Stuff I’ve read
I was getting ready to go to the CILIP NW Revalidation event last week and was trying to sort out the list of my CPD reading so I can add the books to my CPD Log. I thought I’d share…
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Author Lisa Jeskins
Ice breakers… they’re a bit like Marmite
My name is Lisa Jeskins. I’m a freelance trainer and I have issues with ice breakers. Some people really like them and some people HATE them. They’re a bit like Marmite. As a trainer who designs interactive training, I know…
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What a difference a lunch makes… guest post by Anne Littlewood.
Just over a year ago, I asked Lisa Jeskins out for lunch. Lisa and I have been friends for 15 years after enduring a year as technical services graduate trainees together. There’s nothing like folding letters, printing out catalogue records…
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Roving, roving, roving. My experience of roving reference.
I do a lot of training with librarians and information professionals on reference desks skills, enquiry desk skills or customer service skills. My sessions don’t involve me showing people how to answer enquiries as I’m not the expert in that,…
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All the Ps: Presentation skills, Prezi and Photos.
This week I’ve been mostly doing stuff beginning with ‘P’. New Presentation Skills Course I’ve written a new course to add to the training that I already offer. This is something that I’ve been meaning to do for 9 months…
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2013. Or the year I flew by the seat of my pants.
**Warning: naval gazing and more than a little self-congratulation So on Dec 14th 2012 I finally hung up my Mimas boots and went for it. I’d been working freelance one day a week for a year and decided to go…
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Group dynamics: or the one where I hijacked Llordllama’s post
(*Warning: there are no answers in this post and it’s pretty long) It’s now 10 months since I went freelance. I run pretty interactive sessions as I don’t enjoy the chalk and talk approach. But the more training I do,…
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I heart the Internet… but am fickle and demanding
It sounds pretty obvious doesn’t it, but I do love the Internet. I’m going to be doing some training in French in September. My degree is in French and Spanish so my language level is pretty high but when you…
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Busy, busy, busy.
Well where did the last 2 months go? There I was religiously posting every week and then LILAC occurred. I now have a LILAC shapped hole in my blog posts. I also have a ‘wow April was busy’ shaped hole…
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I tweet, what else can twitter do for me?
I almost called this ‘I tweet, therefore I am’. But I didn’t. I believe Jeff Bullas cautions again using cliches when blogging. So I would never do that. 😉 (10 secrets of professional writers every blogger should know, I believe it’s…
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