Karen Pardue and Steve Lawson

Originally uploaded by Colorado College Tutt Library.

Updated 2007-05-08: It amuses me greatly that I got three comments on this little stub of a post. Thanks Josh, Dorothea, and Heidi.

The presentations went well enough. Emilie Satterwhite and I reprised our Keeping Current talk from November. Emilie is a fun person to present with, and our smallish room (for this smallish event) was rather full. People seemed most excited about blogging, though they had good questions about wikis, feeds and podcasts, too. I don’t know how much the message “took,” though. We offered free premium wikis from pbWiki (through their educator presenter pack offer) to the first two people to email us with the URL of their wiki to upgrade: no one took us up on the offer.

My solo presentation, Social Software: Making Connections on the Web, was perhaps less successful. I was trying to show off Flickr, del.icio.us, and LibraryThing and their applications for libraries. I was a little too unfocused, and severely hampered by the fact that I had to kneel behind the projector if I wanted to do a live demo–small room, short projector-to-laptop cord. I think I didn’t have a good enough “narrative” for the presentation, either, so it was more like a few disconnected demos.

One of the neatest things about my day in Pueblo was meeting Karen Pardue, a librarian at Colorado State University, Pueblo. I got to know Karen a little through our participation in Five Weeks to a Social Library, and was looking forward to meeting her in person. It was fun to meet up: I was really happy to see her, and it seemed like she was happy to meet me too. I’m looking forward to meeting more of my imaginary friends in the future.