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No Need to Reinvent the Wheel ARSL and ABOS joint conference Oct. 2010

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Presentation by Sarah Washburn (TechSoup) at the ARSL-ABOS conference in Denver, CO (Oct. 2010)

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No Need to Reinvent the WheelARSL and ABOS joint conference

Oct. 2010

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Meet your neighbor.

Flickr user: Aidan Jones

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What’s your challenge?

Flickr user: stuant33

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Challenges from the audience

• Board created a policy to keep kids off PAC if they aren’t supervised by adult (KS)

• Updating PCs and keeping them consistent (Centurion Guard, SteadyState)

• Bookmobile: consistent connection (CO) [suggestions from group: Mi-Fi, Sprint hotspot]

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TechSoup for Libraries

ListenShareLearn

What might be

“that’s nothing” to you may be an

“aha!”

to someone else.

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Donated Products

webinar & phone conferencing * FLICKRstaff scheduling * refurbished computers * financial

management * FLIP VIDEO * keyboarding for patrons * educational software * photocopiers

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Coming up in October

Cloud Computing: why you should care

Story of an open source library

Security Basics: keep your computers safe

Coming up in October

Cloud Computing: why you should care

Story of an open source library

Security Basics: keep your computers safe

This is how we do it: Webinars

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PAST archived webinar:

Flip’n out at your library!

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This is how we do it: Spotlights

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This is how we do it: Guest bloggers

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Some topics we cover

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We rely on you.

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TechSoup is here to help. [email protected]

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