by kate | Apr 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’ve been part of the program committee for ALIA Information Online for several years. In 2021, our usual in-person conference moved online, just like every conference that’s happened in the last year or so. Instead of our usual mutli-stream, three day...
by kate | Mar 18, 2020 | news
Lots of people I know are about to start working from home for the first time, and since I’ve been working from home to varying degrees for a long time, I thought I’d put together some of my top tips for making working from home work. Disclaimer: These are...
by kate | Nov 7, 2019 | news, workshops
A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Ellie Abdi and I ran a workshop on Information Experience Design at ASIS&T 2019. This post contains all the resources, slides and references related to the workshop. Slide deck Information experience readings Hughes, H. (2014)...
by kate | Oct 22, 2019 | news
Today I’m participating in a panel discussion at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Melbourne alongside Clarence Maybee, Ellie Abdi and Lettie Conrad. My slides will be available here shortly (I just broke my website but as soon as it’s fixed, they’ll be up!). In the...
by kate | Sep 3, 2019 | news, workshops
Next month, my colleague Ellie Sayyad Abdi and I will be running a workshop at ASIS&T 2019 in Melbourne on information experience design. It’s a concept we (particularly Ellie!) have been developing over the past few years, and one that we think has the...
by kate | Mar 16, 2019 | workshops
In February, my colleague Kathleen Smeaton and I ran a workshop at Information Online 2019 in Sydney. The workshop was called: Building an engagement toolkit and looked at using research methods to understand problems and engage with customers. Good services and...
by kate | Oct 24, 2018 | presentations
Yesterday, I participated in a bit of a panel discussion at a planning day for the USQ Library leadership team about using social media to build personal learning networks, develop a professional identity and reputation, and amplify the good things we and our...
by kate | Aug 29, 2018 | workshops
A couple of weeks back, my colleagues Kathleen Smeaton, Lyndelle Gunton and I ran a workshop at the Asia Pacific Library and Information Conference. The workshop was called: Building an engagement toolkit: How you can understand your customers, evaluate your programs...
by kate | Aug 4, 2018 | news, presentations
On Thursday, Dr Michael Stephens (San Jose State University), Professor Helen Partridge (University of Southern Queensland) and I presented preliminary findings from our research about Australian public librarians’ professional development experiences at the...
by kate | Aug 1, 2018 | news, presentations
Today I’m speaking at the Asia Pacific Library and Information Conference in my home town, the Gold Coast. I’ll be talking about information experience online, particularly in social media, and why we need to be thinking about this in the current context....