Presentations

Karen Blakeman on October 29th, 2011

The presentations I gave at International Librarian International this week in London are now available on my Advanced Search page at http://www.rba.co.uk/as/. They are also available on authorSTREAM and Slideshare. Searching without Google Presentation given as part of the main conference on Friday, 28th October 2011 It is also available on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/KarenBlakeman/searching-without-google Web Search Academy [...]

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Karen Blakeman on September 10th, 2011

The PowerPoint that was the outline for my workshop at UWE in Bristol earlier this week is now on authorSTREAM. The top 10 tips from the workshop participants are in my earlier blog posting “Business Information: Top Ten Tips from Bristol” http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2011/09/09/business-information-top-ten-tips/

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Karen Blakeman on June 6th, 2011

The presentation, along with the text, that I gave at INFORUM 2011, 24th-26th 2011 is now available on the INFORUM web site at  http://www.inforum.cz/en/proceedings The PowerPoint presentation with an additional postscript slide can also be found at: Authorstream Slideshare

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Karen Blakeman on April 4th, 2011

The presentation I am giving to CILIP in Hants and Wight  – Anything but Google -  is now available at: RBA Advanced Search Workshops/Seminars (PowerPoint) authorSTREAM

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Karen Blakeman on December 8th, 2010

If you have not already spotted the links on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc  to the various presentations I gave at “Online” in London earlier this month here they are all in one place. I gave two talks as part of the free seminar programme that was part of the exhibition, a conference presentation and a [...]

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Karen Blakeman on October 16th, 2010

My presentation on using social media search tools as part of research, which I gave at Internet Librarian International on 15th October 2010, is now available on the sites listed below. I have uploaded it to several different sites and services as I know some of you are not able to access one or more [...]

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Karen Blakeman on May 13th, 2010

I have now uploaded the slides for my workshop at the Information for Energy Group (IFEG). As usual, I have uploaded them to several different web sites in case one or more are blocked by corporate firewalls. If you have problems accessing any of the locations, let me know and I’ll sort out some other [...]

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Karen Blakeman on May 9th, 2010

Phil Bradley and I are doing a double act on social networking tools tomorrow (May 10th, 2010) at the Dental Librarians Group Annual Meting 2010. My presentation is a run through the tools that I regularly use in my personal and working life. I’ve called it “A day in the life of…” but is really [...]

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Karen Blakeman on March 1st, 2010

The presentation that I am giving at this evening’s CLSIG meeting in Birmingham is now available: PowerPoint (download from this site – 3.2 MB) Slideshare authorSTREAM I have given the presentation a Creative Commons 3 non-commercial by attribution license, which means you are free to download and re-use it as long you cite me as [...]

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Karen Blakeman on February 24th, 2010

A free evening event organised by CILIP in the Thames Valley Date: Tuesday, 2nd March 2010 Time: 18.00 for 18.30 Venue: Great Expectations, 33 London Street, Reading, Berkshire  RG1 4PS Speaker: Chris O’Hare Chris O’Hare is manager at Henley & District CAB. Chris will consider the transferable skills from the information industry, the challenges and [...]

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