Presentations

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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Karen Blakeman on February 21st, 2010

Slidefinder  (http://www.slidefinder.net/) was recommended to me way back in August 2009 and I have been using it ever since to track down information inside presentations. PowerPoint presentations can hold a wealth of information: corporate structures, strategic plans, research activity, statistics, industry information etc. Using the advanced file format search options in the general search engines [...]

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Karen Blakeman on January 29th, 2010

CLSIG is re-running the popular Web 2.0 event it held last year in London. Both Phil Duffy and I are presenting again but this time it is to be held in Birmingham. Details are as follows: Event: Web 2.0 – the truth behind the hype Date: Monday 1 March 2010, 6.30-8pm. (Doors open 6 pm) [...]

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Karen Blakeman on December 3rd, 2009

The three  presentations I gave at Online Information 2009 are now available on Slideshare: The Everchanging Landscape of Search: Google is not enough View more presentations from Karen Blakeman. Twitter for Business: an essential marketing and research tool View more presentations from Karen Blakeman. Business research: Web 2.0 is not an option but a necessity [...]

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CILIP in the Thames Valley, 6th October 2009, Great Expectations, Reading The presentation I gave to CILIP in the Thames Valley on 6th October is now available in a number of locations. At least one of these should be accessible through your firewall! PowerPoint presentation – RBA web site Slideshare Authorstream Slideboom Some of the [...]

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Karen Blakeman on October 2nd, 2009

CILIP in the Thames Valley evening meeting Date & Time: Tuesday 6th October 2009,  1800 for 1830 hrs Location: Great Expectations, 33 London St, Reading Google threatens to go hyper with its “caffeine” search. Bing is taking over Yahoo. Image search options are expanding: creative commons, colour, similar images. More specialist search tools for the [...]

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Karen Blakeman on September 19th, 2009

If you weren’t able to attend the CLSIG Web 2.0 debate on September 17th there are two blog postings so far of the event: CLSIG Seminar: Web 2.0 – the truth behind the hype « Organising Chaos The Running Librarian: Web 2.0 – the truth behind the hype Added after above posted to blog: VIP [...]

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Karen Blakeman on September 18th, 2009

Web 2.0 – the truth behind the hype. Evening meeting held at Hamonds LLP, Devonshire Square, London, EC2M 4YH. Speakers: Phil Duffy, Karen Blakeman The slides and screenshots that I showed at yesterday’s CLSIG evening meeting as part of the Web 2.0 debate are now available in various places: PowerPoint presentation on my own RBA [...]

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Karen Blakeman on May 29th, 2009

The presentations that I gave at PATLIB 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria lastweek are now available at http://www.rba.co.uk/patlib2009. There are two: a 25 minute  presentation that was given as part of the main conference and the longer half day pre-conference workshop. As usual, many of the slides will probably not make sense without my commentary but [...]

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