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When data really should be presented in a written article because it’s more important than just to be in a conference presentation
No, I’m not trolling the website for mentions of me or my blog. The notice for this podcast came through on the Dashboard of my WordPress management interface.
Skip to about the half-way point for where the discussion starts (or, listen to the whole thing ’cause it’s really good). They start discussing my blog posting and the WILU presentation I’m talking about. Cool
Wish I had heard about this in time ’cause I would have LOVED to have been on that discussion! They get a little off topic at first, mainly ’cause it sounds like most of them hadn’t actually looked at the entire (extremely long) PPT, but then they get back on track. One admits that she’s looking at the PPT during the discussion, which sounds funny to me as a listener.
The power of the presentation by the librarians from Mohawk College is the quantitative data is so much more useful than the anecdotal observations that we’ve been relying on far too much to understand the Millennials. That’s the whole point of the conference presentation — we surveyed our students and look how the numbers don’t match what the (Utopian) futurists are telling us!
It’s too bad that the data was presented as a conference presentation instead of an article because there’s just so much rich data there to inform and empower people, like the people participating in the discussion.
Maybe this is an example of where there is some great data being presented at conferences that librarians need, but the researchers aren’t putting it into the written format? Something to think about…
Posted by Laurie on June 13th, 2008 under Laurie speaks!, ReferralsOne Response to “When data really should be presented in a written article because it’s more important than just to be in a conference presentation”
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June 13th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Next time, I’ll be smart enough to invite you to join the conversation! Thanks for checking out the show and for the kind words.
It’s not altogether unusual for one or more of the participants to get off-topic. I’m not always the best at getting it back on-track, since I like to let it evolve naturally. Sometimes that works and sometimes not so much.
And yes, it’s true that many of the participants don’t quite get to looking at the topic sources before the show, which does occasionally impact the focus of the conversation. I’m sure my habit of changing the agenda throughout the day before recording makes it tough for people to know which stuff they should be reading. And of course, those who participate tend to be highly engaged people already, so they have a lot of other stuff going on. I’m certainly sympathetic to that, so I try not to push to hard on the whole “being prepared” thing. They’re pretty good at riffing on whatever they’re given anyway.
Again, thanks for listening!