's name: Jennifer Hofmann Host's email: producer@insynctraining.com   Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/cool-new-productivity-tech-tools/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T155741 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T155741 UID:5210@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Booklist Webinar—New Nonfiction for Students DESCRIPTION: (Register) Date and time: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 1:00 pm Central Standard Time (Chicago, GMT-06:00) Change time zone Program: Booklist Webinars Duration: 1 hour Description: Join Booklist for a free, hour-long presentation featuring new products relevant to the needs of today’s students. Representatives from Britannica, DK Publishing, Grey House Publishing, Scholastic Library Publishing, and World Book will show off their new Fall nonfiction and reference titles for students in Kindergarten through High School. Booklist Reference and Collection Management editor Rebecca Vnuk moderates. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/booklist-webinar-new-nonfiction-for-students/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T155517 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T155617 UID:5206@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Power of Image: presenting with the brain in mind DESCRIPTION:This webinar will cover key concepts of strong visual communication and explore simple tips and tricks that will punch up your presentations and wake up your audience. The human brain is wired to respond to images. Scientific studies of the brain are providing powerful insights for designing and delivering presentations that grab the attention of the learner. Once you understand the key concepts of strong visual communication, you can get unstuck from the stale text-and-bullet format of presentation. You don’t need to be a designer to learn some simple tips and tricks that will punch up your presentations and wake up your audience. Presented by: Betha Gutsche, program manager, WebJunction OCLC, and visual communications advocate. Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Tweet: #wjwebinar Archive viewing options: View full Archive (combined archive of audio, chat, and slides) Coming Soon View slides (pdf) The PDF version is modified from the webinar deck: images are compressed and most color backgrounds are removed View chat (xls) Coming Soon Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/the-power-of-image-presenting-with-the-brain-in-mindthis-webinar-will-cover-key-concepts-of-strong-visual-communication-and-explore-simple-tips-and-tricks-that-will-punch-up-your-presentations-and-wa/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121207T100000 DTEND:20121207T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121105T113418 LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T113449 UID:5201@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Beyond SpringShare: Embedding Additional Technology Into Your LibGuides (FLA) DESCRIPTION:LibGuides have become a hot word in the LIS field with more and more libraries exploring the versatility of this fairly inexpensive product. At Daytona State College, we’re working on creating aesthetically pleasing, informative, and interactive guides by using the tools provided by SpringShare, as well as additional free/cheap web based technologies. Examples of some of these tools include: BeeTagg, Gimp, Google Apps, Jing, Poll Everywhere, Pinterest, Popplet, Prezi, SlideShare, Survey Monkey, QR codes, and YouTube. Cheryl Kohen, Emerging Technology Librarian at Daytona State College will briefly demo all of these tools and discuss how they can be effectively utilized in LibGuides. Presented by: Cheryl Kohen Cost: Free and open to all Florida library staff Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/05/beyond-springshare-embedding-additional-technology-into-your-libguides-fla/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130123 DTEND:20130124 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121102T073355 LAST-MODIFIED:20121102T073355 UID:5199@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Creating a Culture of Innovation in your Library and Community DESCRIPTION: A webinar exploring how to grow and sustain innovation in libraries and in communities. We hear about libraries that are leaders in innovation, implementing ideas that keep the library growing and vital. Perhaps you have watched from the sidelines and wished you could kickstart some innovation at your library, but you're not sure where to start. Come to this webinar for an active and lively discussion on how to find innovative ideas, how to connect with the people to help make them happen, and how to get buy-in and support for your ideas. There is a lot to be learned from other libraries' examples and experiences. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation-in-your-library-and-community/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130115 DTEND:20130116 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121102T073219 LAST-MODIFIED:20121102T073219 UID:5197@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Impact of an Ice Cream Sundae DESCRIPTION: A webinar exploring how libraries and community organizations can become innovative partners and collaborators, mixing resources, programs, personnel or funding. What does an ice cream sundae have to do with library partnerships? Let’s pretend that your community organizations (school, academic, public and special libraries, and other local organizations) are your favorite kind of ice cream. Now let’s ladle your favorite toppings over the ice cream to represent the organizations’ resources, programs, personnel and funding. How can the ice cream “mix” with the toppings to be the most luscious dessert possible for the most people? When community organizations collaborate to share their resources with one another, they make the biggest possible impact on the most lives. Learn easy, understandable and powerful strategies that will give you renewed energy to create bold and imaginative collaborations among all types of community organizations. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/02/the-impact-of-an-ice-cream-sundae/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130115 DTEND:20130116 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121102T073041 LAST-MODIFIED:20121102T073041 UID:5195@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Keys to Successful Nonprofit Blogging that Drives Engagement DESCRIPTION: If you have a blog, do you wonder why you don’t have more readers? If you don’t have one yet, have you considered what a blog might do to help you create greater awareness for your cause? This webinar will help you understand what folks are looking for, and how you can deliver. Plus, we’ll discuss ways to drive more traffic and create greater engagement with your posts. Takeaways: Master the right language for: -Little-Understood Factors that Could Affect Your Blog Readership -How to Build a Blog Worth Sharing -Why Your Blog Promotion Strategy Sucks, and How to Fix It Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE has 30 years of frontline development and marketing leadership experience working for arts, education, health/social services and community organizations in all aspects of resource development, strategic fundraising planning, marketing communications and strengthening boards and volunteers. Named by AFP/GGC as the “Outstanding Fundraising Professional of the Year” in 2010, her passion is instilling an institution-wide culture of philanthropy to further the vision, mission and values of the organization in service to the community. She participates in mentor programs and teaches in such areas as development/marketing integration; nonprofit management; strategic planning; board development; legacy development; major gift stewardship; annual giving donor identification and cultivation; succeeding with special events and engaging supporters in giving conversations. Axelrad Social Benefit Consulting specializes in nonprofit management, marketing and fundraising consultation: (1) Assessing challenges; (2) Creating strategic plans with an eye to increasing revenues and efficiencies; (3) Assuring plan implementation in a manner that amplifies effectiveness; (4) Nurturing innovation and growth, and (5) Building successful teams through hiring, mentoring, coaching, teaching and engaging internal/external stakeholders. Areas of focus include constituent centered service, strengthening individual, business and foundation partnerships; generation of new sources of revenue; cost savings; integration of marketing across multiple channels; creation of supportive infrastructures to improve efficiency, and outcome evaluation LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/02/the-keys-to-successful-nonprofit-blogging-that-drives-engagement-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121128 DTEND:20121129 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121102T072918 LAST-MODIFIED:20121102T072918 UID:5193@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Using Social Business Tools to Create a Thought Leadership Platform DESCRIPTION: A case study and best practices discussion with HP In this webcast, HP and Jive Software will discuss how social business tools can enable valuable discussions between both customers and companies as well as among employees internally. HP will share how its teams are innovating with social collaboration tools to create a thought leadership platform (Enterprise 20/20) that enables employees, customers, and evangelists to find industry experts, share expertise, and discuss the future of enterprise. Employees seed the conversations, and industry experts and evangelists drive the discussion further by engaging with the community. Each month, HP seeds another chapter of its Enterprise 20/20 eBook into the community to solicit discussions, feedback and thoughts on the future of the enterprise. Using expertise shared in the thousands of conversations from the community, HP is not only building a "crowd-sourced" repository of thought leadership, but they are also intimately connecting with their customers and prospects in an innovative way. Get a free copy of HP's latest eBook and a whitepaper on how to drive marketing results with social business software when you reserve your seat now! John KnightlyVP, Industries & Solutions, Software Marketing, Hewlett-Packard John Knightly serves as vice president of Industries and Solutions in the Software Marketing organization of HP. Knightly leads market strategy and execution for cross-portfolio offerings, including vertical, line-of- business and partner solutions. Knightly brings more than 20 years of marketing, product management and sales experience to HP. He was most recently vice president of Enterprise Marketing at Adobe Systems where he was responsible for marketing the Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite and solutions for customer experience management. Elizabeth Brigham, Product Marketing Manager, Jive Software Elizabeth Brigham is a Product Marketing Manager at Jive Software, overseeing the Social Marketing and Sales Solution. Her passion lies in providing fellow marketers and sales practitioners a better way to get work done, beat the competition to market and close sales deals faster. Prior to Jive, Elizabeth was a Manager of Product Management at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online where she developed content and commerce strategy for the Parks and Resorts portfolio of brands. She began her career at McMaster-Carr Supply Company managing call center teams, domestic and international sales operations, supply chain logistics, and sales software development. Elizabeth earned her BA in English Literature from Davidson College and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. May Petry, Vice President Vice President, Viral Marketing, Software, Hewlett-Packard May Petry is vice president of digital and viral marketing in the Software Marketing organization of HP. Petry leads strategy and execution for the multi-billion dollar business’s digital center of excellence, including web programming and infrastructure optimization, traffic growth and circulation, and operations and analytics. Petry also leads the company’s thought leadership initiative, Enterprise 20/20. This initiative drives conversations in the market around the forces transforming our world and the technological innovations shaping the future of business through an innovative social eBook platform. In four months, the eBook has been viewed more than 145,000 times, reached more than 2 million people and has provoked more than a thousand vibrant conversations within the community. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/02/using-social-business-tools-to-create-a-thought-leadership-platform/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121115 DTEND:20121116 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121102T072801 LAST-MODIFIED:20121102T072801 UID:5191@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Priming the Pump: Driving Loyalty with Targeting and Positioning DESCRIPTION: It’s no secret that in many categories brand loyalty is declining faster than the price of Facebook’s stock. Kevin Clancy believes poor targeting and a lack of consistent, compelling positioning are major reasons so many companies struggle with connecting customers to their brand. In this webcast, Kevin will outline a process that considers profit-related criteria such as retention potential, level of satisfaction with current brand, likelihood to try or usage of a competitor’s brand, and problem potential when assessing the value of current and prospective customers. He will also explain the relationship between the magnitude of the problem a brand solves for a customer and market response in the form of sales and advocacy. Kevin J. Clancy, P.h.D. One of America’s foremost marketing consultants, Kevin J. Clancy, P.h.D., is the co-founder and chairman of Copernicus, a research-driven marketing consulting company. His ongoing interest is in using marketing research to develop, plan, and implement transformational marketing strategies—strategies which change brand trajectories, career paths, and sometimes entire companies. During the course of his career, Kevin has consulted to Fortune 500 and other major corporations, such as Air Products, AT&T, Comcast, Dunkin’ Donuts, ExxonMobil, GMAC, Harvard University, McDonald’s, The New York Times, Panera Bread, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Universal Studios, and Visa. A prolific writer, Kevin has published or given more than 400 articles and speeches on advertising, marketing, marketing research, and social science. He also has co-authored seven books, including two business best-sellers. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/02/priming-the-pump-driving-loyalty-with-targeting-and-positioning/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121213T120000 DTEND:20121213T130000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121101T142406 LAST-MODIFIED:20121101T142650 UID:5187@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Creating Screencasts with Jing (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:This two-part online class will be held on December 13 and 20 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm. Students must attend both sessions. Screencasting is video screen capturing that can include audio narration and other functions. Since many people are visual learners, screencasts are powerful tools to help demonstrate, via video, more complex tasks. During the first week, you will learn to: Install Jing Navigate Jing's Features Setup Jing for your first video screencast Create a Screencast.com account Between classes, attendees will each be asked to work on a project useful to them - or one suggested in class. One-on-one assistance with the instructor will be provided during this time. During the second class, you will: Share your screencasts with the group Offer useful criticism and discuss any issues you had while creating a screencast Learn more advanced Jing functions like adding interactions Discover other screencasting tools like Screen-cast-o-matic. Note: Attendees are required to have either Jing already installed or to have administrator rights on their computer so that they can install the application. Presented by: Chad Mairn, Novare Library Services Registration deadline:  12/06/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/01/creating-screencasts-with-jing-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121120T100000 DTEND:20121120T233000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121101T141315 LAST-MODIFIED:20121101T141804 UID:5183@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Making Effective Decisions (a 2-part series) - Part 2 (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:What keeps you from making an effective decision? An emotional barrier? Something environmental? Cultural? Your barrier could be any one of a number of things – and sometimes more than one. Your barrier could be very different from mine – or your co-worker’s. Once we know the barriers, we’re better equipped to handle them ~ and as we set ourselves free from those barriers, we naturally become better decision makers. Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  11/14/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/01/making-effective-decisions-a-2-part-series-part-2-seflin-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121113T100000 DTEND:20121113T233000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121101T140930 LAST-MODIFIED:20121101T141736 UID:5180@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Making Effective Decisions (a 2-part series) - Part 1 (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Have you ever thought about the actual process of making a decision? Yes? No? Maybe?? Realizing that there is indeed a process and understanding why it’s important will help you clarify your thoughts when you are struggling to make a decision. In this online session, you’ll learn about the 7 steps to making effective decisions – and the benefits of including each one of those steps in your process. We’ll also look out how to go about developing options. We’ll unpack the idea of creativity and risk-taking in the decision-making process. We’ll gain an understanding of why both are important and why you also need to understand the goal of your decision. After all, if you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know if you’ve arrived? Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  11/6/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/01/making-effective-decisions-a-2-part-series-part-1-seflin-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121101T135636 LAST-MODIFIED:20121101T135636 UID:5178@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Call for Poster Proposals: FLA Annual Conference, May 1-3, 2013 DESCRIPTION:The FLA Continuing Education committee invites proposals for posters to be exhibited during the FLA Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. To learn more about the conference, please go to the conference page: http://www.flalib.org/conference_2013.php We encourage proposals for posters related to the program theme "New Possibilities and Partnerships” chosen by current FLA president Barbara Stites. Posters should illustrate some of the many ways that Florida libraries are focusing on “new perspectives, possibilities and partnerships” and highlight the new and exciting ways libraries are improving and introducing new and better products and services. For more information on the conference theme, please visit: http://www.flalib.org/president_theme/Stites_theme_2013.pdf Poster proposals will be accepted from Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 until Friday, Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Each presenter will have access to a poster display board and a table on which handouts and other materials can be placed. Access to electrical outlets will not be available, so please plan accordingly. Please use the following link to read more about the poster sessions and to access the online submission form: https://sites.google.com/a/eckerd.edu/flapostersession/ Poster proposals should: Be well written, clear, and organized Be original, timely, and relevant to the conference theme Contribute to the advancement of Florida librarianship Develop ideas, offer significant conclusions, and provide useful and practical findings Appeal to and engage the audience, offering opportunities for discussion and interaction Provide a good visual description of the project Demonstrate innovative thinking DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Friday, January 25th 2013, 11:59 p.m. Review of submissions will begin immediately and acceptance letters will be sent out at the beginning of February. All poster session presenters must be registered for the conference (either the full conference or for the day of their session). March 1, 2013 is the cutoff date for early registration which offers a significant discount. Poster proposals submitted by vendors will not be considered. Questions? Please contact Lois Albertson, Chair, FLA Continuing Education Committee, via email (training@seflin.org) or phone (877-733-5460 Ext. 224). LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/11/01/call-for-poster-proposals-fla-annual-conference-may-1-3-2013/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121119 DTEND:20121120 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121029T070428 LAST-MODIFIED:20121029T070428 UID:5172@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Developing & Leveraging our Global Intelligence DESCRIPTION: Between the rapid growth of modern technology and ever-expanding globalization, our world is more interconnected than ever before. In our personal lives and business activities- working and interacting across different time zones, languages and cultures- it is important that as diversity leaders we also increase our Global Intelligence. Webinar participants will learn how Diversity and Inclusion is a factor in the Workplace, Workforce, Marketplace and Community globally. Content will include: • Expanding cultural competence and global intelligence • Developing strategies for communicating and working effectively in global teams • Building inclusive leadership competencies to increase team and organizational effectiveness • Learning to drive business decisions by using cultural competency to better understand markets, colleagues and customers LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/29/developing-leveraging-our-global-intelligence/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121214 DTEND:20121215 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121029T065308 LAST-MODIFIED:20121029T065308 UID:5170@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:FEL Resources and Mobile Access DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview Gale's free Access My Library app for Apple and Droid devices. Access My Library allows patrons to access Gale resources provided by their library from anywhere! This webinar will cover all how to find and use the app as well as how to make sure your library is included. Access My Library is available for public, academic, and school (K12) libraries. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/29/fel-resources-and-mobile-access/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130118T093000 DTEND:20130118T143000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121025T120010 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T120010 UID:5165@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:PLAN's Tech Day DESCRIPTION:Featured speaker: Joe Murphy, Librarian and Technology Trend Spotter helping libraries and more prepare for upcoming technology shifts. Joe is an author and editor, an international keynote speaker, and a conference organizer. See more here. Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:206 N Partin Dr, Niceville FL, FL, United States, 32578 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/25/plans-tech-day-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130130T093000 DTEND:20130130T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121025T115406 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T115406 UID:5156@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:ADVOCATE: So what do you do? (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Leadership Series Part 4 We are often asked to share what we do and often we lose out on an opportunity to insert impact and influence by shooting from the hip and using too many words, too few or not the right words for the right audience. The key to a memorable and interesting response comes in preparation and the selection of the right details based on your audience. Learn the who, want, why and how method you can apply to your personal value statement and that of your library Add pizzazz with story and talking points Explore delivery tips Lauren Burnett is president of the Center for Inner Quality. Jan. 30, 2013 9:30 - 11:00 am CT Register on PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/25/advocate-so-what-do-you-do-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130123T093000 DTEND:20130123T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121025T115034 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T115437 UID:5151@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:ALIGN: Build Rapport and Motivate (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Leadership Series Part 3 Word choices and accompanying non verbal communication send a message. What messages are you sending? How often do you question why people take your message differently than you intended? Explore words and gestures that are accountable and engage collaboration. Expand the power of language from merely information communication to inspiration and encouragement. Objectives: Use empathetic and accountable language to empower and engage others Explore body language that sends a message of accessibility Lauren Burnett is president of the Center for Inner Quality. Jan. 23, 2013 9:30 - 11:00 am CT Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/25/align-build-rapport-and-motivate-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130116T093000 DTEND:20130116T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121025T114727 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T115522 UID:5146@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:ADAPT: Leverage Your Knowledge of Communication Styles (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Leadership Series Part 2 Objectives: Inventory your strengths and opportunities for growth Adapt your communication styles so your message can be heard by others Understand intrinsic and extrinsic motivators Learn strategies to empower and encourage Learn how styles respond under pressure to better command reactions Lauren Burnett is president of the Center for Inner Quality. Jan. 13, 2013 9:30 - 11:00 am CT Register on PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/25/adapt-leverage-your-knowledge-of-communication-styles-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130109T093000 DTEND:20130109T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121025T114348 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T115601 UID:5141@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:AIM: Prepare for Success (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Leadership Series Part 1 Description: An effective step for a leader is to periodically review and re-set your personal compass. Kick off 2013 by exploring and creating a personal plan for your life-work. Set your intention, craft a meaningful and engaging personal vision and mission statement then set goals to achieve the outcomes you envision. Use traditional and non-traditional methods to "project forward" into the new year and make your personal vision a reality. Objectives: Make way for new by clearing the old Acknowledge the positive past Clarify purpose and vision Learn how to create your vision using fun visualization process Move from dream to reality through setting goals and objectives Lauren Burnett is president of the Center for Inner Quality. Jan. 9, 2013 9:30 - 11:00 am CT Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/25/aim-prepare-for-success-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121211T130000 DTEND:20121211T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121025T113547 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T115631 UID:5136@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tumblr: A Rapidly Growing Social Media Site You Shouldnt Ignore (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Have you heard of the blogging site Tumblr? Tumblr is a combination blogging platform and social network. It has recently experienced rapid growth, hitting 8 billion pageviews in a month. This milestone puts Tumblr in the top 25 websites in the world, according to Quantcast. How does this relate to your library? Join us to find out how to connect with your patrons via the Tumblr platform. Instructor: Jackie Papke Dec. 11, 2012 1:00 - 2:00 pm CT Register on PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/25/tumblr-a-rapidly-growing-social-media-site-you-shouldnt-ignore-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121205T090000 DTEND:20121205T103000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121025T113320 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T113320 UID:5131@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Power of Seeing Both Sides, Checking Assumptions and Listening vs. Jumping to Solve (Live Online) DESCRIPTION:Description: Use the Ladder of Reasoning technique to check assumptions before actions and reactions are taken Use balance of advocacy and inquiry to get the full story Listen skills and identifying problem Leverage tips on embracing a collaborative approach and focusing on issues not people Lauren Burnett is president of the Center for Inner Quality. For over 25 years, she has provided professional development workshops for leaders and staff, consulting and key note speaking presentations to increase the effectiveness, empowerment and emotional intelligence of people in the workplace. Dec. 5, 2012 9:00 - 10:30 am CT Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/25/the-power-of-seeing-both-sides-checking-assumptions-and-listening-vs-jumping-to-solve-live-online/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121128T090000 DTEND:20121128T103000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121025T112859 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T112859 UID:5121@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Power of Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Description: Explore difference between feedback and criticism Approach how tos on giving and receiving constructive feedback Use three feedback formulas: to encourage positive behavior, to improve behavior and to proactively ask others for feedback on what you can do differently Use a formula for delivering praise Lauren Burnett is president of the Center for Inner Quality. For over 25 years, she has provided professional development workshops for leaders and staff, consulting and key note speaking presentations to increase the effectiveness, empowerment and emotional intelligence of people in the workplace. Nov 28, 2012 9:00 - 10:30 am CT Register on PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/25/the-power-of-giving-and-receiving-constructive-feedback-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121114T090000 DTEND:20121114T103000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121025T112358 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T112951 UID:5117@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Stop Walking on Eggshells (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Description: By the end of the course, participants will know how to: Own feelings and actions using "I" messages and speak from a deeper level of personal ownership Leverage the knowledge of the Rules of Focus, Responsibility-Outcome formula and Authentic Presence Equation to measure how present you are and to effectively approach interpersonal challenges with an accountable perspective Understand the effects on the listener of passive, aggressive and passive-resistance approaches and thus assess the similar effects your communications may have Explore and practice assertive techniques to avoid knee jerk reactions Lauren Burnett is president of the Center for Inner Quality. For over 25 years, she has provided professional development workshops for leaders and staff, consulting and key note speaking presentations to increase the effectiveness, empowerment and emotional intelligence of people in the workplace. Nov 14, 2012 9:00 - 10:30 am CT Register on PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/25/stop-walking-on-eggshells-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121211 DTEND:20121212 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121024T113801 LAST-MODIFIED:20121024T113801 UID:5114@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Before You Seek a Grant: A Checklist for New Nonprofits DESCRIPTION: This class is designed for new nonprofits or community groups with very little experience in grantseeking. We focus specifically on foundation fundraising. The course will address such questions as: •What groundwork do I have to have in place before approaching foundations for funding? •What are the steps to obtaining incorporation and nonprofit status and where can I get some help to do so? •What are the characteristics of successful nonprofits? This session will provide you with a step-by-step checklist approach to help you determine your own readiness for foundation fundraising. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/24/before-you-seek-a-grant-a-checklist-for-new-nonprofits-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121115 DTEND:20121116 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121024T064642 LAST-MODIFIED:20121024T064642 UID:5112@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Transforming Traditional Library Services: Text a Librarian DESCRIPTION: Series: The Mobile Revolution and Libraries: 2nd of 4 The mobile revolution – the use of mobile devices to access information, communication, and entertainment networks and services from many locations – is one of the fastest, most pervasive technological revolutions in the history of humankind. The pace of change, the plethora of devices and new versions, the battle for operating system supremacy, and the app explosion have resulted in a dizzying matrix of problems, challenges, and opportunities for libraries and library workers. Librarians are working hard and fast to determine what services and materials can be offered on mobile devices. With each new platform (web, mobile, etc), librarians need to be familiar with it and the types of services that can be offered on each platform. In reference services, we have moved from in-person to adding instant messaging, chat, and now mobile. This one-hour seminar will provide attendees with a brief history of mobile reference services, options for mobile reference services, and best practices. At the end of this one-hour webinar, the second of a four-part series, participants will: •• Understand how mobile reference services work •• Identify some of the software/vendors that supply mobile reference services •• Be familiar with the types of questions best answered via mobile reference •• Share best practices for mobile reference services This webinar will be of interest to library staff on all levels from all types of libraries, especially public services and information technology library workers, as well as middle and senior management. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/24/transforming-traditional-library-services-text-a-librarian/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130118 DTEND:20130119 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121022T072402 LAST-MODIFIED:20121022T072402 UID:5110@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Impact of Words: Words to Use vs. Words to Lose DESCRIPTION: The words we use impact the quality of service delivered by library staff. Some words (words to use) satisfy customer needs and wants, connecting us to customers in meaningful ways. Others (words to lose) are negative, destructive, and disconnect us from customers. This webinar reveals the importance words have on our interactions with both internal and external library customers. The session is library focused and offers specific examples of how ‘words to use’ can help library staff members be more effective in dealing with real-life everyday customer situations. Learning Objectives: 1. Build awareness of customer needs and wants, and the criteria by which they evaluate service at the library. 2. Illustrate the impact that words have on the effectiveness of service quality at the library. 3. Provide practical tools that support and enrich a customer-centered library culture. Upon registering for this event, patrons will recieve an Abode Connect link that will allow them to login to the webinar two weeks before the scheduled start time. Steve Wishnack is the founder of Think & Do. Education and training have been at the heart of Steve’s professional career. Today, his energies are devoted to delivering Think & Do Customer Service Workshops, and Webinars, which help improve employee effectiveness with customers. Among Steve’s clients are the U.S Postal Service, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, The Marriott Corporation, Fidelity Investments, as well as Municipalities, Libraries and Library Associations nationwide. REGISTER NOW LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/22/the-impact-of-words-words-to-use-vs-words-to-lose-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130116 DTEND:20130117 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121019T083301 LAST-MODIFIED:20121019T083301 UID:5108@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In DESCRIPTION: Listening, Engagement, Commitment: The Path to Win-Win Outcomes In this post-pushing, post-selling world, influence can no longer be viewed as something you do to someone to get what you want. People today are more aware than ever before about self-serving tricks and tactics being used on them. In fact, gaining real influence isn’t even about what you want. What You Will Learn Based on the presenters’ decades of experience and extensive interviews with high-level influencers—people in business, government, nonprofits, sports, the arts, and more — Goulston and Ullmen share what they've learned about the remarkable power of real influence and offer insights for tapping into it, including: •The simple four-step model that will help you connect with people you thought were unreachable •How to get past the “blind spot” in our brains that makes connecting and influencing impossible •How to avoid bad influence habits that can disconnect you from your team, your clients, your family, and others •How listening with a real motive to learn and understand will change a relationship instantly •Ways to repair a reputation damaged by trying to influence via manipulation •Why one of the biggest factors in becoming a power influencer is gratitude Mark Goulston, M.D., is an executive coach, team building consultant trained as a clinical, psychiatrist. He has been a UCLA professor of psychiatry for more than 25 years, trained FBI and police hostage negotiators and worked with or spoken to companies, universities and organizations including GE, Goldman Sachs, Xerox, State Farm Insurance, Accenture, Ernst & Young, Kodak, Merrill Lynch, Kaiser Permanente, Astra Zeneca, ADP, UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, American Bar Association. He is the bestselling author of four books, including his latest, Just Listen. In addition, he writes the Tribune Media syndicated career advice column, "Solve Anything with Dr. Mark," blogs for Fast Company and the Huffington Post and is a contributor to Harvard Business online. John Ullmen, Ph.D. , is an acclaimed executive coach whose clients include dozens of leading international firms. He oversees MotivationRules.com, conducts popular feedback-based seminars on influence in organizations, and teaches at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He lives in Los Angeles. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/19/real-influence-persuade-without-pushing-and-gain-without-giving-in/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120206 DTEND:20120207 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121012T070743 LAST-MODIFIED:20121012T070743 UID:5106@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How Innovative Companies Leverage Workforce Metrics and Analytics DESCRIPTION: Discover How Performance Measurements Drive Results Human capital analytics have been around in some way, shape or form for over 20 years. But are human capital analytics really valued by business leaders? Do the analytics really provide insight to, or drive, business performance? The true answer to these questions is generally “no.” It is time to advance to the next generation of human capital analytics—HC analytics 2.0 that drive business performance. They allow organizations to more efficiently deploy their human capital to minimize costs, drive top-line revenue and build a sustainable competitive advantage relative to their competitors. Please join Wendy Hirsch and Brian Kelly from Mercer to hear real-life case studies on how innovative companies are leveraging analytics of tomorrow to fundamentally transform their businesses today! Participants will come to understand the current state of the human capital analytics, including a review of what successful organizations are doing and models they employ to achieve success. Participants will also gain insight into "what's next" in analytics and planning and how to evolve their analytics initiatives. Who Should Attend This Webcast HR and Finance professionals, operations, line of business executives, or other professionals responsible for business performance or workforce analysis. Wendy Hirsch is a principal with Mercer’s Human Capital Business. She helps clients understand the people implications of their business strategy and leverage their human resource function to improve bottom-line results. She is an industrial-organizational psychologist who has experience in human capital strategy and measurement, workforce analytics and planning, attraction and retention, metrics and dashboards, pay equity, and diversity. Her work has been presented at several national conferences and published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Human Resource Development Quarterly. Brian Kelly is a partner at Mercer and is the global Commercial Leader for the human capital metrics and analytics solutions. Brian currently serves as the co-chair of the Institute of Human Resources Workforce Planning and Analytics Working Group and vice chair of the Society of Human Resource Professional's (SHRM) workforce metrics taskforce. Previously, he was the president of Infohrm's North American operations and was responsible for the firm's global sales, marketing and partner strategy. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/12/how-innovative-companies-leverage-workforce-metrics-and-analytics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130123 DTEND:20131024 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121012T070539 LAST-MODIFIED:20130522T160416 UID:5104@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Reenergize Your Best Employees Before They Leave You DESCRIPTION:Tools to excite and motivate your key employees Some organizations have been taken over by a culture of negativity, and in others employees are feeling the years of recession and becoming less motivated and engaged in their work. When the recession initially hit a few years ago, there was an outburst of energy with high-potential employees. Not only were organizations trying to keep things going with reduced staff, those passionate about their work and their organizations were trying to keep the vision and in some cases the organization itself, alive. But the recession lasted longer than expected, and many of these workers feel tired, disheartened, and tempted to new positions elsewhere as the economy improves. Attend this webcast and discover tips and tactics for reengaging your employees using time-tested tools and techniques from the best of AMA. What You Will Learn •Ways to focus on critical staff using the Pareto principle •Understanding what motivates high potential employees and what has led to their dissatisfaction •How to focus on the motivating factors and use modern science for keys on how to inspire the best from purpose-driven employees. Ed Reilly is president and CEO of American Management Association, a leading global not-for-profit, membership-based management development, research and publishing organization. Reilly previously served as president and chief executive officer of Big Flower Holdings, Inc. Prior to that, he spent over 25 years in a variety of senior executive positions with the broadcast and book publishing groups of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Register LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/12/reenergize-your-best-employees-before-they-leave-you/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121211 DTEND:20121212 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121012T070315 LAST-MODIFIED:20121012T070315 UID:5102@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Text to Donate and the Mobile Revolution DESCRIPTION: It is no secret that the future of mobile communications is here now, and those who do not embrace it will be left in the dust. But figuring out how to enter the game and get the best ROI can be intimidating at best. This session, which focuses on mobile fundraising will dissect both traditional (Red Cross type) and grassroots style text to donate campaigns, and talk about the pros and cons of each. It will also present a couple case studies in which nonprofit organizations successfully used text messaging for fundraising and to advance their organizational goals. There will be ample time for Q&A and an interactive group brainstorm on how participants can make their entrance into the mobile revolution. Takeaways: -Various ways organizations can most effectively utilize text messaging -How both traditional and grassroots style text to donate campaigns work -A step by step process for getting a texting program up and running for your organization Debra Brown is the Co-Founder and COO of MobilizeUs, a social enterprise that provides organizations with affordable and effective text messaging. mobile marketing, and text to donate services. Debra also has over ten years of experience in nonprofit fundraising, and has worked with many organizations to develop and grow their grassroots fundraising programs. Currently, she is the project coordinator of the Colorado Community Organizers Collaborative Grassroots Fundraising Project. Through this role, Debra has helped eight organizations including 9to5 National Association of Working Women, the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, Colorado Progressive Coalition, and Padres & Jovenes/Parent and Youth United diversify their revenue sources. Mrs. Brown graduated Summa cum Laude from the University of Arizona with a degree in political science. MobilizeUs is a social enterprise provides easy to use, affordable, and effective group text messaging, mobile marketing and text to donate services. MobilizeUs specializes in helping social change and human service nonprofits, unions, schools, religious organizations, sports teams, and local businesses create customized texting programs that meet their organizations’ specific needs. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/12/text-to-donate-and-the-mobile-revolution/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121019 DTEND:20121020 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121012T070022 LAST-MODIFIED:20121012T070117 UID:5097@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Youth-led Tech @ the Library DESCRIPTION: Would you like to engage teens in planning and implementing your library's teen technology services? Not sure how to get started? Join our webinar on Friday, October 19th at 11 a.m. Pacific time to find out more. CreateIT and IT Nation are two digital media and technology programs for teens in Pima County (AZ), where teens are deeply involved in planning, assessing, and making sure the program works for them. Library staff have solicited feedback from teens in many ways, from working with a system-wide Teen Advisory Board to holding youth focus groups. On October 19th, join special guest Jennifer Nichols who will share Pima County Public Library's efforts with teen-led technology. Jennifer is a Senior Librarian who helped cultivate several youth-led projects with the library since 2006, including a community-partner led Teen Advisory Board, and the LSTA grant-funded program CreateIT. This webinar is the third in a series of webinars exploring the Edge Initiative Benchmarks. This webinar is based on Benchmark 7, which includes the attribute, "The library gathers feedback from the community about its public technology needs." Jennifer is a Senior Librarian at Pima County Public Library in Tucson, Arizona. She has helped cultivate several youth-led projects with the library since 2006, including a community-partner led Teen Advisory Board, and the LSTA grant-funded program CreateIT. She is passionate about creating opportunities for youth to participate in their own communities and enjoys introducing all of those unknowns into the rigid world of adults and government to see what great things can happen. Jennifer has presented on digital media programs for teens, 21st Century Skills, and Asset Based Community Development at ALA and the Arizona Library Association conferences. Brenda has been a librarian for more than 15 years. She has delivered training and education for the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WebJunction, the Public Library Association, Emporia State University, UIUC's Certified Public Library Administrator program, and more. When she's not thinking about libraries and learning, she's spending time with her husband and two year old son at their home in Lawrence, Kansas. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/12/youth-led-tech-the-library-techsoup/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121025 DTEND:20121026 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121008T115829 LAST-MODIFIED:20121008T115829 UID:5095@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Accessible Instruction is EVERY Educator's Responsibility DESCRIPTION: Providing accessible instructional materials to all students requires strong cross-departmental communication. Join us for an online panel discussion with Joy Zabala from the National Center on Instructional Materials and Gayl Bowser, Assistive Technology consultant and author, to hear discussion on: •tips for engaging school leaders in understanding the importance of AIM, including the PALM toolkit from CAST •resources to share with other educators to help them impact students in their classrooms •the successes and challenges districts have experienced LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/08/accessible-instruction-is-every-educators-responsibility/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121023 DTEND:20121024 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121008T115705 LAST-MODIFIED:20121008T115705 UID:5093@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:IPad Apps for Scheduling DESCRIPTION:Center for Accessible Technology AT Specialist Jennifer MacDonald Peltier will share several apps that help people stay on task, keep schedules, and perform multi-step tasks, including timers, task modelers, and schedulers. This is also an opportunity to share, so bring any recommendations you have for apps like these. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. One must first login to their account before registering for this event. If you do not have a membership account with ATC, one must sign up for a free membership in order to particiapte in the event. Selecting a "Basic Membership" will allow you to have access to training from the Accessible Technology Coalition. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/08/ipad-apps-for-scheduling/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121029 DTEND:20121030 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121008T115444 LAST-MODIFIED:20121008T115519 UID:5090@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Secret to Balancing Cost and Customer Experience DESCRIPTION: Customer service leaders have long struggled to balance cost and customer experience quality. For decades, the cost argument won out, and great service was put on hold. Now the tide has turned. Customers have more power than ever with new competitive choices and new interaction channels, and they’re demanding great experiences in the contact center and beyond. Fail to deliver, and they’ll take their business – and their friends – elsewhere. How do customer service executives strike the right balance of cost and quality in the new age of the customer? In this free webinar, guest speaker, industry veteran and Forrester Research, Inc., principal analyst Kate Leggett will describe the way forward using the right metrics, processes, and systems. Kate will be joined on the webinar by Andrew McInnes, Director at Allegiance, and former Forrester Research, Inc., customer experience analyst. Content will include: •Why customer experience is the key competitive advantage in the age of the customer •The role of customer service as the cornerstone of overall customer experience •The right data and metrics to balance customer service cost and quality •How to make the business case for great customer service Kate is leading expert on customer service strategies. Her research focuses on helping organizations establish and validate customer service strategies, prioritize and focus customer service projects, facilitate customer service vendor selection, and plan for project success. Andrew is a leading customer experience and voice of the customer expert. He helps companies optimize their use of products and services to gain the greatest impact using their customer experience solutions. Andrew is a former Forrester analyst covering customer experience. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/08/the-secret-to-balancing-cost-and-customer-experience/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130110 DTEND:20130111 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T064410 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T064410 UID:5087@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Troubleshooting Windows 8 for Beginners DESCRIPTION: First Thursday webcast. Getting started with repairing and fixing Windows 8 can be very complex with many technical tools you need to be familiar with. This needn't be the case though. In this webcast, Mike Halsey, the author of "Troubleshoot and Optimize Windows 8 Inside Out" will show you how even non-technical people can troubleshoot and repair Windows 8. Mike Halsey is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for "Windows Expert - Consumer" and the author of many Windows books including "Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out", "Windows 8: Out of the Box", "Troubleshoot and Optimize Windows 8 Inside Out" and "The Windows 8 Power Users Guide". Mike provides technical support on his website, TheLongClimb.com. You can keep up to date with all of Mike's events, articles and get access to exclusive giveaways on Facebook and Twitter. He has worked for many years in second and third-line IT support, and also works as a teacher of English, maths and ICT, helping those without qualifications and the long-term unemployed gain what is for some, their first ever qualifications. Mike lives in Sheffield (Yorkshire) UK with his rescue border collie, Jed. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/troubleshooting-windows-8-for-beginners/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121212 DTEND:20121213 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T064220 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T064220 UID:5085@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Four Components of Software DESCRIPTION: In this webcast presentation, Max Kanat-Alexander will go over a method of analyzing software that breaks down all designs into four components: Input, Structure, Action, and Results. This pattern exists in all software, from million-line applications down to a single line of code. We will discuss what makes this system of analysis useful and how we can apply it to actually make practical improvements in our software designs today. Max Kanat-Alexander, Chief Architect of the open-source Bugzilla Project, Google Software Engineer, and writer, has been fixing computers since he was eight years old and writing software since he was fourteen. He is the author of codesimplicity.com and fedorafaq.org, and is currently living in Northern California. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/the-four-components-of-software/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121130 DTEND:20121201 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T064049 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T064049 UID:5083@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Steampunk or Victorian Science Fiction DESCRIPTION: Can playing with the past teach us about tomorrow? Join us for a fascinating webcast presented by futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott, authors of Vintage Tomorrows for a discussion into what Steampunk (as a genre, movement, lifestyle, and philosophy) teaches us about the ways people are thinking about their relationships with technology. The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is called "future casting"—using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Along with reinventing TV, Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and using science fiction as a design tool. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Fake Plastic Love, Nebulous Mechanisms: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories and the forthcoming This Is Planet Earth). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. @IntelFuturist James H. Carrott may have been born a historian, but definitive proof awaits further mapping of the human genome. A self-described tech nerd, anachronist, game geek, fanboy, and contrarian, James has followed an eclectic career path that has taken him from the deepest recesses of America's colonial past to the future of gaming and entertainment and everywhen between. Among many other things, he's been a miniature strategy game national champion, co-founder of a community radio station, union steward and treasurer, host and producer of innumerable radio programs, and once had the San Francisco Mime Troupe over for supper. Prior to embarking on his Vintage Tomorrows adventure, he served as global product manager for Xbox 360 hardware. James (aka CultHistorian) is currently a freelance historian, writer and design consultant, researching cultural change to explore the future through the creative application of the past. He resides in Seattle, Washington with his two daughters in a little flat packed with books, comics, games, and toys. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/steampunk-or-victorian-science-fiction/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121129 DTEND:20121130 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T063918 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T063918 UID:5081@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Code Simplicity: The Science of Software Design DESCRIPTION: In this webcast, Max Kanat-Alexander will give a basic overview of the newly codified fundamental laws of software development as covered in his newly released book, Code Simplicity. There will also be a Q&A session at the end of the webcast to discuss the laws, general best practices, and how we can improve the quality of engineering without sacrificing development productivity. Max Kanat-Alexander, Chief Architect of the open-source Bugzilla Project, Google Software Engineer, and writer, has been fixing computers since he was eight years old and writing software since he was fourteen. He is the author of codesimplicity.com and fedorafaq.org, and is currently living in Northern California. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/code-simplicity-the-science-of-software-design/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130106 DTEND:20130107 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T063738 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T063738 UID:5079@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Managing Team Conflict Effectively DESCRIPTION: Are unresolved conflicts affecting team functioning? Would you like to make conflict a source of growth for your team? Would like a road map to get there? Managing team conflict effectively is the art of fostering trust, resolving conflicts as they arise and facilitating productive communication. Highly functioning teams can debate challenging topics, make tough decisions, and hold each other accountable for results. Takeaways: Master the right language for: -Learn the behaviors that cultivate team trust. -Learn to build your team through productive conflict management. -Learn how to keep your team members engaged and committed. Claudette Rowley, MSW, CPCC is a coach, consultant and author – and expert in helping individuals and organizations resolve internal and external conflict. She consults and coaches internationally, helping professionals, corporations and non-profits resolve and prevent conflicts, and offers training on to manage conflict effectively. Claudette is an experienced Myers-Briggs Type Indicator practitioner and facilitates individual development and team building sessions using the instrument. Author of the book Embrace Your Brilliance: How to Align Yourself with Your Unique Potential and co-author of the book A Guide to Getting It: A Clear, Compelling Vision, her articles have been published in hundreds of online and print publications. Prior to launching her coaching and consulting company MetaVoice, Inc. in 2000, Claudette worked in the public and private sectors, specializing in leadership and program development. She holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan, a professional coaching certification from the Coaches Training Institute, and has completed additional training in organizational development and relationship systems coaching. MetaVoice is a coaching and consulting company helping individuals and organizations resolve internal and external conflicts. When individuals and organizations understand the conflicts that hold them back, and chart a course for resolving them, they move into alignment for grow, evolution and more success. I offer conflict coaching and training, and work with organizations to resolve ongoing conflicts. I have a three phase training process I use to help individuals and organizations learn how address conflict in a way that produces positive results. I also specialize in conflict, leadership and career assessments, and their application for resolving conflicts and identifying strengths in individuals and teams. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/managing-team-conflict-effectively/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121205 DTEND:20121206 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T063545 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T063545 UID:5077@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:4 Simple Steps to Raising All the Money Your Nonprofit Needs DESCRIPTION: In the world of the nonprofit, it’s all about fundraising. But it shouldn’t be all about you! For too long, nonprofit staff have focused their fundraising efforts on the organization’s needs, while donors have become savvy and are more interested in outcomes and how you’ll use their gift than ever before. The techniques that worked years ago don’t work anymore. In this webinar, you’ll learn the donor-based fundraising techniques that ARE working. We’ll cover the 4 simple steps that you can follow to effectively raise those much-needed operating dollars for your nonprofit. You’ll get practical information that you can implement right away and take advantage of the end-of-year fundraising time. Takeaways: -How to tell your nonprofit’s story in an irresistible way so that donors will open up their wallets. -Tips on asking for a gift that connect with a donor emotionally and strengthen relationships. -How to delight a donor with warm, compelling acknowledgement. -Steps to build loyal donors who give year after year. Sandy Rees, CFRE, is a nonprofit fundraising coach and consultant who specialized in showing nonprofit leaders how to raise the money of their dreams. She is an AFP Master Trainer and regularly leads workshops on a variety of topics for organizations around the country and around the world. Sandy is the author of the books “Fundraising Buffet,” “Simple Success Fundraising Plan,” and “Get Fully Funded: How to Raise the Money of Your Dreams.” GetFullyFunded is a one-stop solution for all things fundraising for the small shop. Take classes, find books and materials, and get coaching to find solutions to your fundraising challenges. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/4-simple-steps-to-raising-all-the-money-your-nonprofit-needs/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121204 DTEND:20121205 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T063333 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T063333 UID:5075@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Create a Story and Tell it Too: Engaging Supporters with Online Video DESCRIPTION: Video is the most powerful media tool for telling your organization’s story online. Your moving narrative and your complex issue can be communicated more clearly and with more impact using sight, sound and motion. The experts in fundraising and advocacy understand this, but how can any sized nonprofit benefit from these insights? This session combines a little art & science: namely the art of video storytelling with the science of using your org’s assets and existing channels to push your video stories to those who need to see them. Expect to see some great examples of nonprofit video, learn the fundamentals of translating your story to video, and review great new (and some old) tools for online video distribution. Takeaways: Master the right language for: -The 5 Fundamentals of Video Storytelling -3 Nonprofits to watch who are using video to tell their story and win in their fundraising, issue awareness and advocacy efforts -A roundup of the tools you need to make video campaigns succeed with the staff and resources you’ve already got! Michael Hoffman is a leading authority in online video for nonprofits and a long-time consultant to nonprofit leaders on online fundraising, advocacy and community engagement strategies. He started his career as a political consultant and Washington-based nonprofit fundraiser before joining a venture investment firm to develop internet start-ups. Hoffman founded See3 to bring together his belief in the power of the web and his passion and experience with nonprofit fundraising, advocacy, and education. He is a frequent blogger and tweeter on nonprofit marketing and is a nationally sought-after speaker on topics such as online cause marketing, web video, and social media for social change. See3 uses new media to activate people and advance social causes. We craft online strategies and campaigns aimed to meet your organization’s most important goals: fundraising, advocacy, awareness, recruitment. We believe online media and interactivity deepen relationships and make a difference for your issue. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/create-a-story-and-tell-it-too-engaging-supporters-with-online-video/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121127 DTEND:20121128 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T063201 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T063201 UID:5073@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Google Analytics for the Enthusiastic Beginner DESCRIPTION: Wonder what all the hype is about around web analytics? Join us for this overview of Google Analytics, a FREE web analytics tool that shows you how visitors are using your site. We will start from the very beginning and hit the highlights. This overview is for beginners and executives that want to know the value of the tool but not necessarily how to operate it! Takeaways: Master the right language for: -You will learn how to define the business objectives for your web site. -You will see how easy it is to create a simple report and email it to your colleagues. -You will learn how to find the most and least popular pages on your web site. -You will learn how Google Analytics is able to capture data on your visitors which may change the way you surf the web. Bonnie Massa is Founder and President of Chicago-based Massa & Company, Inc. She makes the best use of customer information for companies and nonprofit organizations. She works with organizations to attract new customers, find the best ways to segment and reach out to existing customers, analyze customer behavior to predict future behavior, and increase the value of their customer base. Bonnie has been in the database and analytic marketing arena since 1985. She has designed, built and managed databases or helped pick out the right database solution and provided customer–centric analysis for noteworthy clients such as Budget Rent a Car, Midas International, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Johnson Wax and La-Z-Boy Furniture. Bonnie is known for being a good listener and for working hands-on with her clients. Her ability to establish rapport, both one-on-one and with large groups, has its roots in her passion for the theatre. Bonnie founded and operated a nonprofit performing arts company in her hometown of Cookeville, Tennessee and taught public speaking to barely tolerant freshman at Tennessee Technological University. She speaks fluent “geek” and is an effective translator between business executives and technology experts. Bonnie has a BA degree from Lambuth University in Jackson, TN. She is a Market Motive Certified Practitioner in Web Analytics, Conversion Optimization and Social Media. She has achieved a Google Analytics Individual Qualification. Bonnie also volunteers her time as Account Director in Chicago for Taproot Foundation and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Consultants to Non-Profits. Massa & Company increases revenue for organizations by solving their donor data usefulness problems! LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/google-analytics-for-the-enthusiastic-beginner/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121031 DTEND:20121101 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T063005 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T063005 UID:5071@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Top Seven Fundraising Tips DESCRIPTION: You dream of a strong, vibrant community and have a sense of how to make it real. But how can you rally the funds you need to connect your vision to action? Join the former Craigslist Foundation E.D. and Editor of the best-selling Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals, as he shares practical, tactical solutions from his book that can and will help you get dollars in the door. Darian will provide concrete tips and tools for individual giving, foundation grants, corporate sponsorship, earned income, and online and peer-to-peer campaigns, plus point you in the right direction for more information. Takeaways: How to raise more money from individuals, foundations, and companies. How to raise more funds online. Helpful resources for more info. After five years of service, Darian Rodriguez Heyman recently stepped down as Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation. His new book, Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals, includes practical tips and tools from 50 recognized experts across 35 topics, and he recently launched a global Social Media for Nonprofits conference series, which provides practical tips and tools for fundraising, marketing, and advocacy. He also blogs for the Huffington Post and Skoll Foundation’s Social Edge. Heyman previously served as a Commissioner for the Environment for the City and County of San Francisco and is a public speaker that provides strategy, messaging, and fundraising consulting for nonprofits and green economy organizations. All around the country, Social Media for Nonprofits is bringing nonprofit leaders together with social media experts. Forget concepts and theory. This is all about practical tips and tools – easy to implement, and even free fundraising, marketing, and advocacy. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/top-seven-fundraising-tips/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121024 DTEND:20121025 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121005T062853 LAST-MODIFIED:20121005T062853 UID:5069@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Indie Publishing for the Nonprofit Leader DESCRIPTION: A book or ebook is a great way to share your nonprofit’s experience and insights, bring more visibility to your cause, and establish yourself as a passionate authority. With the expanding universe of independent publishing (a.k.a. self-publishing), the world is now your oyster. How do you make it work for you and your organization? In this webinar we will explore this new opportunity. Takeaways: Master the right language for: What a book/ebook can do for your organization (and you) Advice on the style, structure, and voice of a book that creates social change Introduction to independent publishing Recommended resources Dalya Massachi is the award-winning author of the 2011 independently published book, “Writing to Make a Difference: 25 Powerful Techniques to Boost Your Community Impact.” Her book gives social change agents the license to express themselves and engage their readers with authority, clarity, vision, and values. The Midwest Book Review called it “an excellent read and a top pick for the concerned person with a way with the pen.” Kim Klein said, “I recommend [this book] for those of us who write regularly and want to improve, and for those of us who don’t write because we don’t think we can.” Dalya has served as the managing editor and coach for 4 other independently published books by community-oriented authors, and has helped produce several other titles. For 20 years Dalya has worked professionally with community-oriented organizations in editorial, marketing, and fundraising roles. She now helps nonprofit and community leaders become independently published authors. Writing for Community Success specializes in helping community-oriented professionals and volunteers advance their missions through outstanding written materials. Our award-winning book is entitled, “Writing to Make a Difference: 25 Powerful Techniques to Boost Your Community Impact.” This feisty one-stop-shop shows you—step by step—how to turbocharge your fundraising and marketing documents. Writing for Community Success also offers a FREE feedback conference call twice a month (“Writing Wednesdays”), as well as a helpful newsletter and tip sheets. Affordable services include: interactive trainings and keynotes, one-on-one coaching, and editorial services on books, grant proposals, websites, and more. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/05/indie-publishing-for-the-nonprofit-leader/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130107 DTEND:20130108 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T133838 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T133838 UID:5065@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Makerspaces: A New Wave of Library Service DESCRIPTION:Makerspaces are taking hold in the library world and they are spreading quickly, popping up in libraries of all types and sizes. Makerspaces give people a place to pursue their own interests in building things, using tools (physical or virtual) and connecting with one another. Libraries have expanded on traditional library services to provide DIY/craft/make services, setting up spaces within their buildings and within their communities that allow people to do anything from building model airplanes to 3-D printing to self-publishing novels. Learn what makerspaces are and how they work from librarians who are on the cutting edge of this movement by attending our upcoming series of free webinars. Each webinar will feature a panel of staff, administration, and patrons from one of the libraries that have implemented a makerspace. They’ll talk about how their makerspace concept began, how it was designed and how it was implemented. You’ll learn about the maker movement in general, the role libraries are playing specifically, and get ideas about how you can get involved and start a makerspace in your library! Each Session begins at 2pm Eastern/1pm Cental. Please check all sessions to register for the full series, or check an individual session if you just want to register for one. To launch this event series, simply click on the link below. SERIES PLATFORM LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/makerspaces-a-new-wave-of-library-service-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121203 DTEND:20121204 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T133733 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T133734 UID:5063@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Makerspaces: A New Wave of Library Service DESCRIPTION: Makerspaces are taking hold in the library world and they are spreading quickly, popping up in libraries of all types and sizes. Makerspaces give people a place to pursue their own interests in building things, using tools (physical or virtual) and connecting with one another. Libraries have expanded on traditional library services to provide DIY/craft/make services, setting up spaces within their buildings and within their communities that allow people to do anything from building model airplanes to 3-D printing to self-publishing novels. Learn what makerspaces are and how they work from librarians who are on the cutting edge of this movement by attending our upcoming series of free webinars. Each webinar will feature a panel of staff, administration, and patrons from one of the libraries that have implemented a makerspace. They’ll talk about how their makerspace concept began, how it was designed and how it was implemented. You’ll learn about the maker movement in general, the role libraries are playing specifically, and get ideas about how you can get involved and start a makerspace in your library! Each Session begins at 2pm Eastern/1pm Cental. Please check all sessions to register for the full series, or check an individual session if you just want to register for one. To launch this event series, simply click on the link below. SERIES PLATFORM LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/makerspaces-a-new-wave-of-library-service-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121019 DTEND:20121020 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T133600 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T133600 UID:5061@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Makerspaces: A New Wave of Library Service DESCRIPTION:Makerspaces are taking hold in the library world and they are spreading quickly, popping up in libraries of all types and sizes. Makerspaces give people a place to pursue their own interests in building things, using tools (physical or virtual) and connecting with one another. Libraries have expanded on traditional library services to provide DIY/craft/make services, setting up spaces within their buildings and within their communities that allow people to do anything from building model airplanes to 3-D printing to self-publishing novels. Learn what makerspaces are and how they work from librarians who are on the cutting edge of this movement by attending our upcoming series of free webinars. Each webinar will feature a panel of staff, administration, and patrons from one of the libraries that have implemented a makerspace. They’ll talk about how their makerspace concept began, how it was designed and how it was implemented. You’ll learn about the maker movement in general, the role libraries are playing specifically, and get ideas about how you can get involved and start a makerspace in your library! Each Session begins at 2pm Eastern/1pm Cental. Please check all sessions to register for the full series, or check an individual session if you just want to register for one. To launch this event series, simply click on the link below. SERIES PLATFORM LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/makerspaces-a-new-wave-of-library-service-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121119 DTEND:20121120 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T133501 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T133906 UID:5059@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Makerspaces: A New Wave of Library Service DESCRIPTION:Makerspaces are taking hold in the library world and they are spreading quickly, popping up in libraries of all types and sizes. Makerspaces give people a place to pursue their own interests in building things, using tools (physical or virtual) and connecting with one another. Libraries have expanded on traditional library services to provide DIY/craft/make services, setting up spaces within their buildings and within their communities that allow people to do anything from building model airplanes to 3-D printing to self-publishing novels. Learn what makerspaces are and how they work from librarians who are on the cutting edge of this movement by attending our upcoming series of free webinars. Each webinar will feature a panel of staff, administration, and patrons from one of the libraries that have implemented a makerspace. They’ll talk about how their makerspace concept began, how it was designed and how it was implemented. You’ll learn about the maker movement in general, the role libraries are playing specifically, and get ideas about how you can get involved and start a makerspace in your library! Each Session begins at 2pm Eastern/1pm Cental. Please check all sessions to register for the full series, or check an individual session if you just want to register for one. To launch this event series, simply click on the link below. SERIES PLATFORM LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/makerspaces-a-new-wave-of-library-service-ala/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121026 DTEND:20121027 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T133147 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T133147 UID:5054@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Breaking Through the Status Quo Barrier DESCRIPTION: Your biggest competitor is not who you think it is. Most often, deals are lost to “no decision.” In today’s time-crunched, highly mobile environment, your prospects feel more comfortable and secure staying with the status quo. Join Tim Riesterer, CMO of Corporate Visions & co-author of Conversations that Win the Complex Sale, as he reveals how to transform your marketing messages and sales conversations into compelling stories that inspire customers to want to do something different and do it with you. Attend and learn how to: •Define and defeat the status quo barrier •Develop a "Distinct Point of View" that establishes the buying vision •Transform your marketing messages and sales conversations into compelling stories that differentiate you and create more opportunities Tim Riesterer is responsible for leading the strategic direction of Corporate Visions in thought leadership, positioning and product development. Tim is co-author of Customer Message Management and Conversations that Win the Complex Sale and has a degree in Mass Communications and Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Tim is a frequent presenter and creates excellent Brainshark presentations. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/breaking-through-the-status-quo-barrier/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121016 DTEND:20121017 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T133008 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T133008 UID:5052@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:5 Steps to Scintillating Appeals from the Storytelling Guru DESCRIPTION: Storytelling guru Lisa Cron draws from her extraordinary new book, Wired for Story, to provide the essential ingredients of a strong story that captures hearts and minds. In a conversation with NFG’s Katya Andresen, they’ll discuss how to apply those principles to take your appeals to a new level. In this session you’ll learn: •The key principles for telling a great story; •How to identify and create compelling stories your donors will love; •When and how to incorporate stories in your fundraising appeals •Plus – we’ll workshop real stories from a few lucky nonprofits! Katya Andresen is Chief Strategy Officer of Network for Good, as well as a speaker, author and blogger about nonprofit marketing, online outreach, social media and fundraising. In addition, she is an adjunct professor of communications at American University’s Key Certificate Program and serves on the board of NTEN. Katya has trained thousands of causes in effective engagement, and her marketing materials for non-profits have won national and international awards. Lisa Cron spent a decade in publishing—first at W.W. Norton in New York, then at John Muir Publications in Santa Fe, New Mexico—before turning to television, where among other things she’s been supervising producer on shows for Court TV and Showtime. She’s been a story consultant for Warner Brothers and the William Morris Agency in NYC, and for Village Roadshow, Icon, The Don Buchwald Agency and others in L.A., and a literary agent at the Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency. Her passion has always been story, and she currently works as a consultant helping writers, nonprofits and journalists wrangle the story they’re telling onto the page. Since 2006 she’s been an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. She is the author of Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Ten Speed Press). LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/5-steps-to-scintillating-appeals-from-the-storytelling-guru/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121112 DTEND:20121113 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T132810 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T132810 UID:5050@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 3 – Basic Editing and Record Processing DESCRIPTION: This online course provides instruction on working with MARC bibliographic records in Connexion Browser, including using MARC field help, editing MARC records, updating holdings, and exporting MARC records. After completing this training, learners will have the knowledge to complete basic record actions in Connexion Browser. This course is intended for learners who are new to Connexion Browser and copy cataloging but have a basic familiarity with the MARC record. Established, but basic, users of Connexion Browser may also benefit from the class by thorough review of the MARC record editing process and by learning about enhanced functionality such as record validation. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Note: To access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/connexion-browser-module-3-basic-editing-and-record-processing-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121022 DTEND:20121023 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T132620 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T132620 UID:5048@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Reposition Your University's Brand with Mobile DESCRIPTION: Mobile is the hot topic of conversation within every marketing team across every industry, but this is not simply a new channel to deliver the same old message or a technology to simply build an app. The mobile world presents an opportunity for you to redefine your university's identity where it matters most - helping you attract the best students, and maintain a meaningful relationship with them while they're on campus and beyond. Join Craig DeVoe, Vice President of Global Market Development for Blackboard Mobile, to learn how marketing leaders across the world are leading efforts to reposition their brand and enhance their enrollment strategies with a custom mobile app. As VP of Blackboard Mobile focused on Blackboard’s mobility solutions, Craig leads a team of solution experts that help higher education institutions prepare, plan and respond to the mobile needs of students. Craig has 10 plus years of experience in EdTech, with an expertise in leveraging mobile technology to enhance institutions communication with their communities. Craig has a BS in Business Administration from Nazareth College and a Masters of Business Administration from The University At Albany. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/reposition-your-universitys-brand-with-mobile/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121015 DTEND:20121016 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T132406 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T132406 UID:5046@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Making Mobile Marketing Work with Prospective Students DESCRIPTION: 63% of teens text every day. 67% of 18-24 year olds have a smartphone. What if you could leverage this in your admissions campaigns to… •Provide early insight into your yield •Determine which admits were undecided and create a dialogue with them •See campaign response rates nearing 50% In this 60-minute webcast, Dana Simmons, Director of e-Marketing and Outreach at Westminster College, will share how an integrated mobile marketing strategy in admissions and university marketing has delivered these results and more on campus. Simmons will explore her most successful two-way text and voice marketing campaigns, tips for delivering mobile-enabled web and SMS content, some creative ways to engage with social media, and thoughts on building a mobile dialogue with prospective students. Attend this webcast and take away fresh, results-oriented ideas to shape your incoming classes and increase yields Dana received her BA from Brigham Young University and lives in Salt Lake City, UT with her family. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/making-mobile-marketing-work-with-prospective-students/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130114 DTEND:20130115 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T132137 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T132137 UID:5044@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:To Evaluation and Beyond: The Evolving Role of the Embedded Librarian DESCRIPTION: Higher education administrators and faculty are increasingly attuned to the importance of information literacy and the role of academic librarians in teaching it. With this new engagement come new challenges, including the need to balance cost and quality, helping to shape instructional strategy, and especially developing meaningful evaluation of students’ information literacy learning. Also on the horizon are embedded data curation and new roles beyond instruction. This webinar will explore key trends in embedded librarianship today. Please join us for our upcoming online seminar series, “Helping Libraries Thrive Today & Tomorrow." Each month Libraries Thriving will be offering a FREE online seminar covering a variety of topics such as information literacy, communication, social media, the embedded librarian, and more. Seminars typically last about an hour and are conveniently held online via live web conferencing software GoToWebinar. Credo Reference and Libraries Thriving offer the free webinars to foster enhanced learning for librarians and to support libraries and their communities. For any questions please contact Laura Warren at laura.warren@credoreference.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please share this announcement with colleagues and friends, and click on the registration links below to enroll in the seminars. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/to-evaluation-and-beyond-the-evolving-role-of-the-embedded-librarian/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121114 DTEND:20121115 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T130818 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T130818 UID:5041@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Library Language: Vocabularies for the Modern Librarian DESCRIPTION: The age of librarians toiling away in dust and silence is long over - if it ever existed at all. Librarians are in touch with different groups almost constantly, and librarianship today requires some serious communication skills. Whether it's other librarians, administrators, users, publishers or vendors, librarians have to juggle several different vocabularies to make sure they're communicating as clearly as possible. We'd like to draw on our sales, publishing, usability and web design experience to help build some guidelines and answer questions about communicating with some of these groups. This seminar will focus specifically on communicating with publishers, vendors and users, but we'd love to hear what you have to say about communication in libraries! Please join us for our upcoming online seminar series, “Helping Libraries Thrive Today & Tomorrow." Each month Libraries Thriving will be offering a FREE online seminar covering a variety of topics such as information literacy, communication, social media, the embedded librarian, and more. Seminars typically last about an hour and are conveniently held online via live web conferencing software GoToWebinar. Credo Reference and Libraries Thriving offer the free webinars to foster enhanced learning for librarians and to support libraries and their communities. For any questions please contact Laura Warren at laura.warren@credoreference.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please share this announcement with colleagues and friends, and click on the registration links below to enroll in the seminars. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/library-language-vocabularies-for-the-modern-librarian-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121112 DTEND:20121113 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T130528 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T130914 UID:5039@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Library Language: Vocabularies for the Modern Librarian DESCRIPTION: The age of librarians toiling away in dust and silence is long over - if it ever existed at all. Librarians are in touch with different groups almost constantly, and librarianship today requires some serious communication skills. Whether it's other librarians, administrators, users, publishers or vendors, librarians have to juggle several different vocabularies to make sure they're communicating as clearly as possible. We'd like to draw on our sales, publishing, usability and web design experience to help build some guidelines and answer questions about communicating with some of these groups. This seminar will focus specifically on communicating with publishers, vendors and users, but we'd love to hear what you have to say about communication in libraries! Please join us for our upcoming online seminar series, “Helping Libraries Thrive Today & Tomorrow." Each month Libraries Thriving will be offering a FREE online seminar covering a variety of topics such as information literacy, communication, social media, the embedded librarian, and more. Seminars typically last about an hour and are conveniently held online via live web conferencing software GoToWebinar. Credo Reference and Libraries Thriving offer the free webinars to foster enhanced learning for librarians and to support libraries and their communities. For any questions please contact Laura Warren at laura.warren@credoreference.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please share this announcement with colleagues and friends, and click on the registration links below to enroll in the seminars. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/library-language-vocabularies-for-the-modern-librarian/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121207 DTEND:20121208 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T130154 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T130154 UID:5037@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:FEL Holiday Resources DESCRIPTION: This one hour webinar will cover all things for the Holidays. Locate reviews of Christmas movies, Merry Book Suggestions, Holiday Recipe Ideas and even short stories with Christmas and Chanukah themes. In this session you will also learn how to share these with your patrons and your friends! Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/fel-holiday-resources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121102 DTEND:20121103 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T130005 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T130005 UID:5035@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Understanding The Demographics in your Community DESCRIPTION: Got Election Excitement? Want to learn more about the demographics of your community and the rest of the country? Check out the new Demographics Now eResource from Gale and FEL. This tool will give you statistics and information on different communities. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/understanding-the-demographics-in-your-community/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121029 DTEND:20121030 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T125832 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T125832 UID:5033@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Halloween Resources on FEL DESCRIPTION: This one hour webinar will cover all things Halloween. Locate reviews of horror movies, spooky book suggestions, and even ghost stories. And learn how to share these with your patrons and your friends! Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/halloween-resources-on-fel/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121025 DTEND:20121026 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T125317 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T125317 UID:5031@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Tell the Story of your Library's Impact DESCRIPTION: No matter where you are or what type of library you work in, you are faced with budget cuts and even closures. You need to prove the impact your library has on your patrons, students and community. This one hour webinar will help you prove your library’s value and impact by learning to gather the right kind of library stories. These stories you can use when reporting on the library to the news media, when asking for additional budgets from local and state governments and when applying for grants. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/how-to-tell-the-story-of-your-librarys-impact-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121024 DTEND:20121025 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T125103 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T125103 UID:5029@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What is a Library Database? DESCRIPTION: This one hour web training session is designed to help library staff, community organizers, homeschooling parents, and teachers understand what a library database is and how these resources can help their students and their patrons. An introduction to the library databases will be covered as well as a discussion about what is available and how to use them to help people. Attendance certificates can be provided upon request. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/what-is-a-library-database-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121023 DTEND:20121024 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T124929 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T124929 UID:5027@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Getting the Word out about Library eResources DESCRIPTION: This one hour web training session will help libraries learn how to promote their eResources. Tools for ordering free posters, bookmarks and tent cards will be covered. Discover pre-created outreach letters and press releases to help you reach out in your community. Also, an introduction to using Social Networking and Online Media to promote libraries digitally will be covered. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/getting-the-word-out-about-library-eresources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121022 DTEND:20121023 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T124752 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T124752 UID:5025@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:FEL Business Resources DESCRIPTION: This course will provide attendees with an overview Gale's business resources available to libraries for free through the Florida Electronic Library. These resources will help entrepreneurs and small business owners build and develop their businesses. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/fel-business-resources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121019 DTEND:20121020 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T124613 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T124613 UID:5023@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What is a Library Database? DESCRIPTION: This one hour web training session is designed to help library staff, homeschoolers, and teachers understand what a library database is and how these resources can help their communities. An introduction to the library databases will be covered as well as a discussion about what is available and how to use them to help people. Attendance certificates can be provided upon request. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/what-is-a-library-database/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121018 DTEND:20121019 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T124452 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T124452 UID:5021@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Homework Help for the FEL Resources DESCRIPTION: This course will provide users with an overview of the best FEL resources to assist elementary, middle, and high school students with homework assignments. A practical and multidisciplinary approach will be used to enlighten attendees about the FEL resources geared for the library staff and a student audience. Practice reference questions and student assignments will be provided to help teach the practical application of the database to real life student research. The attendees will be taught the most effective and efficient search strategies to obtain the best set of search results for patron questions and research. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/homework-help-for-the-fel-resources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121003 DTEND:20121004 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T124300 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T124300 UID:5019@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Halloween Resources from FEL DESCRIPTION: This one hour webinar will cover all things Halloween. Locate reviews of horror movies, spooky book suggestions, and even ghost stories. And learn how to share these with your patrons and your friends! Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/halloween-resources-from-fel/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121017 DTEND:20121018 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T124109 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T124109 UID:5017@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:2012 Open Meetings and Public Records Seminar DESCRIPTION: The public records law presentation will include a short overview of key topics, followed by more in-depth discussion of significant recent developments. Basic familiarity with the public records law will be assumed. Briefly reviewing these sections of the Public Records Law Compliance Outline (2012) before the program is recommended: I., II., IV.A.-D. (pages 1-9), V., VI., VII., VIII.A.-B. (pages 10-18), VIII.F.1. (pages 26-27), and XI. (pages 51-54). LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/2012-open-meetings-and-public-records-seminar/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121011 DTEND:20121012 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T123949 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T123949 UID:5015@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:An Introduction to Raising More Money without Asking DESCRIPTION: This nonprofit webinar is a preliminary session to our premium webinar "Outrageously Successful Fundraising-Raise More Money without Asking.” This preliminary webinar will provide you with valuable takeaways and new insights about how to raise more money without asking. To change people’s actions your communication must change. This session will give you fun, new ideas about how to talk about your fundraising needs. Participants in this free webinar will receive a discount code for the the premium webinar. This nonprofit webinar will cover: -What is the one thing that causes success in any kind of fundraising? -A review of where you currently share information about your funding needs. -How to choose new language to share how much money your nonprofit organization needs to raise. -How to use methods other than asking for money so people WANT to support you. -Examples of how other nonprofits have shifted their communication and raised more money. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/an-introduction-to-raising-more-money-without-asking/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121010 DTEND:20121011 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T123643 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T123643 UID:5013@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Training the Public to Use E-Readers DESCRIPTION: IFLS libraries are addressing the demand for help with e-readers in a variety of ways. Find out what some libraries—of varying sizes—are doing. Lisa Ludwig (Colfax), Tami Richardson (Rice Lake) will talk about how they make time to help the public with this emerging technology. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/training-the-public-to-use-e-readers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121009 DTEND:20121010 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121003T123508 LAST-MODIFIED:20121003T123508 UID:5011@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Graphic Novels DESCRIPTION: Join us for our fall graphic novel webcast! You’ll get a sneak peak at some of the great graphic novels hitting the shelves over the next few months and hear tips on how to share the exciting world of graphic novels with your patrons. Random House will discuss their upcoming titles from DC Comics, Del Ray, Archie Comics, and Kodansha: something for everyone. Hear more about Superman trying to get back in touch with the “normal” people, romantic hijinks staged by a devious novelist just so she can write about them, the real story of Steve Jobs’ failings as well as his successes, and what the best stories are from the epic 20-year history of Sonic the Hedgehog, the longest running comics series based on a videogame. And that’s just a few of the titles starring in this webcast. LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/03/graphic-novels/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T143254 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T143254 UID:5008@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Learn How to Learn Online DESCRIPTION:Ready, Set, Learn How to Learn Online! This course focuses on learning in the live, online, synchronous environment. It demystifies the technology for participants so they have a positive learning experience. The course includes activities that use synchronous collaboration tools like whiteboard, chat, audio, and breakout rooms. Synchronous learning ground rules are covered, as well as how participants can create the optimal environment for online learning. Participants will receive a job-aid/ reference document emphasizing the key objectives taught during the course. LHTLO is held twice per month. There is no cost to participate in this course. Program Objectives: On completion of this course, you will be able to... Use basic collaboration tools to participate in a synchronous learning environment. Identify the roles and responsibilities of learners in a synchronous learning experience. Setup your learning environment for success. Participate in a collaborative breakout room activity. Prerequisites Learn How To Learn Online is a prerequisite to all other InSync Certificate programs. Target Audience This course is targeted towards those who wish to actively participate in synchronous learning programs. Learn How to Learn Online is a prerequisite for all other InSync certificate programs. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/learn-how-to-learn-online-10/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T143122 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T143122 UID:5006@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tech Tools With Tine: 1 Hour of Photo Fun DESCRIPTION:Webinar Registration Friday, November 30, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CST Want a concise demo of how one tool works from a veteran software trainer with a little library context thrown in?  Well, that's our Tech Tools with Tine series! In this Webinar, Tine will take you on a tour of several fun (and free) photo tools -- Instagram, Animoto and Google Goggles. OUR PRESENTER: Christine Walczyk is currently a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas in Library & Information Science. She has 10+ years in libraries and is a former software trainer. She is currently an independent technology/library consultant with Trainers-R-Us. CE CREDIT This program qualifies for one (1) hour of Texas State Library Continuing Education credit or one (1) hour of SBEC Continuing Education credit for school librarians (SBEC provider identification #500799). However, printed Certificates of Completion will not be issued for this event. Instead, a follow-up email will be sent several days after the workshop to individuals who logged in and attended the live Webinar. Attendees are advised to save and/or print the follow-up email as it will serve as proof of attendance for CE purposes. CE credit is also available for group viewings of live Webinar events -- please follow the Group Webinar Viewing procedure listed in our Frequently Asked Questions at: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/webinars/faqs.html#groups If you have any special needs or requirements in order to participate in this Webinar, please email ld@tsl.state.tx.us at least 2 weeks in advance. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/tech-tools-with-tine-1-hour-of-photo-fun/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T142846 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T142846 UID:5004@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Energize your base: Tips and tools to raise awareness and build support for library services DESCRIPTION:A webinar exploring ways to increase your community's awareness of library services and of how those services are changing lives. We know that libraries are a good investment but with tight budgets, we need to energize our base – to take action to connect more strongly with community members, to find out what excites them, and to let them know how libraries are changing lives – one connection at a time. Our panel will explore three vehicles that can help you increase awareness of library services: Library Videos – New videos from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that showcase work done in libraries which are transforming lives, by changing the way we connect. Geek the Library – A community awareness campaign offered free to libraries to help strengthen community connections and library support. Data Visualization – We collect lots of data. Learn how the Colorado State Library is helping local libraries use their data to tell a story about impact. Presented by: Karen Perry, Senior Program Officer, Global Libraries, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Jennifer Pearson, OCLC Senior Manager for Advocacy Programs; Jamie Hollier, Project Manager with PLA and Library Consultant; and Linda Hofschire, Research Analyst, Library Research Service, Colorado State Library. Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific [Note: 90-minute webinar] Register to attend Date 14 November 2012 Time 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time [UTC -5] Venue Webinar LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/energize-your-base-tips-and-tools-to-raise-awareness-and-build-support-for-library-services-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T142623 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T142623 UID:5001@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tech Tools With Tine: 1 Hour of Google Plus and Hangouts DESCRIPTION:Webinar Registration Want a concise demo of how one tool works from a veteran software trainer with a little library context thrown in?  Well, that's our Tech Tools with Tine series!   In this Webinar, Tine will focus on Google Plus (a social layer of free services that enhance sharing with specific audiences) and then spend some time examining Google Hangouts (a free video streaming service available through Google Plus). OUR PRESENTER: Christine Walczyk is currently a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas in Library & Information Science. She has 10+ years in libraries and is a former software trainer. She is currently an independent technology/library consultant with Trainers-R-Us. CE CREDIT This program qualifies for one (1) hour of Texas State Library Continuing Education credit or one (1) hour of SBEC Continuing Education credit for school librarians (SBEC provider identification #500799). However, printed Certificates of Completion will not be issued for this event. Instead, a follow-up email will be sent several days after the workshop to individuals who logged in and attended the live Webinar. Attendees are advised to save and/or print the follow-up email as it will serve as proof of attendance for CE purposes. CE credit is also available for group viewings of live Webinar events -- please follow the Group Webinar Viewing procedure listed in our Frequently Asked Questions at: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/webinars/faqs.html#groups If you have any special needs or requirements in order to participate in this Webinar, please email ld@tsl.state.tx.us at least 2 weeks in advance. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/tech-tools-with-tine-1-hour-of-google-plus-and-hangouts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T142450 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T142450 UID:4999@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Leader as Coach: Create a Culture of Development -- Shape People-Positive Outcomes-Webinar # 1 DESCRIPTION:Webinar # 1: Defining Culture of Development Define Culture of Development and content of series and Leader as Coach. Using coaching language in everyday conversation. Make note of your choice of words and accompanying non verbal communication that send a message. What messages are you sending? How often do you question why people take your message differently than you intended? Explore words that are accountable and engage collaboration. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/leader-as-coach-create-a-culture-of-development-shape-people-positive-outcomes-webinar-1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T141755 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T141755 UID:4996@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Learn How to Learn Online DESCRIPTION: Ready, Set, Learn How to Learn Online! This course focuses on learning in the live, online, synchronous environment. It demystifies the technology for participants so they have a positive learning experience. The course includes activities that use synchronous collaboration tools like whiteboard, chat, audio, and breakout rooms. Synchronous learning ground rules are covered, as well as how participants can create the optimal environment for online learning. Participants will receive a job-aid/ reference document emphasizing the key objectives taught during the course. LHTLO is held twice per month. There is no cost to participate in this course. Program Objectives: On completion of this course, you will be able to... Use basic collaboration tools to participate in a synchronous learning environment. Identify the roles and responsibilities of learners in a synchronous learning experience. Setup your learning environment for success. Participate in a collaborative breakout room activity. Prerequisites Learn How To Learn Online is a prerequisite to all other InSync Certificate programs. Target Audience This course is targeted towards those who wish to actively participate in synchronous learning programs. Learn How to Learn Online is a prerequisite for all other InSync certificate programs. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/learn-how-to-learn-online-9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T141323 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T141323 UID:4993@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Power of Image: presenting with the brain in mind DESCRIPTION:This webinar will cover key concepts of strong visual communication and explore simple tips and tricks that will punch up your presentations and wake up your audience. The human brain is wired to respond to images. Scientific studies of the brain are providing powerful insights for designing and delivering presentations that grab the attention of the learner. Once you understand the key concepts of strong visual communication, you can get unstuck from the stale text-and-bullet format of presentation. You don’t need to be a designer to learn some simple tips and tricks that will punch up your presentations and wake up your audience. Presented by: Betha Gutsche, program manager, WebJunction OCLC, and visual communications advocate. Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Register to attend Date 06 November 2012 Time 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time [UTC -5] Venue Webinar LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/the-power-of-image-presenting-with-the-brain-in-mind-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T141036 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T141036 UID:4990@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tech Tools With Tine: 1 Hour of Evernote DESCRIPTION:Want a concise demo of how one tool works from a veteran software trainer with a little library context thrown in?  Well, that's our Tech Tools with Tine series!   In this Webinar, Tine will focus on Evernote -- a robust notetaking and archiving online tool available at both free and premium levels. OUR PRESENTER: Christine Walczyk is currently a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas in Library & Information Science. She has 10+ years in libraries and is a former software trainer. She is currently an independent technology/library consultant with Trainers-R-Us. CE CREDIT This program qualifies for one (1) hour of Texas State Library Continuing Education credit or one (1) hour of SBEC Continuing Education credit for school librarians (SBEC provider identification #500799). However, printed Certificates of Completion will not be issued for this event. Instead, a follow-up email will be sent several days after the workshop to individuals who logged in and attended the live Webinar. Attendees are advised to save and/or print the follow-up email as it will serve as proof of attendance for CE purposes. CE credit is also available for group viewings of live Webinar events -- please follow the Group Webinar Viewing procedure listed in our Frequently Asked Questions at: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/webinars/faqs.html#groups If you have any special needs or requirements in order to participate in this Webinar, please email ld@tsl.state.tx.us at least 2 weeks in advance. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/tech-tools-with-tine-1-hour-of-evernote/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T140801 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T140801 UID:4988@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Top 10 Tips You Need to Know About Using Twitter for Business DESCRIPTION:Twitter continues to be a hot topic in the web marketing space and lots of businesses are using the popular microblog to market to potential and existing customers. Are you? Is it working? In this webinar we'll review the top 10 tips for using Twitter for business. I'll talk about helpful tools to help save and manage time and measure results to help identify what's working...and what's not. Presented by Jessica Wallace of Hall Internet Marketing Held Tue, Oct 30 - 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/top-10-tips-you-need-to-know-about-using-twitter-for-business/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T140623 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T140623 UID:4986@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tech Tools With Tine: 1 Hour of Slideshare DESCRIPTION:Webinar Registration Want a concise demo of how one tool works from a veteran software trainer with a little library context thrown in?  Well, that's our Tech Tools with Tine series!   In this Webinar, Tine will focus on Slideshare -- one of the most popular (and free) presentation and document sharing tools available today. OUR PRESENTER: Christine Walczyk is currently a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas in Library & Information Science. She has 10+ years in libraries and is a former software trainer. She is currently an independent technology/library consultant with Trainers-R-Us. CE CREDIT This program qualifies for one (1) hour of Texas State Library Continuing Education credit or one (1) hour of SBEC Continuing Education credit for school librarians (SBEC provider identification #500799). However, printed Certificates of Completion will not be issued for this event. Instead, a follow-up email will be sent several days after the workshop to individuals who logged in and attended the live Webinar. Attendees are advised to save and/or print the follow-up email as it will serve as proof of attendance for CE purposes. CE credit is also available for group viewings of live Webinar events -- please follow the Group Webinar Viewing procedure listed in our Frequently Asked Questions at: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/webinars/faqs.html#groups If you have any special needs or requirements in order to participate in this Webinar, please email ld@tsl.state.tx.us at least 2 weeks in advance. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/tech-tools-with-tine-1-hour-of-slideshare/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T135831 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T135831 UID:4983@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Freedom Rings in Philadelphia: community technology adoption DESCRIPTION:A webinar with the Freedom Rings Partnership, bringing Internet access, computer assistance and digital opportunities to Philadelphians with the least access to broadband. The Freedom Rings Partnership is a digital inclusion initiative funded by Federal stimulus monies. We are bringing Internet access, computer assistance and digital opportunities to Philadelphians with the least access to broadband. Comprised of a coalition of grassroots organizations, government, and universities, we proudly count People’s Emergency Center and the Free Library of Philadelphia as Managing Partners in this city-wide effort. Extending beyond the library and traditional organizational walls, our public-computing centers—KEYSPOTS—are located in community organizations that have the trust of their constituents; technology access is a complimentary asset to their diverse missions. Learn how to develop sustainable partnerships and adapt this model to meet your community technology adoption needs. Presented by: Jennifer Donsky, Public Services Technology Library Coordinator, The Free Library of Philadelphia; and Lorelei Shingledecker, Program Manager, Broadband Technology Opportunities Program at People's Emergency Center Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Register to attend Date 25 October 2012 Time 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4]   LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/freedom-rings-in-philadelphia-community-technology-adoption-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T135301 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T135301 UID:4980@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Become an Expert Google Searcher in an Hour DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10AM PT, San Francisco 6pm - London | 1pm - New York | Thu, Oct 25th at 4am - Sydney | Thu, Oct 25th at 2am - Tokyo | Thu, Oct 25th at 1am - Beijing | 10:30pm - Mumbai Presented by: Stephan Spencer Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Do you use Google every day? Mastering Google's powerful search refinement operators and lesser known features could, over a year's time, save you days scouring over irrelevant results. Even more enticing is the promise of elusive nuggets of market research and competitive intelligence out there waiting to be discovered -- IF you know how to wield Google. Neurologists estimate that we humans use a mere 1% of our mental capacity. Similarly, the majority of our search queries are surprisingly unsophisticated and thus the true power of the Google search engine, for most of us, remains untapped. Learn how you too can become an expert Google searcher and extract invaluable data about your competitors and about the market like never before -- with laser-like accuracy and extreme efficiency. You will learn: How to cut through the clutter with Boolean logic, exact phrase matching, wildcards, and search operators like filetype, intitle, site, and "daterange" How to cast a wider net by expanding your search to include synonyms with the ~ (tilde) operator. How to conduct specialized searches using Google's many search sites like Google News, Google Groups, and Google Blog Search. How to obtain real, confidential business plans and marketing plans How to invoke the Google search box as a phonebook, a calculator, a measurement converter, a dictionary, a package tracker, an airline timetable, a street map atlas, and a stock ticker. About Stephan Spencer Stephan Spencer is author of Google Power Search and co-author of The Art of SEO. Stephan founded Netconcepts in 1995 as an interactive agency; and over time it morphed into an SEO firm. Netconcepts was acquired by Covario in January 2010. Stephan left in September 2010 to start several new ventures. He is the inventor of GravityStream, a pay-for-performance SEO technology now rebranded as Covario's Organic Search Optimizer. He is a highly sought after conference speaker on SEO and other online marketing topics for the DMA, AMA, Shop.org, Internet Retailer, SMX, SES, O'Reilly/TechWeb (Web 2.0 Expo), PubCon, Affiliate Summit, ECMOD, IQPC, and IIR, among others. His hundreds of speaking gigs have taken him around the globe - everywhere from Berlin, London, Toronto, Santiago, and Auckland, to New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and places in between. Stephan lived in New Zealand for nearly 8 years, where he built a production office a block from the beach. He returned to the US in 2007. Stephan writes for Search Engine Land, Multichannel Merchant, Practical Ecommerce, and MarketingProfs, among others. He has a Masters in Biochemistry, which he uses every day (not!). Questions? Please send email to webcast@oreilly.com Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/become-an-expert-google-searcher-in-an-hour/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T134959 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T134959 UID:4977@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:4 Levels of Leadership Success DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, October 24th at 1:00 Eastern   Do you have what it takes to be an effective leader? Today, leaders need to know how to lead on multiple levels – requiring an expanded perspective of leadership. By understanding these levels you can begin to apply your leadership purpose, create sense of excitement in the workplace, and help others achieve their personal and professional goals. Join Tom Roth, COO of Wilson Learning, on Wednesday, October 24th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, as he explores the four levels of leadership that can broaden your understanding of leadership, revitalize your leadership purpose and create a renewed sense of direction in your professional life. Lead one’s self – be able to identify and understand your leadership values and purpose. Lead others – be able to delegate, guide others and grow their skills and talents. One to group – be able to build team culture that generates enthusiasm for the team and its goals. Create a work culture – be a role model and build a culture that fully engages people and gets them to commit their energy to the organization. About the Speaker Tom Roth is Chief Operating Officer for Wilson Learning Worldwide. As such he is responsible for the strategic direction and business performance of Wilson Learning Worldwide operations. In addition, he leads the global marketing services and R&D solutions group. Before assuming his current role, he was responsible for global R&D and solution development. He also served as President of Wilson Learning Americas. He assists global executive leadership teams with issues related to employee engagement, leadership development, strategy alignment, and business transformation. Roth has spent over 35 years developing and implementing human performance improvement solutions. He is the co-author of the book Creating the High-Performance Team, and is published in numerous business publications. Event Registration LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/4-levels-of-leadership-success/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T134145 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T134615 UID:4973@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Part I On Common Core – Getting Real: Marc Aronson and Sue Bartle DESCRIPTION:EVENT DATE AND TIME: Thursday, October 18, 2012, 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET/12:00 – 1:00 PM PT SPONSORED BY: Follett, Lerner Digital, Rosen Publishing, Scholastic Library Publishing and School Library Journal. Register now! How do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) impact you, your library, and your teachers?  Marc Aronson and Sue Bartle will discuss how perspective, multi-modality, and transliteracy will help you build a foundation as you implement CCSS. Take home a few concrete examples to successfully adjust to the instructional shifts in CCSS. Panelists: Marc Aronson – Professor, Rutgers School of Communication & Information Susan M. Bartle – School Library System Director, Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES Click here to register for Part 2 of this series: Librarians, the Secret Weapon Click here to register for Part 3 of this series: Making the Text Connection Can’t make it on October 18? No problem! Register now and you will get an email reminder from School Library Journal post-live event when the webcast is archived and available for on-demand viewing at your convenience! Follow us on Twitter! @SLJEvent  #SLJcommoncore By registering for this webcast, you are agreeing that School Library Journal may share your registration information with sponsors currently shown and future sponsors of this event. Click here to review the entire School Library Journal Privacy Policy. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/part-i-on-common-core-getting-real-marc-aronson-and-sue-bartle/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T133652 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T133652 UID:4971@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:PowerSearch DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012 Start Time: 11:00 am   End Time: 12:00 pm (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Register Category: Product Training Description Register for PowerSearch Training Gale's newly enhanced PowerSearch platform is unlike any other, providing libraries with a sophisticated, yet simple, solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference and primary source information. PowerSearchprovides your patrons with access to all the Gale content in your library's collection through one, single search query. The result is that you maximize usage of your Gale databases while patrons enjoy the time saved through a streamlined common user interface that can be customized to match their skill level and habits. This web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the latest enhancements to the PowerSearch platform that were garnered from user and librarian feedback. Upon completion of this course, participants in the training session will understand the applications of the following new features available in the platform. New Homepage: Smart searching Named User functionality, allowing users to create profiles and save content Enhanced Search Results: Search within results; limit results by subject, publication, document type and date sliders Context-sensitive multimedia, including images, videos and podcasts Web 2.0 sharing functionality, including RSS Enhanced Advanced Searching: More limiting capabilities, including a controlled vocabulary browse that allows users to refine their searches with multiple subject terms Limit by publication, publication subject category, reading level and many more options This web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the latest enhancements to the PowerSearch platform that were garnered from user and librarian feedback. Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=922732589 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/powersearch-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T131231 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T131231 UID:4969@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Fall Books for Kids DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET Learn about fall’s collection of new books for your young readers during this School Library Journal webcast event.  From illustrated books to chapter books, topics range from superheroes to farmers, and then some! Discover what it means to be a samurai in Benjamin Martin’s Samurai Awakening, and find out if an American teenager has what takes to save his friends.  Read about Bill Finger, the man who gave Bruce Wayne a name and made him a detective in Marc Tyler Nobleman’s picture book (illustrated by Ty Templeton) Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman. See a new take on the classic Old MacDonald nursery rhyme in Old MacDonald Had Her Farm (written by JonArno Lawson, illustrated by Tina Holdcroft) with brightly illustrated pictures and tongue-twisters to help readers learn about vowels while using the same E-I-E-I-O refrain. Register now to see what else Annick Press, Charlesbridge, and Tuttle Publishing will share from their fall book releases. Register now! LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/fall-books-for-kids/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T131132 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T131132 UID:4967@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Common Core & More: Surprising Reasons to Go Graphic DESCRIPTION: Date and time: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 3:30 pm Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-05:00) Change time zone Program: Booklist Webinars Duration: 1 hour Description: Whether you are new to graphic novels or a long-time fan, this is the session for you! Join our expert panel from The Graphic Classroom blog, Capstone, and Booklist Publications for a lively discussion about how you can build on kids’ fascination with graphic novels to meet learning objectives and enhance critical thinking skills, such as prediction and inference. Moderated by Gillian Engberg, Editorial Director of Books for Youth at Booklist Publications. Attendees are automatically entered to win a complete 24 book set of Capstone’s new DC Comics line! Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/common-core-more-surprising-reasons-to-go-graphic/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T125405 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T125405 UID:4964@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Incubate leadership @ your library DESCRIPTION:A webinar exploring ways to incubate leadership within your library organization and in the broader community to support collaborative and continuous learning. Effective leadership in a library community is not performed by any one person. Instead, it is a collective act of many players contributing their toolset of complementary and evolving skills. Leadership "incubates" best in an environment nurtured by collaborative and continuous learning; it often grows accidentally, sometimes unbeknownst to the leader-to-be. Through peer mentoring and other methods, explore ways to create a generative space that nourishes the infectious qualities of leadership. Develop a network of seasoned learners who will incubate leadership, both within your library and in support of the broader community, collaboratively building and leading a rich and fulfilling learning organization. Presented by: Jennifer Peterson, Community Manager, OCLC WebJunction, Board Member ARSL, and 2011 LJ Mover & Shaker. Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Register to attend Date 16 October 2012 Time 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4] Venue Webinar   LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/incubate-leadership-your-library-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121125T100000 DTEND:20121125T113000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T083308 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T083308 UID:4961@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Making Effective Decisions (a 2-part series) - Part 2 (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Part 2 ~ Barriers to Effective Decision Making What keeps you from making an effective decision? An emotional barrier? Something environmental? Cultural? Your barrier could be any one of a number of things – and sometimes more than one. Your barrier could be very different from mine – or your co-worker’s. Once we know the barriers, we’re better equipped to handle them ~ and as we set ourselves free from those barriers, we naturally become better decision makers. Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  11/14/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/making-effective-decisions-a-2-part-series-part-2-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121113T100000 DTEND:20121113T113000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T082640 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T082919 UID:4954@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Making Effective Decisions (a 2-part series) - Part 1 (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Part 1 ~ Decision Making: The Process Have you ever thought about the actual process of making a decision? Yes? No? Maybe?? Realizing that there is indeed a process and understanding why it’s important will help you clarify your thoughts when you are struggling to make a decision. In this session, you’ll learn about the 7 steps to making effective decisions – and the benefits of including each one of those steps in your process. We’ll also look out how to go about developing options. We’ll unpack the idea of creativity and risk-taking in the decision-making process. We’ll gain an understanding of why both are important and why you also need to understand the goal of your decision. After all, if you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know if you’ve arrived? Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  11/6/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/making-effective-decisions-a-2-part-series-part-1-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T074514 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T074514 UID:4951@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tips to Keep Your Website Content Fresh DESCRIPTION:We understand that keeping content on your site updated can hard work and time consuming. During this webinar we will discuss the value in keeping your site content fresh and give you some time saving tips and takeaways on how to create new content for your website. Presented by Dave MacElhiney of Hall Internet Marketing Held Tue, Oct 16 - 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/tips-to-keep-your-website-content-fresh/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T074329 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T074329 UID:4949@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Juggling 101: Managing Multiple Priorities DESCRIPTION: Session dates: Monday, October 15, 2012 Starting time: 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Jane Bozarth Description: Winner, LOLA Award for Best Use of Synchronous Tools "Time management" is an oxymoron. You can't change it, or lengthen it, or shorten it, or 'manage' it. This course will help you identify ways to deal with the things you can manage: yourself, others, and the tasks with which you're confronted. Jane Bozarth, M.Ed., is North Carolina's self-appointed "E-Learning Goddess". While her specialty is in finding ways to cut the high costs of e-learning, Jane is also a popular classroom instructor and motivational speaker. She enjoys business writing; her book reviews appear monthly in Training Magazine. Host's name: Anna Heinrich Host's email: anna@insynctraining.com Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/juggling-101-managing-multiple-priorities/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121002T074200 LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T074200 UID:4947@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Learn How to Learn Online DESCRIPTION: Ready, Set, Learn How to Learn Online! This course focuses on learning in the live, online, synchronous environment. It demystifies the technology for participants so they have a positive learning experience. The course includes activities that use synchronous collaboration tools like whiteboard, chat, audio, and breakout rooms. Synchronous learning ground rules are covered, as well as how participants can create the optimal environment for online learning. Participants will receive a job-aid/ reference document emphasizing the key objectives taught during the course. LHTLO is held twice per month. There is no cost to participate in this course. Program Objectives: On completion of this course, you will be able to... Use basic collaboration tools to participate in a synchronous learning environment. Identify the roles and responsibilities of learners in a synchronous learning experience. Setup your learning environment for success. Participate in a collaborative breakout room activity. Prerequisites Learn How To Learn Online is a prerequisite to all other InSync Certificate programs. Target Audience This course is targeted towards those who wish to actively participate in synchronous learning programs. Learn How to Learn Online is a prerequisite for all other InSync certificate programs. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/02/learn-how-to-learn-online-8/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121001T155505 LAST-MODIFIED:20121001T155505 UID:4944@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Gale Virtual Reference Library DESCRIPTION:Date: Monday, October 15, 2012 Start Time: 10:00 am   End Time: 11:00 am (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Category: Product Training Description Register for Gale Virtual Reference Library Training Gale Virtual Reference Libraryis a database of electronic encyclopedias and specialized reference sources, also known as eBooks, for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). This web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Recognize the general content available in the database Construct and employ efficient search strategies for information retrieval Use results lists to examine different types of documents Examine navigational and search features of the user interface Search for, identify, and manage documents found within the database Differentiate between basic and advanced search modes Recognize how to use bookmarks and marked items as a way to manage and organize information found within the database Understand how to cross-search the eBooks with other databases in the libraries collectionThis web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=926240605 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/01/gale-virtual-reference-library-6/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121001T155355 LAST-MODIFIED:20121001T155355 UID:4942@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Warm Up to Reading: Getting Kids Hooked on Books DESCRIPTION: (Register) Date and time: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:00 pm Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-05:00) Change time zone Program: Booklist Webinars Duration: 1 hour Description: The weather may be getting cooler, but books are always hot. Join representatives from ABDO Publishing, DK Publishing, James Lorimer & Co., and Listening Library to learn about books and media designed to spark reluctant readers' interest in reading—be it turning pages or pushing play. Moderated by Booklist senior editor Ilene Cooper. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/01/warm-up-to-reading-getting-kids-hooked-on-books/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121001T155229 LAST-MODIFIED:20121001T155229 UID:4940@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Telling Your Story: Five Secrets for Successful Career Growth and Advancement DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Register Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM Presenter: : Deb Hunt and David Grossman  Webinar Series: Expanding Your Career Potential How can librarians and information professionals: Learn the secrets to the type of successful interactions that will lead to career growth and advancement? Develop talking points to effectively convey their story to maximize their potential for career growth and advancement? Learn how to take advantage of every opportunity, no matter how brief, to tell an encapsulated version of their story? Maximize their chances of always getting to “yes”? Become aware and gain access to the wide variety of job opportunities that take them beyond the limitations of the “L” word. In today’s complex, fast changing world, having the right skills is not enough for those seeking career growth and advancement. Librarians and information professionals also need to communicate well and effectively tell their story. This webinar helps librarians and information professionals develop the necessary “talking points” to help them communicate their most important message and formulate an encapsulated version of their talking points to be able to take advantage of every window of opportunity, regardless of how brief it might be. Librarians and information professionals often miss some of the best career opportunities because they are stuck on the “L” word. This webinar will help attendees locate and identify many career opportunities that are outside the “L” word and help them prepare to take advantage of those opportunities. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: Understand the importance of successful interactions for career growth and advancement Learn the five secrets of successful interactions with colleagues, management and gatekeepers in their organizations Know how to develop convincing talking points, including an “elevator pitch,” that will assure their success in any situation Learn how to use their talking points to get buy-in and get to “yes” as quickly and often as possible Know how to prepare themselves for one of the numerous alternative career opportunities readily available to librarians and information professionals This webinar will be of interest to library staff contemplating the next job opportunity or career change and those seeking to identify their current skills and acquire new skills. This is the last in a series of four webinars presented by Deb Hunt and David Grossman. Webinar 1: Acquiring New Skills Jul 10, 2012. Webinar 2: Developing Your Plan Aug 14, 2012. Webinar 3: Successful Librarians Share Sep 6, 2012. Webinar 4: Five Secrets for Successful Career Oct 10, 2012. Webinars are free of charge, you can pre-register by clicking on the Join Webinar button now or go directly to the webinar by clicking on Join Webinar on the day of the event on the Adobe Connect server. If you pre-registered you can use your email address and password you created to speed up entry to the webinar. If you did not preregister and you login with in 30 minutes of the event you can enter as a guest without a password. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/01/telling-your-story-five-secrets-for-successful-career-growth-and-advancement/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121025T100000 DTEND:20121025T113000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20121001T151303 LAST-MODIFIED:20121001T154257 UID:4934@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Promoting Your Library in the Community (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:You know what a valuable resource your library is – but do the members of your community know? When we are immersed in the library environment ourselves, it’s easy to forget that there are many in our community who really don’t know what we have to offer. So it’s our job to tell them! Promoting Your Library in the Community will prepare you to do just that. In this 90-minute online session, we’ll brainstorm ways to get the attention of not only our patrons, but also members of our community who may wonder just what goes on at their local libraries. We’ll discuss avenues for promotion – How can we get the message out? Where should we go to talk about our library? What should we talk about? But wait! Does this mean I have to be a public speaker? Not at all! All you have to do is talk about where you work. But just to make you feel more comfortable, we’ll also cover some basic pointers about public speaking. There is no one who knows better why your library is such an important part of the community – and a passionate employee can promote your library like no one else! Join us for this session and learn how to help others discover one of your community’s greatest treasures...your library! This webinar will be delivered via SEFLIN Connect. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course. Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  10/18/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/10/01/promoting-your-library-in-the-community-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120928T092625 LAST-MODIFIED:20120928T092625 UID:4930@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Personal Gadgets and the Library DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM Presenter: : Jason Griffey Personal electronics such as tablet computers, ebook readers, MP3 players, and more are now a common part of our information interactions in the library world. Customers are checking gadgets out from us, asking us for content that can be loaded on them, and at times just wishing that we could help them use them more effectively. This webinar will give a broad overview of personal electronics in libraries, focusing on iOS and Android based devices and their management, from both a user and staff perspective. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: Understand abilities and limitations of both iOS (Apple) and Android systems Have a set of tools to explore in management of both Know where to go for help with personal electronics This webinar will be of interest to anyone that provides services in or around libraries, to either users of the library or to the staff of the library. Webinars are free of charge, you can pre-register by clicking on the Join Webinar button now or go directly to the webinar by clicking on Join Webinar on the day of the event on the Adobe Connect server. If you pre-registered you can use your email address and password you created to speed up entry to the webinar. If you did not preregister and you login with in 30 minutes of the event you can enter as a guest without a password. This webinar will be presented with Closed Captioning. On the day of the webinar you can see the closed captioning in the Adobe Connect caption pod.   Webinar Tips Test your browser for compatibility LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/28/personal-gadgets-and-the-library-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120928T092524 LAST-MODIFIED:20120928T092524 UID:4928@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Google Yourself Silly DESCRIPTION: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Starting time: 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Jane Bozarth Description: Google, the wildly popular search engine, has much to offer the learning professional. This resource, with its specific tools, can help you better design training, communicate with colleagues, and/or find your way to an enriching training site. Using technology in the classroom, you will learn to work withsearch results rankings, conduct special searches, and improve your search effectiveness. Your credibility and personal satisfaction as a learning professional can only be enhanced Jane Bozarth is North Carolina's self-appointed "E-Learning Goddess". While her specialty is in finding ways to cut the high costs of e-learning, Jane is also a popular classroom instructor and motivational speaker. Dr. Bozarth enjoys business writing and author of E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring, Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint, From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers, and Social Media for Trainers Host's name: Jennifer Hofmann Host's email: producer@insynctraining.com Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/28/google-yourself-silly/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120928T092351 LAST-MODIFIED:20120928T092351 UID:4926@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Ring the Dinner Bell: New Cookbooks to Enjoy DESCRIPTION: (Register) Date and time: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:00 pm Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-05:00) Change time zone Program: Booklist Webinars Duration: 1 hour Description: Let’s talk about what’s for dinner. Or for breakfast and lunch, too. The amazing aspect of food—in addition to its importance and omnipresence in our lives—is that preparation techniques and presentation ideas are endless in variety. New recipes emerge every day, a situation that ensures cooks need not go stale and meals can be exciting time after time. Representatives from Perseus Books Group, Sterling Publishing, and Tuttle Publishing will treat webinar attendees to what’s new in their lively lineup of cookbooks. Moderated by Adult Books editor Brad Hooper. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/28/ring-the-dinner-bell-new-cookbooks-to-enjoy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120928T092225 LAST-MODIFIED:20120928T092225 UID:4924@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Graphic NovelsTuesday, October 9, 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM ET Join us for our fall graphic novel webcast! You’ll get a sneak peak at some of the great graphic novels hitting the shelves over the next few months and hear tips on how to share the exciting world of graphic novels with your patrons. Random House will discuss their upcoming titles from DC Comics, Del Ray, Archie Comics, and Kodansha: something for everyone. Hear more about Superman trying to get back in touch with the “normal” people, romantic hijinks staged by a devious novelist just so she can write about them, the real story of Steve Jobs’ failings as well as his successes, and what the best stories are from the epic 20-year history of Sonic the Hedgehog, the longest running comics series based on a videogame. And that’s just a few of the titles starring in this webcast. Register now! DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM ET Join us for our fall graphic novel webcast! You’ll get a sneak peak at some of the great graphic novels hitting the shelves over the next few months and hear tips on how to share the exciting world of graphic novels with your patrons. Random House will discuss their upcoming titles from DC Comics, Del Ray, Archie Comics, and Kodansha: something for everyone. Hear more about Superman trying to get back in touch with the “normal” people, romantic hijinks staged by a devious novelist just so she can write about them, the real story of Steve Jobs’ failings as well as his successes, and what the best stories are from the epic 20-year history of Sonic the Hedgehog, the longest running comics series based on a videogame. And that’s just a few of the titles starring in this webcast. Register now! LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/28/graphic-novelstuesday-october-9-2012-1200-100-pm-et-join-us-for-our-fall-graphic-novel-webcast-youll-get-a-sneak-peak-at-some-of-the-great-graphic-novels-hitting-the-shelves-over-the-ne/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120928T092039 LAST-MODIFIED:20120928T092135 UID:4921@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Tech Tools with Tine DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special series with technology trainer, Christine Walczyk, all about popular online tools. The series is meant to be short on talk about library context and higher concepts. It's really all about the tools themselves! Our aim is to demonstrate how to use one tool in each webinar in under 60 minutes with time for Q&A built in. Christine Walczyk is currently a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas in Library & Information Science as well as an independent technology/library consultant with Trainers-R-Us.. She has 10+ years in libraries and is a former software trainer. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/28/tech-tools-with-tine/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120928T090625 LAST-MODIFIED:20120928T090625 UID:4919@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Getting Boys to Read: Seeing Your Library Through a Guy’s Eyes DESCRIPTION:SPONSORED BY: ABDO Publishing and School Library Journal EVENT DATE AND TIME: Thursday, October 4, 2012, 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET/12:00 – 1:00 PM PT Register now! Ever help a guy find food in the refrigerator? In this fun and informative webinar, you’ll discover how some everyday observations – like that time you maybe helped a guy find the mayo that was right in the front of the fridge – are really vital clues for thinking about getting boys to read in your library. In addition to the fun, the serious side of the topic will be addressed, including why the gap between boys’ and girls’ reading levels is a major concern among health experts and educators, and why the vast majority of reluctant readers are boys. Attendees will learn some tips to promote and support genres that boys like, including comic books, graphic novels, sports, and nonfiction, as well as some ideas for creating reading role models and communities for boys grades K-12. If you want ways to get books in the hands of your guys – and take a different look at how we think about getting boys to read – this session will inspire you. Panelists include author and education writer Richard Whitmire and graphic novels reviewer and librarian M. Brandon Robbins. The webcast will feature information on the March 2010 Center on Education Policy report on the reading gap for boys, a “Comic Books & Literacy” research compilation, a white paper called “Football Literacy” on how sports have a greater reach than ever among young boys, and related research and materials. Panelists: Dan Verdick – Vice President of Marketing & Communications, ABDO Publishing Dan Verdick is an author and library speaker who has led sessions at dozens of district- and state-level meetings across the US, including the CSLA (California), FAME (Florida), Minneapolis Public Schools, Atlanta Public Schools, Dallas ISD, New York Public Schools, the AZLA, NVLA, and more. He’s been featured on the NBC Today Show and in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Dan is the Vice President of Marketing & Communications for educational publisher ABDO Publishing Group. He and his wife live in a suburb of Saint Paul with their two school-age readers. Richard Witmire – Author, The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great School (The College Board) Richard Whitmire, a veteran newspaper reporter and former editorial writer at USA Today, is the author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Education System That’s Leaving Them Behind (Amacom, 2010, now in paperback), and The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District (Jossey-Bass, 2011).  In June, 2012, his latest book, co-authored with Gaston Caperton, was released. Called The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools (The College Board), the book contains stories that provide hope for the future through specific lessons of educational success that can be replicated in schools across the country – featuring students, parents, educators, policy-makers and communities. His commentaries appear frequently in publications including The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Whitmire is a former president of the National Education Writers Association. Moderator: M. Brandon Robbins – Reference Librarian and Teen Service Coordinator, Wayne County Public Library (NC) M. Brandon Robbins is a Reference Librarian and Teen Services Coordinator at Wayne County Public Library in Goldsboro, NC. He reviews graphic novels for Library Journal, he also writes the Games, Gamers, and Gaming column for Library Journal. A lifelong fan of comic books and superheroes, Brandon also works at his friendly local comic shop, Heroes Are Here, and handles collection development for graphic novels at his library. Can’t make it on October 4 No problem! Register now and you will get an email reminder from School Library Journal post-live event when the webcast is archived and available for on-demand viewing at your convenience! Follow us on Twitter! @SLJEvent  #sljboysread By registering for this webcast, you are agreeing that School Library Journal may share your registration information with sponsors currently shown and future sponsors of this event. Click here to review the entire School Library Journal Privacy Policy. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/28/getting-boys-to-read-seeing-your-library-through-a-guys-eyes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T160109 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T160109 UID:4916@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Gale Virtual Reference Library DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012 Start Time: 10:00 am   End Time: 11:00 am (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Category: Product Training Description Register for Gale Virtual Reference Library Training Gale Virtual Reference Libraryis a database of electronic encyclopedias and specialized reference sources, also known as eBooks, for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). This web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Recognize the general content available in the database Construct and employ efficient search strategies for information retrieval Use results lists to examine different types of documents Examine navigational and search features of the user interface Search for, identify, and manage documents found within the database Differentiate between basic and advanced search modes Recognize how to use bookmarks and marked items as a way to manage and organize information found within the database Understand how to cross-search the eBooks with other databases in the libraries collectionThis web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=929994730 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/gale-virtual-reference-library-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T160001 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T160001 UID:4914@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What’s New for Storytimes DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM Presenter: : Penny Peck Is conducting storytime the favorite part of your job – but also the task in which you feel “burned out?” If so, this webinar will give you ideas to refresh your storytimes with new books to engage your audience. Whether you are relatively new or a longtime storytime presenter, everyone will take away storytime plans, booklists, and resources to revitalize this essential library program. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will know about: New books that contain a participation, cumulative, circular, creative dramatic, dialogic reading, or concept element New books that enhance preliteracy skills of print motivation and awareness, phonological awareness, vocabulary, narrative skills, and letter knowledge Websites and other resources for storytime planning, songs, fingerplays, and other storytime essentials Use of toys and play in storytime Arranging picture books by topic to increase parent use of the library This webinar will be of interest to staff at public or school libraries who conduct storytimes for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, or daycare or Kindergarten groups. Webinars are free of charge, you can pre-register by clicking on the Join Webinar button now or go directly to the webinar by clicking on Join Webinar on the day of the event on the Adobe Connect server. If you pre-registered you can use your email address and password you created to speed up entry to the webinar. If you did not preregister and you login with in 30 minutes of the event you can enter as a guest without a password. This webinar will be presented with Closed Captioning. On the day of the webinar you can see the closed captioning in the Adobe Connect caption pod.  Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/whats-new-for-storytimes-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T155827 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T155827 UID:4912@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Learn How to Learn Online DESCRIPTION:Ready, Set, Learn How to Learn Online! This course focuses on learning in the live, online, synchronous environment. It demystifies the technology for participants so they have a positive learning experience. The course includes activities that use synchronous collaboration tools like whiteboard, chat, audio, and breakout rooms. Synchronous learning ground rules are covered, as well as how participants can create the optimal environment for online learning. Participants will receive a job-aid/ reference document emphasizing the key objectives taught during the course. LHTLO is held twice per month. There is no cost to participate in this course. Program Objectives: On completion of this course, you will be able to... Use basic collaboration tools to participate in a synchronous learning environment. Identify the roles and responsibilities of learners in a synchronous learning experience. Setup your learning environment for success. Participate in a collaborative breakout room activity. Prerequisites Learn How To Learn Online is a prerequisite to all other InSync Certificate programs. Target Audience This course is targeted towards those who wish to actively participate in synchronous learning programs. Learn How to Learn Online is a prerequisite for all other InSync certificate programs. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/learn-how-to-learn-online-7/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T155601 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T155601 UID:4910@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What's New in Series Nonfiction: Fall 2012 DESCRIPTION: (Register) Date and time: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 1:00 pm Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-05:00) Change time zone Program: Booklist Webinars Duration: 1 hour Description: There’s so much going on in the world of series nonfiction we’re following our August “Scoop on Series Nonfiction” webinar with presentations from four more of the top publishers in this booming field: Crabtree Publishing Company, The Creative Company, Rosen Publishing, and Scholastic Library Publishing. Moderated by Booklist’s Books for Youth senior editor Daniel Kraus. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/whats-new-in-series-nonfiction-fall-2012/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T155426 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T155426 UID:4908@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Webinar Peeps Icon What are Businesses Supposed to do with Google+? DESCRIPTION:Tue, Oct 2 - 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST Google+ has been out for awhile now but it is still a bit confusing to many people and businesses. Now that Google places pages are Google+ Local pages and business pages are live, there is a lot businesses should be aware of on how this is affects them in the social media space AND the search space. We will talk about Google+ Local pages and the features of Google+ business pages. We will also look at examples of what some other businesses are doing with Google+ and at overall adoption of the social media site. Presented by Amanda O'Brien of Hall Internet Marketing   Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/webinar-peeps-icon-what-are-businesses-supposed-to-do-with-google/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T155252 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T155252 UID:4906@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Google+ and Host Google+ Hangouts DESCRIPTION:How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Google+ and Host Google+ Hangouts Tuesday, October 2, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT - Show in my Time Zone Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/how-nonprofits-can-successfully-use-google-and-host-google-hangouts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T155123 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T155123 UID:4904@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Your Common Core Secret Weapon with the Librarians in the Middle! DESCRIPTION:Your Common Core Secret Weapon October 1st at 8 pm Presented by The Librarians in the Middle Tamara Cox @coxtl Eliterate Librarian Kristen Hearne @khearne Librarian in the Middle Monique German @bibliogerman This Shelf Reserved Tamara, Monique, and Kristen are the “librarians in the middle”, representing the three middle schools in Anderson District One in South Carolina. The three of them are on a mission to read, click, and share their way to librarian leadership and advocacy. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/your-common-core-secret-weapon-with-the-librarians-in-the-middle/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T154816 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T154937 UID:4901@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:PowerSearch DESCRIPTION:Date: Monday, October 1, 2012 Start Time: 3:00 pm   End Time: 4:00 pm (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Category: Product Training Description   Register for PowerSearch Training Gale's newly enhanced PowerSearch platform is unlike any other, providing libraries with a sophisticated, yet simple, solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference and primary source information. PowerSearchprovides your patrons with access to all the Gale content in your library's collection through one, single search query. The result is that you maximize usage of your Gale databases while patrons enjoy the time saved through a streamlined common user interface that can be customized to match their skill level and habits. This web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the latest enhancements to the PowerSearch platform that were garnered from user and librarian feedback. Upon completion of this course, participants in the training session will understand the applications of the following new features available in the platform. New Homepage: Smart searching Named User functionality, allowing users to create profiles and save content Enhanced Search Results: Search within results; limit results by subject, publication, document type and date sliders Context-sensitive multimedia, including images, videos and podcasts Web 2.0 sharing functionality, including RSS Enhanced Advanced Searching: More limiting capabilities, including a controlled vocabulary browse that allows users to refine their searches with multiple subject terms Limit by publication, publication subject category, reading level and many more options This web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the latest enhancements to the PowerSearch platform that were garnered from user and librarian feedback. Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=927787406 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/powersearch/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T154306 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T154306 UID:4899@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Celebrate With Shannon Hale Live! DESCRIPTION:Monday, October 1, 2012,1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET It’s finally here—Princess Academy: Palace of Stone, sequel to the beloved Newbery-Honoree book, Princess Academy. Reunite with Miri and her friends as they share in the joys of friendship, the delight of young romance, and the fate of a fairy tale kingdom. Join Shannon Hale for a unique opportunity to celebrate with her during a live webcast from Brooklyn Friends School and a chance to ask her questions live! Sign up now—space is limited. We encourage you to set up an assembly so all of your kids, parents and teachers can watch. Register now! LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/celebrate-with-shannon-hale-live/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121011 DTEND:20121012 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120927T145542 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T145542 UID:4893@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Helping Homeschoolers in the Library: Part 1 DESCRIPTION:This is Part 1 of a two part webinar series. Register for one or both. Helping Homeschoolers in the Library, Part 1 More than one million children are being homeschooled in the United States today, and homeschoolers are an active and growing part of most libraries' communities. This workshop will focus on how and why people homeschool, with specific focus on the laws and support systems that apply to homeschoolers in Florida. After attending this webinar, participants will be able to: Identify and define major homeschooling philosophies. Locate the laws that apply to homeschoolers in Florida. Articulate typical daily and yearly schedules homeschoolers use. Virtual Trainer: Adrienne Furness, Head of Children's Services, Webster (NY) Public Library See also Part 2: October 18 LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/27/helping-homeschoolers-in-the-library-part-1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121026T100000 DTEND:20121026T130000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120926T130601 LAST-MODIFIED:20120926T130601 UID:4881@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:PLAN's Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Featured speaker: Monique Sendze, Associate Director of Information Technology, Douglas County Public Library (CO). Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:206 N Partin Dr, Niceville, FL, United States, 32578 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/26/plans-annual-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121129 DTEND:20121130 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120926T064030 LAST-MODIFIED:20120926T064030 UID:4878@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Session DESCRIPTION: Lyrasis' new Mass Digitization Collaborative offers members the opportunity to contribute materials to a regional mass digitization project. Lyrasis facilitates the process by selecting vendors and developing a collaborative collection development policy, guidelines, standards, and workflows. The Collaborative is funded by the Lyrasis membership and supported in part through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The full project was originally opened to all PALINET members in October 2008. Lyrasis members who are interested in learning more about Lyrasis' digitization collaborative. When registered, attendees will receive email containing login information to webinar within two weeks before event. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/26/mass-digitization-collaborative-information-session-11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120925T155350 LAST-MODIFIED:20120925T155350 UID:4875@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Energize your base: Tips and tools to raise awareness and build support for library services DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, November 14, 2012 ♦ 1 pm Eastern / 10 am Pacific ♦ 90 min Registration: http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/energize_your_base.html We know that libraries are a good investment but with tight budgets, we need to energize our base – to take action to connect more strongly with community members, to find out what excites them, and to let them know how libraries are changing lives – one connection at a time. Our panel will explore three vehicles that can help you increase awareness of library services: Library Videos – New videos from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that showcase work done in libraries which are transforming lives, by changing the way we connect. Geek the Library – A community awareness campaign offered free to libraries to help strengthen community connections and library support. Data Visualization – We collect lots of data. Learn how the Colorado State Library is helping local libraries use their data to tell a story about impact. Presented by: Karen Perry, Senior Program Officer, Global Libraries, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Jennifer Pearson, OCLC Senior Manager for Advocacy Programs; Jamie Hollier, Project Manager with PLA and Library Consultant; and Linda Hofschire, Research Analyst, Library Research Service, Colorado State Library.   LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/25/energize-your-base-tips-and-tools-to-raise-awareness-and-build-support-for-library-services/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120925T155047 LAST-MODIFIED:20120925T155047 UID:4873@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Freedom Rings in Philadelphia: community technology adoption DESCRIPTION:Thursday, October 25, 2012 ♦ 2 pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific ♦ 60 min Registration: http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/Freedom_Rings_in_Philadelphia_webinar.html The Freedom Rings Partnership is a digital inclusion initiative funded by Federal stimulus monies. We are bringing Internet access, computer assistance and digital opportunities to Philadelphians with the least access to broadband. Comprised of a coalition of grassroots organizations, government, and universities, we proudly count People’s Emergency Center and the Free Library of Philadelphia as Managing Partners in this city-wide effort. Extending beyond the library and traditional organizational walls, our public-computing centers—KEYSPOTS—are located in community organizations that have the trust of their constituents; technology access is a complimentary asset to their diverse missions. Learn how to develop sustainable partnerships and adapt this model to meet your community technology adoption needs.   Presented by: Jennifer Donsky, Public Services Technology Library Coordinator, The Free Library of Philadelphia; and Lorelei Shingledecker, Program Manager, Broadband Technology Opportunities Program at People's Emergency Center LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/25/freedom-rings-in-philadelphia-community-technology-adoption/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121107 DTEND:20121108 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120924T091512 LAST-MODIFIED:20120926T130900 UID:4869@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Grantseeking Basics DESCRIPTION:Gain an introduction to the world of foundation fundraising. Are you a representative of a nonprofit organization? Are you new to fundraising? Do you want to learn how the funding research process works, and what tools and resources are available? Learn how to become a better grantseeker! In this class we will cover: what you need to have in place before you seek a grant; the world of grantmakers; the grantseeking process; and available tools and resources. Skill: Finding Funders Foundation Fundraising LAUNCH EVENT LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/24/grantseeking-basics-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121011 DTEND:20121012 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120924T091202 LAST-MODIFIED:20120924T091202 UID:4867@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Set up Local Advocacy, Expand Your Campaign Reach DESCRIPTION: Interested in influencing local decision makers? An additional 56,000 local leaders have just been added to Salsa's advocacy database. Now you can write letters and affect change at the local level too, not just with state and national officials. Join us on this webinar as we walk you through the “how-to’s" of the workflow of the new database to target local officials. We'll also touch on how this new upgrade can expand your campaign's reach and leverage power in cities and towns of more than 10,000 people. Shawn Rahmani has been in the political technology field for over 8 years working as a Data Analyst and support engineer for organizations like the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and the United Nations Association. Originally from Florida, Shawn came to DC to work for organizations that instigate change. Shawn worked on the 2005 Virginia's governor’s election for Tim Kaine's campaign courtesy of Working America. He is an advocate for progressive organizations and truly believes in technology evoking change. Amanda Foster has been a supporter of progressive causes since 'voting' for Michael Dukakis in first grade. Years later, after internships in fundraising, working in field politics, and working for two Political Action Committees, she found her way to Salsa in July 2011 as a full time Account Manager. Amanda has just over 200 clients and loves working with such a diversity of groups, helping them take full advantage of their Salsa accounts. To launch this event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/24/set-up-local-advocacy-expand-your-campaign-reach/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121009 DTEND:20121010 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120924T091027 LAST-MODIFIED:20120924T091027 UID:4865@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Personal Gadgets and the Library DESCRIPTION: Personal electronics such as tablet computers, ebook readers, MP3 players, and more are now a common part of our information interactions in the library world. Customers are checking gadgets out from us, asking us for content that can be loaded on them, and at times just wishing that we could help them use them more effectively. This webinar will give a broad overview of personal electronics in libraries, focusing on iOS and Android based devices and their management, from both a user and staff perspective. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: •Understand abilities and limitations of both iOS (Apple) and Android systems •Have a set of tools to explore in management of both •Know where to go for help with personal electronics This webinar will be of interest to anyone that provides services in or around libraries, to either users of the library or to the staff of the library. To launch this event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/24/personal-gadgets-and-the-library/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121005 DTEND:20121006 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120924T090749 LAST-MODIFIED:20120924T090749 UID:4863@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Streamline Finances and Prevent Fraud with Cloud Computing DESCRIPTION: Are you struggling with financial reporting and analysis? Are excel driven manual processes draining your accounting team’s productivity? Learn how organizations like yours are streamlining their finances and preventing fraud by migrating to cloud-based solutions. Learn how cloud-based financial systems will: •Reduce overhead in your finance and IT department •Increase transparency and accountabililty •Protect your organization from fraud Plus, learn how you can evaluate the risks, benefits and ROI of cloud computing René Lacerte developed the concept for Bill.com in 2006,based on personal experience growing new businesses. Today, Bill.com has already helped over 100,000 businesses and non-profits pay and get paid for millions of bills worth billions of dollars. Vijay Ramakrishnan is Intacct’s Director of Product Marketing, where he helps organizations understand how they can tap into the power of the cloud to streamline financial management processes and gain new insights to drive business strategies. To launch this event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/24/how-to-streamline-finances-and-prevent-fraud-with-cloud-computing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121114 DTEND:20121115 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120924T090535 LAST-MODIFIED:20120924T090535 UID:4861@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:SWFLN Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION: Get a chance to celebrate another successful year as a network! Visit with your colleagues! Meet new members! Enjoy refreshments and beverages. As always, individuals considering membership to SWFLN are welcome and encouraged to participate! The annual meeting promises to be a terrific event with an engaging speaker, Ms. Angela Lane, author of the children’s book, “Mommy, There’s a Giraffe in my Room”. Ms. Lane will speak about her journey to children’s authordom! We hope you can join us for an informative and collegial afternoon. Afterwards, enjoy a tour of the newly expanded and renovated library at Hodges University’s Fort Myers campus! Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:4501 Colonial Boulevard, Fort Myers, FL, United States, 33912 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/24/swfln-annual-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121107 DTEND:20121108 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120924T090206 LAST-MODIFIED:20120924T090206 UID:4858@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Connected Company: Roadmap for Business Strategy DESCRIPTION: Leading your company in today’s complex, networked, global marketplace Social and mobile technologies are rapidly changing the business landscape. Every customer has a global publishing platform in their pocket or purse. Positive and negative word of mouth can cascade rapidly through social networks around the world. Social and mobile technologies are rapidly changing the business landscape. Every customer has a global publishing platform in their pocket or purse. Positive and negative word of mouth can cascade rapidly through social networks around the world. To keep pace with today’s connected customer, your company must become a connected company. That means deeply engaging with workers, partners, and customers, changing how work is done, how you measure success, and how performance is rewarded. It requires a new way of thinking about your company: less like a machine to be controlled, and more like a complex, dynamic system that can learn and adapt over time. The connected company is not a theory or an idea. The future of work is already here. By attending this webcast, you’ll discover how your company can use these principles to adapt—and thrive—in today’s ever-changing global marketplace. Dave Gray SVP Strategy, Dachis Group, is a management consultant, focused on innovation and change. He works with companies to spark breakthrough thinking, to find and clarify their greatest challenges and opportunities, and to design their way into the future. He spends his time researching, sketching, and writing on innovation, design, systems thinking, and creativity in business, as well as speaking, coaching and delivering workshops to educators, corporate clients and the public. He is also a founding member of VizThink, an international community of Visual Thinkers. He is coauthor of Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, and The Connected Company. For more information, follow his blog at: http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/ To launch this event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-connected-company-roadmap-for-business-strategy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121018 DTEND:20121019 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120924T090034 LAST-MODIFIED:20120924T090034 UID:4856@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Money Smart Week @ Your Library DESCRIPTION: Join us to learn how your library can be part of 'Money Smart Week @ your library,' a national initiative in its third year between the ALA and the Federal Reserve Bank (Chicago) to provide financial literacy programming to help members of your community better manage their personal finances. Libraries of all types can and do participate, providing programming for all ages and all stages of life on topics such as: basic budgeting; managing student debt; retirement planning; home purchasing; saving money through couponing; and how to prevent identity theft. Last year public, academic, school, and even prison libraries in 39 states participated. So mark your calendars to participate April 21-27, 2013 and join us on October 18th to learn about how easy it is to participate, programming ideas and tips from veterans and first-time participants, and partnership opportunities. To launch this event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/24/money-smart-week-your-library/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121101T130000 DTEND:20121101T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120922T102552 LAST-MODIFIED:20120522T102750 UID:4193@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Coaching for Teams: Fostering Alignment, Engagement and Teamwork DESCRIPTION: At a time when organizations are changing at a rapid pace, building alignment to foster teamwork is a critical component of effective coaching. Coaching is an essential ingredient to create positive, lasting results. Do you have the tools that you need to coach effectively? In this free webinar, Linkage Master Coach Roger Young will address how to: -coach teams and leaders using assessment and practical techniques -apply three proven tools to help you coach more effectively -build more engaged and motivated teams for greater results To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/22/coaching-for-teams-fostering-alignment-engagement-and-teamwork/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121114 DTEND:20121115 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120917T084529 LAST-MODIFIED:20120917T084529 UID:4854@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Guaranteed Simple Steps to Raise Planned Gifts DESCRIPTION:“Guaranteed Simple Steps to Raise Planned Gifts” is a breakout session that shares facts and action items for fundraisers to close more planned gifts easier and faster. It reveals how going after gifts that “anyone can make” – 85% of all planned gifts – is the most powerful strategy to grow your endowment during difficult times. Takeaways: How and what to learn from for-profits How to avoid killer mistakes How not to alienate prospects How not to squander limited budgets How to energize your career! And more…We also distribute free materials including a planned giving solicitation letter, our “planned gifts at a glance” cheat sheet, and a handy Donor Characteristics Table. Viken Mikaelian co-founded VirtualGiving.Com, the first company focused specifically on “Bringing Planned Giving to the Internet.” He is also the founder of Planned Giving.Com, a powerful online resource featuring top-quality, downloadable planned giving marketing content, tools and resources. He also publishes Planned Giving Tomorrow, a quarterly publication packed with planned giving marketing ideas for all fundraisers — not just planned giving executives. His major area of concentration for the past 19 years has been development communications, producing over 1600 publications for capital campaigns and planned giving programs. His former marketing firm’s portfolio includes numerous awards, including five from CASE. Viken’s unique ability to combine common-sense planned giving principles with today’s and tomorrow’s marketing tools and technology has made him a driving force in the gift-planning community. An inspiring and entertaining speaker, he has presented at over 220 planned giving councils, AFP and AHP chapters, foundations, and banks, including four presentations for the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning (PPP – formerly The National Committee on Planned Giving). A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Viken actually took pre-med courses and almost decided to become a doctor. Both the planned giving community and society at large are very thankful that he did not. VirtualGiving.Com offers industry-leading web-based planned giving marketing solutions, including three levels of personalized websites supported by integrated marketing tools. Planned Giving Websites – We tailor your website to fit your mission and your vision. Equipped with intuitive navigation, enhanced interactivity, compelling content, and robust functionality, VirtualGiving.Com sites set the industry standard. Direct Mail – Traditional planned giving newsletters are lost in the daily tsunami of unsolicited direct mail. Your message is getting drowned out and washed away. In this challenging environment, our forward-looking solutions get results. Display Ads – Let our award-winning designers and marketing experts help you get your message across with compelling display advertising for your institutional publications. Planned Giving Marketing Toolkits – Developed by PlannedGiving.Com, these toolkits deliver a start-to-finish marketing campaign for the gifts you most want to promote. PlannedGiving.Com, a powerful online resource featuring top-quality, downloadable planned giving marketing content, tools and resources. He also publishes Planned Giving Tomorrow, a quarterly publication packed with planned giving marketing ideas for all fundraisers — not just planned giving executives. Recent initiatives include the founding of PlannedGivingMarketing.Com, which delivers complete, full-service, broad-spectrum marketing solutions to nonprofits that want results. To launch this event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/17/guaranteed-simple-steps-to-raise-planned-gifts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121113 DTEND:20121114 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120917T083735 LAST-MODIFIED:20120917T083735 UID:4852@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Extreme Social Media Makeover: Nonprofit Edition! DESCRIPTION: During this life-changing session, we’ll not just talk, but actually DO a mind-blowing demonstration of at least 25 killer tools to get tons of online traffic and revenue for your nonprofit. They are virtually all quick and easy (they better be or there’s no way we’ll get through them all!) and free. See how to instantly transform your nonprofit into a powerhouse! “Content is king!” That’s the key to success on the web today. To remain relevant, you must create dynamic, compelling content. This can not only drive far more online visitors your way, but entice them to do all kinds of things you want them to do: stay on your site, return to your site, donate and support you in other ways, and refer your organization to their friends and family – initiating exactly the sort of viral marketing that can exponentially expand your fundraising and other outreach efforts. We’ll explore how to decide which content to create, how to create it (even without typing a single keystroke!), create eye-catching headlines, post your content to blogs, social media, and websites, tweet about it, Facebook, develop irresistible free offers, create landing pages for people to sign up for those offers, use search engines to drive boost traffic, launch campaigns to gain more leads and increase the quality of those leads, and much more! For each of the 25+ steps, we’ll discuss what to do, why to do it, and what tangible and intangible benefits you should expect. More importantly, for each step we’ll actually demo a cool tool enabling you to quickly, easily, and in most cases for free, implement that tool. Each tool may blow your mind. Altogether… well, you might want to wear a hat! Takeaways: Master the right language for: -Understand how social media can help them raise more money, drive more traffic, and produce other desirable outcomes -Identify specific social media tools to achieve these objectives -Know how they can implement and exploit each of these tools easily and without technical skills Allan Pressel is founder/CEO of PowerSite123 (formerly CharityFinders), which helps nonprofits and for-profits create world-class websites, social media, and online marketing to further their mission. PowerSite123’s unique technology enables any organization to have its own powerful website quickly, affordably, and with no technical skills required. Allan has done thousands of presentations for the nonprofit and business community worldwide, almost always to rave reviews. Allan has been designated as one of the world’s leading e-philanthropy speakers. Allan is the co-author of Internet Management for Nonprofits. He was given the Volunteer Service Award by President George W. Bush. Previously, Allan was co-founder of i-Cube, which had a highly successful IPO, and was later acquired by Razorfish. i-Cube helped large corporations through software/web development. Prior to founding i-Cube, Allan was a technology strategy consultant at Arthur Anderson and First Consulting Group. Allan holds an M.B.A from UCLA, and is an All-American springboard diver. Powersite123 helps small- to mid-sized organizations create beautiful, interactive websites integrated with marketing programs to: – Help drive traffic – Convert leads – Generate revenue Now you can have access to powerful functionality, such as the ability to collect funds securely within your site (not on a 3rd party site!), build a database of constituents, facilitate search engine optimization, sell products, register people for events, and manage your own content. By providing your constituents with lots to see and lots to do, your website and marketing can make you money, not just cost money. To launch this event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/17/extreme-social-media-makeover-nonprofit-edition/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121106 DTEND:20121107 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120917T083613 LAST-MODIFIED:20120917T083613 UID:4850@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Keys to Successful Nonprofit Blogging that Drives Engagement DESCRIPTION:If you have a blog, do you wonder why you don’t have more readers? If you don’t have one yet, have you considered what a blog might do to help you create greater awareness for your cause? This webinar will help you understand what folks are looking for, and how you can deliver. Plus, we’ll discuss ways to drive more traffic and create greater engagement with your posts. Takeaways: Master the right language for: -Little-Understood Factors that Could Affect Your Blog Readership -How to Build a Blog Worth Sharing -Why Your Blog Promotion Strategy Sucks, and How to Fix It Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE has 30 years of frontline development and marketing leadership experience working for arts, education, health/social services and community organizations in all aspects of resource development, strategic fundraising planning, marketing communications and strengthening boards and volunteers. Named by AFP/GGC as the “Outstanding Fundraising Professional of the Year” in 2010, her passion is instilling an institution-wide culture of philanthropy to further the vision, mission and values of the organization in service to the community. She participates in mentor programs and teaches in such areas as development/marketing integration; nonprofit management; strategic planning; board development; legacy development; major gift stewardship; annual giving donor identification and cultivation; succeeding with special events and engaging supporters in giving conversations. Axelrad Social Benefit Consulting specializes in nonprofit management, marketing and fundraising consultation: (1) Assessing challenges; (2) Creating strategic plans with an eye to increasing revenues and efficiencies; (3) Assuring plan implementation in a manner that amplifies effectiveness; (4) Nurturing innovation and growth, and (5) Building successful teams through hiring, mentoring, coaching, teaching and engaging internal/external stakeholders. Areas of focus include constituent centered service, strengthening individual, business and foundation partnerships; generation of new sources of revenue; cost savings; integration of marketing across multiple channels; creation of supportive infrastructures to improve efficiency, and outcome evaluation. To launch event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/17/the-keys-to-successful-nonprofit-blogging-that-drives-engagement/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121024 DTEND:20121025 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120917T072115 LAST-MODIFIED:20120917T072115 UID:4848@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Your Government Online: Independent Federal Government Agencies DESCRIPTION: In our third episode, we'll tour some of the many Web sites of independent federal government agencies. In our first session (on August 22) we covered the President's cabinet. The second session (September 19) covered the Executive Office of the President, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch. To launch this event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/17/your-government-online-independent-federal-government-agencies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121031 DTEND:20121101 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120914T122244 LAST-MODIFIED:20120914T122244 UID:4846@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Using Blogs as Informational and Marketing Tools (Session Two of Two) DESCRIPTION: THIS EVENT IS THE SECOND OF TWO SESSIONS ON OCTOBER 31, 2012. Please see the link below to register for the morning session. Blogging has exploded onto the library scene in the past three years. A blog provides a timely communication tool for you to communicate with people at many levels. Use it for program announcements, new additions to the collection, and book reviews (to name just a few applications). This face-to-face workshop will introduce you to blogs and will address how they can be used to inform and educate your library community. This session builds on the Introduction to Library Blogs session presented in the morning. Blog themes, structures, and contents will be discussed. Attendees will create a Blogger account and begin to create a library blog. Best practices will be discussed and demonstrated. Sign up for one or both of these sessions, depending on your level of expertise with the subject. George G. Morgan is president of Aha! Seminars, Inc. He was a key training manager for Sears, Roebuck, Co., in the 1980s. He spearheaded the development of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) implementation program for Montgomery Ward & Co. and then for Sears, Roebuck & Co. He also managed the development of an award-winning PC-based EDI software package while with Sears Technology Services, Inc., coordinated the construction of two state-of-the-art training facilities, and developed the training program to support a roll-out of the software to over 600 of Sears' smaller suppliers. George worked for Advantis, a subsidiary of IBM, coordinating development and production of over 60 training sessions for its annual customer conferences, attended by between 1,500 to 2,000 of IBM's and Advantis' largest customers. These sessions spanned a broad spectrum of mainframe, mid-range, and microcomputer applications including the Internet and email, network communication technologies such as dial, leased line, ATM, ISDN, DOV, and LAN gateway, and customers' applications using the IBM network, its products, and services. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:21100 Three Oaks Parkway, Estero, FL, United States, 33928 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/14/using-blogs-as-informational-and-marketing-tools-session-two-of-two/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121031 DTEND:20121101 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120914T122113 LAST-MODIFIED:20120914T122113 UID:4844@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Using Blogs as Informational and Marketing Tools (Session One of Two) DESCRIPTION: THIS EVENT IS THE FIRST OF TWO SESSIONS ON OCTOBER 31, 2012. Please see the link below to register for the afternoon session. Blogging has exploded onto the library scene in the past three years. A blog provides a timely communication tool for you to communicate with people at many levels. Use it for program announcements, new additions to the collection, and book reviews (to name just a few applications). This face-to-face workshop will introduce you to blogs and will address how they can be used to inform and educate your library community. In the first part of Session One, Mr. Morgan will introduce you to blogs and will address how they can be used to inform and educate your library community. Afterwards during Session One, how to effectively select the audiences you want to reach and the areas you want to promote will be discussed. That will influence the theme(s) of your blog(s) and how you can market to your audiences. Examples of great library blogs will be introduced and discussed. George G. Morgan is president of Aha! Seminars, Inc. He was a key training manager for Sears, Roebuck, Co., in the 1980s. He spearheaded the development of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) implementation program for Montgomery Ward & Co. and then for Sears, Roebuck & Co. He also managed the development of an award-winning PC-based EDI software package while with Sears Technology Services, Inc., coordinated the construction of two state-of-the-art training facilities, and developed the training program to support a roll-out of the software to over 600 of Sears' smaller suppliers. George worked for Advantis, a subsidiary of IBM, coordinating development and production of over 60 training sessions for its annual customer conferences, attended by between 1,500 to 2,000 of IBM's and Advantis' largest customers. These sessions spanned a broad spectrum of mainframe, mid-range, and microcomputer applications including the Internet and email, network communication technologies such as dial, leased line, ATM, ISDN, DOV, and LAN gateway, and customers' applications using the IBM network, its products, and services. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:21100 Three Oaks Parkway, Estero, FL, United States, 33928 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/14/using-blogs-as-informational-and-marketing-tools-session-one-of-two/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121212 DTEND:20121213 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120914T121851 LAST-MODIFIED:20120914T121851 UID:4841@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Perfect Phrases for Fundraising DESCRIPTION: In this webinar, Dr. Beverly A. Browning, author of Perfect Phrases for Fundraising will discuss how to use THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIME. Using precise language in a fundraising campaign is an absolute must. The words you choose can make the difference between having your appeal read . . . or tossed. Learn how to craft a message that recipients will read and respond to. The author will share her time-saving tips, message-crafting strategies and ready-to-use phrases for getting results in any campaign. Takeaways: Master the right language for: -Telephone soliciting -YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter -One-on-one meetings -Board of director appeals -Organization website campaigns Michigan native and current Arizona resident, Dr. Beverly A. Browning, has been consulting in the areas of grant writing, contract bid responses, and organizational development for nearly four decades. Her clients have included career, volunteer and combination fire departments; chambers of commerce, faith-based organizations, and units of local and county municipal governments; state and federal government agencies, school districts and colleges, charter schools, social and human service agencies, hospitals, service associations, and Fortune 500 corporations. Dr. Browning has assisted clients and workshop participants throughout the United States in receiving awards of more than $350 million. Dr. Browning is the author of 40 grants-related publications, including Grant Writing For Dummies™ (Wiley.com); Grant Writing for Educators (Solution-Tree.com; How to Become a Grant Writing Consultant and Faith-Based Grants: Aligning Your Church to Receive Abundance (www.bevbrowning.com); Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals and Perfect Phrases for Fundraising (McGraw-Hill.com), and Rule of Thumb: A Guide to Small Business Sustainability (Rule-of-Thumb.biz). She holds degrees in Organizational Development, Public Administration, and Business Administration. Dr. Browning is a grant writing course developer and online facilitator for Ed2Go.com. Her online courses (taught to thousands of students annually on www.ed2go.com) are Advanced Proposal Writing and Becoming a Grant Writing Consultant. Dr. Browning is a current member of the Grant Professionals Association. She is CEO of Bev Browning & Associates (BBA, Inc.); Founder and Director of the Grant Writing Training Foundation, and the Vice President for Grants Professional Services at eCivis Inc. (www.ecivis.com). eCivis, Inc.’s Grants Network is the nation’s leading grants management and service solution. Founded in 2000 and based in Pasadena, California, eCivis has contracted with units of government nationwide to connect them to critically needed grant-related information, services, and products. Contract awards have exceeded $10 million annually for the past five years. Our analysts, each specializing in a particular funding area, conduct more than 40,000 hours of research every year to produce the comprehensive Grants Network: Research online database. Grants Network: KnowledgeBase delivers content from subject matter experts within both eCivis and the grants community. When clients have questions, eCivis promptly delivers answers through its full-service team of customer service associates. In 2011, eCivis formed a new entity, Grants Professional Services (GPS), under the leadership of Dr. Beverly A. Browning (www.bevbrowning.com), a national grants consultant. GPS was created to meet the needs of existing and future eCivis clients. Valuable cost-effective services available include: grant writing, mock peer review, grant office coordination, evaluation, and grant-related and capacity building training. To launch event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/14/perfect-phrases-for-fundraising/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121001 DTEND:20121002 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120914T121045 LAST-MODIFIED:20120914T121045 UID:4839@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Understand Millennials: Insights into Their College Selection Process DESCRIPTION: During this webcast, TRU experts, Deborah Maue and Erik Medina will discuss the insights at the heart of The TRU Enrollment Insights Program and how these insights can help guide colleges and universities in speaking more resonantly to today’s high-school and college students. Questions to be covered will include: What social-media tactics should you invest in right now? Where, when, and how can you influence prospective students the best? Are you targeting communications to high school seniors? The TRU Enrollment Insights Program answers these key questions and many more. The Program is supported by a large, nationally representative sample of college-bound high-school students and current college students. TRU adds the expertise, connecting the data to your institution’s unique issues, concerns, and challenges. Deborah Maue, Vice President, TRU Deborah leads TRU’s new higher education practice, developing syndicated and custom programs. Building on TRU’s legacy, she identifies the needs and values that characterize today’s teens and college students, to help higher ed institutions understand how to better attract and communicate with prospective and current students. Prior to joining TRU, Deborah spent seven years at DePaul University, where she led the strategic marketing efforts to prospective students. She oversaw the development of DePaul’s brand, strategic marketing plan development, social media and the identification of new academic programs. Before DePaul, Deborah spent 15 years in marketing at Helene Curtis/Unilever, Schering-Plough Healthcare Products, and Constellation Management Group, where she had many different roles on large brands like Suave and Dove. Deborah received a B.S. in Marketing from Juniata College in Pennsylvanian and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. Erik Medina, Vice President, TRU As VP of Strategy for TRU’s higher-ed practice area Erik’s chief role is to build marketing and sales strategies that pair TRU’s unparalleled knowledge of the youth market with higher ed professionals looking to recruit the next generation of college-bound students. Over Erik’s 19-year career, he has proven his acumen in sales, brand, product, and career management in consumer packaged goods (Gatorade), technology (Microsoft), and education (Indiana University). Prior to joining TRU, Erik was at his alma mater, Indiana University, where he was the Director of Graduate Career Services. In that role he was instrumental in bringing innovation, expertise and strategy to the operation. He co-developed a program, Me, Inc., which fundamentally changed the delivery of career management and positively impacted the culture of the school. Erik received his B.A. in Communication from Michigan State University and earned his MBA in Marketing from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. To launch this event, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/14/understand-millennials-insights-into-their-college-selection-process/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121115T100000 DTEND:20121115T230000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120914T092006 LAST-MODIFIED:20120914T092006 UID:4834@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Media Etiquette (Live Online) DESCRIPTION:Social Media Etiquette (aka How to keep your fans and followers once you've made them!) Your library has made the decision to create a social media presence. You've put your library out there, and are ecstatic to be gaining fans and followers. . .now make sure you keep them. In this presentation you will learn the Dos and Donts of Social Media Etiquette. Instructor: Jackie Papke Nov. 15, 2012 10:00 - 11:00 am CT Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/14/social-media-etiquette-live-online/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121107T130000 DTEND:20121107T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120914T091634 LAST-MODIFIED:20120914T091634 UID:4828@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:RDA for Non-Catalogers (Live Online -PLAN) DESCRIPTION:For years, AACR2 has been the cataloging standard for libraries. On or soon after March 31, 2013 the Library of Congress will begin to create records for newly-cataloged material according to RDA.This will influence many other libraries to follow their lead. This two-hour, live online class will offer an introduction to RDA, including the principles of FRBR, for those who do not routinely create bibliographic records in the cataloging environment, but need to understand, interpret, search, and teach about bibliographic records in the catalog. Learning Outcomes •Define the FRBR concepts that underlie RDA •Understand the background and history of the change from AACR2 to RDA •Understand the basic organization, terminology, and structure of RDA •Interpret changes to MARC bibliographic records from AACR2 to RDA Nov. 7, 2012 1:00 - 3:00 pm CT Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/14/rda-for-non-catalogers-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121029T130000 DTEND:20121029T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120914T091315 LAST-MODIFIED:20120914T091315 UID:4822@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Born Digital: Cataloging Items on the Web (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:The ever-increasing popularity of the Internet has made librarians' participation in cataloging online resources crucial. In this 2 hour live online class, we'll introduce the cataloging process and use lecture, demonstration, discussion and hands-on practice to teach descriptive cataloging of resources born digital. Resources discussed will be those born digital such as websites, pdfs and others. Tips on searching for records in OCLC, copy cataloging, choosing the right format and cataloging policy issues are also covered. Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of the MARC format and OCLC cataloging system. Familiarity with basic principles of cataloging, including chapters 1, 9, and 12 of AACR2. Oct. 29, 2012 1:00 - 3:00 pm CT Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/14/born-digital-cataloging-items-on-the-web-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121016T130000 DTEND:20121016T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120914T090905 LAST-MODIFIED:20120914T090905 UID:4817@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Media Policies and Your Library (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Why Your Library Needs a Social Media Policy Social Media opens the doors to market your library like never before (and its FREE!). Before jumping in, there are factors that need to be considered. This presentation covers why your organization should have a Social Media Policy in place including: The Florida Sunshine Law, your libraries relationship with the powers that be (governing authority), guidelines for staff interaction with patrons in an online environment, and more. Instructor: Jackie Papke is a former librarian and degreed teacher with a passion for people + information + technology. Teaching technology allows her to connect all three at once. While in her former position as a Reference Librarian and Webmaster for the Northwest Regional Library System, Jackie co-wrote the first Social Media Policy for the system, managed the Bay County Public Library Facebook Page (proudly doubling the fans!), and taught both peers and patrons. Oct. 16 2012 1:00 - 2:00 pm CT Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/14/social-media-policies-and-your-library-live-online-plan-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121212 DTEND:20121213 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120912T064131 LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T064131 UID:4814@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Enticing Children to Books, Reading, and Libraries DESCRIPTION: Being a reader is more than having the ability to decode words. It is the desire to read for fun and enjoyment -- and the desire to become a lifelong reader, learner, and library user. If you are looking for ways to make your programs fun for you and your participants, then this is the workshop for you. Find out how to incorporate literacy skills into storytimes and leave children and their parents and caregivers with the desire to become lifelong readers, learners, and library users. During this interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to methods, tricks, and tips to introduce books and recreational reading activities that work in the public library, classroom, media center, and at home. Find out how you can help entice children to books and reading and turn reluctant readers into enthusiastic and excited readers. Fiore will introduce books and materials for children from through upper elementary grades. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to create an age/grade appropriate presentation that they can take back to their library/classroom. Participants are sure to leave with lots of program ideas. Carole D. Fiore holds a B.S. in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from Temple University and an M.S. in Library Science from Drexel University. She has worked in both school and public libraries in Philadelphia and in various locations in Florida. In 2006, she retired from the State Library and Archives of Florida where she was a public library consultant and directed the award-winning Florida Library Youth Program (FLYP). After retiring from the State Library, she opened her own independent consulting firm, Training and Library Consulting, and has expanded her areas of consulting. Under her direction, Florida was the first state to implement a statewide Born to Read program; she was also instrumental in initiating the PRIME TIME Family Reading Time® in Florida. She has served as a visiting instructor at the School of Library and Information Studies, Florida State University, and has taught children's literature at the College of Education, University of Tampa (Florida). Carole was a faculty member for the 1999 Highlights Foundation Writers Workshop at Chautauqua. Since opening Training and Library Consulting, Fiore has worked with public libraries and related organizations in Florida and across the nation. In addition to facilitating several long range planning processes, Fiore has worked with libraries to develop building programs and revamp, redesign, and revitalize existing facilities. Fiore has served as the project manager for a three-year federally funded research project based at Dominican University. Report of this research was published in 2010 along with several journal articles on this research project. Fiore, active in local, state, and national library and youth-serving organizations, is a former member of the board of directors of the Association for Library Service to Children (a division of the American Library Association) and has served that organization as a member of numerous committees, including the 1986 Newbery Award Committee and the 1993 Caldecott Committee, first Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Committee, and was president of ALSC 2001-2002; Carole was chair of the 2012 Theodore Seuss Geisel Award Committee. Carole has served on the Florida Starting Points Steering Committee and the Booklist Editorial Advisory Board and has contributed articles professional to journals such as School Library Journal, Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, and Wilson Library Bulletin. Carole is a "Serving the Underserved" trainer for the Young Adult Library Services Association and one of six nationally recognized trainers for the Public Library Association’s Planning for Results project. She also consults for several publishers providing advice on publishing concerns and is a founding member of Partners in Literacy at WFSU in Tallahassee, FL. She frequently facilitates and leads workshops and lectures throughout the United States and in England on many aspects of public library service and family and emergent literacy. In her spare time, she enjoys gourmet cooking, traveling, needlework, and, of course, reading. Pleae register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:519 Chiquita Boulevard North, Cape Coral, FL, United States, 33993 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/12/enticing-children-to-books-reading-and-libraries/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120917 DTEND:20120918 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120910T072111 LAST-MODIFIED:20120910T072111 UID:4812@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Microsoft Office Private Cloud Access DESCRIPTION: Discover how Microsoft Clouds services and products will provide you ways to work and collaborate – from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. This will include storage strategies, Microsoft Office System for productivity and insight into what cloud services mean to the typical user of PCs. This will be demonstrated using, Microsoft Word, Microsoft SkyDrive (Microsoft Live), Office365 and other Cloud implementations. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/10/microsoft-office-private-cloud-access/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121031 DTEND:20121101 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120907T065105 LAST-MODIFIED:20120907T065105 UID:4810@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Improving the Performance of Government Employees DESCRIPTION: Overview Motivate Your Employees to Achieve Tangible Results Getting the most out of employees in government offices is one of the legendary challenges. With an emphasis, it seems, on protocols and processes rather than on results, government offices have often been regarded as bastions of mediocrity, havens for substandard performers, and places where rule number one is cover your…self. Fortunately, there are strategies you can use to help recruit, train, retain, motivate, and reward excellent employees, along with holding them accountable for their department’s successes and failures. What You Will Learn Based upon the presenter’s 37 years as an employee, supervisor, senior executive, author, teacher and consultant to government, this presentation will show: •How to set up an integrated system of performance management •How to write effective performance standards •How to effectively track, display and share performance information •How and when to give feedback •How to deal with poor performers and reward outstanding ones •How to establish a performance-driven culture Stewart Liff is a recognized consultant, speaker and teacher, and author of five books, including Managing Government Employees, The Complete Guide to Hiring and Firing Government Employees and Improving the Performance of Government Employees. Liff's work has been featured in Government Executive Magazine, VA’s Vanguard Magazine and ASTD’s Public Manager. He also writes a regular column at http://www.ohmygov.com/ entitled Stewart Liff on Organizational Excellence. For more information, visit: www.stewartliff.com. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/07/improving-the-performance-of-government-employees/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120927 DTEND:20120928 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120905T073110 LAST-MODIFIED:20120905T073110 UID:4808@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Mobile Revolution and Libraries: An Overview DESCRIPTION:Series: The Mobile Revolution and Libraries 1st of 4 The mobile revolution – the use of mobile devices to access information, communication, and entertainment networks and services from many locations – is one of the fastest, most pervasive technological revolutions in the history of humankind. The pace of change, the plethora of devices and new versions, the battle for operating system supremacy, and the app explosion have resulted in a dizzying matrix of problems, challenges, and opportunities for libraries and staff. To manage and strive in this revolution what strategies are best for your library and your customers, now and into the foreseeable future? Libraries are striving to respond in thoughtful, efficient ways to the use of personal portable devices in physical libraries as well as providing access to library content, services, and systems for customers on the go in various locations. The mobile revolution demands active discussion, earnest thought, thoughtful play, careful but accelerated planning, and determined action by libraries. At the end of this one-hour webinar, the first of a four-part series, participants will: •Better understand the types of mobile devices, operating systems, and networks available •Know the four essential activities conducted on mobile devices •Have explored how the mobile revolution is both the apotheosis of the “library without walls” movement as well as a revitalizing challenge for bricks and mortar libraries •Assess the services libraries can offer on mobile devices •Identify at least three ways libraries can influence publishers of mobile content In the first of our four-part series, this webinar will be of interest to library staff on all levels from all types of libraries, especially public services and information technology library workers, as well as middle and senior management. To launch this event simply click on link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/05/the-mobile-revolution-and-libraries-an-overview/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121004 DTEND:20121005 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120903T120451 LAST-MODIFIED:20120803T120632 UID:4616@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Legal Research Resources: Great Legal Reference & Referral in the Public Library DESCRIPTION: PLEASE NOTE: This webinar is California-centric and intended for public library staff. Legal Research Resources Series: 1 of 4 •Do I really have to dissect frogs in my biology class? •I found an expired gift card with value on it. Can I legally buy stuff with it? •When can I get my apartment deposit back? •What can I do about my neighbor’s tree limb hanging over my garage? And… •How can I learn to find the answers for myself? Helping library customers understand legal resources can be both daunting and rewarding. The idea of public access to legal information is becoming more prevalent, with library staff participating in a trend that identifies the public library, with its neutral and safe environment, trained staffers, convenient location and free computer access to the Internet as the ideal place to find the information people need. This webinar will prepare you to act as a compass and guide to point your users in the right direction for gaining a better understanding of the legal system and how to navigate it successfully. You will also learn when to answer questions, when to teach users to find their answers, and when and where to refer them for additional help. At the end of this one-hour webinar, attendees will: •Have a set of best practices for assisting the public with their legal questions and without fear of liability •Know how laws, regulations and opinions produced by the three branches of government impact our individual rights and obligations as citizens •Be able to comfortably direct users to free or low cost attorney referral services, legal service and government agencies, forms and handbooks •Develop a familiarity with common legal terms users come across when navigating the legal system •Understand the various types and key elements differentiating self-help legal resources available on the Internet and in public law libraries. This webinar will be of interest to Public library staff who provide front line reference desk service and library students who are curious about a career in law librarianship. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/03/legal-research-resources-great-legal-reference-referral-in-the-public-library/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121017 DTEND:20121018 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120901T091704 LAST-MODIFIED:20120801T091941 UID:4586@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Actively Managing Conflict and Negativity in the Workplace DESCRIPTION: Work can be hard sometimes. It’s even harder when you have to deal with conflict and negativity from your fellow employees (and how’s your attitude been lately?). Just as kryptonite saps Superman of all his superpowers, "toxic employees" can sap the energy right out of the workplace. These toxic employees - true to the name - can poison the business atmosphere where you work, and can make it difficult, if not impossible, to work effectively. The toxicity is insidious, and can drag everyone into an abyss of low morale, negative emotions, and decreased productivity. This workshop will help you recognize the characteristics of toxicity and negativity – and offer over a dozen specific ideas and action steps for managing conflict, dealing with inappropriate and intimidating behavior, and developing more productive relationships through the positive use of “negativity relievers”. Program Outline (The Map is Not the Territory): I. Conflict Overview: Getting on the Carousel A. What is Your Organization’s Strategy for Managing Conflict? B. Key Questions: A Model for Framing Conflict C. Listening as a Key Building Block D. Six Parts of the Conflict Structure E. The Rope Exercise and the Conflict Quiz II. What is Intimidating or Inappropriate Behavior? A. Supportive Work Environments – Some Guidelines B. Workplace Bullying Quiz C. The Defective Pressure Cooker Syndrome D. A Lesson from Dr. Seuss E. Emotional Intelligence and the ABCDE Model for Behavior Change III. Skills for “Framing” Negativity, Toxicity, and Conflict A. The A.R.S.E. B. Working with Toxic Employees (Beyond the Negative!) C. A Lesson from Dr. Seuss D. Positive Sentiment Override vs. Negative Sentiment Override E. The Four Horsemen of Negative Emotions IV. Positive Ways to Deal w/ Negative People A. Psychological Jiu Jitsu and “I” Messages B. Management vs. Resolution C. Situations and Behaviors vs. Personalities and Adjectives D. Fight vs. Flight and Facts vs. Frame E. Workplace Case Studies V. Solving Problems and Taking Action A. How’s Your G.R.I.T.? B. Seven Steps to Solving Problems C. 65 Good Ideas D. Are You Going to Abilene? E. Keep Smiling The program is highly interactive in nature, and attendees will participate in a number of “hands-on” activities throughout the day. They will also leave the program with several specific action items that can be carried forward in their personal and professional lives. Presenter: Robert K. Bitting, Ph.D., L.M.H.C. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/01/actively-managing-conflict-and-negativity-in-the-workplace/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121010 DTEND:20121011 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120901T091453 LAST-MODIFIED:20120801T163211 UID:4584@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Command Spanish for Library Staff DESCRIPTION:Learn phrases and key words that can help you communicate more effectively/easily with students, parents, and community members whose primary language is Spanish. Leave with a handbook for practice later……and have fun! Presenter: Luly Castro, SWFLN Director Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:461 N. Main Street, LaBelle, FL, United States, 33935 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/09/01/command-spanish-for-library-staff/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121212T130000 DTEND:20121212T143000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T170643 LAST-MODIFIED:20120720T082429 UID:3553@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Polite Debate Society DESCRIPTION:When you conjure up an image of a librarian in your mind, is a cage match scenario ever included? It should be. Libraries are facing tough issues and librarians are not afraid to takes sides. Join LYRASIS Regional Directors and invited guests as they discuss and debate the hot topics that are engaging the library profession today. This quarterly webinar series will endeavor to explore the opposing viewpoints present in some of the more contentious issues facing our library communities. Topics could include: Academic publishing E-books- buy or lease Open Access vs. Privacy H.R. 3699 Funded or underfunded Mandates and sustainability Moving patron data to the cloud When registered, attendees will receive email containing login information to webinar within two weeks before event. Please register at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/polite-debate-society/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121026 DTEND:20121027 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T133911 LAST-MODIFIED:20120926T100156 UID:4806@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Finding Resources to Support Library Programing DESCRIPTION: Using the tools available through the Florida Electronic Library and Gale Cengage Learning, this one hour webinar will show you how to locate resources specifically for popular library programs like Black History Month and holidays like Halloween and Christmas. Book and periodical titles available to Florida residents that relate to these programs will be discussed as well as strategies for easily getting these tools to patrons and students. Attendance certificates can be provided. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/finding-resources-to-support-library-programing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121116 DTEND:20121117 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T133714 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T133714 UID:4804@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Tell the Story of Your Library's Impact DESCRIPTION: No matter where you are or what type of library you work in, you are faced with budget cuts and even closures. You need to prove the impact your library has on your patrons, students and community. This one hour webinar will help you prove your library’s value and impact by learning to gather the right kind of library stories. These stories you can use when reporting on the library to the news media, when asking for additional budgets from local and state governments and when applying for grants. Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google. Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious. Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops: •“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.” •“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.” •“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.” For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale. To launch this event to the SWFLN Cengage Platform, simple click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/how-to-tell-the-story-of-your-librarys-impact/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121018 DTEND:20121019 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T133511 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T133511 UID:4802@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 7 – Original Cataloging DESCRIPTION: This web-based course explains OCLC standards for original bibliographic records in WorldCat, and provides instruction on techniques for creating these records in Connexion Browser. This course does not cover AACR2 or other cataloging rules, MARC, subject headings, or authority control. This course is intended for learners who are familiar with current cataloging rules (such as AACR2 and LC Rule Interpretations) and MARC, and are comfortable with using Connexion Browser to search WorldCat, navigate through search results, and do basic editing. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who have created original bibliographic records in their local catalog but have not yet contributed records to WorldCat, and to technical services managers who oversee original cataloging operations. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Please note, that to access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/connexion-browser-module-7-original-cataloging/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121010 DTEND:20121011 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T133337 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T133337 UID:4800@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Copy Cataloging with CatExpress DESCRIPTION: This live online course provides instruction on copy cataloging using the CatExpress interface. This course covers the copy cataloging workflow including searching, holdings maintenance, exporting and downloading records. After completing this course, the learner will be prepared to fully utilize the CatExpress service. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/copy-cataloging-with-catexpress-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121113 DTEND:20121114 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T120202 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T120202 UID:4790@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Managing a Reliable Cloud Environment DESCRIPTION: The great promise of cloud computing is in making it simpler for users to enjoy better IT services at lower cost. While it makes things far simpler for users, the increased flexibility, elasticity, and scaleability of the cloud also brings increased complexity for those who are responsible for managing and maintaining these platforms. Technology specialists need to plan their growth path now to secure their place in the management of cloud-based computing environments. Join us in this complementary webinar to understand the skills required to manage in the Cloud environment. Howard M. Cohen has enjoyed 30 years as an executive in the IT channel managing everything from sales, marketing and business development to operations to technical and professional services for several large and a few smaller companies including most recently MTM Technologies. For the past several years Howard has served the channel as a writer, presenter, and “senior resultant” helping solution providers, VARs, manufacturers, software developers, distributors, associations and others drive greater results for their companies and their partners. In that time he has had the honor and privilege of writing for such companies as Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, IBM, Verisign, Dell, Kensington, and many others. For its first year he was the voice of the CloudTalk blog on Ingram Micro’s Cloud website. www.howardmcohen.com To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/managing-a-reliable-cloud-environment/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120926 DTEND:20120927 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T115758 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T115758 UID:4788@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Maximize Your End of Year Fundraising DESCRIPTION: Did you know organizations can raise 40% of their individual donations in the month of December by maximizing their end-of-year appeals? In fact, the best time to make end of year appeals is in the last five days of December. Now is the time to make your plan for end of year fundraising. Find out how to make the most of your outreach with this webinar, presented by representatives from NTEN, Salsa Labs, and Charity Dynamics. Join us for tips on maximizing your online and offline fundraising efforts in the coming months. We’ll share simple, direct, and powerful techniques to drive year end results. You’ll hear about the value of repetition when engaging with donors. We’ll discuss several ways to utilize email more effectively. And, we’ll make sure you leave the session with actionable items you can put in place right away. You will learn: • The best schedule for making your asks (yes, plural!) • Ways to best optimize your donation pages • How to leverage social media to drive growth • Specific email campaign approaches to utilize at year end To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/maximize-your-end-of-year-fundraising/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121030 DTEND:20121031 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T115422 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T115422 UID:4786@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Captivate and Engage your Constituents with your Website DESCRIPTION: In this session, you will learn from more than 10 years of focus group research with nonprofit constituents and donors how to captivate and engage your audience. Join Jay to discover: • The 5 required elements of an engaging website • The 3 biggest mistakes nonprofits make with their website • 5 proven methods for promoting your organization online • The #1 factor nonprofits should consider regarding search engine optimization • Real-world examples of nonprofit organizations that have mastered their online presence You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn how to take your organization’s web presence to the next level from one of America’s top-rated experts on websites and marketing for nonprofits. Jay Wilkinson is a lifelong entrepreneur. While attending college, he started numerous businesses and, in 1986, helped launch Campus Connection magazine. The business took him to NYC where the magazine grew into the country's largest college-oriented publication with a distribution of 1.2 million. In 1992, Jay returned to Nebraska and opened an AlphaGraphics printing franchise. The business broke the first-year sales record for the 350-store network and was the fastest franchise at the time to reach $1 million in annual sales. Renamed Cornerstone Printing & Imaging in 2001, the company is listed today by Quick Printing magazine as one of the 100 largest rapid-response printing operations in America. In 1996, Firespring was spun off of the printing company to develop websites for local businesses. Today, Firespring provides marketing services to more than 3,000 clients on five continents. The company is now offering franchises in all 50 states and master-license opportunities in 25 international markets. Through private partnerships and the Nebraska Angels, Jay has invested in several emerging growth companies and owns commercial properties and franchises that include Baskin Robbins, Conoco, Long John Silvers, KFC, Howard Johnson, Ramada Inn, Subway, Holiday Inn Express and Taco Bell. In his spare time, Jay can be found participating in activities with his family or traveling with his wife, Tawnya, in a quest for the perfect scuba diving location. He sits on the board for several nonprofits and is an avid supporter of programs that provide leadership and enrichment programs for America’s youth. Jay has appeared on CNN and other news outlets discussing how emerging technologies are shaping our future and is considered a leading authority on the impact of marketing and the web on nonprofits and small businesses. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/how-to-captivate-and-engage-your-constituents-with-your-website-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120918 DTEND:20120919 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T115306 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T115306 UID:4784@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Captivate and Engage your Constituents with your Website DESCRIPTION: In this session, you will learn from more than 10 years of focus group research with nonprofit constituents and donors how to captivate and engage your audience. Join Jay to discover: • The 5 required elements of an engaging website • The 3 biggest mistakes nonprofits make with their website • 5 proven methods for promoting your organization online • The #1 factor nonprofits should consider regarding search engine optimization • Real-world examples of nonprofit organizations that have mastered their online presence You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn how to take your organization’s web presence to the next level from one of America’s top-rated experts on websites and marketing for nonprofits. Jay Wilkinson is a lifelong entrepreneur. While attending college, he started numerous businesses and, in 1986, helped launch Campus Connection magazine. The business took him to NYC where the magazine grew into the country's largest college-oriented publication with a distribution of 1.2 million. In 1992, Jay returned to Nebraska and opened an AlphaGraphics printing franchise. The business broke the first-year sales record for the 350-store network and was the fastest franchise at the time to reach $1 million in annual sales. Renamed Cornerstone Printing & Imaging in 2001, the company is listed today by Quick Printing magazine as one of the 100 largest rapid-response printing operations in America. In 1996, Firespring was spun off of the printing company to develop websites for local businesses. Today, Firespring provides marketing services to more than 3,000 clients on five continents. The company is now offering franchises in all 50 states and master-license opportunities in 25 international markets. Through private partnerships and the Nebraska Angels, Jay has invested in several emerging growth companies and owns commercial properties and franchises that include Baskin Robbins, Conoco, Long John Silvers, KFC, Howard Johnson, Ramada Inn, Subway, Holiday Inn Express and Taco Bell. In his spare time, Jay can be found participating in activities with his family or traveling with his wife, Tawnya, in a quest for the perfect scuba diving location. He sits on the board for several nonprofits and is an avid supporter of programs that provide leadership and enrichment programs for America’s youth. Jay has appeared on CNN and other news outlets discussing how emerging technologies are shaping our future and is considered a leading authority on the impact of marketing and the web on nonprofits and small businesses. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/how-to-captivate-and-engage-your-constituents-with-your-website-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120904 DTEND:20120905 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T114958 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T114958 UID:4782@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Cultivating Teen Book Clubs at Your Library DESCRIPTION: Learn how to develop or reinvigorate new and existing teen book clubs at you library. By incorporating additional supporting media, relevant activities, and social networking, you can transform the traditional book club into a dynamic and interactive conversation. Not working with a teen book club? This presentation can be helpful for book clubs of all ages. ABOUT FIRST TUESDAYS Designed as a continuing-education opportunity for staff of libraries in Washington State, this free web presentation from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., lets attendees share their skills and successes and learn about new topics. The special-subject presentations, lasting about 60 minutes, are recorded so that others may listen at their own convenience. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/cultivating-teen-book-clubs-at-your-library/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121030 DTEND:20121031 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T114643 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T114643 UID:4780@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Captivate and Engage your Constituents with your Website DESCRIPTION: In this session, you will learn from more than 10 years of focus group research with nonprofit constituents and donors how to captivate and engage your audience. Join Jay to discover: • The 5 required elements of an engaging website • The 3 biggest mistakes nonprofits make with their website • 5 proven methods for promoting your organization online • The #1 factor nonprofits should consider regarding search engine optimization • Real-world examples of nonprofit organizations that have mastered their online presence You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn how to take your organization’s web presence to the next level from one of America’s top-rated experts on websites and marketing for nonprofits. Jay Wilkinson is a lifelong entrepreneur. While attending college, he started numerous businesses and, in 1986, helped launch Campus Connection magazine. The business took him to NYC where the magazine grew into the country's largest college-oriented publication with a distribution of 1.2 million. In 1992, Jay returned to Nebraska and opened an AlphaGraphics printing franchise. The business broke the first-year sales record for the 350-store network and was the fastest franchise at the time to reach $1 million in annual sales. Renamed Cornerstone Printing & Imaging in 2001, the company is listed today by Quick Printing magazine as one of the 100 largest rapid-response printing operations in America. In 1996, Firespring was spun off of the printing company to develop websites for local businesses. Today, Firespring provides marketing services to more than 3,000 clients on five continents. The company is now offering franchises in all 50 states and master-license opportunities in 25 international markets. Through private partnerships and the Nebraska Angels, Jay has invested in several emerging growth companies and owns commercial properties and franchises that include Baskin Robbins, Conoco, Long John Silvers, KFC, Howard Johnson, Ramada Inn, Subway, Holiday Inn Express and Taco Bell. In his spare time, Jay can be found participating in activities with his family or traveling with his wife, Tawnya, in a quest for the perfect scuba diving location. He sits on the board for several nonprofits and is an avid supporter of programs that provide leadership and enrichment programs for America’s youth. Jay has appeared on CNN and other news outlets discussing how emerging technologies are shaping our future and is considered a leading authority on the impact of marketing and the web on nonprofits and small businesses. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/how-to-captivate-and-engage-your-constituents-with-your-website-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121031 DTEND:20121101 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T113950 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T113950 UID:4778@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What’s a Mission Statement Worth? DESCRIPTION: Does your mission statement differentiate your nonprofit clearly and concisely? Could it describe any of several other organizations? If you’re clear about your value to your community, stakeholders and/or cause, why bother to “wordsmith” your mission statement? The answers to these questions can make the difference between sustainable success and failure in several ways. Join us to see what a rigorously crafted mission statement can do for marketing, fundraising, strategy, and sustainability. Enter your nonprofit in the Second Annual What’s Your Mission? Competition (http://bit.ly/SyPwyMC) Submit your entry by midnight on Thursday, October 25, 2012. Finalists will be selected during the webinar. Takeaways: ◦Why it’s worth editing your mission statement. ◦What’s in a good mission statement, and what’s not. ◦How a good mission statement can guide strategic decisions. ◦How to measure your performance against your mission statement, and why that’s valuable. Sam Frank founded Synthesis Partnership to assist nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. He advises and has served on the boards of local and national nonprofit organizations addressing arts and culture, education, health care, preservation, homelessness and the environment. Sam frequently offers workshops on planning at national conferences and writes an e-newsletter, Critical Issues in Strategy, Planning and Organizational Development (http://bit.ly/SyParchive) and a blog on nonprofit issues (http://bit.ly/SyPblog). He conceived and directs the Wednesday Webinars at nonprofitwebinars.com. Prior to Synthesis Partnership Sam was Director of Architecture and Design at Corning Incorporated, and Dean of Architecture and Design at Rhode Island School of Design. He was educated in English literature at Princeton University, architecture at Harvard University, and architectural history, theory and criticism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Synthesis Partnership assists nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. The foundation of our approach to any assignment is attentive listening to the situation, needs, culture and aspirations of the client. Our clients have represented a variety of sectors (including education, arts and culture, health care, and social services), sizes (no staff to hundreds of staff; budgets in the low six figures to the high eight figures), maturities (start-ups to well over a century old) and experience (organizations new to planning and organizations with extensive history and experience of planning). Our breadth of understanding of nonprofit sectors and issues helps us to ask the right questions and explore the relevant concerns to assure integrated explorations and solutions. Case studies of some of our projects and articles on strategy, identity, capacity and facilities can be found at www.synthesispartnership.com To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/whats-a-mission-statement-worth-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121003 DTEND:20121004 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T113652 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T113652 UID:4776@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What’s New for Storytimes DESCRIPTION: Is conducting storytime the favorite part of your job – but also the task in which you feel “burned out?” If so, this webinar will give you ideas to refresh your storytimes with new books to engage your audience. Whether you are relatively new or a longtime storytime presenter, everyone will take away storytime plans, booklists, and resources to revitalize this essential library program. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will know about: •New books that contain a participation, cumulative, circular, creative dramatic, dialogic reading, or concept element •New books that enhance preliteracy skills of print motivation and awareness, phonological awareness, vocabulary, narrative skills, and letter knowledge •Websites and other resources for storytime planning, songs, fingerplays, and other storytime essentials •Use of toys and play in storytime •Arranging picture books by topic to increase parent use of the library This webinar will be of interest to staff at public or school libraries who conduct storytimes for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, or daycare or Kindergarten groups. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/whats-new-for-storytimes-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121128 DTEND:20121129 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T113145 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T113145 UID:4774@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Create Your 2013 Fundraising Plan: By Planning Ahead DESCRIPTION: Some say there are four steps to fundraising – plan, plan, plan, and work your plan. Unfortunately, some of us are so busy fundraising that we feel like we don’t have time to plan. But, in the long run, this only costs us more time (and money!). In this webinar, you will start to win back some of your lost time by learning how to create a strategic fundraising plan for your organization. We will go over what to consider when creating your plan, the financial information you need to gather and analyze, how to develop your goals, what fundraising strategies will best meet those goals, and evaluation metrics for measuring your success. Takeaways: A better understanding of the importance of having a development plan The knowledge of how to create a plan for your organization Excerpts from sample fundraising plans A customizable worksheet for creating your fundraising plan Funding Change founder Tina Cincotti is a fund development expert with a passion for social change. She gives grassroots groups the skills, tools, training, and confidence they need to raise more money while building stronger relationships with their supporters. With 15 years experience, Tina specializes in fundraising assessments and evaluations; creating strategic development plans; writing solicitation appeals, newsletters, annual reports, and online content; improving donor relations and donor communications; coaching executive directors and staff new to development; and motivating boards to be more engaged in fundraising. Funding Change is a one-woman shop owned and operated by Tina Cincotti. Tina started consulting after seeing too many nonprofits excelling at their program work but struggling to raise the funds to pay for it. Or, raising huge sums from foundations with little income from individual donors – the largest and most reliable portion of money given away each year. Knowing that small nonprofits can’t afford to pay the salary that veteran development professionals command, Tina wanted a more cost-effective approach. Through consulting, Funding Change gives grassroots groups access to the same knowledge and the same successful fundraising techniques that many big charities can afford to have in-house. But without having to pay to have that expertise permanently on staff. Funding Change specializes in working with small nonprofits and has a particular focus on assisting grassroots groups working for social change. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/create-your-2013-fundraising-plan-by-planning-ahead/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121023 DTEND:20121024 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T112805 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T112805 UID:4772@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Ruby, Rock and Roll DESCRIPTION: Muse is a Ruby domain-specific language for creating digital music. In this hands-on webcast presentation by Sau Sheong Chang author of Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby, we talk on how Ruby can be used to create digital music through a simple analog software synthesizer, either transcribed from existing music scores, or algorithmically created out of data from various sources. Don't miss this informative presentation. Sau Sheong Chang has been in software development, mostly web applications and recently cloud- and data-related systems, for almost 17 years and is still a keen and enthusiastic programmer. He has been active in programming with Ruby for the past 6 years and recently started with R for the past year. He is active in the local developer communities, especially in the Singapore Ruby Brigade. In April 2011 he co-organized the first and largest Ruby conferences in Southeast Asia, the RedDotRubyConf. He has published 2 books, the first in 2008 titled Ruby on Rails Mashup Projects and the second in 2010, titled Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby. Both books were published by Packt Publishing. Mr. Chang is currently the Director of Applied Research in HP Labs Singapore, with research focusing on cloud computing and big data. His previous roles include a stint as the CTO of a popular online gaming company and Director of Engineering for Yahoo! Southeast Asia. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/ruby-rock-and-roll/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120911 DTEND:20120912 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T112115 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T112115 UID:4770@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:CrowdRise: Some Decent Fundraising Advice *Just in Time for Year-End* DESCRIPTION:The power of the crowd is real, friends giving to friends works and if you're not getting your supporters involved in your fundraising, you're probably missing an amazing opportunity. CrowdRise is an online fundraising platform that leverages the most modern tools, game mechanics, incentives and promotions to turn your supporters into incredibly effective fundraisers. More importantly, we're out to make fundraising insanely fun, or at least not terrible. Get a jump on year-end fundraising campaigns and join us to learn: •A mess of ways for you to integrate fundraising into your existing charity programs •The easiest ways to embrace CrowdRise contests •Campaign ideas for year-end fundraising, online donor drives and challenges •Show you a really awesome and new approach to the typical matching campaign We'll also talk about... •What is CrowdRise and why do we pretend we matter? •Tools that'll help you embrace a more modern approach to fundraising •How to turn your donors into fundraisers •Some best practices for messaging Allen Wolff currently serves as “Game Changer” at Crowdrise -- a social charitable network co-founded by actor and philanthropist, Edward Norton. The goal at Crowdrise is to make giving back fun and addictive. Allen has been in the payments industry since 2005 when he co-founded PaySimple, a Software-as-a-Service solution to automate the collection of accounts receivables. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/crowdrise-some-decent-fundraising-advice-just-in-time-for-year-end/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121106 DTEND:20121107 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T111821 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T111821 UID:4767@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Power of Image: Presenting with the Brain in Mind DESCRIPTION: The human brain is wired to respond to images. Scientific studies of the brain are providing powerful insights for designing and delivering presentations that grab the attention of the learner. Once you understand the key concepts of strong visual communication, you can get unstuck from the stale text-and-bullet format of presentation. You don’t need to be a designer to learn some simple tips and tricks that will punch up your presentations and wake up your audience. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/the-power-of-image-presenting-with-the-brain-in-mind/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121017 DTEND:20121018 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T111532 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T111532 UID:4764@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Reality Fundraising: Lessons Learned from Successful Arts Organizations DESCRIPTION: The New Normal may not have arrived yet, but we are making progress in stabilizing and even growing our arts organizations. Join this webinar to hear about what’s really working now for actual arts groups around the country. Using case studies drawn from a variety of successful arts organizations, Marilyn Hoyt will help participants think through fundraising planning in the context of the realities we are all facing. Key questions to be discussed include: •Where is my organization on its institutional maturation curve? •How does that influence where opportunities for fundraising exist? •What tools can I use to identify and research funders that are the right fit for my organization? This event is part of our Funding for Arts Month. Skill: Finding Funders Foundation Fundraising Fundraising Planning Subject: Arts and Culture Marilyn Hoyt is active nationally and internationally in teaching, consulting, and advisory work. She speaks frequently at conferences and consults to two foundations. Her past work includes 12 years as a grantmaker for the Westchester Arts Council in New York and the Washington State Arts Commission, fundraising consulting with various nonprofits for J.C. Geever, Inc., and 20 years at the New York Hall of Science as founding staff raising over $200 million - first as head of advancement and ultimately as president and CEO. Marilyn is one of the authors of the Foundation Center’s book, After the Grant. She also authored the fundraising chapter for the Handbook for Small Science Centers, and articles on outsourcing for the Association of Science-Technology Centers and exhibition funding for the Exhibitionist, an AAM newsletter. Her e-newsletter is circulated to a dedicated list and reproduced periodically on New York's Oram Matters, Penn Consulting and DHR's nonprofit recruiting practice newsletter. Marilyn chairs the Board of New Knowledge, a social evaluation nonprofit, and is an advisory board member of Columbia University's Masters in Fund Raising program and Chicago's National Public Housing Museum. She is deeply interested in nonprofits led by and serving minority communities. Her recognitions include a Latin American Women's Council Fanny Calderon de la Barca Award. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/reality-fundraising-lessons-learned-from-successful-arts-organizations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121016 DTEND:20121017 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120831T111406 LAST-MODIFIED:20120831T111406 UID:4762@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Introduction to Finding Funders DESCRIPTION: Learn to find funders for your nonprofit with the Foundation Center's comprehensive funding research tool. This session provides an introduction to the Foundation Center's comprehensive online database, Foundation Directory Online Professional. Learn how to create customized searches to develop targeted lists of foundations that will match your nonprofit organization's funding needs. We will spend time exploring Power Search, which allows you to search across nine Foundation Center databases – grantmakers, grants, companies, 990s, news, jobs, RFPs, nonprofit literature, and PubHub reports. Skill: Finding Funders To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/31/introduction-to-finding-funders-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121031 DTEND:20121101 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T135343 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T135343 UID:4754@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What’s a Mission Statement Worth? DESCRIPTION: Does your mission statement differentiate your nonprofit clearly and concisely? Could it describe any of several other organizations? If you’re clear about your value to your community, stakeholders and/or cause, why bother to “wordsmith” your mission statement? The answers to these questions can make the difference between sustainable success and failure in several ways. Join us to see what a rigorously crafted mission statement can do for marketing, fundraising, strategy, and sustainability. Enter your nonprofit in the Second Annual What’s Your Mission? Competition (http://bit.ly/SyPwyMC) Submit your entry by midnight on Thursday, October 25, 2012. Finalists will be selected during the webinar. Takeaways: ◦Why it’s worth editing your mission statement. ◦What’s in a good mission statement, and what’s not. ◦How a good mission statement can guide strategic decisions. ◦How to measure your performance against your mission statement, and why that’s valuable. Sam Frank founded Synthesis Partnership to assist nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. He advises and has served on the boards of local and national nonprofit organizations addressing arts and culture, education, health care, preservation, homelessness and the environment. Sam frequently offers workshops on planning at national conferences and writes an e-newsletter, Critical Issues in Strategy, Planning and Organizational Development (http://bit.ly/SyParchive) and a blog on nonprofit issues (http://bit.ly/SyPblog). He conceived and directs the Wednesday Webinars at nonprofitwebinars.com. Prior to Synthesis Partnership Sam was Director of Architecture and Design at Corning Incorporated, and Dean of Architecture and Design at Rhode Island School of Design. He was educated in English literature at Princeton University, architecture at Harvard University, and architectural history, theory and criticism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Synthesis Partnership assists nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. The foundation of our approach to any assignment is attentive listening to the situation, needs, culture and aspirations of the client. Our clients have represented a variety of sectors (including education, arts and culture, health care, and social services), sizes (no staff to hundreds of staff; budgets in the low six figures to the high eight figures), maturities (start-ups to well over a century old) and experience (organizations new to planning and organizations with extensive history and experience of planning). Our breadth of understanding of nonprofit sectors and issues helps us to ask the right questions and explore the relevant concerns to assure integrated explorations and solutions. Case studies of some of our projects and articles on strategy, identity, capacity and facilities can be found at www.synthesispartnership.com To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/whats-a-mission-statement-worth/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121024 DTEND:20121025 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T134708 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T134708 UID:4752@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Govern Adaptive Work Systems: The Power of Strengths in Relationships DESCRIPTION: If the opportunities and challenges faced by your non-profit require increasing flexibility and responsiveness then this webinar may be for you. Wherever people work together, they make choices that influence the flexibility and responsiveness of your organization. In other words, they govern each other. How they govern their use of resources is not just luck, it can be “designed”. This interactive webinar will explore how to create capacity for flexibility and responsiveness by systematically building relationships that are strength based. Takeaways: What is an adaptive work system and why are they essential for non-profits What is “work system governance” and what does it have to do with adaptive work systems What do Strengths in Relationships have to do with governance and adaptive work systems? How do you make this work? Bernard Mohr is cofounder of Innovation Partners International, a professional services firm helping organizations, networks and alliances deal with ever increasing complexity and the demands for accelerated change. As a designer, action researcher and thinking partner, Bernard supports clients within healthcare, manufacturing, retail, pharmaceuticals, education and government in creating more flexible and effective work systems. Recent books include Essentials of Appreciative Inquiry: A Roadmap for Creating Positive Futures (Pegasus Communications, 2002); The Appreciative Inquiry Summit, (Berrett-Koehler, 2003); and Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination, Pfeiffer 2011). His approach to organizational innovation draws on Design Thinking, Complexity Science and the Applied Behavioral Sciences. Innovation Partners International expands your ability to create economic and social prosperity…. both now and within a shifting world. We co-create work systems that work well, are highly adaptive and are good to live in. We achieve better results faster because our work engages relevant stakeholders in the design and innovation process , our work is strength based and it is integrated – addressing the IT, service delivery and space domains of your enterprise. Neil Samuels’ twenty-three years of consulting and coaching experience span six continents and organizations ranging from Cruise Lines, Architecture, R&D, and Oil Exploration, to the US Geological Survey, the Illinois Counseling Association, and the Naperville School District. His work builds on a foundation of strengths and Appreciative Inquiry to engage entire organizations in fundamentally changing their conversations to bring about lasting change. He has worked successfully with leaders at all levels and is a respected coach, mentor, and innovative thinker. Neil has demonstrated value in helping senior leaders navigate complex, large-scale change. Neil has an advanced degree in organization development from Pepperdine University where he served as adjunct faculty in the Graziadio School of Business and Management. He has published in the US and UK in The OD Practitioner, Managing Schools Today, and the AI Practitioner, and has presented his work at The Academy of Management and The International Conference on Appreciative Inquiry. Neil co-authored a book published in 2009 titled; ‘Brilliant: The Heathside Story: A Case Study of Whole System Transformation using Appreciative Inquiry in a School.” Clients often say that what makes Profound Conversations, Inc. unique is the conversations we engage them in, the questions we pose, and the way we lead and facilitate inquiry – which in turn leads to significantly different, positive, and energizing outcomes. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/how-to-govern-adaptive-work-systems-the-power-of-strengths-in-relationships/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121003 DTEND:20121004 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T134307 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T134307 UID:4750@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Nonprofit Boards and Effective Governance DESCRIPTION: The nonprofit governing board has been described as an ineffective group of effective people. Trustees are recruited for their stature, skills or connections, and then are not fully engaged. Why do nonprofits so broadly fail to use their boards wisely? And how might they do better? We will look at four interrelated areas: membership (including recruitment, development, self-assessment), process (including structure, meetings), capacity, and fiduciary issues. Takeaways: How to assemble an effective board. How to structure and operate a board effectively. How to engage trustees and increase mutual satisfaction. Specific tools and resources that will increase board effectiveness. Sam Frank founded Synthesis Partnership to assist nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. He advises and has served on the boards of local and national nonprofit organizations addressing arts and culture, education, health care, preservation, homelessness and the environment. Sam frequently offers workshops on planning at national conferences and writes an e-newsletter, Critical Issues in Strategy, Planning and Organizational Development (http://bit.ly/SyParchive) and a blog on nonprofit issues (http://bit.ly/SyPblog). He conceived and directs the Wednesday Webinars atnonprofitwebinars.com. Prior to Synthesis Partnership Sam was Director of Architecture and Design at Corning Incorporated, and Dean of Architecture and Design at Rhode Island School of Design. He was educated in English literature at Princeton University, architecture at Harvard University, and architectural history, theory and criticism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Synthesis Partnership assists nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. The foundation of our approach to any assignment is attentive listening to the situation, needs, culture and aspirations of the client. Our clients have represented a variety of sectors (including education, arts and culture, health care, and social services), sizes (no staff to hundreds of staff; budgets in the low six figures to the high eight figures), maturities (start-ups to well over a century old) and experience (organizations new to planning and organizations with extensive history and experience of planning). Our breadth of understanding of nonprofit sectors and issues helps us to ask the right questions and explore the relevant concerns to assure integrated explorations and solutions. Case studies of some of our projects and articles on strategy, identity, capacity and facilities can be found atwww.synthesispartnership.com To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/nonprofit-boards-and-effective-governance/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120919 DTEND:20120920 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T134019 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T134019 UID:4748@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Big Giving Results DESCRIPTION: How to align a fundraising team to secure “stretch gifts.” Ask appropriately to grow philanthropy. Gain insights to help your team discover, qualify, engage and ask donor-investors who are pre-disposed to give. This webinar offers ways to find resonance with stakeholders and sustain compelling communication for effective engagement, and for solicitation of major gifts. Hear how to execute a fundraising plan that brings real returns on investment. Takeaways: How to align senior management, board trustees and advancement staff Building a culture of giving Steps to identify, engage and ask for major gifts appropriately and effectively Ways to find resonance with donor-investors Rod Miller helps advance education, health and nonprofit institutions. He spearheads marketing and funding growth – to secure substantial funds and initiate strategy and execution for campaigns with goal achievements in excess of $600 million. He has more than 20 years accomplishment leading institutional advancement, including at QUT, “Brooklyn Poly” at New York University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – and served for 7 years as adjunct faculty in fundraising at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. Executive Institutional Advancement Exchange leads strategies to navigate new levels of accomplishment, providing: * Answers to why, when and how to plan and execute best practices for institutional advancement; and * Insights, ideas and creative approaches to help transform advancement. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/big-giving-results/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120912 DTEND:20120913 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T133824 LAST-MODIFIED:20120829T080810 UID:4746@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Nature, Nurture & Auction Profits DESCRIPTION: Maximize your next gala auction event by understanding human nature and nurturing it. Recognize the maximum profits possible! Getting the most from a gala auction event requires understanding of human dynamics. Attendee behavioral attributes can be a friend, or foe. Are your attendees disengaged and chatty by the time your live auction begins? Comfortable, engaged attendees mean greater profits. Unlock the secret to profitability for your upcoming event! Takeaways: Setting the Event Agenda Improving the Flow of Your Event Silent Auction Set-up & Strategies Supercharge Your Live Auction Revenues Eliminating Long Lines at Check-in and Check-out Tom Weitbrecht is principal & chief charity auctioneer of Strategic Auction Alliance. He is a regular on the charity auction circuit and has raised millions of dollars for non-profit organizations. His firm delivers a comprehensive A-Z service that includes professionally managed PC based check in/ check out, consulting, cashiering, bid spotting and bid calling. Mr. Weitbrecht is a licensed auctioneer in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine. He is a member of the National Auctioneers Association, Massachusetts Auctioneers Association National Association of Professional Appraisers and Turn Around Management Association. Strategic Auction Alliance specializes in fundraising auctions and has raised millions of dollars for a diverse range of non-profits. They are the only company in New England to provide complete in-house fundraising auction services including; pre-event consultation, event planning, PC based check in/ out, clerking, cashiering, professional bid calling and post event reporting. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/nature-nurture-auction-profits/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120905 DTEND:20120906 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T133016 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T133016 UID:4744@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Top 10 Reactions to Performance Feedback & How to Respond DESCRIPTION: Why do so many managers avoid giving feedback? Fear of how an employee will respond is the number one reason managers say they delay and sometimes completely abandon performance conversations. Many managers feel there is no way to adequately predict and prepare for an employee’s response to feedback and are, therefore, convinced things will spin out of control. In reality, most performance issues will elicit a fairly predictable range of responses from employees, some of them even positive. We have identified the Top 10 Employee Reactions and suggest effective ways of addressing each. Understanding these reactions and what to do if confronted by them can mean the difference between having the confidence to initiate an important conversation or sweeping it under the rug. Join us for this session to walk through these reactions and gain practical tips and techniques to maintain control of the conversation and keep it moving in the best direction. Takeaways: How to position feedback to reduce defensive reactions. Examples of how to give feedback without criticism. Managing common reactions to feedback, such as making excuses, deflecting responsibility, silence, anger, etc. Jamie Resker is a recognized thought leader in the talent management field and is Founder and Practice Leader of Employee Performance Solutions. She developed an approach to initiating conversations about performance that don’t feel confrontational or threatening. Through workshops she teaches real-world skills to initiate conversations that don’t feel difficult or confrontational. Clients include Genzyme, the Mathworks, Boston Private Bank, Boston College and many other smaller and mid-sized companies. EPS, a talent management consulting and training firm based in the Boston, Massachusetts area, works with clients in a wide variety of industries and government organizations. EPS offers customized employee performance workshops, world-class materials, tools and consulting designed to: Build the skills of leaders at all levels to develop their employees by: ►Using metrics to assess and measure their talent. ►Acquiring real-world skills to provide non–confrontational, impactful and motivating feedback. ►Effectively managing employee performance, issues, disruptive behaviors and manage resulting performance conversations. Train all-employee audiences on self-assessment, giving, receiving and seeking out feedback. This is the compliment session to the leader’s program. Modernize performance management (PM) practices, forms and processes. Create a simple process that works to increase the amount and quality of performance conversations between managers and employees. Keep the best parts of your PM process and minimize non-essential paperwork and low-value activities. Program Delivery: Programs are offered across the globe, in-person, through the web and by phone. Train the trainer and program licensing are available to larger firms wanting to deliver in-house training. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/the-top-10-reactions-to-performance-feedback-how-to-respond/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120919 DTEND:20120920 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T132157 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T132157 UID:4742@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The White House, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch DESCRIPTION: In this second of a three-part series, Laura Johnson will tour federal government Web sites. Part I of the series, "The Cabinet Departments," is now archived at: http://nlc.nebraska.gov/scripts/calendar/eventshow.asp?ProgID=11598. Part 3 of the series, scheduled for October 24, will cover independent agencies of the federal government. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/the-white-house-the-legislative-branch-and-the-judicial-branch/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121016 DTEND:20121017 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T131928 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T131928 UID:4740@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Incubate leadership @ your library DESCRIPTION:A webinar exploring ways to incubate leadership within your library organization and in the broader community to support collaborative and continuous learning. Effective leadership in a library community is not performed by any one person. Instead, it is a collective act of many players contributing their toolset of complementary and evolving skills. Leadership "incubates" best in an environment nurtured by collaborative and continuous learning; it often grows accidentally, sometimes unbeknownst to the leader-to-be. Through peer mentoring and other methods, explore ways to create a generative space that nourishes the infectious qualities of leadership. Develop a network of seasoned learners who will incubate leadership, both within your library and in support of the broader community, collaboratively building and leading a rich and fulfilling learning organization. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/incubate-leadership-your-library/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121003 DTEND:20121004 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T131718 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T131718 UID:4738@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:What’s New for Storytimes DESCRIPTION: Is conducting storytime the favorite part of your job – but also the task in which you feel “burned out?” If so, this webinar will give you ideas to refresh your storytimes with new books to engage your audience. Whether you are relatively new or a longtime storytime presenter, everyone will take away storytime plans, booklists, and resources to revitalize this essential library program. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will know about: •New books that contain a participation, cumulative, circular, creative dramatic, dialogic reading, or concept element •New books that enhance preliteracy skills of print motivation and awareness, phonological awareness, vocabulary, narrative skills, and letter knowledge •Websites and other resources for storytime planning, songs, fingerplays, and other storytime essentials •Use of toys and play in storytime •Arranging picture books by topic to increase parent use of the library This webinar will be of interest to staff at public or school libraries who conduct storytimes for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, or daycare or Kindergarten groups. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/whats-new-for-storytimes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120913 DTEND:20120914 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T131440 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T131440 UID:4736@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Teens, Tweens and Social Networking DESCRIPTION: We often have assumptions about how teens and tweens use the Internet. •Are those assumptions true? •Are teens interested or concerned about their online privacy? •What kind(s) of social media should your library use? Learn the answers to these questions and many more, as well as discovering if your library can effectively engage (or not) with young people in social media. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: •Know which social media tools are currently popular with teens and why •Be able to name at least two methods by which teen control their online privacy •Understand how many teens use cell phone and how libraries may be able to integrate them into programming •Be able to list at least one major obstacle to connecting with teens on social networks This webinar will be of interest to library staff who work with teens and youth, as well as those responsible for library social media work. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/teens-tweens-and-social-networking/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121025 DTEND:20121026 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T131234 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T131234 UID:4734@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Proposal Writing Basics DESCRIPTION: Learn the key components of a proposal to a foundation. For those new to proposal writing, this class will cover: •How the proposal fits into the overall grantseeking process •What to include in a standard proposal to a foundation •Tips for making each section of your proposal stronger •What funders expect to see in your proposal and attachments •Tips for communicating with funders during the grant process •Additional resources on proposal writing, including sample proposals Please Note: •For more on proposal budgets, see our free class, Proposal Budgeting Basics. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/proposal-writing-basics-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121011 DTEND:20121012 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T131045 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T131045 UID:4732@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Approach a Foundation DESCRIPTION: Learn how to build relationships with foundation prospects and prepare for calls and meetings with funders. From initial contact to getting funded, following field-tested best practices will increase your chances of getting the grant. This class will teach you how to: •Initiate contact with potential funders •Plan calls and meetings, including site visits •Effectively communicate with funders during the grant process Prior attendance at Grantseeking Basics is strongly recommended. Skill: Finding Funders Foundation Fundraising Donor Cultivation To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/how-to-approach-a-foundation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121009 DTEND:20121010 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T130904 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T130904 UID:4730@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Grantseeking Basics DESCRIPTION: Are you a representative of a nonprofit organization? Are you new to fundraising? Do you want to learn how the funding research process works, and what tools and resources are available? Learn how to become a better grantseeker! In this class we will cover: what you need to have in place before you seek a grant; the world of grantmakers; the grantseeking process; and available tools and resources. Skill: Finding Funders Foundation Fundraising To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/grantseeking-basics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121002 DTEND:20121003 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T130726 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T130726 UID:4728@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Nonprofit Sustainability:Building Blocks to Organizational Success DESCRIPTION: Learn how to enhance your organization's competitiveness and strengthen its financial health. Sustainability is a popular but often misunderstood buzzword in our sector. Nonprofit sustainability means more than just generating enough money to keep our organization afloat. In this class we will begin with the definition of nonprofit sustainability, and then we will cover each of the four key elements that contribute to long-term sustainability for an organization. Learn what you can do to increase your organization’s competitiveness and strengthen its financial health in the current economic climate. Topics covered include: •Understanding what nonprofit sustainability means •Key elements of nonprofit sustainability •Tips on how to develop them in your organization Skill: Managing Nonprofits Financial Management Earned Income To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/nonprofit-sustainabilitybuilding-blocks-to-organizational-success/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121115T100000 DTEND:20121115T110000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T113843 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T113843 UID:4723@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Media Etiquette (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Social Media Etiquette (aka How to keep your fans and followers once you've made them!) Your library has made the decision to create a social media presence. You've put your library out there, and are ecstatic to be gaining fans and followers. . .now make sure you keep them. In this presentation you will learn the Dos and Donts of Social Media Etiquette. Instructor: Jackie Papke is a former librarian and degreed teacher with a passion for people + information + technology. Teaching technology allows her to connect all three at once. While in her former position as a Reference Librarian and Webmaster for the Northwest Regional Library System, Jackie co-wrote the first Social Media Policy for the system, managed the Bay County Public Library Facebook Page (proudly doubling the fans!), and taught both peers and patrons. Jackie recently left the public library to launch Eye4Insight, her own Independent Research and Technology Instruction Company. Jackie holds a Masters degree in Library & Information Studies with a concentration in Technology Management and a Bachelors Degree in Education. Nov 15, 2012 10:00 - 11:00 am CT Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/social-media-etiquette-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121016T130000 DTEND:20121016T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120827T113403 LAST-MODIFIED:20120827T113403 UID:4718@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Media Policies and Your Library (Live Online - PLAN) DESCRIPTION:Why Your Library Needs a Social Media Policy: Social Media opens the doors to market your library like never before (and its FREE!). Before jumping in, there are factors that need to be considered. This presentation covers why your organization should have a Social Media Policy in place including: The Florida Sunshine Law, your libraries relationship with the powers that be (governing authority), guidelines for staff interaction with patrons in an online environment, and more. Instructor: Jackie Papke is a former librarian and degreed teacher with a passion for people + information + technology. Teaching technology allows her to connect all three at once. While in her former position as a Reference Librarian and Webmaster for the Northwest Regional Library System, Jackie co-wrote the first Social Media Policy for the system, managed the Bay County Public Library Facebook Page (proudly doubling the fans!), and taught both peers and patrons. Jackie recently left the public library to launch Eye4Insight, her own Independent Research and Technology Instruction Company. Jackie holds a Masters degree in Library & Information Studies with a concentration in Technology Management and a Bachelors Degree in Education. October 16 1:00 - 2:00 pm CT Register at PLAN's website. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/27/social-media-policies-and-your-library-live-online-plan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120926 DTEND:20120927 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120824T152658 LAST-MODIFIED:20120724T152855 UID:4519@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Even Change Is Changing! DESCRIPTION: Even Change is Changing!” will help us get a grip on the changes around us – and our responses to those changes. Change, of course, is inevitable. We have changes in automation systems, budget changes, technology changes, changes in work schedules, even our patrons change. The strain of constant change is compounded by our tendency to deny, ignore, or resist change. And still...change happens. We’ll not only discuss change and our response to it, we’ll also look at ways to handle the stress that sometimes comes when the changes are overwhelming – and let’s be honest, they can be overwhelming! Don’t miss this opportunity to step back, gain a deeper understanding of your own reaction to change, and learn ways to lessen the impact of those changes! Linda has been developing and conducting training seminars for more than ten years. Certified with Development Dimensions International and Achieve Global, she also offers her own workshops on Customer Service, Supervisory Skills, Personalities, Organizational Skills, Effective Communication, Returning Balance to Your Life, and many other topics. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Please register at the SWFLN CE Calendar below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/24/even-change-is-changing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120913 DTEND:20120914 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120824T064019 LAST-MODIFIED:20120824T064019 UID:4714@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Mapping Your Impact: A Case from Humanitarian Assistance DESCRIPTION: Meeting Description: Are you looking to understand your constituents better via location info? Do you want to display the breadth of your programs and mission using mapping? Find out how one group quickly, easily and cheaply built a suite of high-quality spatial applications in this webinar on web mapping using Esri's GIS tools. These tools can help organizations manage everything from responding to major disasters to program planning and evaluation to fundraising and communications. Andrew Schroeder, Director of Research and Analysis for Direct Relief International, will discuss how they used these tools during the 2010 Haiti Earthquake disaster recovery effort. He'll also explain how his organization built upon those tools to collaborate with UNFPA and The Fistula Foundation in the construction of the Global Fistula Map. David Gadsden, Global Program Lead of Esri's non-profit program will also discuss the suite of tools available through TechSoup's Partner Program including Community Analysis, a cloud-based application. David is an account executive for Esri focusing on Nonprofit, Native American, and International Development communities. He began working with geographic information systems (GIS) technology at the University of Washington in 1992 before serving in the U.S. Peace Corps in East Africa. David has applied GIS technology to environmental, social science, public safety, and construction engineering challenges while working for a number of commercial and non-profit organizations. David joined Esri in 2002 and has since supported communities on topics ranging from disaster relief, environmental conservation, international development and diplomacy, energy transmission, and federal and tribal governance. David coordinates Esri’s Nonprofit Organization Program, which aims to empower nonprofits and NGOs around the globe with GIS technology. Andrew Schroeder is the Director of Research and Analysis at Direct Relief International. Beginning in 2008 he initiated Direct Relief's program in geospatial analytics and GIS. Since that time he has worked closely with a wide range of Direct Relief's corporate and clinical partners to improve understanding of humanitarian program planning and outcome evaluation through data analysis and visualization. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/24/mapping-your-impact-a-case-from-humanitarian-assistance/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121012T130000 DTEND:20121012T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120822T095156 LAST-MODIFIED:20120522T095346 UID:4191@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:A Guide to Getting Results: Leading Transitions for Emerging leaders DESCRIPTION: It is clear that this is a time full of changes in strategy, technology, product mix, and culture—and with many of them, reorganization and redeployment. Many of these changes will be planned with little concern for how they will impact the people involved. Data suggests that the psychological process that change initiates is more like distress and disruption than adjustment. Do you have the ability to manage the psychological transition to effectively impact operational change? In this free webinar, learn a framework for transition management and collect a set of tools that will help reduce stress and disruption during times of change and, ultimately, make change work for you. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/22/a-guide-to-getting-results-leading-transitions-for-emerging-leaders/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121114 DTEND:20121115 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120820T103304 LAST-MODIFIED:20120820T103304 UID:4712@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Empowered Conversations: Moving from Debate and Discussion to Dialogue DESCRIPTION: Conversation is the DNA of organizational culture…and its transformation. We will look at an adapted version of a Dr. David Bohm’s model of dialogue and apply it to the evaluation and transformation of the organizational culture of a not-for-profit. Takeaways: -A pragmatic model of the pathways of conversations. -Specific conversational tools to move from debate and discussion to a co-creative dialogue. -Examples of using those dialogue to facilitate NGO transformation. Gilbert Brenson-Lazan is a social psychologist, psychotherapist, facilitator, coach and educator. He has been a pioneer in Latin America in transactional analysis, brief systemic therapy, organizational facilitation, transcultural communications, stress management and disaster and crisis intervention. He is the author of twenty-nine books and is Founder and Managing Partner of Amauta Internacional, LLC, organization dedicated to optimizing the efficacy of processes of organizational transformation, with offices in Bogotá, Colombia and West Hartford, CT., USA. He is currently dedicated to executive team coaching and mentoring, OD Consulting and writing. He was a founding member of the Change Facilitation Associates Network, an Associate Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Global Leadership Alliance, Co-Founder and Past President of the Global Facilitator Service Corps and International Vice-Chair of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). He has done ninety-seven presentations and workshops in national and international conferences since 1974. Whether your organization is seeking to meet a particular challenge, initiate a change process or improve its general ability to continually learn and improve, your own people are your key resource to facilitate the process, we at Amauta International, LLC can help you to help them unlock their potential. We train and mentor facilitators, leaders and executive teams that want to create and support the processes with which groups, organizations and communities can define and achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Group mentorship, as we have developed it, is an ongoing, facilitative accompaniment of an organizational or community team that wants to increase its effectiveness through a dynamic and integral process of group, personal and professional development. We creatively combine the most effective methods of face-to-face group mentoring and facilitation, with the most modern technologies of Internet, intranet and virtual online mentoring. We have ample experience with many different organizational and ethnic cultures and appreciate the uniqueness of every client, approaching each one’s needs with a systemic and holistic perspective, backed by expertise in facilitation of organizational and community development and change. Our facilitators are accredited by and/or members of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and are active in its global leadership. Amauta International can help your organization or community to prepare its own leaders and internal facilitators with the necessary competencies for effective intervention in: - change management - team building, - process restructuring, - crisis intervention, - organizational cultural transformation, - community building, - conflict resolution, - transformational leadership, - competency development. Finally, we provide continuity through effective follow-up monitoring sessions and virtual support (virtual conferences, WBT, bibliographic support, e-lists, etc.). Our approach of training and mentoring your own in-house talent, is not only a more effective way to facilitate organizational transformation, but also much more economical than contracting outside trainers and facilitators. Let us show you how a program of facilitator mentorship can increase the productivity and success of your organization. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/20/empowered-conversations-moving-from-debate-and-discussion-to-dialogue/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121107 DTEND:20121108 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120820T103118 LAST-MODIFIED:20120820T103118 UID:4710@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Naked Meetings III: Going Virtual DESCRIPTION: Virtual meetings pose some unique challenges (and benefits) for getting work done across time and distance. In this session we look at the ways you can use structure to create naturally more effective and engaging virtual meetings. Like previous sessions in the “Naked Meetings” series, we will share stories, along with tips and tools for you to put to use. Our suggestions can be used with any form of virtual meeting technology. Takeaways: -Recognize (unseen) structural challenges of virtual meetings -Identify ways to structure effective virtual meetings -Learn tips and tools for designing and conducting better virtual meetings Rick Lent has spent the last 25 years facilitating meetings around the world in business, non-profit organizations and communities. He has facilitated meetings intended to bring multiple groups together around strategic planning, organizational restructuring and difficult societal issues. He has helped various nonprofit boards redefine vision and strategy and improve how they work together as a team. Among the organizations in which Rick has supported significant meetings are: InterAction (multi-stakeholder pandemic preparedness), UNICEF (country-wide health crisis), Ashland (design-build contracting), ArchstoneSmith (organizational change), Logitech (vision and balanced score card plan), the WK Kellogg Foundation (strategy and vision), Johnson & Johnson (post-merger alignment), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (NGO partnering). He has also worked with numerous civic, religious and nonprofit groups. Rick delivers workshops and presentations on a structural approach to better meetings. He also provides complete meeting design and facilitation services and coaches leaders on how to resolve particular meeting challenges. His new e-book, Meeting for Results Tool Kit: Make Your Meetings Work, will be available on Amazon in September 2012. Rick received his Ph.D. in instructional design from Syracuse University and held various management positions in several international organizations before co-founding Brownfield and Lent in 1991. Meeting for Results is a service of Brownfield and Lent, a consultancy which for 20 years has focused on creating conditions for people to excel by changing the conversations they hold. As president and principal consultant for Guided Insights, Nancy Settle-Murphy wears many hats: facilitator, trainer and coach, change management consultant, organizational development consultant, and communications strategist. Drawing from more than two decades of experience in facilitating the work of global teams, she thrives on helping global teams master the art and science of virtual collaboration by accelerating trust, building relationships and engaging members for peak performance. Guided Insights is a facilitation, consulting and training firm located in the Boston area. Started by Nancy is 1994, the goal of Guided Insights is simple: To enable organizations to tap the best thinking of key contributors across time zones, locations and cultures. Nancy and her network of colleagues work with clients in both face-to-face and virtual settings, providing training, coaching and consulting services. Special areas of focus: facilitating complex meetings (both face-to-face and virtual), leadership development, planning and designing engaging virtual meetings, facilitation skills, and cross-cultural collaboration. Guided Insights also works with global IT organizations to create training and communications programs designed to accelerate adoption of major new initiatives. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/20/naked-meetings-iii-going-virtual/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121011 DTEND:20121012 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120817T080602 LAST-MODIFIED:20120817T080602 UID:4707@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Leading Transitions for Emerging Leaders DESCRIPTION:It is clear that this is a time full of changes in strategy, technology, product mix, and culture—and with many of them, reorganization and redeployment. Many of these changes will be planned with little concern for how they will impact the people involved. Data suggests that the psychological process that change initiates is more like distress and disruption than adjustment. Do you have the ability to manage the psychological transition to effectively impact operational change? In this free webinar, learn a framework for transition management and collect a set of tools that will help reduce stress and disruption during times of change and, ultimately, make change work for you. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/17/leading-transitions-for-emerging-leaders/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120927 DTEND:20120928 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120817T075959 LAST-MODIFIED:20120817T075959 UID:4705@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Get Exceptional Consumer Insights and Market Research Using Facebook Data DESCRIPTION: More than 950 million people actively use Facebook. Facebook users share more than 30 billion pieces of content each month. It is the world’s largest database of personal data including consumers’ demographics, interests, activities and preferences and can be a phenomenal asset for market research. This webcast will discuss how to unlock this unprecedented new dimension for consumer segmentation and analysis. It will show how businesses can explore the vast array of personal information contained in Facebook for millions of consumers and use this extensive, accurate and up-to-date consumer data to improve a wide range of marketing activities including brand management, database marketing, media planning, competitive analysis, advertising, and social media marketing. Anurag is responsible for coordinating product management and marketing activities for MicroStrategy Wisdom Professional and several other social media initiatives. Prior to joining Product Management, Anurag spent over 10 years providing business intelligence solutions to numerous Fortune 1000 customers of MicroStrategy. Anurag holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and University of Maryland, College Park respectively, and an MBA from University of Michigan. Mark's tenure began in 2000 after a 17-year career at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, where he was a Partner. He is responsible for all product management, product marketing, and market intelligence at MicroStrategy. Mr. LaRow holds an MS and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/17/how-to-get-exceptional-consumer-insights-and-market-research-using-facebook-data/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121009 DTEND:20121010 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120816T140629 LAST-MODIFIED:20120816T140629 UID:4703@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Data Modeling for Google App Engine using Python and ndb DESCRIPTION: An introduction to data modeling for scalable web applications using Google App Engine, Python, and the ndb library. This talk covers features of the App Engine datastore and how to use them from ndb, including creating and manipulating entities, performing pre-indexed queries, and enforcing data integrity with transactions. It also introduces features of ndb for implementing structured data, and managing application performance with memcache, asynchronous API calls, and tasklets. Some familiarity with App Engine and Python are recommended, though no previous experience with ndb is needed. Dan Sanderson is a technical writer and software engineer at Google, Inc. He has worked in the web industry for over 10 years as a software engineer and technical writer for Google, Amazon.com and the Walt Disney Internet Group. He lives in Seattle, Washington. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/16/data-modeling-for-google-app-engine-using-python-and-ndb/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121010 DTEND:20121011 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120816T092121 LAST-MODIFIED:20120816T092121 UID:4701@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Outputs vs Outcomes: Taking The Mystery Out Of Measuring Progress DESCRIPTION: As an executive director do you: ◦feel overwhelmed by the amount of things going on in your organization ◦question whether you and your board are on the same page with the goals of the organization ◦often get caught up in busy work and lose sight of the long term goals of your organization’s programs ◦feel like your organizations has gradually drifted from its mission but you don’t know what to do to get it back on track ◦wonder why you always feel like you’re always working but your organization’s results aren’t improving Takeaways: A pragmatic model of the pathways of conversations. Specific conversational tools to move from debate and discussion to a co-creative dialogue. Examples of using those dialogue to facilitate NGO transformation. Ever since I was a teenager, I have loved being a part of social change. Whether it was collecting food for the food bank, coordinating school fundraising events, long-term international missions or serving meals at a local homeless shelter, I have always loved doing life-impacting work. As I became an adult, my focus became less on social good and more on social standing. For the first nine years of my career I poured myself into building a company where lifestyle, financial freedom and personal achievements were my goal and doing work to change-the-world became an afterthought. I lived chasing my goals – that was all I thought about. On the approach of my ten year entrepreneurial anniversary I began a project that had a dramatic effect on my career path. During a casual conversation with my church pastor, he asked if I would be willing to help him with some strategic planning work he and his key leaders were working on: organizing ideas, making plans and managing the process. Up until this point, I had never done any business related work for him nor had any experience strategic-planning outside of the for-profit sector. Within a year of serving in the nonprofit environment, I had left my business and was working full time coaching executive directors of non profit organizations: church, causes, and schools. Next Level Nonprofits is an online training company specialized in serving first-time executive directors from around the world. Through coaching, teaching and mentoring we equip new nonprofit CEOs with the skills and support they need to enjoy successful, sustainable, and satisfying nonprofit careers. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/16/outputs-vs-outcomes-taking-the-mystery-out-of-measuring-progress/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120928 DTEND:20120929 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120815T131033 LAST-MODIFIED:20120815T131033 UID:4699@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Impact of Words DESCRIPTION: Words to Use vs. Words to Lose The words we use impact the quality of service delivered by library staff. Some words (words to use) satisfy customer needs and wants, connecting us to customers in meaningful ways. Others (words to lose) are negative, destructive, and disconnect us from customers. This webinar reveals the importance words have on our interactions with both internal and external library customers. The session is library focused and offers specific examples of how ‘words to use’ can help library staff members be more effective in dealing with real-life everyday customer situations. Steve founded Think & Do in 1989 after a 25 year career as an educator, trainer and business consultant. He has worked with a wide variety of clients from international organizations like Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson and the Marriott Corporation to municipalities and libraries nationwide. Steve's passion is to help organizations cultivate customer relationships by offering products and services that promote, reinforce and enrich a customer-centered culture. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/15/the-impact-of-words/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120924 DTEND:20120925 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120815T130646 LAST-MODIFIED:20120815T130646 UID:4697@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Media and Privacy DESCRIPTION: There is a balance between connecting, sharing, and protecting your privacy on Social Media sites. These sites often make it difficult to know exactly what you share with others and how to create private conversations within a specific group of people. This workshop will help individuals learn what privacy means to a variety of social media sites like Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Twitter and more. Diana will demonstrate how to change these settings, explain the settings to library users and how to monitor your library’s as well as your own personal online reputation. Diana Silveira is the President of Novare Library Services. Novare Library Services provides training to libraries and their end-users, web-development and technology infrastructure to libraries. Before Novare Library Services, Diana was the Virtual Manager of Florida's Ask a Librarian, a statewide LSTA project helping over 70,000 residents via live chat, email and text messaging. She has an MLIS from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. When not playing with gadgets and gizmos, she enjoys diving, kayaking and other water-related fun. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/15/social-media-and-privacy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120921 DTEND:20120922 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120815T124914 LAST-MODIFIED:20120815T125005 UID:4694@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:2012 Virtual Conference - eBooks: Benefitis, Challenges, and the Future DESCRIPTION: Join us for an exciting one-day online conference as five nationally-and internationally-known speakers discuss wide-ranging aspects of the growing impact of eBooks on libraries. Brought to you by the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN). 10 AM Frankenbooks and the Future of eBooks: An Ongoing Challenge Stephen Abram Do e-books change everything or are they just the same as print? Not by a long shot. What are the opportunities and what enhancements might we expect? Is this the final straw for libraries or the biggest opportunity since the web?. More... 11 AM Getting the Most from Your eBook Readers: Tips and Tricks Chad Mairn New examples of electronic reading material — e-books, e-magazines, e-textbooks — are appearing every day as well as devices and software to read them on. More... 12 Noon eTextbooks: The Shift to Digital — New Models for Course Distribution Nik Osborne, J.D. As educational materials become widely available in digital format there is ongoing pressure to develop distribution models that will properly serve members of higher education. More... 1 PM Lunch Break 2 PM Swimming Upstream: Collection Development Issues and eContent Jamie LaRue There are four new streams of digital content. Douglas County (CO) Libraries has been an early explorer of these rivers that wind always closer to the source. More... 3 PM Ebook Licensing and Access — Now and the Future Sue Polanka This session will analyze the barriers to eBook lending models currently available for libraries. More... Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/15/2012-virtual-conference-ebooks-benefitis-challenges-and-the-future/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120920 DTEND:20120921 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120815T124635 LAST-MODIFIED:20120815T124635 UID:4692@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Creating Infographics for More Effective Handouts and Presentations DESCRIPTION: According to the Visual Teaching Alliance, 90% percent of information that comes to the brain is visual, so why are many of our handouts and presentations primarily text-based? The course will show attendees how they can visually, and more easily, represent complex information and make your handouts and presentations more meaningful to your audience. In this introductory course on infographics, short for information graphics, Diana will demonstrate: How to find existing infographics Explore sites to help you create your own infographics How to create your own infographics - including best practices Diana Silveira is the President of Novare Library Services. Novare Library Services provides training to libraries and their end-users, web-development and technology infrastructure to libraries. Before Novare Library Services, Diana was the Virtual Manager of Florida's Ask a Librarian, a statewide LSTA project helping over 70,000 residents via live chat, email and text messaging. She has an MLIS from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. When not playing with gadgets and gizmos, she enjoys diving, kayaking and other water-related fun. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/15/creating-infographics-for-more-effective-handouts-and-presentations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120919 DTEND:20120920 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120815T123622 LAST-MODIFIED:20120815T123622 UID:4690@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Customer Service at the Library DESCRIPTION: This customer service webinar is recommended for any staff member who interacts with customers (patrons) on a regular basis. It deals specifically with attitudes and actions for cultivating customer loyalty with both internal and external customers at the library, and offers a number of specific tools to help make the patron interaction a meaningful and memorable experience. Learning Objectives: Build awareness of customer needs and wants, and the criteria by which they evaluate service performance at the library. Offer tools for improving effectiveness with library customers and building customer loyalty. Provide tips for enhancing personal communication via telephone and email. Reinforce the value of libraries and how positive patron interactions help promote library advocacy. Steve founded Think & Do in 1989 after a 25 year career as an educator, trainer and business consultant. He has worked with a wide variety of clients from international organizations like Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson and the Marriott Corporation to municipalities and libraries nationwide. Steve's passion is to help organizations cultivate customer relationships by offering products and services that promote, reinforce and enrich a customer-centered culture. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/15/customer-service-at-the-library/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120910 DTEND:20120911 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120815T123254 LAST-MODIFIED:20120815T123254 UID:4688@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Pinterest DESCRIPTION: Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social media sites. It has grown to over 103 million users and it has become one of the top 30 websites in the US within months of its debut. Pinterest users show more engagement, time on the site and click through than many other social media sites combined, making it a highly effective marketing tool for libraries. Join us to learn more about this exciting new site, including how to: Get started pinning Effectively use Pinterest as a tool for your library through ideas, best practices, and examples Discuss some of the copyright issues with Pinterest Diana Silveira is the President of Novare Library Services. Novare Library Services provides training to libraries and their end-users, web-development and technology infrastructure to libraries. Before Novare Library Services, Diana was the Virtual Manager of Florida's Ask a Librarian, a statewide LSTA project helping over 70,000 residents via live chat, email and text messaging. She has an MLIS from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. When not playing with gadgets and gizmos, she enjoys diving, kayaking and other water-related fun. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/15/pinterest/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120918 DTEND:20120919 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120815T084312 LAST-MODIFIED:20120815T084312 UID:4685@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Workforce Planning: Data, Analytics, and Decisions DESCRIPTION: ICF International's Jeff Horey discusses major issues and challenges surrounding workforce planning for government and commercial organizations and ways of addressing these challenges through better decision making and data analytics. This interactive webinar showcases tools that span a wide range of occupations and needs. Attendees will also gain insight into data that really matter and how such data can be structured to provide end users with decisions that make sense. ICF provides a broad array of workforce planning modeling and decision tools for succession planning, staffing to workload, competency modeling, and staff development. Jeff Horey has nearly 30 years of experience working in human and organization performance improvement with all four branches of the U.S. military and joint forces as well as a variety of federal agencies and the private sector. He is considered a thought leader at ICF in the areas of workforce planning, competency modeling and measurement, and cost-benefit decision modeling. His contributions include developing staffing to workload models and decision tools for the U.S. Air Force (USAF), U.S. Marshals, Customs and Immigration Service, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the National Park Service. Included in these efforts was the development of MS office-based dashboards and decision tools that allow users to estimate the potential outcomes of workforce planning initiatives and investments related to staff competency levels; multisector staffing, recruiting, and training costs and benefits; and mission, product, and service staffing to workload modeling. Mr. Horey has extensive experience with competency modeling, leader development and leadership research, employee training and advanced simulation, staffing-to-workload modeling, training evaluation, market research, employee satisfaction and decision making, and organizational assessment and redesign. This work spans design, development, and execution of field research, assessment instrument development, performance development and training courseware products, and the creation of interactive dashboards and sensitivity analysis tools. Mr. Horey is a frequent presenter at the International Military Testing Association, and has prepared and delivered briefings, reports, and public information materials for executive audiences, television and video productions, and other international conferences. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/15/workforce-planning-data-analytics-and-decisions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120911 DTEND:20120912 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120815T073611 LAST-MODIFIED:20120815T073611 UID:4682@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:YouTube Captions Workshop DESCRIPTION: We're going to experiment with an online workshop format in order to assist 5-6 folks who want to correct the captions that are displayed on their YouTube video. We'll send you instructions on how to load your video onto YouTube, if you have not already. Then during the workshop, you will download the caption file, open it in a text editor, begin to make corrections, save and upload the corrected caption file. We'll also share some information about best practices in captioning. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. One must first login to their account before registering for this event. If you do not have a membership account with ATC, one must sign up for a free membership in order to particiapte in the event. Selecting a "Basic Membership" will allow you to have access to training from the Accessible Technology Coalition. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/15/youtube-captions-workshop/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120829 DTEND:20120830 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120814T085212 LAST-MODIFIED:20120814T085212 UID:4680@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:E-readers for Everyone: Teaching Tips from Trainers DESCRIPTION: Thinking about how to most effectively help people learn to use eReaders? Join our webinar on Wednesday, August 29 at 11 a.m. Pacific time, to find out more. According to the recent Pew Research Center report, Libraries, patrons, and ebooks, many libraries offer at least some form of instruction on e-readers and e-books for patrons, including in-person classes, drop-in labs, printed tutorials or FAQs, and online tutorials. Keeping up with the changing landscape can feel overwhelming for instructors. How are library instructors successfully navigating this sea of change? Join this session to hear the instructor perspective on keeping up and helping others. Brenda has been a librarian for more than 15 years. She has delivered training and education for the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WebJunction, the Public Library Association, Emporia State University, UIUC's Certified Public Library Administrator program, and more. When she's not thinking about libraries and learning, she's spending time with her husband and two year old son at their home in Lawrence, Kansas. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/14/e-readers-for-everyone-teaching-tips-from-trainers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120815 DTEND:20120816 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T123327 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T123327 UID:4678@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Organizational Storytelling for Librarians DESCRIPTION: Are you looking for a better way to communicate with your staff, colleagues, and funders? We frequently work so hard at being professional that we forget about the power of personal communication that comes from sharing our own stories and the stories of others. Organizational Storytelling for Librarians takes a growing trend in the business world and applies it to library staff in all kinds of information agencies. This webinar will cover the basics of organizational storytelling and will give examples of its uses in communicating vision, managing change, and creating community. Special guest Waynn Pearson, former City Librarian of the Cerritos (CA) Library, will talk about telling stories through architecture as he describes the narratives embedded in the Cerritos Library building dedicated in 2002. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: •Understand organizational storytelling as an effective communication tool for leadership, based on the concept as used in business settings and as applied to libraries. •Understand the potential of one’s own personal and professional stories to better communicate as a leader •Identify a variety of specific uses of organizational storytelling, including communicating vision and values, building community, navigating change, advocating for libraries, and telling stories through library buildings. •Access additional relevant resources. This webinar will be of interest to library staff in all kinds of organizations and at all levels of their organization who are interested in improving their leadership skills through better personal communication and telling their library’s stories. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/organizational-storytelling-for-librarians-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T114832 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T114832 UID:4676@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Best Small Library in America 2012 DESCRIPTION:A webinar with the Independence Public Library, 2012 Best Small Library in America, showcasing innovative programming, marketing, advocacy and management strategies. Library Journal's annual Best Small Library in America Award, cosponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was created in 2005 to encourage and showcase the exemplary work of libraries serving populations under 25,000. In collaboration with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries and Library Journal, we are pleased to host this webinar featuring the 2012 Best Small Library in America: Independence Public Library. The multi-award-winning library’s staff of eight serves a population of 13,420 through innovative programs and partnerships, leveraging social media and the Geek the Library campaign for sustained marketing and advocacy efforts. Using a participatory management style and collaborating with other Kansas libraries, along with others in their community, IPL has reached out to individuals and partners to deliver programs and services that bring the community into the library. The session will include an overview of the nomination process and details for next year's award. Presented by: Julie Hildebrand, IPL director; Lily Morgan, director, Learning Resource Center at Independence Community College; and Francine Fialkoff, editor-in-chief, Library Journal. Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Register to attend Date 11 September 2012 Time 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4] Venue Webinar LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/best-small-library-in-america-2012/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T114740 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T114740 UID:4674@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Social Media for Project Managers DESCRIPTION: Session status: Not Started Session dates: Monday, September 10, 2012 Starting time: 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Jane Bozarth Description: This session provides an overview of several popular social media tools useful for the project manager. The session will cover products including, but not limited to, Google Docs/Drive, Diigo, and Doodle. Session includes information on setup as well as use. Jane Bozarth is North Carolina's self-appointed "E-Learning Goddess". While her specialty is in finding ways to cut the high costs of e-learning, Jane is also a popular classroom instructor and motivational speaker. Dr. Bozarth enjoys business writing and author of E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring, Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint, From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers, and Social Media for Trainers Host's name: Jennifer Hofmann Host's email: producer@insynctraining.com   Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/social-media-for-project-managers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T114559 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T114559 UID:4672@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Engaging Your Whole Community: Principles and Practice to Influence Policy DESCRIPTION:A webinar with AmericaSpeaks, a leading US nonprofit which uses broad-based outreach strategies to build community engagement. AmericaSpeaks is a U.S. nonprofit that wants to increase citizen engagement and participation in government decision-making by bringing together diverse participant groups to represent broader community interests. Learn how to create community engagement around library-led initiatives such as digital inclusion and gain facilitation skills to help build healthy, prosperous and cohesive communities. The presentation will provide examples of effective tactics for reaching even those who often do not participate because of limited access to and familiarity with new technologies. Presented by: Steve Brigham, President, and David Stern, Director of Online Engagement, AmericaSpeaks Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Register to attend Date 06 September 2012 Time 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4] Venue Webinar LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/engaging-your-whole-community-principles-and-practice-to-influence-policy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T114449 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T114449 UID:4670@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Optimize the Most Important Pages on Your Site DESCRIPTION:We all know that your home page is usually the most visited page on your website, but some people are unaware of how many people are visiting your About Us page. Are you missing opportunities by not thinking strategically about your About Us page? Most websites also have a Contact Us page, is yours as effective as it can be? In this webinar we'll discuss the three most visited pages on your website: your homepage, about us page, and contact us page and how to best optimize them for usability, conversions, and building relationships. Presented by Dave MacElhiney of Hall Internet Marketing Held Tue, Sep 4 - 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST   Register System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer Hall values your privacy and will NEVER forward your information to a third party. For more information, read our privacy policy. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/how-to-optimize-the-most-important-pages-on-your-site/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T114134 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T114134 UID:4667@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Scoop on Series Nonfiction: What's New for Fall 2012 DESCRIPTION: Event status: (Register) Date and time: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Program: Booklist Webinars Duration: 1 hour Description: A free, hour-long continuation of our popular series of webinars on series nonfiction for youth featuring presentations from three of the top publishers in this booming field: Lerner Publishing, Teacher Created Materials Library, and ReferencePoint Press. Moderated by Booklist’s Book for Youth senior editor Daniel Kraus. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/the-scoop-on-series-nonfiction-whats-new-for-fall-2012/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T113949 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T113949 UID:4665@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Gale Virtual Reference Library DESCRIPTION:Date: Friday, August 24, 2012 Start Time: 10:00 am   End Time: 11:00 am (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Category: Product Training Description Register for Gale Virtual Reference Library Training Gale Virtual Reference Libraryis a database of electronic encyclopedias and specialized reference sources, also known as eBooks, for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). This web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Recognize the general content available in the database Construct and employ efficient search strategies for information retrieval Use results lists to examine different types of documents Examine navigational and search features of the user interface Search for, identify, and manage documents found within the database Differentiate between basic and advanced search modes Recognize how to use bookmarks and marked items as a way to manage and organize information found within the database Understand how to cross-search the eBooks with other databases in the libraries collectionThis web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=928842575 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/gale-virtual-reference-library-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T113845 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T113845 UID:4663@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Telling the Library Story DESCRIPTION:This webinar focuses on turning the evidence of our daily patron encounters into short, compelling, and memorable messages that build support. Learn how to tell a succinct, powerful story about the value of libraries. Based on OCLC's "From Awareness to Funding" and the latest findings of brain research, this session focuses on turning the evidence of our daily patron encounters into short, compelling, and memorable messages that build support. Presented by: Jamie LaRue, director, Douglas County Libraries (CO), blogger, and chair of committee who created The Big Hairy Audacious Goal, a public library advocacy initiative. Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific (Note: earlier start time) Register to attend Date 23 August 2012 Time 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4] LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/telling-the-library-story-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T113732 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T113732 UID:4661@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Kids InfoBits DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday, August 23, 2012 Start Time: 11:00 am   End Time: 12:00 pm (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Category: Product Training Description Register for the Kids InfoBits training Kids InfoBits is an exciting resource designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging, developmentally appropriate graphic interface, premier reference content and the best magazines for elementary students, Kids InfoBits addresses the way kids learn and conduct research — and makes it fun! During this session, we will explore the features in Kids InfoBits including: A drilldown subject topic tree for users who need helping identifying a particular topic A simple and visually appealing graphic interface on the GaleNet platform Navigating the results Simple tools at the article level Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=923843835 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/kids-infobits-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T113622 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T113622 UID:4659@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Back to School with Graphic Novels DESCRIPTION: Event status:  (Register) Date and time: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Program: Booklist Webinars Duration: 1 hour Description: Welcome students, reluctant readers, and comic book fans back to school with graphic novels. Josh Elder, founder of Reading with Pictures, will discuss the Graphic Textbook, a new initiative tying comics to the curriculum, and an exciting digital-comics lending program for libraries. He will be joined by representatives from ABDO Publishing, Graphic Universe an imprint of Lerner Publishing, and VIZ Media, who will introduce graphic novels for both the classroom and independent reading. Gillian Engberg, Books for Youth Editorial Director, will moderate this hour-long, free webinar. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/back-to-school-with-graphic-novels/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T113445 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T113445 UID:4657@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY: Google Indoor Maps for Public Libraries DESCRIPTION:Aug 21, 2012 01:00pm - Aug 21, 2012 01:45pm Event Type: Training Category: Live Online   Description This program is presented by the Florida Library Association Continuing Education Committee In November 2011, Google launched Indoor Maps, an exciting addition to the award-winning Google Maps. Indoor Google Maps will enhance your building's overhead or satellite view by replacing that with a floor plan of your building's public areas. This innovation helps visitors find their destination in large or unfamiliar spaces. The process to get involved is simple and unobtrusive. As Indoor Maps is a relatively new feature of Google Maps, your floor plans will be dramatically featured to mobile users of Google Maps at no cost. This webinar covers a comprehensive review of Indoor Google Maps and explains why libraries are participating. Attendees have the opportunity to learn about an innovative step in digital mapping and ask in-depth questions following the presentation. Topics covered: What Can Indoor Google Maps Do For You? Project Basics Creating Indoor Google Maps Keys To A Good Map/Uploading Public Vs. Private Areas Maintaining Maps How To Get My Location On Your Maps Once You Are Live... Product Roadmap Examples Questions Learn more: Go Indoors:  maps.google.com/starthere Case study: Mapping the Smithsonian Museum Onsite Visit Request Form Presented by: Vani Patel, Business Development Specialist, Google Maps Cost: Free and open to all Florida library staff This webinar will be presented online via SEFLIN Connect. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the event. If you are not a registered SEFLIN user, complete the New Visitor Registration on the Login page, then you will be able to register for the event. Click the Registration button below to get started.   Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/google-indoor-maps-for-public-libraries-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T113121 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T113121 UID:4654@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Influential Trainer DESCRIPTION: Session dates: Thursday, August 16, 2012 Starting time: 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Jane Bozarth Description: Trainers have enormous potential to influence their whole organizations. In this session, we'll explore ways to enhance transfer of training, get support and resources for training initiatives, and develop solution-focused strategies while avoiding self-defeating behaviors. Target audience: trainers and those who supervise trainers. Jane Bozarth is North Carolina's self-appointed "E-Learning Goddess". While her specialty is in finding ways to cut the high costs of e-learning, Jane is also a popular classroom instructor and motivational speaker. Dr. Bozarth enjoys business writing and author of E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring, Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint, From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers, and Social Media for Trainers Host's name: Jennifer Hofmann Host's email: producer@insynctraining.com Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/the-influential-trainer/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T112953 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T112953 UID:4652@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Organizational Storytelling for Librarians DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM Please note: we have changed hosting services fromWebEx to Adobe Connect, so we advise you to test your browser before the webinar: http://intesolv.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm. For more webinar tips, see: http://infopeople.org/webinar/tips Presenter: : Kate Marek Register Are you looking for a better way to communicate with your staff, colleagues, and funders? We frequently work so hard at being professional that we forget about the power of personal communication that comes from sharing our own stories and the stories of others. Organizational Storytelling for Librarians takes a growing trend in the business world and applies it to library staff in all kinds of information agencies. This webinar will cover the basics of organizational storytelling and will give examples of its uses in communicating vision, managing change, and creating community. Special guest Waynn Pearson, former City Librarian of the Cerritos (CA) Library, will talk about telling stories through architecture as he describes the narratives embedded in the Cerritos Library building dedicated in 2002. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: Understand organizational storytelling as an effective communication tool for leadership, based on the concept as used in business settings and as applied to libraries. Understand the potential of one’s own personal and professional stories to better communicate as a leader Identify a variety of specific uses of organizational storytelling, including communicating vision and values, building community, navigating change, advocating for libraries, and telling stories through library buildings. Access additional relevant resources. This webinar will be of interest to library staff in all kinds of organizations and at all levels of their organization who are interested in improving their leadership skills through better personal communication and telling their library’s stories. Webinars are free of charge and registration is only done on the day of the event on the Adobe Connect server. No passwords are required. Do you require an accommodation for an Infopeople webinar? For this service, please complete and submit a request form at least 72 hours before the webinar: Request Form Webinar Tips Test your browser for compatibility LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/organizational-storytelling-for-librarians/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T112748 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T112748 UID:4650@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Kids InfoBits DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Start Time: 1:30 pm   End Time: 2:30 pm (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Category: Product Training Description Register for the Kids InfoBits training Kids InfoBits is an exciting resource designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging, developmentally appropriate graphic interface, premier reference content and the best magazines for elementary students, Kids InfoBits addresses the way kids learn and conduct research — and makes it fun! During this session, we will explore the features in Kids InfoBits including: A drilldown subject topic tree for users who need helping identifying a particular topic A simple and visually appealing graphic interface on the GaleNet platform Navigating the results Simple tools at the article level Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=926006976 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/kids-infobits-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T112623 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T112623 UID:4648@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Crafting Business Stories That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire DESCRIPTION:Date of Event: Aug 15, 2012 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST Fee: Complimentary Meeting Number: 17788-00001   Attending this Webcast is free. Registration is required. Sign-up for your Free MyAMA account now or call 1-800-262-9699. Overview When you want to be understood, tell a story Over the last decade, storytelling has become one of the most rapidly growing communication tools used by business leaders and executives. Companies like Disney, 3M, Motorola, and the World Bank have adopted storytelling as a key method of influence and leadership. Instead of corporate memos, email, and PowerPoint presentations, storytelling is now being used to inspire and motivate organizations, to create a vision for the future, to define culture and values, to set goals and build commitment to them, and to lead change. What You Will Learn WHY storytelling works, and WHEN to use it A simple, three-part story structure that’s proven to work Tips for turning a good story into a great story by using metaphors, emotion, and surprises, while keeping the style concrete, direct, and engaging While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/crafting-business-stories-that-captivate-convince-and-inspire-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T112335 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T112412 UID:4645@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Developing Your Plan for Successful Career Growth and Advancement DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM   Register Please note: we have changed hosting services fromWebEx to Adobe Connect, so we advise you to test your browser before the webinar: http://intesolv.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm. For more webinar tips, see: http://infopeople.org/webinar/tips Presenter: : Deb Hunt and David Grossman The first webinar in this series focused broadly on skills that are needed in the contemporary library environment, and where to find training in those skills. This webinar will focus on your individual skills and skill gaps. Determining the specific combination of skills you need to acquire in order to advance your career or take it in a different direction can be a daunting challenge. How can you: Determine which skills are essential for pursuing your chosen career path? Craft a plan to acquire the critical skills that may be lacking or increase your level of competency for skills you already possess? Acquire the new skills necessary for career advancement if you are unable to attain those them within the confines of your current job? Successfully break through these barriers and smooth the way to career growth and expansion? Design and create a resume that will rise to the top of the pile and maximize you chances of landing your dream job? In this one-hour webinar, participants will learn a number of proven strategies to acquire new skills and be shown how to formulate a plan to attain those new skills or bolster the skills they already possess. They also learn how to successfully overcome some of the greatest barriers to career growth. Finally, they learn how to redesign their resumes to garner maximum impact. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: Be able to generate a customized list of the skills they need and levels of expertise they must attain in order to move their careers forward and meet their career objectives. Be able to conceptualize and prioritize their skill acquisition strategies to meet their career objectives. Be able to create a customized plan for the acquisition of new skills or improvement of existing skills to meet their career objectives. Learn how to overcome the five biggest obstacles for career advancement Know how to rewrite their resume to stand out from the crowd and maximize their chances of success. This webinar will be of interest to Library staff contemplating the next job opportunity or career change and those seeking to identify their current skills and acquiring new ones. This is part of a series of four webinars. The other presentations can found at: Webinar 1: Identifying and Acquiring New Skills: The Key to Career Growth and Advancement July 10, 2012 Webinar 2: Developing Your Plan for Successful Career Growth and Advancement August 14, 2012 Webinar 3: Successful Librarians Share Their Stories of Career Growth and Advancement Coming in September 2012 Webinar 4: Telling Your Story: Five Secrets for Successful Career Growth and Advancement Coming in October 2012 Webinars are free of charge and registration is only done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No passwords are required. Do you require an accommodation for an Infopeople webinar? For this service, please complete and submit a request form at least 72 hours before the webinar: Request Form WebEx Tips Test your browser for compatibility LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/developing-your-plan-for-successful-career-growth-and-advancement-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T112131 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T112131 UID:4643@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:YA Announcements: Fall Preview (Booklist) DESCRIPTION: Get a sneak peek at new titles for fall and beyond in this hour-long, free webinar. Representatives from Albert Whitman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Perseus/Running Press, and Zondervan will share their favorite upcoming books for youth. Moderated by Booklist senior editor Ilene Cooper.        Register Now! LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/ya-announcements-fall-preview-booklist/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T111942 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T111942 UID:4641@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Gale Virtual Reference Library DESCRIPTION:Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Start Time: 10:00 am   End Time: 11:00 am (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Category: Product Training Description Register for Gale Virtual Reference Library Training Gale Virtual Reference Libraryis a database of electronic encyclopedias and specialized reference sources, also known as eBooks, for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). This web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Recognize the general content available in the database Construct and employ efficient search strategies for information retrieval Use results lists to examine different types of documents Examine navigational and search features of the user interface Search for, identify, and manage documents found within the database Differentiate between basic and advanced search modes Recognize how to use bookmarks and marked items as a way to manage and organize information found within the database Understand how to cross-search the eBooks with other databases in the libraries collectionThis web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=498239574 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/gale-virtual-reference-library-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T111804 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T111804 UID:4639@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Finding and Using Primary Sources from the Florida Memory Website DESCRIPTION: Event status:  (Register) Date and time: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Program: Division of Library and Information Services Panelist(s) Info: Johnathan Grandage, Archives Historian and Katrina Harkness, Archives Education Officer Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Description: This interactive webinar focuses on using Florida Memory to find primary source materials for Florida History Fair and for teaching Florida history. Florida Memory is a web initiative by the Florida Department of State’s Division of Library and Information Services. Florida Memory provides online access to significant materials from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida, including over 170,000 photographs, 90 full-length films, 1,500 audio recordings and thousands of original documents. This webinar highlights resources for the Florida History Fair as a jumping off point for exploring the wealth of primary source materials on Florida Memory. Additionally, we will provide an overview of the components and features of the Florida Memory website and suggest ways teachers can use these materials in the classroom. Special Guest: KC Smith, Florida History Fair Coordinator and Curator of Education, Museum of Florida History For more information, contact: Johnathan Grandage, Archives Historian, at johnathan.grandage@dos.myflorida.com or 850.245.6669 or Katrina Harkness, Archives Education Officer, at katrina.harkness@dos.myflorida.com or 850.245.6711. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/finding-and-using-primary-sources-from-the-florida-memory-website/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120821 DTEND:20120822 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T111631 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T111631 UID:4637@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Generating Reports from Florida's Public Library Statistics DESCRIPTION: Event status:  (Register) Date and time: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Program: Division of Library and Information Services Panelist(s) Info: Stephanie Irvin, State Data Coordinator Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/generating-reports-from-floridas-public-library-statistics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120919 DTEND:20120920 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120810T094200 LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T094208 UID:4633@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution DESCRIPTION: Overview How to Create the Killer Culture of Tomorrow Pan Am, Kodak, and Blockbuster. What do these companies have in common? This powerful webcast sheds light on how even category-dominating behemoths can succumb to the twin evils of complexity and complacency. Progress doesn’t come from standing still. It’s time to Kill the Company… before someone else does. Participants will learn how to constantly reexamine their own businesses to keep innovation, and long-term success, on-track. Instead of adding more complexity through expensive, sweeping culture change initiatives, Bodell shares how teams can actually simplify to achieve more. Leaders will learn why providing guardrails instead of handcuffs to their teams can reignite critical aptitudes (curiosity, inquiry, creative problem solving) and more. Rethink business as usual to reimagine the organization. What You Will Learn This engaging experience brings to life key concepts in Bodell’s latest book, Kill the Company: 1.everyone is a change agent 2.employees creating for the employee 3.little changes, big impact. Bodell quickly moves her message from insight to action by offering tangible ways to simplify your business and ignite innovation. Lisa Bodell is founder and CEO of futurethink, and author of Kill The Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution. A respected thought leader on innovation topics, Bodell has appeared on FOX News, and is author of numerous articles for such publications as Crain’s, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times, Business Daily, Harvard Business Review and The Futurist. She has taught courses at American University, Fordham University, and American Management Association. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/10/kill-the-company-end-the-status-quo-start-an-innovation-revolution-amana/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120912 DTEND:20120913 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120809T104828 LAST-MODIFIED:20120809T104828 UID:4631@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:RDA: Are We There Yet? DESCRIPTION: It’s been a long time coming, but Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new cataloging code, will be implemented by the Library of Congress next year – are you ready? In this session, Emily Nimsakont, the NLC’s Cataloging Librarian, will provide an update on the latest RDA-related developments and offer tips for RDA implementation. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/09/rda-are-we-there-yet/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120829 DTEND:20120830 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120809T104611 LAST-MODIFIED:20120809T104611 UID:4629@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Marketing on the Edge DESCRIPTION: From its billboard and poster campaign to its YouTube comedy series, Craighead County Jonesboro (AR) Public Library (CCJPL) takes an adventurous approach to increasing community awareness. Compelled to change the perception of the library as an antiquated and boring institution, CCJPL produces aggressive, comedic promotional material that’s sure to inspire. We'll discuss strategy, getting buy-in, budgeting, the creative process, and community response. Join Ben Bizzle, Director of Technology at CCJPL, for an entertaining look at marketing on the edge. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/09/marketing-on-the-edge/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120829 DTEND:20120830 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120809T085006 LAST-MODIFIED:20120809T085006 UID:4627@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Foundations and Grant Making as Strategic Partners in Sustainability Efforts DESCRIPTION: DESCRIPTION: Jurisdictions, organizations, and individuals will have the opportunity to listen to and participate in a presentation on effectively engaging foundations as strategic partners. PURPOSE: Foundations are a source of sustainability funding. Participants will learn about a myriad of foundation types and funding resources. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: - Introduce participants to the culture of philanthropy - Provide an overview of the steps and tools needed to approach foundations and philanthropies - Introduce participants to philanthropic resource organizations Webinar instructions and login information will be provided to all registrants by email on August 28. If you have any questions, please contact the State Training and Technical Assistance Center at STTAC@air.org. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/09/foundations-and-grant-making-as-strategic-partners-in-sustainability-efforts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120815 DTEND:20120816 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120809T084820 LAST-MODIFIED:20120809T084820 UID:4625@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Cyberbullying: What You Can Do DESCRIPTION: Today’s kids use technology more than ever. While technology can be a great tool to communicate and learn, it can also be used in harmful ways, and allow some kids to take bullying from school hallways into cyberspace. This form of bullying, cyberbullying, happens when kids bully each other through electronic technology, including sending mean text messages, posting embarrassing photos on social networking sites, or creating fake profiles of another individual. Hosted by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) through the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention, this webinar will detail current trends in cyberbullying, particularly on how schools, parents, and communities can all work to help prevent this growing problem, including how to create a supportive environment and how to speak to kids about the impact of cyberbullying. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/09/cyberbullying-what-you-can-do/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120814 DTEND:20120815 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120807T112853 LAST-MODIFIED:20120807T112925 UID:4622@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Developing Your Plan for Successful Career Growth and Advancement DESCRIPTION: The first webinar in this series focused broadly on skills that are needed in the contemporary library environment, and where to find training in those skills. This webinar will focus on your individual skills and skill gaps. Determining the specific combination of skills you need to acquire in order to advance your career or take it in a different direction can be a daunting challenge. How can you: •Determine which skills are essential for pursuing your chosen career path? •Craft a plan to acquire the critical skills that may be lacking or increase your level of competency for skills you already possess? •Acquire the new skills necessary for career advancement if you are unable to attain those them within the confines of your current job? •Successfully break through these barriers and smooth the way to career growth and expansion? •Design and create a resume that will rise to the top of the pile and maximize you chances of landing your dream job? In this one-hour webinar, participants will learn a number of proven strategies to acquire new skills and be shown how to formulate a plan to attain those new skills or bolster the skills they already possess. They also learn how to successfully overcome some of the greatest barriers to career growth. Finally, they learn how to redesign their resumes to garner maximum impact. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: •Be able to generate a customized list of the skills they need and levels of expertise they must attain in order to move their careers forward and meet their career objectives. •Be able to conceptualize and prioritize their skill acquisition strategies to meet their career objectives. •Be able to create a customized plan for the acquisition of new skills or improvement of existing skills to meet their career objectives. •Learn how to overcome the five biggest obstacles for career advancement •Know how to rewrite their resume to stand out from the crowd and maximize their chances of success. This webinar will be of interest to Library staff contemplating the next job opportunity or career change and those seeking to identify their current skills and acquiring new ones. This is part of a series of four webinars. The other presentations can found at: Webinar 1: Identifying and Acquiring New Skills: The Key to Career Growth and Advancement July 10, 2012 Webinar 2: Developing Your Plan for Successful Career Growth and Advancement August 14, 2012 Webinar 3: Successful Librarians Share Their Stories of Career Growth and Advancement Coming in September 2012 Webinar 4: Telling Your Story: Five Secrets for Successful Career Growth and Advancement Coming in October 2012 To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/07/developing-your-plan-for-successful-career-growth-and-advancement/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120904 DTEND:20120905 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120806T124126 LAST-MODIFIED:20120806T124141 UID:4619@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Quantifying The Mobile Difference DESCRIPTION: Mobile is different. Gaps in the networks, hardware and software used separates the mobile world from the desktop world. But for web performance, these differences are NOT equally important. In this webcast presentation, we'll dig into these differences with real numbers, helping us focus on the ones that really matter for performance. We'll review: •old and new data •where the mobile difference comes into play •some myths •conclusions and takeaways for what you can do about it Guy Podjarny, or Guypo, is a Chief Product Architect at Akamai. Guy works on Automated Front-End Optimization, and was the co-founder and CTO of Blaze.io, later acquired by Akamai. Guy has been in the web application field for over a decade, moving from Web Application Security to Web Application Performance, but keeping his focus on deep analysis of web pages. Guy is also a self admitted efficiency fanatic, looking to extract the most out of everything, from a packed suitcase to a complex web 2.0 app. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/06/quantifying-the-mobile-difference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120925 DTEND:20120926 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120803T095959 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T100133 UID:4414@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Session DESCRIPTION: Lyrasis' new Mass Digitization Collaborative offers members the opportunity to contribute materials to a regional mass digitization project. Lyrasis facilitates the process by selecting vendors and developing a collaborative collection development policy, guidelines, standards, and workflows. The Collaborative is funded by the Lyrasis membership and supported in part through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The full project was originally opened to all PALINET members in October 2008. Lyrasis members who are interested in learning more about Lyrasis' digitization collaborative. When registered, attendees will receive email containing login information to webinar within two weeks before event. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at www.swfln.org LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/03/mass-digitization-collaborative-information-session-10/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120907 DTEND:20120908 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120803T095843 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T100038 UID:4413@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Session DESCRIPTION: Lyrasis' new Mass Digitization Collaborative offers members the opportunity to contribute materials to a regional mass digitization project. Lyrasis facilitates the process by selecting vendors and developing a collaborative collection development policy, guidelines, standards, and workflows. The Collaborative is funded by the Lyrasis membership and supported in part through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The full project was originally opened to all PALINET members in October 2008. Lyrasis members who are interested in learning more about Lyrasis' digitization collaborative. When registered, attendees will receive email containing login information to webinar within two weeks before event. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at www.swfln.org LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/03/mass-digitization-collaborative-information-session-9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120926 DTEND:20120927 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120802T171617 LAST-MODIFIED:20120802T171708 UID:4613@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Next Generation Digital Library (OverDrive) DESCRIPTION: Join us live for OverDrive's smash hit Next Generation Digital Library, as we shine the spotlight on what's new for your OverDrive service. All shows include audience participation...and are delivered via the web. Seating is limited, so reserve your free pass now! OverDrive showcases exciting developments for 2012...coming soon to your digital library! •Browser-based eReading •Streaming audiobooks •Integration with library discovery tools •OverDrive Media Station •Publisher-supported device lending •Content Reserve - fresh new design! •Self-service help & training •And more... Shannon is Manager of Library Partner Services, providing account services to OverDrive's library and school partners. Shannon has participated in dozens of library conferences and events, and also serves as chairperson for OverDrive's international user group conference, Digipalooza. A certificate of completion will be sent to you after attending one of the above live sessions; you can print it to attach to a CE Activity Report to record it as a technology-related continuing education activity. Requirements: A computer, laptop or iPad (get ReadyTalk Mobile for iPad) with speakers or headphones. Test your computer setup here. No phone connection needed. Cancellations: If you need to cancel your registration, please contact OverDrive not less than 24 hours before the session, via phone at 216.573.6886 x761 or email training@overdrive.com. Training Month 2012 runs September 5 – 28; it’s a free online program for library staff, designed to help increase staff knowledge and maximize circulation of your OverDrive digital collection. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/02/next-generation-digital-library-overdrive-7/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120920 DTEND:20120921 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120802T171245 LAST-MODIFIED:20120802T171245 UID:4609@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Next Generation Digital Library (OverDrive) DESCRIPTION: Join us live for OverDrive's smash hit Next Generation Digital Library, as we shine the spotlight on what's new for your OverDrive service. All shows include audience participation...and are delivered via the web. Seating is limited, so reserve your free pass now! OverDrive showcases exciting developments for 2012...coming soon to your digital library! •Browser-based eReading •Streaming audiobooks •Integration with library discovery tools •OverDrive Media Station •Publisher-supported device lending •Content Reserve - fresh new design! •Self-service help & training •And more... Shannon is Manager of Library Partner Services, providing account services to OverDrive's library and school partners. Shannon has participated in dozens of library conferences and events, and also serves as chairperson for OverDrive's international user group conference, Digipalooza. A certificate of completion will be sent to you after attending one of the above live sessions; you can print it to attach to a CE Activity Report to record it as a technology-related continuing education activity. Requirements: A computer, laptop or iPad (get ReadyTalk Mobile for iPad) with speakers or headphones. Test your computer setup here. No phone connection needed. Cancellations: If you need to cancel your registration, please contact OverDrive not less than 24 hours before the session, via phone at 216.573.6886 x761 or email training@overdrive.com. Training Month 2012 runs September 5 – 28; it’s a free online program for library staff, designed to help increase staff knowledge and maximize circulation of your OverDrive digital collection. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/02/next-generation-digital-library-overdrive-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120912 DTEND:20120913 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120802T171002 LAST-MODIFIED:20120802T171002 UID:4607@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Next Generation Digital Library (OverDrive) DESCRIPTION: Join us live for OverDrive's smash hit Next Generation Digital Library, as we shine the spotlight on what's new for your OverDrive service. All shows include audience participation...and are delivered via the web. Seating is limited, so reserve your free pass now! OverDrive showcases exciting developments for 2012...coming soon to your digital library! •Browser-based eReading •Streaming audiobooks •Integration with library discovery tools •OverDrive Media Station •Publisher-supported device lending •Content Reserve - fresh new design! •Self-service help & training •And more... Cassie is a Marketing and Outreach Specialist who loves eBooks as much as her adorable dog Stevie. 2012 marks Cassie's third Training Month with OverDrive...as well as her entry into the Bon Ton Roulet, a 7 day bicycle tour across the Finger Lakes region of New York State. A certificate of completion will be sent to you after attending one of the above live sessions; you can print it to attach to a CE Activity Report to record it as a technology-related continuing education activity. Requirements: A computer, laptop or iPad (get ReadyTalk Mobile for iPad) with speakers or headphones. Test your computer setup here. No phone connection needed. Cancellations: If you need to cancel your registration, please contact OverDrive not less than 24 hours before the session, via phone at 216.573.6886 x761 or email training@overdrive.com. Training Month 2012 runs September 5 – 28; it’s a free online program for library staff, designed to help increase staff knowledge and maximize circulation of your OverDrive digital collection. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/02/next-generation-digital-library-overdrive-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120911 DTEND:20120912 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120802T170748 LAST-MODIFIED:20120802T170748 UID:4605@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Next Generation Digital Library (OverDrive) DESCRIPTION: Join us live for OverDrive's smash hit Next Generation Digital Library, as we shine the spotlight on what's new for your OverDrive service. All shows include audience participation...and are delivered via the web. Seating is limited, so reserve your free pass now! OverDrive showcases exciting developments for 2012...coming soon to your digital library! •Browser-based eReading •Streaming audiobooks •Integration with library discovery tools •OverDrive Media Station •Publisher-supported device lending •Content Reserve - fresh new design! •Self-service help & training •And more... Shannon is Manager of Library Partner Services, providing account services to OverDrive's library and school partners. Shannon has participated in dozens of library conferences and events, and also serves as chairperson for OverDrive's international user group conference, Digipalooza. A certificate of completion will be sent to you after attending one of the above live sessions; you can print it to attach to a CE Activity Report to record it as a technology-related continuing education activity. Requirements: A computer, laptop or iPad (get ReadyTalk Mobile for iPad) with speakers or headphones. Test your computer setup here. No phone connection needed. Cancellations: If you need to cancel your registration, please contact OverDrive not less than 24 hours before the session, via phone at 216.573.6886 x761 or email training@overdrive.com. Training Month 2012 runs September 5 – 28; it’s a free online program for library staff, designed to help increase staff knowledge and maximize circulation of your OverDrive digital collection. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/02/next-generation-digital-library-overdrive-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120906 DTEND:20120907 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120802T170329 LAST-MODIFIED:20120802T170329 UID:4603@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Next Generation Digital Library (OverDrive) DESCRIPTION: Join us live for OverDrive's smash hit Next Generation Digital Library, as we shine the spotlight on what's new for your OverDrive service. All shows include audience participation...and are delivered via the web. Seating is limited, so reserve your free pass now! OverDrive showcases exciting developments for 2012...coming soon to your digital library! •Browser-based eReading •Streaming audiobooks •Integration with library discovery tools •OverDrive Media Station •Publisher-supported device lending •Content Reserve - fresh new design! •Self-service help & training •And more... Shannon is Manager of Library Partner Services, providing account services to OverDrive's library and school partners. Shannon has participated in dozens of library conferences and events, and also serves as chairperson for OverDrive's international user group conference, Digipalooza. A certificate of completion will be sent to you after attending one of the above live sessions; you can print it to attach to a CE Activity Report to record it as a technology-related continuing education activity. Requirements: A computer, laptop or iPad (get ReadyTalk Mobile for iPad) with speakers or headphones. Test your computer setup here. No phone connection needed. Cancellations: If you need to cancel your registration, please contact OverDrive not less than 24 hours before the session, via phone at 216.573.6886 x761 or email training@overdrive.com. Training Month 2012 runs September 5 – 28; it’s a free online program for library staff, designed to help increase staff knowledge and maximize circulation of your OverDrive digital collection. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/02/next-generation-digital-library-overdrive-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120905 DTEND:20120906 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120802T165849 LAST-MODIFIED:20120802T165849 UID:4601@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Next Generation Digital Library (OverDrive) DESCRIPTION: Join us live for OverDrive's smash hit Next Generation Digital Library, as we shine the spotlight on what's new for your OverDrive service. All shows include audience participation...and are delivered via the web. Seating is limited, so reserve your free pass now! OverDrive showcases exciting developments for 2012...coming soon to your digital library! •Browser-based eReading •Streaming audiobooks •Integration with library discovery tools •OverDrive Media Station •Publisher-supported device lending •Content Reserve - fresh new design! •Self-service help & training •And more... Steve Potash is President and CEO of OverDrive, a leading global distributor of eBooks and more. OverDrive partners with libraries and schools in more than 20 countries to deliver protected digital content to millions of readers worldwide. A certificate of completion will be sent to you after attending one of the above live sessions; you can print it to attach to a CE Activity Report to record it as a technology-related continuing education activity. Requirements: A computer, laptop or iPad (get ReadyTalk Mobile for iPad) with speakers or headphones. Test your computer setup here. No phone connection needed. Cancellations: If you need to cancel your registration, please contact OverDrive not less than 24 hours before the session, via phone at 216.573.6886 x761 or email training@overdrive.com. Training Month 2012 runs September 5 – 28; it’s a free online program for library staff, designed to help increase staff knowledge and maximize circulation of your OverDrive digital collection. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/02/next-generation-digital-library-overdrive/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120921T000000 DTEND:20120921T230000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120801T155719 LAST-MODIFIED:20120801T155854 UID:4595@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Virtual Conference: eBooks: Benefits, Challenges, and the Future (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting one-day online conference as five nationally- and internationally-known speakers discuss wide-ranging aspects of the growing impact of eBooks on libraries. Brought to you by the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN). Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm Conference speakers are: Stephen Abram (Gale-Cengage Learning) Chad Mairn (Novare Library Services) Nik Osborne, J.D. (Indiana University) Jamie LaRue (Douglas County Libraries, CO) Sue Polanka (Wright State University) Cost: Free to Florida Library Staff Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/01/virtual-conference-ebooks-benefits-challenges-and-the-future-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120828 DTEND:20120829 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120801T091329 LAST-MODIFIED:20120801T091347 UID:4581@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Brandraising: Raise Visibilty and Money Through Smart Communications DESCRIPTION: As you expand the tools you use to communicate online and off and staff's roles change, how do you ensure you're all speaking with one voice? Based on Sarah Durham's book Brandraising: How Nonprofits Raise Visibility and Money Through Smart Communications, (Jossey-Bass, 2010) this workshop will help you apply Brandraising concepts to improve your program's communications, and make sure they make sense with other aspects of your organization's communications, too. Join this webinar to: •Understand how online communications connect to other channels (on air, in print, in person, and mobile); •Learn how to use positioning and personality to help keep all of your work on track; and •Learn how branding can help you reach fundraising, outreach, and advocacy goals. Sarah Durham is the Principal and Founder of Big Duck, the leading communications firm that works exclusively with nonprofits. Clients include local, regional, national, and international organizations. She was named a top fundraiser under 40 by Fundraising Success Magazine in 2006, and one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company magazine in 2010. The author of Brandraising: How Nonprofits Raise Visibility and Money Through Smart Communications (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2010), Sarah teaches aspiring nonprofit communications nerds at NYU’s Wagner School (where she is an adjunct faculty member) and is a regular speaker at Association of Fundraising Professionals and Nonprofit Technology Network conferences. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/01/brandraising-raise-visibilty-and-money-through-smart-communications/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120814 DTEND:20120815 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120801T091033 LAST-MODIFIED:20120801T091126 UID:4578@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:YouTube Access DESCRIPTION: Did you know that YouTube is the second most-used search engine, after Google? We'll cover the following features that improve access: •Enlargement •Simplified interface •Interactive transcripts •Captions, both on YouTube and from other sources •Using YouTube with a screen reader •Narration •Specialized content for deaf users We'll approach this from the point of view of a user who is low vision, blind, hearing impaired, or deaf. Then we'll consider what one can do as a content publisher on YouTube to increase access. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. One must first login to their account before registering for this event. If you do not have a membership account with ATC, one must sign up for a free membership in order to particiapte in the event. Selecting a "Basic Membership" will allow you to have access to training from the Accessible Technology Coalition. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/01/youtube-access/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120814 DTEND:20120815 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120801T090847 LAST-MODIFIED:20120801T090847 UID:4575@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to Captivate and Engage your Constituents with your Website DESCRIPTION:In this session, you will learn from more than 10 years of focus group research with nonprofit constituents and donors how to captivate and engage your audience. Join Jay to discover: • The 5 required elements of an engaging website • The 3 biggest mistakes nonprofits make with their website • 5 proven methods for promoting your organization online • The #1 factor nonprofits should consider regarding search engine optimization • Real-world examples of nonprofit organizations that have mastered their online presence You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn how to take your organization’s web presence to the next level from one of America’s top-rated experts on websites and marketing for nonprofits. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/01/how-to-captivate-and-engage-your-constituents-with-your-website/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121003 DTEND:20121004 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120801T090632 LAST-MODIFIED:20120801T090632 UID:4573@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Renew Yourself, Your Library and Your Career DESCRIPTION: As society and technology evolve in ways that can sometimes be startling, we may find ourselves occasionally wondering "What can *I* really do to make a real difference at work?". In this session we'll come together to learn and think about the role of the modern library and how you, regardless of the position you fill at your day job, can make substantial impacts you might not have felt empowered to before. Come for ideas, motivation and inspiration about your work and the work of libraries. Leave ready to affect more change and create more opportunity for yourself and your local community than you may have ever imagined possible. Michael Porter is a librarian, presenter, author, practical technology fan, and PEZ collector. He has 20 years of experience working in Libraryland and has presented hundreds of times to library staff around the world. His writings regularly appear in major library journals around the world. In 2009 he was selected as a Library Journal "Mover & Shaker", in 2010 was elected to the American Library Association’s governing Council and in 2011 was also elected to the ALA Executive Board. He previously worked with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, OCLC, WebJunction, and the Allen County Public Library. Michael currently serves as CEO of Library Renewal (libraryrenewal.org), an organization dedicated to research, partnerships and grassroots support for libraries as they struggle to offer electronic content to their users in competitive ways. Read more from Michael at libraryman.com To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/08/01/renew-yourself-your-library-and-your-career/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120906 DTEND:20120907 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120731T085738 LAST-MODIFIED:20120731T085738 UID:4570@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Engaging Your Whole Community:Principles and Practice to Influence Policy DESCRIPTION: A webinar with AmericaSpeaks, a leading US nonprofit which uses broad-based outreach strategies to build community engagement. AmericaSpeaks, a leading US nonprofit focused on citizen engagement, deliberation, and participation in government decision-making, incorporates broad-based outreach strategies into all of its work. Using low-cost, online and face-to-face public engagement strategies, successful engagement initiatives bring together diverse participant groups to represent the broader community interests. Learn how to build community engagement around library-led initiatives such as digital inclusion and gain facilitation skills to help build healthy, prosperous and cohesive communities. Presenters will provide examples from their own work and from that of other leading civic engagement practitioners to illustrate the most effective tactics for reaching those who often do not participate because of limited access to and familiarity with new technologies. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/31/engaging-your-whole-communityprinciples-and-practice-to-influence-policy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120821 DTEND:20120822 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T110523 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T110523 UID:4562@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Google Indoor Maps for Public Libraries DESCRIPTION: This program is presented by the Florida Library Association Continuing Education Committee In November 2011, Google launched Indoor Maps, an exciting addition to the award-winning Google Maps. Indoor Google Maps will enhance your building's overhead or satellite view by replacing that with a floor plan of your building's public areas. This innovation helps visitors find their destination in large or unfamiliar spaces. The process to get involved is simple and unobtrusive. As Indoor Maps is a relatively new feature of Google Maps, your floor plans will be dramatically featured to mobile users of Google Maps at no cost. This webinar covers a comprehensive review of Indoor Google Maps and explains why libraries are participating. Attendees have the opportunity to learn about an innovative step in digital mapping and ask in-depth questions following the presentation. Topics covered: ¡What Can Indoor Google Maps Do For You? ¡Project Basics ¡Creating Indoor Google Maps ¡Keys To A Good Map/Uploading ¡Public Vs. Private Areas ¡Maintaining Maps ¡How To Get My Location On Your Maps ¡Once You Are Live... ¡Product Roadmap ¡Examples ¡Questions Learn more: Go Indoors: maps.google.com/starthere Case study: Mapping the Smithsonian Museum Onsite Visit Request Form Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Please register on the SWFLN CE Calendar at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/google-indoor-maps-for-public-libraries/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120821T080000 DTEND:20120821T170000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T102926 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T102926 UID:4560@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Google Indoor Maps for Public Libraries (FLA) DESCRIPTION:Time:    1:00  – 1:45 pm EST In November 2011, Google launched Indoor Maps, an exciting addition to the award-winning Google Maps. Indoor Google Maps will enhance your building's overhead or satellite view by replacing that with a floor plan of your building's public areas. This innovation helps visitors find their destination in large or unfamiliar spaces. The process to get involved is simple and unobtrusive. As Indoor Maps is a relatively new feature of Google Maps, your floor plans will be dramatically featured to mobile users of Google Maps at no cost. This webinar covers a comprehensive review of Indoor Google Maps and explains why libraries are participating. Attendees have the opportunity to learn about an innovative step in digital mapping and ask in-depth questions following the presentation. Topics covered: What Can Indoor Google Maps Do For You? Project Basics Creating Indoor Google Maps Keys To A Good Map/Uploading Public Vs. Private Areas Maintaining Maps How To Get My Location On Your Maps Once You Are Live... Product Roadmap Examples Questions Learn more: Go Indoors:  maps.google.com/starthere Case study: Mapping the Smithsonian Museum Onsite Visit Request Form Presented by:   Vani Patel, Business Development Specialist, Google Maps Cost:      Free and open to all Florida library staff Register here LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/google-indoor-maps-for-public-libraries-fla/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121108 DTEND:20121109 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T083718 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T083718 UID:4558@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Executing Results:A Leadership Brand Series—Part 4 DESCRIPTION: What's more important - your daily activities or the results they produce? Your ability to execute results is many instances a direct measure of your leadership impact. Join us for a complimentary session with Linkage's Rich Rosier, Regional Vice President, as he shares: ~strategies to shift your thinking and focus from one of activities to one results ~tactics to delivery outputs that will give room for flexibility, improvement, innovation and overall leadership effectiveness To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/executing-resultsa-leadership-brand-series-part-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120802 DTEND:20120803 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T083539 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T083539 UID:4556@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Librarians are Wikipedians Too DESCRIPTION: Wikipedia is an increasingly prominent player in the web search environment, and more people are finding it "a good place to start research." Despite open questions regarding quality, Wikipedia shares common goals with libraries in ensuring free accessibility to information, and relying on authoritative sources. This presentation will overview the past efforts and future potential of libraries and librarians working with Wikipedia. Discussed are strategies to drive web- and foot-traffic to libraries through the use of Wikipedia. Plus powerful tips and tricks are revealed into the software and policies of Wikipedia, helping librarians to critically address quality for themselves. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/librarians-are-wikipedians-too-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120906 DTEND:20120907 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T083230 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T083319 UID:4552@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Born Digital: Cataloging Items on the Web DESCRIPTION: This two hour live online class introduces the cataloging process and uses lecture, demonstration, discussion and hands-on practice to teach descriptive cataloging of resources born digital. The ever-increasing popularity of the Internet has made librarians' participation in cataloging online resources crucial. In this 2 hour live online class, we'll introduce the cataloging process and use lecture, demonstration, discussion and hands-on practice to teach descriptive cataloging of resources born digital. Resources discussed will be those born digital such as websites, pdfs and others. Tips on searching for records in OCLC, copy cataloging, choosing the right format and cataloging policy issues are also covered. PREREQUISITES: Basic knowledge of the MARC format and OCLC cataloging system. Familiarity with basic principles of cataloging, including chapters 1, 9, and 12 of AACR2. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to TBLC members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. To register for this webinar, please click on the link below. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/born-digital-cataloging-items-on-the-web-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120910 DTEND:20120911 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T083023 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T083023 UID:4550@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Copy Cataloging with CatExpress DESCRIPTION: This live online course provides instruction on copy cataloging using the CatExpress interface. This course covers the copy cataloging workflow including searching, holdings maintenance, exporting and downloading records. After completing this course, the learner will be prepared to fully utilize the CatExpress service. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/copy-cataloging-with-catexpress/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120905 DTEND:20120906 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T082859 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T082859 UID:4548@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 8 – Authority Control DESCRIPTION: Authority control is the process by which consistency of form is maintained in headings for names, uniform titles, series titles and subjects used in a library catalog. Authority control can also be used to provide “see” and “see also” references, to disambiguate similar headings, and to collocate records for the same work (such as translations or classical music). This course provides instruction on how to use OCLC Connexion Browser to perform authority control work within bibliographic records. After completing this web-based training, learners will be prepared to: interpret authority records, search and browse the OCLC authority file, and link headings in bibliographic records to appropriate authority file records. This course does not cover Authority History, the OCLC Terminologies Service, the Chinese Name Authority File, nor procedures for NACO libraries. This course is intended for learners who have a basic understanding of cataloging principles and MARC, have some cataloging experience, and are comfortable with using Connexion Browser to search WorldCat, navigate through search results, and do basic editing. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who create original bibliographic records or who do extensive editing of existing records, to library staff who need to find and export authority records to provide cross-reference structures in their local catalog, and to technical services managers who oversee these activities. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Please note, that to access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/connexion-browser-module-8-authority-control/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120924 DTEND:20120925 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T082739 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T082739 UID:4546@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 2 - Basic Searching in Connexion Browser DESCRIPTION: This online module provides instruction on performing basic bibliographic searches using OCLC’s Connexion Browser cataloging software. After completing this web-based training, learners will be able to conduct basic searches for bibliographic records in WorldCat, and evaluate whether a given record matches the item to be cataloged. This is the second part of a three module series designed to enable basic copy cataloging work in Connexion Browser. This course is designed for learners who have little or no previous experience with Connexion Browser, and who may be new to library work. This class will be of particular benefit to new copy catalogers. It will also be beneficial to original catalogers who need to determine, before they create an original record, that no matching record exists. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Note: To access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/connexion-browser-module-2-basic-searching-in-connexion-browser-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120904 DTEND:20120905 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T082608 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T082608 UID:4544@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Client Module 07 - Advanced Bibliographic Searching DESCRIPTION: This online module provides instruction on how to use Connexion Client to conduct advanced searches of the WorldCat database. After completing this web-based training, learners will be prepared to make more thorough and more precisely targeted searches with improved efficiency, in order to find the right record faster. This course is designed for learners who are comfortable with using Connexion Client to do basic numeric and keyword searches of WorldCat and navigate through search results. This class will be most beneficial to staff who would like to enhance their abilities and develop their approaches to current methods of searching for records in WorldCat through Connexion Client. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/connexion-client-module-07-advanced-bibliographic-searching-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120920 DTEND:20120921 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T082451 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T082451 UID:4542@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Client Module 03 – Basic Editing and Record Processing DESCRIPTION: This online course provides instruction on working with MARC bibliographic records in Connexion Client, including using MARC field help, editing MARC records, updating holdings, and exporting MARC records. After completing this training, learners will have the knowledge to complete basic record actions in Connexion Client. This course is intended for learners who are new to Connexion Client and copy cataloging but have a basic familiarity with the MARC record. Established, but basic, users of Connexion may also benefit from the class by thorough review of the MARC record editing process and by learning about enhanced functionality such as Spell Check and record validation. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/connexion-client-module-03-basic-editing-and-record-processing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120918 DTEND:20120919 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T082319 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T082319 UID:4540@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Client Module 02- Basic Bibliographic Searching DESCRIPTION: This online module provides instruction on performing basic bibliographic searches using OCLC’s Connexion Client cataloging software. After completing this web-based training, learners will be able to conduct basic searches for bibliographic records in WorldCat, and evaluate whether a given record matches the item to be cataloged. This is the second part of a three module series designed to enable basic copy cataloging work in Connexion Client. This course is designed for learners who have little or no previous experience with Connexion Client, and who may be new to library work. This class will be of particular benefit to new copy catalogers. It will also be beneficial to original catalogers who need to determine, before they create an original record, that no matching record exists. Follow the link below to join the event at its specified time. If you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/connexion-client-module-02-basic-bibliographic-searching-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120913 DTEND:20120914 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T081954 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T081954 UID:4536@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Writing Extensible JavaScript Without Getting Too Enterprisey DESCRIPTION: A big challenge in writing web applications today is the intense pressure to go for the short term win: you quickly pull something together that looks good, launch, and move on. But the risk is that now you're locked in — making major changes over the lifetime of the code base requires radical surgery, or sometimes just starting over. Is it possible to meet your deadlines and get long term maintenance and reuse? Fortunately, modern JavaScript libraries offer some excellent patterns that can help you safely extend & reuse components for months and years to come — without over-engineering or sacrificing much development speed. The key is to build upon a solid foundation that gives you lots of flexibility down the road. In this interactive webcast presented by Evan Goer, author of YUI 3 Cookbook, we'll walk through some specific examples from the YUI Library that cleanly separate concerns, and then show how that pays off: first by radically altering a component's functionality without affecting its core plumbing, and then neatly packaging up that change as a plugin, as a "class-like" extension, and as a mixin. Evan Goer is a Senior Technical Writer at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA, where he works for an engineering team that develops Yahoo's internal deployment infrastructure. Before that, Evan worked for startups and corporate behemoths alike, documenting everything from how to speed up applications on big iron Sun hardware to how to treat cancer patients with electron beam radiation therapy. Evan is a Sunnyvale native and holds a Bachelor's of Science in Physics from Harvey Mudd College. He is on an eternal quest for the perfect documentation format and build system. He blogs at goer.org. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/writing-extensible-javascript-without-getting-too-enterprisey/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120919 DTEND:20120920 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T081450 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T081450 UID:4534@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Introduction to Finding Funders DESCRIPTION: Learn to find funders for your nonprofit with the Foundation Center's comprehensive funding research tool. This session provides an introduction to the Foundation Center's comprehensive online database, Foundation Directory Online Professional. Learn how to create customized searches to develop targeted lists of foundations that will match your nonprofit organization's funding needs. We will spend time exploring Power Search, which allows you to search across nine Foundation Center databases – grantmakers, grants, companies, 990s, news, jobs, RFPs, nonprofit literature, and PubHub reports. Skill: Finding Funders To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/introduction-to-finding-funders-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120913 DTEND:20120914 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T081008 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T081008 UID:4532@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn - Ebooks Update: New Options for Delivering Books to Users DESCRIPTION: New examples of digital reading material are appearing every day as are new devices and software to read them on. Chad Mairn will explore the alphabet soup of acronyms, highlight a variety of e-readers and tablets currently on the market, showcase some innovative digital publishers, discuss the pros and cons of Digital Rights Management (DRM), and more. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to TBLC members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. To register for this webinar, please click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/lunch-learn-ebooks-update-new-options-for-delivering-books-to-users/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120927 DTEND:20120928 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T080843 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T080843 UID:4530@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn - Facebook Privacy DESCRIPTION: Facebook is one of the most popular sites on the Internet and people are posting everything from baby pictures to their uttermost thoughts. Unfortunately, the privacy settings on the popular networking site are confusing. Often people are sharing what they think is private and have protected information meant to share. Learn how the Facebook privacy settings work and how to explain them to users. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to TBLC members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. To register for this webinar, please click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/lunch-learn-facebook-privacy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120924 DTEND:20120925 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T080702 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T080702 UID:4528@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Need Free Legal Resources DESCRIPTION: Looking for resources to help your patrons or students navigate through all those free legal sources? What are the best resources to use? Are they reliable? This webinar will cover state and federal law, municipal codes, court rules and opinions, and administrative decisions. The webinar will also cover specialties like copyright, securities, and tax. Register today and let Member Service Coordinator Jessica Riggins show you the best free legal resources to help you navigate the judicial research world. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to TBLC members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. To register for this webinar, please click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/need-free-legal-resources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120927 DTEND:20120928 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T080327 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T080327 UID:4526@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Art of Delegating Effectively DESCRIPTION: You know you should. You wish you could. But delegation has never been your strong suit – and it’s starting to show. Take heart! This is an area you can improve – it just takes knowing yourself, knowing your employees, and knowing how to put that knowledge to work for you! In The Art of Delegating Effectively, you’ll learn specific tips to help you delegate more effectively – not just more – and you’ll also discover why doing so is important to your success as a supervisor. We’ll uncover why we aren’t better at it in the first place, along with some important questions to consider when you finally make that leap to delegating on a consistent basis. We’ll start with a look at why delegation is more important than ever for you as a supervisor. We’ll get a glimpse of what is consuming your time each day – and how to decide which of those tasks are “delegation-ready.” We’ll also look at tasks you’ve already delegated to determine if they’ve been delegated for the right reason – or just to reduce the slushpile (!). In the process, we’ll take a sneak peak at some of the reasons we haven’t been delegating – and why we don’t really want to. Our mission (should we choose to accept it!), will be to step back and look at what we’ve been doing – what’s been working well in the realm of delegating and where might we be able to improve? Then we’ll take it to the next level by discussing 9 specific aspects of a task that we need to look at when we consider delegating to our staff, details that will not only help us decide whether the job should be delegated, but also to whom? We’ll touch on how our personalities affect whether or not we are willing to let go of some of our work, as well as how our employees’ personalities should influence to whom we assign what task, project, or responsibility. You’ll come away from this session with a checklist of key points to consider when matching the right employee to the work you want done, as well as a bird’s eye view of the details that will ensure your success when delegating. Don’t miss this information-packed workshop ~ you’ll find tips that will help you perform your job more effectively – and that makes work more fun! Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to TBLC members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. To register for this webinar, please click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/the-art-of-delegating-effectively/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120906 DTEND:20120907 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120727T080133 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T080133 UID:4524@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Eight Ways to Create an Innovation-Capable Organization DESCRIPTION: Through our innovation work with organizations, we hear about the need for a common innovation process and requests for how to create a culture of innovation. While both of these are important, are they enough? If you have both, is your organization really capable of innovating? Based on our experience, to be effective, organizations need to align eight major areas in order to create an innovation-capable organization. In this webinar, you will learn: The 8 ways to make your organization innovation capable Experience our assessment that will help you evaluate these eight major areas Key questions that leaders need to address to create an innovation-capable organization To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/27/eight-ways-to-create-an-innovation-capable-organization/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120906 DTEND:20120907 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120724T153721 LAST-MODIFIED:20120724T153721 UID:4521@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Returning Balance to Your Life DESCRIPTION: Do you dread the hustle-bustle of the every day grind? Feeling out-of-balance for no apparent reason? Stressed because of all the bad news being thrown at us? Its the age-old $64,000 question: How do we achieve balance in our lives in this Daytimer-iPhone-email-voicemail-fax kind of world? How do we remove ourselves from the onslaught of bad news we're subjected to every day? Maybe its time to make time for YOU and attend this eye-opening workshop, where you'll learn how to take back control of your life. ~We'll uncover the time robbers that have been stealing your most precious commodity - and learn how to deal with them more effectively. ~You'll have an opportunity to reflect on what is most important in your life and decide how you're going to make time for those priorities. ~And as a bonus, you'll find an extensive list of ways you too, can return balance to your life. Linda has been developing and conducting training seminars for more than ten years. Certified with Development Dimensions International and Achieve Global, she also offers her own workshops on Customer Service, Supervisory Skills, Personalities, Organizational Skills, Effective Communication, Returning Balance to Your Life, and many other topics. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Please register at the SWFLN CE Calendar below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/24/returning-balance-to-your-life/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120808 DTEND:20120809 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120724T152118 LAST-MODIFIED:20120724T152118 UID:4516@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Writing Amazing Appeal Letters That Are…Appealing! DESCRIPTION: Fall is a great time for at least one appeal letter (maybe more). If you’re making an important contribution to your community, many others will want to be part of that! The idea is to ask community members to invest in your organization’s vision and results. Appeal letters offer the opportunity to build/maintain relationships with community members and encourage the attitude that everyone can contribute. Takeaways: Identify the Purposes, Priorities, and Intended Readers of your appeal letter Discuss the elements you must include Check out some great (and not-so-great) examples and discuss the writing techniques used To launch this event simply click on link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/24/writing-amazing-appeal-letters-that-areappealing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120911 DTEND:20120912 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120724T132222 LAST-MODIFIED:20120724T132222 UID:4512@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Guide to Online Grantseeker Resources DESCRIPTION: Learn to navigate and use the wide range of resources available on the Foundation Center's newest web site, GrantSpace.org. This session will introduce you to the resources available on the Foundation Center’s newest web site for grantseekers, GrantSpace.org. GrantSpace, a service of the Foundation Center, offers information and resources that are specifically designed to meet the needs of grantseekers. You can explore content based on your subject area or a skill set you want to improve, as well as take advantage of our various tools to get answers to the most frequently asked questions, find sample documents, including proposals, and more. This class will show you how to get the most out of the web site, to help you gain the knowledge and skills you need to get grants, manage your nonprofit, and improve your community. Skill: Finding Funders Developing Proposals Managing Nonprofits To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/24/guide-to-online-grantseeker-resources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120731 DTEND:20120801 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120724T131544 LAST-MODIFIED:20120724T131544 UID:4510@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:"Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?" DESCRIPTION: In this webinar, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein will discuss happened between Wikipedia and Libraries in the past and what it means for the future. In addition, he will explain the connection between Wikipedia and libraries, discuss the variety of Wikipedia in Residence positions and the opportunities for libraries working with Wikipedia, as well as describe how OCLC Research is working to integrate Authority Control into Wikipedia. He'll also present "Behind the Secret Door: Tips and Tricks for Librarians using Wikipedia." To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/24/wikipedia-and-libraries-whats-the-connection/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120926 DTEND:20120927 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120723T151805 LAST-MODIFIED:20120723T151805 UID:4508@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Even Change Is Changing! (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:“Even Change is Changing!” will help us get a grip on the changes around us – and our responses to those changes. Change, of course, is inevitable. We have changes in automation systems, budget changes, technology changes, changes in work schedules, even our patrons change. The strain of constant change is compounded by our tendency to deny, ignore, or resist change. And still...change happens. We’ll not only discuss change and our response to it, we’ll also look at ways to handle the stress that sometimes comes when the changes are overwhelming – and let’s be honest, they can be overwhelming! Don’t miss this opportunity to step back, gain a deeper understanding of your own reaction to change, and learn ways to lessen the impact of those changes! This webinar will be delivered via SEFLIN Connect. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course. Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  09/19/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/23/even-change-is-changing-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120918 DTEND:20120919 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120723T151457 LAST-MODIFIED:20120723T151457 UID:4506@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Marketing for Youth Services: Can It Be Magic? (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Attracting new users to the library can be difficult. It is getting even more difficult in this media saturated world. The crux of marketing is to find out your customer’s real needs and desires and then to create and sell a product or service that fulfills those needs and desires. By the end of this highly interactive workshop, participants will: Be able to list at least 5 influences in children’s and teens lives that affect their choices in what they do with their leisure time. Be able to identify various audiences for children’s and teen programs. Be able to identify “ever cool” brands and services and relate that to marketing library programs and services. Have the chance to design at least one marketing piece to promote the youth program. Participants are encouraged to bring some marketing pieces that they have used successfully to promote their programs and services. Trainer: Carole Fiore, Carole Fiore Training and Library Consulting Registration deadline:  09/11/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION:208 S. Seacrest Blvd, Boynton Beach, FL, United States, 33435 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/23/marketing-for-youth-services-can-it-be-magic-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120906 DTEND:20120907 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120723T151026 LAST-MODIFIED:20120723T151026 UID:4504@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Returning Balance to Your Life (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Do you dread the hustle-bustle of the every day grind? Feeling out-of-balance for no apparent reason? Stressed because of all the bad news being thrown at us? It’s the age-old $64,000 question: How do we achieve balance in our lives in this “Daytimer – iPhone – email – voicemail – fax” kind of world? How do we remove ourselves from the onslaught of bad news we’re subjected to every day? Maybe it’s time to make time for YOU and attend this eye-opening workshop, where you’ll learn how to take back control of your life. We’ll uncover the time robbers that have been stealing your most precious commodity – and learn how to deal with them more effectively. You’ll have an opportunity to reflect on what is most important in your life and decide how you’re going to make time for those priorities. And as a bonus, you’ll find an extensive list of ways you too, can return balance to your life.   This webinar will be delivered via SEFLIN Connect. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course. Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  08/30/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/23/returning-balance-to-your-life-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120815 DTEND:20120816 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120723T145811 LAST-MODIFIED:20120723T150655 UID:4496@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Sharpening Your Organizational Skills (SEFLIN) DESCRIPTION:Chances are you have read articles or books on becoming more organized in 32 seconds or less, or something that unreasonable. Maybe you’ve even tried some of those techniques – but they not only left you unorganized, but feeling like you had failed. Here’s a secret you really need to know: there really are no “one-size-fits-all” rules for becoming organized – isn’t that a relief? In this information-packed webinar, you’ll learn about what you can do to be more organized, not what “they” say you should do. We’ll begin by finding out who you are “organizing-wise.” Your “space personality” determines to what degree you will be successful in using certain tips and techniques you may have heard about becoming organized. It also helps you decide which tools – and rules – you should use to stay organized. Do you like everything out in the open? You can still be organized! Do you like to have a place for everything and everything in its place - but sometimes lose track of things? There are ways to help – and this session will give you the knowledge you need to get on the right track. We’ll look at your desk, your calendar, and your files. Which do you struggle with? How can you make sure your calendar is working for you and not against you? How can you make your filing system more efficient? Then we’ll spend some time with specific tips that will help you get started on your organizational journey. We will discuss techniques that will help you feel more in control, more organized, and more at peace with your surroundings – and isn’t that what we’re all looking for when we try to become more organized? This session will include dozens of invaluable suggestions – you’re sure to find several that will help you in your organizational journey! This webinar will be delivered via SEFLIN Connect. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course. Presented by: Linda Bruno Registration deadline:  08/08/2012 Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. Register with SEFLIN LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/23/sharpening-your-organizational-skills-seflin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120829T140000 DTEND:20120829T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120722T135940 LAST-MODIFIED:20120522T140043 UID:4222@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Session DESCRIPTION: Lyrasis' new Mass Digitization Collaborative offers members the opportunity to contribute materials to a regional mass digitization project. Lyrasis facilitates the process by selecting vendors and developing a collaborative collection development policy, guidelines, standards, and workflows. The Collaborative is funded by the Lyrasis membership and supported in part through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The full project was originally opened to all PALINET members in October 2008. When registered, attendees will receive email containing login information to webinar within two weeks before event. Please register at the SWFLN CE calendar below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/22/4222/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120810T130000 DTEND:20120810T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120722T094737 LAST-MODIFIED:20120522T095031 UID:4189@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:A How-to Guide: Creating Your Leadership Agenda DESCRIPTION: In his research on effective leaders, John Kotter found that one of the things that successful leaders did during their first six months on the job was to create an informal list of the things that they wanted to accomplish. He called this list an Agenda. Simply put, a leadership agenda answers the basic question, “Where do I want (and/or need) to lead people?” In this free webinar, Linkage's Roger Young will share a process and set of tools designed to help you build a strategic, aligned, and balanced leadership agenda and vision. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/22/a-how-to-guide-creating-your-leadership-agenda/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120809T130000 DTEND:20120809T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120722T094538 LAST-MODIFIED:20120522T094732 UID:4187@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:A Primer: Using Strategic Thinking to Navigate Change DESCRIPTION: For today’s managers and leaders, strategy is no longer a once-a-year output from the annual business planning process. In fact, strategic thinking is an essential lens through which leaders at all levels evaluate and prioritize the daily work of the organization. During times of change and transition, strategic thinking is a business imperative. In this free webinar, Linkage's Rich Rosier will review a simple, yet effective model for thinking more strategically. He will also lead a discussion on the specific application of this model to the change process. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/22/a-primer-using-strategic-thinking-to-navigate-change/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120920 DTEND:20120921 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120720T144219 LAST-MODIFIED:20120720T144219 UID:4493@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Leveraging the True Power of Social With E-Mail DESCRIPTION: Which is it? Do you socialize your email, or email your social? Social marketing + email is a powerful mechanism for improving your business, but there are three basic challenges that organizations face when trying to figure out what to do with social marketing: 1.How to create and sustain engagement 2.How to increase message impressions 3.How to build and improve their marketing database During this webcast, you will learn: •How integrating your social and email campaigns help to create better results •Why trying to socialize a typical email campaign is not as effective as emailing a social campaign •Why focusing on the social program first will allow you to feel the full power of what that program can do •How email, your website, and other traditional online marketing efforts can enhance and expand your social efforts •How to use time and quantity-limited group deals to encourage people to share information about your brand to their friends Jeff has over 18 years of experience in high tech and marketing. Prior to founding Socialize Your Stuff, Jeff co-founded iMakeNews, Inc. (http://www.imakenews.com), an e-newsletter service provider. iMakeNews eventually grew to provide e-newsletter services to thousands of companies, organizations, and individuals, from small firms to the Fortune 500. Jeff’s previous positions include Global Product Marketing Manager for Axis Communications, where he was responsible for the launch of the Axis Web Camera Product Line and ParentNet applications. As Business Development Manager and Product Marketing Manager for Spirit Technologies, Jeff introduced new business opportunities and product lines which resulted in $10 million in new annual revenue. Jeff received a B.A.from Brandeis University. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/20/leveraging-the-true-power-of-social-with-e-mail/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120726 DTEND:20120727 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120720T121519 LAST-MODIFIED:20120720T121519 UID:4491@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to maximize your Mandarin System with Maintenance & Cleanup (Mandarin Oasis) DESCRIPTION:Let Mandarin show you how to maximize your investment in your Library Automation System. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/20/how-to-maximize-your-mandarin-system-with-maintenance-cleanup-mandarin-oasis/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120726 DTEND:20120727 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120720T120358 LAST-MODIFIED:20120720T120730 UID:4487@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How to maximize your Mandarin System through Maintenance & Cleanup (Mandarin M3) DESCRIPTION:Let Mandarin show you how to maximize your investment in your Library Automation System. To launch this event simply click on link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/20/how-to-maximize-your-mandarin-system-through-maintenance-cleanup-mandarin-m3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120724 DTEND:20120725 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120720T102235 LAST-MODIFIED:20120720T102235 UID:4485@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:They've Got to See it to Believe It: Getting Decision Makers Into Your Library DESCRIPTION: Believe it or not, "build it and they will come" works with both libraries and baseball fields. It just takes a little effort to get those who determine the fate of your funding in the door. Studies show that in-person visits are critical for effective influence on politicians, particularly in an election year. With the last three months of the election season around the corner, now is the time to press council members, legislators, administrators, school board members - in fact, anyone you can think of - to visit. And if you're concerned about whether election rules restrict your ability to be involved in advocacy at this time of year, don't be! Learn the strategies for getting decision makers in the door - and eventually agreeing with you! To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/20/theyve-got-to-see-it-to-believe-it-getting-decision-makers-into-your-library/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120807 DTEND:20120808 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120719T084521 LAST-MODIFIED:20120719T084521 UID:4481@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:An Introduction to the LSSC Program DESCRIPTION: On Tuesday, August 7 at 3:00 pm (EST), the American Library Association’s Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program will offer an hour-long webinar on the program and how it works. The presentation will explain the value of this certification to Library Support Staff, employers, and library users. You will also have the opportunity to have all of your questions answered by program staff members. This webinar is open to all interested candidates. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/19/an-introduction-to-the-lssc-program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120725 DTEND:20120726 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120719T084340 LAST-MODIFIED:20120719T084340 UID:4479@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services DESCRIPTION:The exploding popularity of smartphones and other mobile devices provides a unique opportunity for libraries to help bridge the digital divide. These devices are often discussed in the context of affluent populations and academic libraries, yet the demographics of mobile internet users are much more diverse than this, and the potential for mobile library services is correspondingly broad. Join us for this webinar brought to you in collaboration with ALA TechSource, and presented by Andromeda Yelton, author of the January issue of Library Technology Reports on the topic of Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services. We'll talk about: •the demographics of mobile internet users, and why this matters to libraries' mission •real-life examples of online library services aimed at diverse populations •mobile friendly steps you can take even with limited time, budget, or expertise. WebJunction webinars are live audiovisual programs that are conducted online via WebEx web conferencing. Anyone who has an Internet connection and access to a telephone or VoIP connection can participate. These free events allow you to meet and learn from library leaders and fellow library practitioners. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Note: To access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if not please create one. Also, if you haven't done so, "Register" for the event preferably 10-15 minutes before the start time in order to ensure a successful log-in. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/19/bridging-the-digital-divide-with-mobile-services-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T145246 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T145246 UID:4473@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Telling the Library Story DESCRIPTION:This webinar focuses on turning the evidence of our daily patron encounters into short, compelling, and memorable messages that build support. Learn how to tell a succinct, powerful story about the value of libraries. Based on OCLC's "From Awareness to Funding" and the latest findings of brain research, this session focuses on turning the evidence of our daily patron encounters into short, compelling, and memorable messages that build support. Presented by: Jamie LaRue, director, Douglas County Libraries (CO), blogger, and chair of committee who created The Big Hairy Audacious Goal, a public library advocacy initiative. Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific (Note: earlier start time) Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/telling-the-library-story-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T145017 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T145017 UID:4471@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Writing for the Web DESCRIPTION:Thursday, August 9, 2012 Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM Presenter: : Laura Solomon Ever get the feeling that nobody is reading your library’s website? Trust your gut on this one; unfortunately, this is the case for much of the content posted on library sites. You may also be asking: Why is my content failing? How can I attract attention without resorting to irritating writing conventions? Learn how to make your content not only attractive, but also palatable to today’s online reader. Some simple guidelines will make all the difference. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: Be able to identify at least two ways to write effective headlines Be able to list at least three writing conventions to avoid Be familiar with how to format content specifically for online readers This webinar will be of interest to all library staff responsible for producing online content for their library. Webinars are free of charge and registration is only done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No passwords are required. Do you require an accommodation for an Infopeople webinar? For this service, please complete and submit a request form at least 72 hours before the webinar: Request Form   Register WebEx Tips Test your browser for compatibility LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/writing-for-the-web-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T144809 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T144809 UID:4469@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Show, Don't Tell! Using Video to Tell Your Story DESCRIPTION:If a picture's worth a thousand words, how good is video? Video is more accessible than ever and no form of marketing has a more dramatic effect on the user. Learn about the types of typical videos and how to market them effectively to capture the interest of leads and drive sales. Presented by Amanda O'Brien of Hall Internet Marketing Held Tue, Aug 7 - 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/show-dont-tell-using-video-to-tell-your-story/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T144506 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T144506 UID:4467@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Librarians are Wikipedians Too DESCRIPTION:This webinar will overview past efforts and future potential of libraries and librarians working with Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an increasingly prominent player in the web search environment, and more people are finding it "a good place to start research." Despite open questions regarding quality, Wikipedia shares common goals with libraries in ensuring free accessibility to information, and relying on authoritative sources. This presentation will overview the past efforts and future potential of libraries and librarians working with Wikipedia. Discussed are strategies to drive web- and foot-traffic to libraries through the use of Wikipedia. Plus powerful tips and tricks are revealed into the software and policies of Wikipedia, helping librarians to critically address quality for themselves. Presented by: Max Klein, Wikipedian in Residence at OCLC Research Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/librarians-are-wikipedians-too-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T135911 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T135911 UID:4464@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Managing Special Collections: Service, Security, Statistics DESCRIPTION: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 2:00-3:00 PM EST/11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST Special collections are the jewels of their institutions, yet they also present unique challenges. This program will explore three topics of prime concern to special collections managers and library administrators: enhancing services to researchers, improving collections security, and supporting assessment activities and data-driven management decisions. Register now! LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/managing-special-collections-service-security-statistics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T135810 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T135810 UID:4462@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Gale Virtual Reference Library DESCRIPTION:Date: Friday, July 27, 2012 Start Time: 10:00 am   End Time: 11:00 am (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Category: Product Training Description Register for Gale Virtual Reference Library Training Gale Virtual Reference Libraryis a database of electronic encyclopedias and specialized reference sources, also known as eBooks, for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). This web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Recognize the general content available in the database Construct and employ efficient search strategies for information retrieval Use results lists to examine different types of documents Examine navigational and search features of the user interface Search for, identify, and manage documents found within the database Differentiate between basic and advanced search modes Recognize how to use bookmarks and marked items as a way to manage and organize information found within the database Understand how to cross-search the eBooks with other databases in the libraries collectionThis web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=928613735 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/gale-virtual-reference-library-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T135531 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T135531 UID:4458@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services DESCRIPTION:This webinar will explore the potential for bridging the digital divide through expanded mobile library services. The exploding popularity of smartphones and other mobile devices provides a unique opportunity for libraries to help bridge the digital divide. These devices are often discussed in the context of affluent populations and academic libraries, yet the demographics of mobile internet users are much more diverse than this, and the potential for mobile library services is correspondingly broad. Join us for this webinar brought to you in collaboration with ALA TechSource, and presented by Andromeda Yelton, author of the January issue of Library Technology Reports on the topic of Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services. We’ll talk about: the demographics of mobile internet users, and why this matters to libraries' mission real-life examples of online library services aimed at diverse populations mobile friendly steps you can take even with limited time, budget, or expertise. Presented by: Andromeda Yelton, andromedayelton.com Start time: 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific   Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/bridging-the-digital-divide-with-mobile-services-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T135325 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T135325 UID:4456@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Hack Your Career: Dream Job FTW! DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM Presenters: : Nicole Pasini and Jesse Lanz Do you know what your dream job is, but don't quite know how to get it? Are you an ideal job candidate with less-than-ideal interview skills? Are you stymied by the civil service process? There is no denying that the job market is tough these days, but there are steps you can take to ensure that your next interviewer sees you as the best candidate for the job. And for those of you who are employed, there are steps you can take to ensure that the work that you do today could help land your dream job someday. In this one-hour webinar you will: Learn to approach the job search and interview process from the perspective of the person doing the hiring. Gain insight into how to think strategically about your current job, as well as about how to prepare to get the next one. Discover tips for navigating the often baffling world of the civil service application and interview. Learn the things that hiring managers wish every job candidate knew. Though we can't promise a recovery of the job market, we're certain that in this webinar you'll learn ways to Hack Your Career—Dream Job, For the Win! At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: Identify the three questions they need to answer before beginning the job search process. Understand the three major ways that civil service hiring processes differ from hiring processes in the private and nonprofit sectors. Identify ten steps that go into successful resumes, applications and interviews, from the perspective of hiring managers. This webinar will be of interest to public library staff (though there will be plenty of useful information for staffs of all types of libraries), library school students, job seekers, or any people who are thinking about the next stage of their careers. Webinars are free of charge and registration is only done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No passwords are required. Do you require an accommodation for an Infopeople webinar? For this service, please complete and submit a request form at least 72 hours before the webinar: Request Form WebEx Tips Test your browser for compatibility LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/hack-your-career-dream-job-ftw/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T135207 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T135208 UID:4454@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY: Designing Vibrant Libraries: Using our Strengths to Create the Libraries of the Future DESCRIPTION:REGISTER Presented by Michael Porter July 18th, 2012, 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time Join Michael as we take a thought-provoking stroll through library history, technology evolution and our shared humanity. We'll examine what makes libraries work at the most basic levels, and how our jobs, right now, have the potential to create a foundation for a stunningly vibrant future for libraries and the communities they serve. Come ponder concepts like need, desire, human nature, society and technology and leave more inspired about your work and your life as an information professional. Michael Porter is a librarian, presenter, author, practical technology fan, and PEZ collector. He has 20 years of experience working in Libraryland and has presented hundreds of times to library staff around the world. His writings regularly appear in major library journals around the world. In 2009 he was selected as a Library Journal “Mover & Shaker,” in 2010 was elected to the American Library Association’s governing Council, and in 2011 was elected to the ALA Executive Board. He previously worked with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, OCLC, WebJunction, and the Allen County Public Library. Michael currently serves as CEO of Library Renewal, an organization dedicated to research, partnerships and grassroots support for libraries as they struggle to offer electronic content to their users in competitive ways. Read more from Michael at libraryman.com. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/designing-vibrant-libraries-using-our-strengths-to-create-the-libraries-of-the-future/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T135118 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T135118 UID:4452@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Emerging Technologies: Tips and Strategies for Success in Libraries DESCRIPTION:REGISTER Presented by Roy Cummings July 18th, 2012, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time Emerging technologies have become an ever-present part of our academic lives. From communicating with library supporters to providing resources for distance learners, educators must think about the tools we use and how we use them. What do we use? How? Why? These are some of the questions that constantly present themselves as we wade through the pool of emerging technologies. For libraries that do not have staff dedicated to digital initiatives, deciding on which tools to use and how to effectively use them can be challenging. This session aims to provide practical insight into understanding emerging technologies and tips for identifying and implementing relevant tools and services. Roy Cummings is a Reference Librarian at the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his Bachelors degree in Communication and Media Studies from Clayton State University in Morrow, GA; and Masters in Library Science from the University of North Texas. His interests include exploring and learning about emerging web technologies and electronic gadgets. LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/emerging-technologies-tips-and-strategies-for-success-in-libraries/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T135017 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T135017 UID:4450@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Organizational Drama: Leadership Perspective on Conflict DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, 18 July 2012 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Eastern) Some nonprofit organizations experience frequent conflict. The characters and plot-lines may change, but the persistence of some kind of drama is constant. In this webinar, we will take a realistic and practical look at how an organization’s leaders can promote a culture of constructive conflict resolution. We will consider the key leadership challenges of: recognizing patterns; assessing causes of organizational conflict; interrupting negative cycles; coping with fear in the workplace; and fostering a climate of respect and dialogue. This Nonprofit Webinars session will offer real-life case studies; tips and tools; and resources for further learning. Takeaways will include: Why defining conflict primarily as a problem of “personality” or “communication” isn’t effective in the long-run. A necessary first step for leadership: take a systems view. Strategies for leaders to build a culture of constructive problem solving. Ideas for promoting change, whatever your role in the organization. Practical tips, tools, and resources. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/organizational-drama-leadership-perspective-on-conflict/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T134842 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T134842 UID:4448@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Perseverance, Success and You! DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brian Patrick Jensen Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:00 ET Resilience is a practice, not a personality trait.  In both our business and personal lives, it is commonly believed that “pain instructs, failures are lessons-learned and crisis drives action”. However, applying these principles at work and in our own lives is more difficult than it seems. Blunders and tragedy are typically not on our agenda. When crisis hits, perseverance is required to bounce back. Success is no mere achievement; it is a triumph whereby the victor emerges richer and stronger because of battle. Join Brian Patrick Jensen, motivational speaker, workplace innovator and business leader, as he explains the dynamics of perseverance and how you can apply them in order to triumph when the going gets tough. During this webinar, you will learn: How to choose to persevere and why some people are more resilient than others. "Five Things Resilient People Do" and how to apply them Exercises that you can apply to your own challenges How to access free additional resources and online essays About our Speaker: Brian Patrick Jensen is a business leader, writer and passionate orator. He is a successful human resources and corporate communications executive, training consultant and college lecturer renowned throughout his career for his spirited presentations and straight-talk. In 2010 Brian suffered sudden and profound hearing loss; and he is now deaf. His signature public speaking service and namesake blog--BrianPatrickJensen.com--was launched in July 2011 and has already inspired thousands. Register » LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/perseverance-success-and-you/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120713T134725 LAST-MODIFIED:20120713T134725 UID:4446@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Kids InfoBits DESCRIPTION: Kids InfoBits Download this event  Email this event Set Reminder Print Page Close Window Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Start Time: 11:00 am   End Time: 12:00 pm (Time Zone: US/Eastern) Category: Product Training Description Register for the Kids InfoBits training Kids InfoBits is an exciting resource designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging, developmentally appropriate graphic interface, premier reference content and the best magazines for elementary students, Kids InfoBits addresses the way kids learn and conduct research — and makes it fun! During this session, we will explore the features in Kids InfoBits including: A drilldown subject topic tree for users who need helping identifying a particular topic A simple and visually appealing graphic interface on the GaleNet platform Navigating the results Simple tools at the article level Contact: Andrea Devlin Email: andrea.devlin@cengage.com More Info: https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=928422554 LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/13/kids-infobits/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120919T140000 DTEND:20120919T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120709T175911 LAST-MODIFIED:20120619T113707 UID:3969@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Customer Service at the Library: Cultivating Loyal Library Customers DESCRIPTION: This customer service webinar is recommended for any staff member who interacts with customers (patrons) on a regular basis. It deals specifically with attitudes and actions for cultivating customer loyalty with both internal and external customers at the library, and offers a number of specific tools to help make the patron interaction a meaningful and memorable experience. Learning Objectives 1. Build awareness of customer needs and wants, and the criteria by which they evaluate service performance at the library. 2. Offer tools for improving effectiveness with library customers and building customer loyalty. 3. Provide tips for enhancing personal communication via telephone and email. 4. Reinforce the value of libraries and how positive patron interactions help promote library advocacy. Topics include: Why People Stop Coming Back How Customers Evaluate Service Healthy Attitudes vs Deadly Attitudes The Impact of Words- Words to Use vs Words to Lose The Power of a Smile The Value of Thank You Customer MAGIC (Making a Good Impression Counts) Upon registering for this event, patrons will recieve an Abode Connect link that will allow them to login to the webinar two weeks before the scheduled start time. Steve Wishnack is the founder of Think & Do. Education and training have been at the heart of Steve’s professional career. Today, his energies are devoted to delivering Think & Do Customer Service Workshops, and Webinars, which help improve employee effectiveness with customers. Among Steve’s clients are the U.S Postal Service, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, The Marriott Corporation, Fidelity Investments, as well as Municipalities, Libraries and Library Associations nationwide. Please register on the SWFLN CE calendar at LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/09/customer-service-at-the-library-cultivating-loyal-library-customers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120709T114303 LAST-MODIFIED:20120709T114303 UID:4443@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Grant Writing for Libraries Serving Children DESCRIPTION:This webinar will present advice about finding, writing, and submitting grant opportunities focused on services to children. Grant funding is one way to find resources to support innovative programming and services for children. In this webinar, the presenters share advice about finding, writing, and submitting grant opportunities. Information will also be shared about specific grants that focus on diversity, literacy and libraries and are relevant for school and public libraries. Participants will be provided with an opportunity to ask questions and share related experiences. This webinar is presented in collaboration with the Darden College of Education, Old Dominion University and made possible through the LUCY (Librarianship Upgrades for Children and Youth) grant from IMLS. Presented by: Dr. Sue C. Kimmel, Assistant Professor and Dr. Gail K. Dickinson, Associate Professor, School Libraries/Darden College of Education Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA Start time: 1:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific (Note: earlier start time) Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/09/grant-writing-for-libraries-serving-children-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120709T113626 LAST-MODIFIED:20120709T113626 UID:4441@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Identifying and Acquiring New Skills: The Key to Career Growth and Advancement DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, July 10, 2012 Start Time: Pacific - 12 PM, Mountain - 1 PM, Central - 2 PM, Eastern - 3 PM Presenters: : Deb Hunt and David Grossman In these tough times, how can library staff: Leverage their existing skills to their best advantage? Learn how to acquire new skills critical for career advancement, career change, or solidifying their current position? Determine which of their skills are most marketable and transferrable to other positions? Learn how to package their most transferrable skills to maximize career growth and advancement? This webinar offers practical advice for library staff seeking to expand their existing skill sets and develop new areas of expertise to broaden their career potential, maximize their earnings in their current position or gain that competitive edge for landing their next job. The presenters will identify and discuss more than 30 of the hottest skills in greatest demand in the library world. Webinar attendees will be encouraged to determine which skills are most important to them and to assemble a customized skill set most likely to yield the highest payback for career growth and advancement. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: Understand why expanding their skill set is the most important first step in boosting marketability and facilitating career growth and advancement. Learn about the 33 most sought after skills, in greatest demand in the current library work environment and understand why these are the most important skills to acquire. Have a firm grasp on six foolproof strategies for acquiring new skills. Learn how to conduct a self-assessment of their existing skill set as a prerequisite to formulating a plan to acquire the new skills they need for career advancement. This webinar will be of interest to library staff contemplating the next job opportunity or career change and those seeking to identify their current skills and acquiring new ones. Webinars are free of charge and registration is only done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No passwords are required. This webinar will be presented with Closed Captioning. On the day of the webinar you can see the closed captioning in the WebEx media viewer or you can open a separate window using the following link: http://www.captionedtext.com/client/event.aspx?CustomerID=1140&EventID=1967143 --> WebEx Tips Test your browser for compatibility Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/09/identifying-and-acquiring-new-skills-the-key-to-career-growth-and-advancement/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120709T112641 LAST-MODIFIED:20120709T112641 UID:4438@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Engaging Pro Bono and Skilled Volunteers DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, 10 July 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Eastern) Integrating skilled volunteers into your existing volunteer program is both exciting and scary. If you're thinking about adding skilled volunteers to your program, or if you've just started, this VolunteerMatch webinar can help you make the experience successful for both the volunteer and the organization. Navigating the introduction of the idea into your organization, developing the art of delegating work to volunteers, and setting achievable outcomes will be covered. Register LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/09/engaging-pro-bono-and-skilled-volunteers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120709T112331 LAST-MODIFIED:20120709T112356 UID:4434@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Creating a User-Centric Website DESCRIPTION:Tue, Jul 10 - 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST Creating a user-centric website isn't just about designing a site with a great look and feel; it is also about understanding who your users are and what content they seek. A user-centric website takes into consideration how users interact with websites when researching or making buying decisions. In this webinar we will discuss how to create a user-centric website and why it is important. We will also go over some website usability tips and talk about improving user-experience. Register Presented by Dave MacElhiney of Hall Internet Marketing LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/09/creating-a-user-centric-website/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120709T111946 LAST-MODIFIED:20120709T111946 UID:4432@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Booklist Webinar—Nancy Pearl Presents Book Lust Rediscoveries DESCRIPTION: Event status: Not started (Register) Date and time: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Program: Booklist Webinars Duration: 1 hour Description: Join esteemed Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl in conversation with two authors from her new book series, Book Lust Rediscoveries, a publishing program devoted to reintroducing some of the best (and now out of print) novels originally published between 1960-2000. Each new edition is personally selected by Nancy Pearl and includes an introduction by her, discussion questions for book groups, and a list of recommended further reading. She will be joined by Rhian Ellis, author of After Life, and Frederick G. Dillen, author of Fool, to discuss the series, as well as their own favorite moments of discovering a wonderful book. The discussion will be moderated by the series’ editor, Alan Turkus, and hosted by Booklist Adult Books senior editor Donna Seaman LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/09/booklist-webinar-nancy-pearl-presents-book-lust-rediscoveries-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120816T130000 DTEND:20120816T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120707T141127 LAST-MODIFIED:20120607T141315 UID:4265@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Proposal Writing Basics DESCRIPTION: Learn the key components of a proposal to a foundation. For those new to proposal writing, this class will cover: •How the proposal fits into the overall grantseeking process •What to include in a standard proposal to a foundation •Tips for making each section of your proposal stronger •What funders expect to see in your proposal and attachments •Tips for communicating with funders during the grant process •Additional resources on proposal writing, including sample proposals Skill: Developing Proposals Please Note: For more on proposal budgets, see our free class, Proposal Budgeting Basics. To launch this event simply click on link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/07/proposal-writing-basics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120829T130000 DTEND:20120829T140000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120707T134213 LAST-MODIFIED:20120607T134723 UID:4260@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Wrestling Your To-Do List to the Ground: How to Manage Projects DESCRIPTION: This webinar is for busy professionals who need to juggle multiple projects, tasks and interruptions. Bring your own to do-list and you will leave with an action plan to help you plan your workday. Learn to shrink your to do-list, manage interruptions, and control large and small projects. Through the use of the forced choice/paired comparison method you'll learn how to prioritize the order of your work. Use a blended approach to combine single task items with larger projects Learn where to get started on those large projects Discover the five steps to help you practice simple, easy and polite ways to manage and stop interruptions throughout the day Ned has been developing and conducting training seminars for libraries and library organizations for more than five years. Ned takes his passion for helping others to find their areas of strength and improvement by providing humor-filled leadership and motivational webinars and seminars on dealing with the challenges of everyday life. Ned takes it one step further - he gives participants tangible ideas they can use as soon as they leave the event. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to TBLC members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. To register for this webinar, please click on the below link. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/07/wrestling-your-to-do-list-to-the-ground-how-to-manage-projects/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120830T120000 DTEND:20120830T123000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120707T133226 LAST-MODIFIED:20120607T133516 UID:4258@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn - Voice Over IP: Skype and Google DESCRIPTION:Voice Over IP (VoIP) is the ability to communicate over the Internet using voice instead of text or static images. Skype and Google Voice have brought VoIP to the mainstream. These services can tie individuals together with live webcams, cheap-to-free international calling and web to landline calling. Learn how libraries can use these tools to connect with users and enhance library services. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to TBLC members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. To register for this webinar, please click on the below link. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/07/lunch-learn-voice-over-ip-skype-and-google/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120816T120000 DTEND:20120816T123000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120707T132943 LAST-MODIFIED:20120607T133202 UID:4256@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn - Twitter Tools DESCRIPTION: The microblogging world of Twitter can quickly become overwhelming. Its native interface often leaves users wanting more. Learn about several tools to help you and your library better utilize Twitter. These tools will help you tweet as a group, from mobile phones and monitor Twitter with ease. Tools to be discussed include HootSuite, TweetDesk and others. Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to TBLC members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline. To register for this webinar, please click on the below link. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/07/lunch-learn-twitter-tools/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120829 DTEND:20120830 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T145029 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T145029 UID:4427@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Transforming Your Workforce with Games DESCRIPTION: Discover the Why and How of Putting Gamification to Work Playing games is one of the most popular activities in our culture, generating tens of billions of dollars in revenue and absorbing literally billions of hours per week. Yet we still conceptualize games as frivolous and distinct from the meaningful activities of the real world. The truth is that human beings are built to play—our brains are wired for the kind of experience that games provide—and play is just another word for learning, under optimal conditions. When we play games we’re more engaged, motivated, and likely to succeed. Aaron Dignan has explored the emerging field of games while researching his book on the subject, and has returned with some lessons for anyone who wants to turn their office, classroom, or home into something more like a game. What You Will Learn The webcast will explore: •What is a game and why it matters •What are the most powerful game ingredients and how can we use them •What forces hold us back •How to design a game in the workplace Aaron Dignan is Founding Partner and CEO of Undercurrent, a digital strategy firm based in New York that advises global brands and complex organizations like GE, American Express, PepsiCo, Ford Motor Company, and Estée Lauder Companies on their future in an increasingly technophilic world. Dignan dressed up like a super hero for 180 straight days of the first grade, which marked the beginning of his life as an iconoclast, observer, theorist, and performer. Most recently, he has recognized the immeasurable value of games as engines of motivation capable of influencing behavior. Dignan now believes that a new breed of behavioral games has the power to transform our most basic activities at work, school, and home. He is the author of Game Frame: Using Games as a Strategy for Success, published by Free Press in 2011. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/transforming-your-workforce-with-games/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120815 DTEND:20120816 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T144839 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T144839 UID:4425@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Crafting Business Stories That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire DESCRIPTION: When you want to be understood, tell a story Over the last decade, storytelling has become one of the most rapidly growing communication tools used by business leaders and executives. Companies like Disney, 3M, Motorola, and the World Bank have adopted storytelling as a key method of influence and leadership. Instead of corporate memos, email, and PowerPoint presentations, storytelling is now being used to inspire and motivate organizations, to create a vision for the future, to define culture and values, to set goals and build commitment to them, and to lead change. What You Will Learn WHY storytelling works, and WHEN to use it •A simple, three-part story structure that’s proven to work •Tips for turning a good story into a great story by using metaphors, emotion, and surprises, while keeping the style concrete, direct, and engaging Paul Smith is Director of Consumer Research at The Procter & Gamble Company. In his 19 years with the company, he’s worked in leadership positions in both consumer research and finance and accounting functions spanning several multibillion dollar business units and worked directly with retailers including Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Costco, and BJ’s. He is also a highly-rated trainer in several P&G training colleges for leadership and communications courses. Prior to P&G, he was a consultant for Arthur Andersen & Company. Smith is the author of a new book about storytelling as a leadership tool titled Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/crafting-business-stories-that-captivate-convince-and-inspire/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120808 DTEND:20120809 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T144657 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T144657 UID:4422@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:How Smart Women Ask—and Stand Up—for What They Want DESCRIPTION: Tips for Negotiating with Confidence Women negotiate all day, every day, often without even realizing they are in a bargaining situation. Whether the negotiation is a small, everyday matter, or a bigger, more structured deal, making the most of these conversations is imperative. Join us for an informative session where Selena Rezvani will share tips from her brand new book, PUSHBACK. What You Will Learn •Flex your style based on the topic or person with whom you are negotiating •Prepare for a negotiation from both informational and emotional perspectives •Maneuver through negotiation using verbal and nonverbal communication, making concessions, managing tradeoffs and closing the deal Selena Rezvani is a recognized authority on women and leadership and is a leading author, speaker, and consultant regarding women and the workplace. She is the co-owner of Women’s Roadmap, a consulting firm that elevates women into leadership through assessment, the design of gender-inclusive policies, and coaching. She has also offered training programs at Harvard, SAP, Princeton, Comcast, eBay, UBS, Duke, Johnson & Johnson, among other places. A regular commentator on NPR’s syndicated 51 Percent: The Women’s Perspective and writes columns on women and leadership for the Washington Post and Forbes, she is the author of The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won’t Learn in Business School (Praeger, 2009), and PUSHBACK: How Smart Women Ask—and Stand Up—for What They Want (Jossey-Bass, 2012). To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/how-smart-women-ask-and-stand-up-for-what-they-want/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120711 DTEND:20120712 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T144449 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T144449 UID:4420@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Finding Diamonds in the Rough: Proven Methods for Hiring High-Potentials DESCRIPTION: How the Jagged Resume Often Leads to Great Hires Employers are more dogmatic than ever about wanting to hire nothing but “A” players. So the hunt is constantly on for candidates with great pedigrees and unbroken records of success in prior jobs. Yet as many as 40% of these all-stars end up failing in their new assignments. What’s missing? It’s time to take a fresh look at “soft skills” such as resilience, ingenuity, growth potential, creativity and the ability to accomplish a lot with skimpy resources. During this webcast, you’ll discover how world-class organizations have mastered ways to size up candidates along these dimensions. What You Will Learn •How to evaluate jagged resumes and talent that whispers, in any job search •Specific tactics that work in non-business settings – and show how they can be grafted into the corporate world. While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required. George Anders is the bestselling author of five books and a contributing writer at Forbes. He is the author of The Rare Find, a management/leadership book that spells out a new framework for finding talent, and Becoming a Rare Find, a career book that helps people with jagged resumes win great jobs. His earlier books include Merchants of Debt, Health Against Wealth, and the New York Times bestseller Perfect Enough. In 1997, Anders shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. His journalistic career includes many years as a top feature writer for the Wall Street Journal. A founding member of the Bloomberg View board of editors, he was Silicon Valley bureau chief for Fast Company magazine. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/finding-diamonds-in-the-rough-proven-methods-for-hiring-high-potentials/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120802 DTEND:20120803 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T144229 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T144229 UID:4417@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Career Outlook for Marketing Researchers - Trends and Mapping DESCRIPTION: In this webcast, Alex will identify current job trends in the market research industry and discuss how these trends impact career mapping and job search strategy. He will provide a perspective on what candidates can expect in today's job market, how best to leverage experience and maximize interview opportunities. Focus points: • Identify current market/job trends in the market research industry • Organize your search: how to position your candidacy to maximize interview opportunities in light of current market need sates/trends • Outlook for market research industry Alex Bell currently manages the market research recruiting practice for Burtch Works Executive Recruiting. He has served as a trusted advisor to candidates, and talent acquisition partner to clients in the niche field of market research for over 12 years. Alex has placed hundreds of research professionals to support industry leading corporations, research suppliers, and consultancies. His extensive recruiting experience affords him the ability to intimately understand market challenges, trends, and progressive career paths in market research. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/career-outlook-for-marketing-researchers-trends-and-mapping/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120719 DTEND:20120720 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T080323 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T080323 UID:4411@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Power Searching with Google DESCRIPTION: You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it. Our course is aimed at empowering you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Identify the location of a picture your friend took during his vacation a few months ago? How about finally identifying that green-covered book about gardening that you’ve been trying to track down for years? You can learn all this and more over six 50-minute classes. Lessons will be released daily starting on July 10, 2012, and you can take them according to your own schedule during a two-week window, alongside a worldwide community. The lessons include interactive activities to practice new skills, and many opportunities to connect with others using Google tools such as Google Groups, Moderator and Google+, including Hangouts on Air, where world-renowned search experts will answer your questions on how search works. Googlers will also be on hand during the course period to help and answer your questions in case you get stuck. Power Searching with Google blends the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) learning format pioneered by Stanford and MIT with our social and communication tools to create what we hope is a true community learning experience. Visit the course homepage to learn more. By the end of this course, you'll know several new techniques that will make you a Google Power Searcher and help you find out information about whatever you can imagine—from how to prepare for a new family pet to where moss grows on Stonehenge or how to grow katniss in your garden. Sign up now! To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/power-searching-with-google-6/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120718 DTEND:20120719 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T080110 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T080110 UID:4409@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Power Searching with Google DESCRIPTION: You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it. Our course is aimed at empowering you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Identify the location of a picture your friend took during his vacation a few months ago? How about finally identifying that green-covered book about gardening that you’ve been trying to track down for years? You can learn all this and more over six 50-minute classes. Lessons will be released daily starting on July 10, 2012, and you can take them according to your own schedule during a two-week window, alongside a worldwide community. The lessons include interactive activities to practice new skills, and many opportunities to connect with others using Google tools such as Google Groups, Moderator and Google+, including Hangouts on Air, where world-renowned search experts will answer your questions on how search works. Googlers will also be on hand during the course period to help and answer your questions in case you get stuck. Power Searching with Google blends the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) learning format pioneered by Stanford and MIT with our social and communication tools to create what we hope is a true community learning experience. Visit the course homepage to learn more. By the end of this course, you'll know several new techniques that will make you a Google Power Searcher and help you find out information about whatever you can imagine—from how to prepare for a new family pet to where moss grows on Stonehenge or how to grow katniss in your garden. Sign up now! To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/power-searching-with-google-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120717 DTEND:20120718 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T075926 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T075926 UID:4407@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Power Searching with Google DESCRIPTION: You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it. Our course is aimed at empowering you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Identify the location of a picture your friend took during his vacation a few months ago? How about finally identifying that green-covered book about gardening that you’ve been trying to track down for years? You can learn all this and more over six 50-minute classes. Lessons will be released daily starting on July 10, 2012, and you can take them according to your own schedule during a two-week window, alongside a worldwide community. The lessons include interactive activities to practice new skills, and many opportunities to connect with others using Google tools such as Google Groups, Moderator and Google+, including Hangouts on Air, where world-renowned search experts will answer your questions on how search works. Googlers will also be on hand during the course period to help and answer your questions in case you get stuck. Power Searching with Google blends the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) learning format pioneered by Stanford and MIT with our social and communication tools to create what we hope is a true community learning experience. Visit the course homepage to learn more. By the end of this course, you'll know several new techniques that will make you a Google Power Searcher and help you find out information about whatever you can imagine—from how to prepare for a new family pet to where moss grows on Stonehenge or how to grow katniss in your garden. Sign up now! To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/power-searching-with-google-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120712 DTEND:20120713 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T075829 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T075829 UID:4405@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Power Searching with Google DESCRIPTION: You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it. Our course is aimed at empowering you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Identify the location of a picture your friend took during his vacation a few months ago? How about finally identifying that green-covered book about gardening that you’ve been trying to track down for years? You can learn all this and more over six 50-minute classes. Lessons will be released daily starting on July 10, 2012, and you can take them according to your own schedule during a two-week window, alongside a worldwide community. The lessons include interactive activities to practice new skills, and many opportunities to connect with others using Google tools such as Google Groups, Moderator and Google+, including Hangouts on Air, where world-renowned search experts will answer your questions on how search works. Googlers will also be on hand during the course period to help and answer your questions in case you get stuck. Power Searching with Google blends the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) learning format pioneered by Stanford and MIT with our social and communication tools to create what we hope is a true community learning experience. Visit the course homepage to learn more. By the end of this course, you'll know several new techniques that will make you a Google Power Searcher and help you find out information about whatever you can imagine—from how to prepare for a new family pet to where moss grows on Stonehenge or how to grow katniss in your garden. Sign up now! To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/power-searching-with-google-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120711 DTEND:20120712 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T075739 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T075739 UID:4403@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Power Searching with Google DESCRIPTION: You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it. Our course is aimed at empowering you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Identify the location of a picture your friend took during his vacation a few months ago? How about finally identifying that green-covered book about gardening that you’ve been trying to track down for years? You can learn all this and more over six 50-minute classes. Lessons will be released daily starting on July 10, 2012, and you can take them according to your own schedule during a two-week window, alongside a worldwide community. The lessons include interactive activities to practice new skills, and many opportunities to connect with others using Google tools such as Google Groups, Moderator and Google+, including Hangouts on Air, where world-renowned search experts will answer your questions on how search works. Googlers will also be on hand during the course period to help and answer your questions in case you get stuck. Power Searching with Google blends the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) learning format pioneered by Stanford and MIT with our social and communication tools to create what we hope is a true community learning experience. Visit the course homepage to learn more. By the end of this course, you'll know several new techniques that will make you a Google Power Searcher and help you find out information about whatever you can imagine—from how to prepare for a new family pet to where moss grows on Stonehenge or how to grow katniss in your garden. Sign up now! To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/power-searching-with-google-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120710 DTEND:20120711 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T075622 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T075622 UID:4401@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Power Searching with Google DESCRIPTION: You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it. Our course is aimed at empowering you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Identify the location of a picture your friend took during his vacation a few months ago? How about finally identifying that green-covered book about gardening that you’ve been trying to track down for years? You can learn all this and more over six 50-minute classes. Lessons will be released daily starting on July 10, 2012, and you can take them according to your own schedule during a two-week window, alongside a worldwide community. The lessons include interactive activities to practice new skills, and many opportunities to connect with others using Google tools such as Google Groups, Moderator and Google+, including Hangouts on Air, where world-renowned search experts will answer your questions on how search works. Googlers will also be on hand during the course period to help and answer your questions in case you get stuck. Power Searching with Google blends the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) learning format pioneered by Stanford and MIT with our social and communication tools to create what we hope is a true community learning experience. Visit the course homepage to learn more. By the end of this course, you'll know several new techniques that will make you a Google Power Searcher and help you find out information about whatever you can imagine—from how to prepare for a new family pet to where moss grows on Stonehenge or how to grow katniss in your garden. Sign up now! To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/power-searching-with-google/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120712 DTEND:20120713 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120703T075430 LAST-MODIFIED:20120703T075430 UID:4399@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:The Direction of Fair Use for Education: New Law and New Possibilities DESCRIPTION: Copyright and fair use has long been a critical element of innovative technologies. On campus, we steadily create new works and use existing ones—and nearly all of them are automatically protected under copyright law. Effective management of our own rights and proper exercise of fair use is the key to successful development of creative educational programs. In recent years, however, the stakes have gotten higher, and some conflicts over copyright have gone to court. This webinar will examine a few recent court cases involving fair use as applied to video streaming and digital books. It will focus chiefly on a court decision handed down in May 2012 regarding the digitizing of copyrighted books at Georgia State University for electronic reserves and for student use through course management systems. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/07/03/the-direction-of-fair-use-for-education-new-law-and-new-possibilities/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120629T160602 LAST-MODIFIED:20120629T160602 UID:4397@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Telling the Library Story DESCRIPTION:Thursday, August 23, 2012 ♦ 1 pm Eastern / 10 am Pacific ♦ 60 min   Early Registration: https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=716559000       Learn how to tell a succinct, powerful story about the value of libraries. Based on OCLC’s “From Awareness to Funding” and the latest findings of brain research, this session focuses on turning the evidence of our daily patron encounters into short, compelling, and memorable messages that build support.   Presented by: Jamie LaRue, director, Douglas County Libraries (CO), blogger, and chair of committee who created The Big Hairy Audacious Goal, a public library advocacy initiative.   LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/06/29/telling-the-library-story/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART: DTEND: DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120629T160505 LAST-MODIFIED:20120629T160505 UID:4395@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Librarians are Wikipedians Too DESCRIPTION:  Thursday, August 2, 2012 ♦ 2 pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific ♦ 60 min   Early Registration: https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=715386796       Wikipedia is an increasingly prominent player in the web search environment, and more people are finding it "a good place to start research." Despite open questions regarding quality, Wikipedia shares common goals with libraries in ensuring free accessibility to information, and relying on authoritative sources. This presentation will overview the past efforts and future potential of libraries and librarians working with Wikipedia. Discussed are strategies to drive web- and foot-traffic to libraries through the use of Wikipedia. Plus powerful tips and tricks are revealed into the software and policies of Wikipedia, helping librarians to critically address quality for themselves. Presented by: Max Klein, Wikipedian in Residence at OCLC Research     LOCATION: URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/06/29/librarians-are-wikipedians-too/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120801 DTEND:20120802 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120629T113956 LAST-MODIFIED:20120629T113956 UID:4390@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Strategies for Success: Board Member Recruitment/Retention DESCRIPTION: Don’t have the board members you need to serve the organization and can’t keep the great ones you have recruited? Building a strong and reliable nonprofit board of directors is no easy task, but leveraging simple best practices and innovative strategies can mean the difference between an engaged, effective board of directors and a social club with minimal leadership. There are new strategies and vehicles for recruiting board members and concrete steps your organization can take to set the board, and your nonprofit, up for success. This workshop is designed for both nonprofits recruiting board members and individuals looking to be join boards. Takeaways: How to build a diverse recruitment strategy, Ways to retain outstanding board members, and What questions to ask and due diligence to practice before joining a board. Emily Davis has been working in the nonprofit sector as a staff member, consultant, founder, board member, and volunteer for over 15 years. Emily is the President of EDA Consulting LLC and the author of the publication, Fundraising and the Next Generation. She trains and consults on a wide variety of issues including leadership development, philanthropy, and integrated online communications. She serves on numerous advisory roles including Nonprofit World Magazine, Nonprofit Cultivation Center, and Social Venture Partners of Boulder County. Emily has received and been nominated for a number of awards throughout the country. Emily has her Masters in Nonprofit Management from Regis University. EDA Consulting engages in partnerships with nonprofits and philanthropists using creativity, learning, leadership and best practices to engage every generation. EDA Consulting serves nonprofits, philanthropies, and even for-profit companies to maximize the most of every resource to benefit their organizations. EDA Consulting helps individuals and organizations accomplish their goals and feed their passions. We emphasize learning partnerships and strategies that yield long-term success for nonprofit organizations and philanthropists of all kinds. We pride ourselves on creative and tailored approaches to organizational success. As Emily, the President of EDA Consulting, so often says, “we match the head of business with the heart of charity to bring about successful outcomes.” EDA Consulting will help your nonprofit business thrive using creative and customized best practices for serve your mission, passion, and stakeholders. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/06/29/strategies-for-success-board-member-recruitmentretention/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120809T140000 DTEND:20120809T150000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120622T135717 LAST-MODIFIED:20120522T135934 UID:4220@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Session DESCRIPTION: Lyrasis' new Mass Digitization Collaborative offers members the opportunity to contribute materials to a regional mass digitization project. Lyrasis facilitates the process by selecting vendors and developing a collaborative collection development policy, guidelines, standards, and workflows. The Collaborative is funded by the Lyrasis membership and supported in part through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The full project was originally opened to all PALINET members in October 2008. When registered, attendees will receive email containing login information to webinar within two weeks before event. Please register at the SWFLN CE calendar below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/06/22/mass-digitization-collaborative-information-session-8/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120809 DTEND:20120810 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120622T124139 LAST-MODIFIED:20120622T124139 UID:4385@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Writing for the Web DESCRIPTION:Ever get the feeling that nobody is reading your library’s website? Trust your gut on this one; unfortunately, this is the case for much of the content posted on library sites. You may also be asking: •Why is my content failing? •How can I attract attention without resorting to irritating writing conventions? Learn how to make your content not only attractive, but also palatable to today’s online reader. Some simple guidelines will make all the difference. At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will: •Be able to identify at least two ways to write effective headlines •Be able to list at least three writing conventions to avoid •Be familiar with how to format content specifically for online readers This webinar will be of interest to all library staff responsible for producing online content for their library. To launch this event simply click on the link below. LOCATION:United States URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/06/22/writing-for-the-web/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120822T133000 DTEND:20120822T160000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120622T114355 LAST-MODIFIED:20120522T114616 UID:4197@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Right Service at the Right Time (Hands on with Q & A) DESCRIPTION: Do you like being Right? Then you need to be a part of the Right Service at the Right Time! The Right Service at the Right Time is an easy to use resource that connects people with e-gov and social services. And now, we are bringing the Right Service right to you! On January 18, we will be offering two workshops to get you on the right path. The morning workshop, 9:30am-11:30am, will cover what Right Service is, why it is important, how to participate, how to use it, free and inexpensive ways to promote it, and other great info. The afternoon workshop, 1:30pm-4:00pm, will be a hands on session, navigating the library and service provider consoles, creating user accounts, managing services and finding and entering resources. It is suggested that you attend both sessions, but if your schedule does not allow it, please attend whichever one you can. If you are attending the afternoon session, please bring some resources (service provider information) with you to enter into the database – for example, information about your local Goodwill industries location, what services they offer, address, eligibility requirements, etc. Or just bring the urls for the services you refer customers to. So please sign up Right now for these free workshops and learn how this free resource gets Right the heart of what your customers need. The Right Service at the Right Time has been funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Florida Department of State, State Library and Archives of Florida. These sessions are designed to stand independently so you may choose the ones you want. We hope you can join us for both. You as a member of SWFLN, have the option to register for both of the sessions or simply just attend one; but you MUST register individually for each session. Please register at the SWFLN CE Calender. LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/06/22/4197/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120822T093000 DTEND:20120822T113000 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120622T114108 LAST-MODIFIED:20120522T114349 UID:4195@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Right Service at the Right Time (Introduction) DESCRIPTION: Do you like being Right? Then you need to be a part of the Right Service at the Right Time! The Right Service at the Right Time is an easy to use resource that connects people with e-gov and social services. And now, we are bringing the Right Service right to you! On January 18, we will be offering two workshops to get you on the right path. The morning workshop, 9:30am-11:30am, will cover what Right Service is, why it is important, how to participate, how to use it, free and inexpensive ways to promote it, and other great info. The afternoon workshop, 1:30pm-4:00pm, will be a hands on session, navigating the library and service provider consoles, creating user accounts, managing services and finding and entering resources. It is suggested that you attend both sessions, but if your schedule does not allow it, please attend whichever one you can. If you are attending the afternoon session, please bring some resources (service provider information) with you to enter into the database – for example, information about your local Goodwill industries location, what services they offer, address, eligibility requirements, etc. Or just bring the urls for the services you refer customers to. So please sign up Right now for these free workshops and learn how this free resource gets Right the heart of what your customers need. The Right Service at the Right Time has been funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Florida Department of State, State Library and Archives of Florida. These sessions are designed to stand independently so you may choose the ones you want. We hope you can join us for both. You as a member of SWFLN, have the option to register for both of the sessions or simply just attend one; but you MUST register individually for each session. Please register at the SWFLN CE Calender. LOCATION:2050 Forrest Nelson Boulevard, Port Charlotte, FL, United States, 33952 URL:http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com/index.php/2012/06/22/right-service-at-the-right-time-introduction-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120814 DTEND:20120815 DTSTAMP:20130523T005543 CREATED:20120621T140151 LAST-MODIFIED:20120621T140151 UID:4381@http://www.floridalibrarytraining.com SUMMARY:Connexion Browser Module 5 – Editing Master Records DESCRIPTION: This course provides instruction on OCLC’s rules and process for editing and improving master records in the WorldCat database with a standard, full-level cataloging authorization. After completing this web-based training, learners will be ready to apply their existing knowledge of cataloging rules to the process of improving master records in the WorldCat database. Trainees will also learn the financial incentives for improving master records, identify in-depth resources to assist them in the process of improving master records, as well as learn procedures for reporting record errors that cannot be fixed by members with full-level cataloging authorizations. This course is intended for learners who are comfortable with the editing functionality of Connexion Browser and have sufficient knowledge of cataloging guidelines to contribute quality metadata to the WorldCat database. This course will be of particular benefit to catalogers who are spending time doing quality control editing at the local level, or technical services managers who wish to reduce OCLC cataloging costs through increased credits. To launch this event simply click on the link below. Note: To access OCLC services, one must have a WebJunction/OCLC account, if n