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Survival Guide for New Managers

This Education Institute course is taught by an associate of Dysart & Jones, Ruth Snowden, Principal with J. Chevreau Enterprises and can be attended from your own home or office!

The move into management brings a host of new responsibilities, hopes, challenges and opportunities. Whether you are in a small library or a huge organization, the management skills and strategies are the same. The Survival Guide for New Managers focuses on those key areas that will determine your success as a new manager: planning, communicating, balancing and learning. Check if out and register, or send your new managers.

WHEN 3 one hour Audio Sessions1 PM ET/10am PTMonday, Oct. 17, Nov. 7, Nov. 21, 2005

BlogU Tips

The first BlogU in Crystal City, VA, was a great success with comments like: “an idea generating day”, “techie yet friendly”, “just what I needed”.

Highlights for me included:New download — Blogger for Word — I missed it at the bottom of the home pageGreat design and color tips — check out ColorBlender, and remember if you play around with your design, save the last best design so you can always return to that one!And lots of good design tips at Dive into Accessibility.Allowing comments on your blog allows you to know your audience — we had a great discussion on this topic.Getting stats on blog use is tricky but possible.

BlogU debuts

Information Today‘s Blog University, a one day event focused on creating & using Weblogs to share information and knowledge with staff and clients as well as streamlining workflow and marketing activities, will be held on Sunday, Sept 18th in Crystal City, VA.Headliners included:Blake Carver, LISNewsSteven Cohen, Library StuffAmanda Etches-Johnson, BlogwithoutalibrarySabrina Pacifici, beSpacificAaron Schmidt, WalkingpaperJill Stover, Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book

Stay tuned for my top learnings from the day.

Strategic Conversations with Leaders

The Education Institute is continuing a series of conversations and talks by leading information professionals. Check these out:

Creating Possibilities & Strategic Funding Through Fundraising, by Yvonne Attard, Oct 6

Visionary Brand Strategies: Not Just Logos, by Yvonne Attard, Nov 4

Lessons to be Learned from International Libraries, by Josephine Bryant, Nov 9

The Art & Science of Win-Win Negotiationing, Juanita Richardson, Nov 16

Technology Tuesday Teleconferences

See if you can say that quickly three times! And then tune in to a great line up of talks with techies from the Education Institute, including:Gadgets & Libraries by Hope Tillman, Sept 13thInstant Messaging & Collaboration by Aaron Schmidt, Sept 27thPodcasting by Greg Schwartz, Oct 11thDreamweaver Tips & Tricks by Jillian Koskie, Oct 26thDesigning for Scent: Why Stinky Sites by Darlene Fichter, Nov 8thNew Technologies & Libraries by Stephen Abram, Nov 22ndWeb Design for the Design Challenged by Jeff Wisniewski, Dec 6thThe Ins & Outs of RSS by Geoffrey Harder, Jan 10thLibrary Web Sites meet About.com by David King, Jan 24th