I had the honor of participated in a niche that was finally filled today. To paraphrase what baldgeekinmd said “if you see something missing on the web you fill it – that is part of the read/write web”. Maurice was inspired by Greg Schwartz’s Uncontrolled Vocabulary show. And after searching around the podcasts out there realized there wasn’t anything that addressed training especially in the library world. So hence T is for Training was born.

Today was the “dress rehearsal” for the show. I joined Maurice, Jennifer Ranck (Training Coordinator for Eastern Shore Regional Libraries), and Bobbi Newman Digital Services Librarian at the Missouri River Regional Library.

I expected to be just a causal testing of the software (TalkShoe) but Maurice dived right in and had an agenda setup and the topics were quite interesting. Everything from do librarians need survival training to Bobbi’s 2.1 program to general talk about the aftermath of 23 Things here in MD (once Bobbi left the room was full of just MD trainers so we slanted the topic to us) and even a small trainer vent session. I suggested that Maurice keep the last 3 minutes of the show for the trainer vent session (will save a lot on our therapy bills).

I’m excited about this show and hope that lots of other trainers (library related or not) will join us on September 12 at 10:00 am for the first show and all the others to come.

Odds & ends, originally uploaded by Kevin Steele

Tidbits and leftovers from this week in new media:

The On Point makeover proceeds apace. The design all finished, it is now up to our boy genius programmer to conjure up a functioning website. Pray for him, people.

My recruitment drive for new radio talent appears to have flopped. Painful as it is for me to admit, only one of you gave your pics a soundtrack. Congratulations Barbara Slavin, you’ve passed the audition!

Those overburdened by guilt, click here for absolution.

Talk Shoe. The name suggests a CGI-laden Disneyesque fantasy populated by anthropomorphized inanimate objects. It bills itself as “Community calling with your online groups.” Still confused? Then hop on over there, kick the tires and let me know what you think. I have high hopes this may help resolve some of those nagging “live chat event” frustrations I vented about last week.

Oh, and before I forget, we are still in need of more feedback for our advertising campaign. If you haven’t yet done so. Please, please, please, take the survey.

Have a good weekend everybody!

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