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Those of you who talk with me about ALA know that I feel very strongly about eParticipation, or allowing ALA members to participate virtually. So, it was great fun for me to pull together a talk on ALA’s eParticipation trends for this month’s Emerging Tech Talk. Here’s the presentation:

I was going for a few main ideas: the move towards eParticipation has a lot to do with an interest in making the organization more open and transparent, that eParticipation would allow more people to be involved, and that eParticipation isn’t too difficult. I also just wanted to touch on a few tools that folks are using so that everyone would at least recognize the names of them.

We talked about a number of tools, from Google Docs, Twitter, to CoverItLive. Susan found a funny comic when I was waxing poetic about how I love blogs and Twitter. 🙂

Out of this came several new talk ideas. Next month we’ll do Facebook, so if you have questions (about privacy settings, hooking it up to Twitter, etiquitte, etc) just send me an email, and I’ll incorporate it into the talk.

Another good idea was to take a few of these tools and do a session where we’re really actually using them. I’m looking into if that makes sense for the monthly Thursday Emerging Tech Talks, but might do stand alone sessions on them.

Please feel free to let me know if you have questions!

Update:

And here are the Twitter responses!