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Yesterday Giz and I helped give a NCLA workshop hosted in a beautiful facility at Elon University.

As an officer of NCLA’s Technology and Trends Roundtable, I helped pull together the group of speakers that also included Lynda Kellam and Amy Harris of UNC-G and Ed Hirst of Rowan Public Library (also an officer).

The goal of this program was to help people who missed the blogs/wikis/google docs/etc craze, but who are beginning to see a need to be up to speed on these technologies. We demonstrated free tools and tried to make the connections to libraries as much as possible. The technologies we covered were: social networking, google docs, blogs, wikis, librarything, delicious, and Drupal.

I was particularly impressed with the audience. With less than two full weeks to register, we had 35 participants. The group seemed to be really engaged and interested in what we had to say, and gave good feedback on the session.

We had a great time, and it was rewarding to work with folks who are just starting out in these areas. We had a group with a wide variety of skills and backgrounds, so hopefully everyone got something out of the session!