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Presentations

The page contains a list of previous presentations with links to the materials wherever possible; you can see everything in one place, plus other presentations I've created just for use online, on my Slideshare page and my Prezi page.

If you would like me to present at a forthcoming event, get in touch.

2012

April

• Using Prezi Interactive Maps to Increase Student Engagement | LILAC, Glasgow, April 12th
  This session will run from 11am - 12am in the Computer Room at LILAC - it's a hands-on workshop, and more details of it can be found here. Plus, here's the full LILAC conference programme.
  
  
• The Time For Libraries is Now | Latvia, April 24th-26th
  I'll be doing various versions of The Time For Libraries Is Now presentation for the Latvian Ministy of Culture, including presentations to the Latvian media and the University of Latvia's Library School. I'll also be doing a recorded marketing presentation while I'm out there.

May

• Marketing with new technologies | Newcastle, May 8th
  University College Research Group event on Web 2.0 and Mobile Technologies.
  
  
• You already have a brand! Here are 5 ways to influence it... | New Professionals Day, CILIP HQ, May 11th

June

• Professional Networking Tips for New Librarians | 7th June, Webinar, Noon EST / 17:00 GMT.
  Online webinar as part of the ALA (American Library Association)'s New Members Round Table virtual programme. Full details TBC.
  
  
• Marketing your library, marketing yourself
  SLA-Europe evening event, jointly with Bethan Ruddock: details TBC

July

• Internal marketing and academic libraries
  Workshop at Oxford University, details TBC.

Sept

• An introduction to social media for organisations
  All day workshop, details TBC.

Dec

• Marketing with new technologies
  All day workshop, details TBC.

2011

• Marketing Academic Libraries in a Web 2 World
  This is a session I ran for the Bodleian at the Oxford Social Media 2011: Developments in Web 2 event in September.
  Marketing academic libraries in a web 2 world

  View more presentations from Ned Potter
• Escaping the Echo Chamber
  Laura and I presented a new version of our presentation about library advocacy and marketing outside the echo chamber, at CILIP's Umbrella conference in August. On Day 2 of Umbrella I also sat on a panel for a Future of Libraries Q&A, with Annie Mauger.

  View Escaping the echo-chamber on Prezi

• The Machines Are Coming
  This Prezi on recent advances in library technology was created for a session at the Prison Libraries Group Training Day in May, in London. (Works best in Full-Screen mode)
  

  The Machines Are Coming: Recent Advances in Library Technology on Prezi

• The time for Libraries is NOW
  This is an online only presentation, for now - but I've never worked harder on a set of slides so I wanted to embed them here. It's a response to the famous Shift Happens slide-deck, positioning libraries and information professionals at the centre of the modern, information-driven world.
  
  The time for Libraries is NOW

  View more presentations from Ned Potter
  . (UPDATE: This has since been translated into Czech! Here's a link to Cas pro knihovny je TED!.)
• STOP BREAKING THE BASIC RULES OF PRESENTING!
  An online only presentation which was a Featured Presentation on Slideshare.
  
  Stop Breaking The Basic Rules of Presenting

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• Escaping the Echo Chamber: Libraries, Marketing and Advocacy
  I did the Escaping the Echo Chamberpresentation at the Libraries@Cambridge event at Cambridge University in January (unfortunately Laura couldn't make it for this one). The latest version of this presentation is embedded further up the page.

2010

• Escaping the Echo Chamber
  Laura and I did our Echo Chamberpresentation at an SLA Europe evening event, at the City Business Library in November.
  
  
• Techogeek? What you need to know about technology to work as an information professional
  In November I presented on various aspects of library technology at the New Professionals Information Day, at Newcastle City Library. You can view the interactive Prezi and read the talk I gave, here. This was a repeat of the October session in London, below.
  
  
• Escaping the Echo Chamber
  Laura and I did our Escaping the Echo Chamber presentation at the University of Northumbria's Mini Umbrella event. This is actually the only time we've used slides for this presentation - you can see them here. These became a Featured Presentation in the Education section of Slideshare.
  
  
• If you want to work in libraries, here are 10 things you need to know
  This is a presentation I created in November with the sole intention of getting libraries out of the echo chamber. The idea is to let potential new recruits to the library profession know what it is really like, but also just to let everyone else know too...
  The point was to make attractive enough slides that it would get picked up and displayed in lots of places. This worked, as it got into Slideshare's Hot on Twitter section, their Education section, and then their Featured Presentations on the homepage. It has been embeded in over 75 different websites, including careers sites in the US, and featured in the pages of the Guardian.
  
  
  If you want to work in libraries: click to view on Slideshare
• Techogeek? What you need to know about technology to work as an information professional
  In October I presented on various aspects of library technology at New Professionals Information Day, in London at CILIP HQ. You can view the interactive Prezi and read the talk I gave, here.

• Marketing Libraries Outside the Echo Chamber
  In July 2010 Laura Woods and I performed our Escaping the Echo Chamber presentation for the first time, at the CILIP Career Development Group Yorkshire & Humberside AGM in Leeds - you can see the presentation materials here.
  
  
• Everything you need to know about blogs and blogging
  I ran a workshop on Everything you need to know about blogs and blogging at CILIP's New Professionals Conference at the University of Sheffield - you can see the presentation materials in this blog post.
  
  The New Professionals Network
  At the same event, I did a presentation with Chris Rhodes on the launch of the New Professionals Network - you can view the slides here.
  
  
• Leeds University Library
  In May 2009 I gave this presentation about the library in general, and the digitisation programme in particular, as part of a CILIP Career Development Group visit to the University - you can see the slides used here.
  

2009

• Realising your potential: rising above the stereotypes This paper was given at the CILIP Graduate Open Day in Octoboer 2009. It was based roughly on the Why are we still defined by our building? paper, below, but with some changes and improvements; for that reason, I won't post the whole paper here (not least because it only exists in note form) but here is a link to my notes and slides, via issuu. It's just the notes I used on the day, so apoligies for the lack of formality.

• Why are we still defined by our building?
  I presented a the CILIP New Professionals Conference in July 2009, winning the Best Paper Prize as voted for by the delegates. The slides I used were pretty rubbish really, but you can see a version of them in the 'Realising your potential' link above.

• Collaborative Digitisation Survey
  A joint presentation given by Jane Secker and me (mostly by Jane, it has to be said!) in July 09, on the initial findings from the major survey into HEIs digitisation under the CLA's scanning licences can be found here.

2008

• Digitisation: From Project to Service
  My presentation for the Heron User-Group in London, June 08, can be found on HERON's website for HERON subscribers only; it is a case-study of the University of Leeds Library's digitisation project, Online Course Readings.