“OurSpace, TheirSpace”

I finally decided to upload one of my conference presentations to SlideShare.  This particular presentation (”OurSpace, TheirSpace: Libraries, Young Adults, and Social Networking”) was given at the Georgia Public Library Service Teen Conference in December 2007, and it was essentially the result of a semester’s worth of research about the subject.  Please note that the Creative Commons credits for the images are placed at the end, along with special thanks to the librarians I interviewed.

It was my first talk at a library conference, and I was beyond nervous.  I was pretty much wanting to throw up the entire night before and the morning of, but once everything started I was fine, and people seemed to think the presentation was really helpful and interesting.  I realize that there’s nothing too groundbreaking here, but I do think it’s a decent guide for public libraries that are thinking of getting into social software as a marketing and communication tool.  Anyway, it was my first one, and I’d like to think that it came out pretty well.