Thanks Rural Libraries 2.0!, originally uploaded by mstephens7.

Traverse City, Michigan, has a new fan - me!

The real reason Michael Stephens and I were there, though, was to give the keynote presentation for the Rural Libraries 2.0 Conference. We had a great group of people, especially our hosts!

I'm experimenting with SlideShare, so here is my piece of our presentation. I don't think it translates well, especially given the physical size of the slides here, but folks who attended can page through it pretty easily and everything should be clickable. You can get the full PDF on my presentations wiki. Basically, we played a game called "big library or small library," with the correct answer being "any size library, as in "2.0 makes your job easier and levels the playing field for small libraries."



I also wanted to clear up one thing. During the "Flickr and kids" question at the end, when I referred to the woman who was in her late 30s/early 40s as "older," it was in relation to the kids that we'd been talking about previously, not the general population. :) I was emphasizing the point that privacy expectations are changing in general, not just for "these kids today."