Description:

When technology works well, we forget we are using it and we focus on the work we are doing—including the ongoing challenge of fostering the strong collaborations that are at the heart of successful advocacy on behalf of libraries and the communities we serve. We are going to reverse that process in this highly-interactive session by focusing on online collaborative tools so we can explore ways to more effectively integrate them into our work as advocates, community-builders, and partners in nurturing positive change in our communities.

Please join us for a highly-interactive online 90-minute free California Library Association Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training session, featuring tech trainer/podcaster Maurice Coleman. Maurice and Library Advocacy Training Project Manager Paul Signorelli will work with you to experiment with and consider innovative ways to integrate online collaboration tools including Google Docs, Slack, and others into the advocacy work you are pursuing or thinking about pursuing.

Goal:

To help advocates further develop their experience with and use of online collaboration tools while fully engaging in the work they do on behalf of libraries and the communities they serve

Objectives:

Participants, by the end of this session, will be able to:

• Briefly describe two online collaboration tools they will incorporate into their work as advocates

• Identify at least three ways they can incorporate online collaboration tools into their advocacy work

• Cite at least three actions successful advocates take to incorporate online collaboration tools into their advocacy work

• Cite at least three resources that can be used to further hone their skills in incorporating online collaboration tools into their work as advocates on behalf of libraries and the communities they serve

Session Facilitators:  

Maurice Coleman, who serves as a trainer, coach, and keynote speaker for the library community throughout the U.S. and is principal at Coleman & Associates, is host of the long-running (more than 300 episodes) “T is for Training” podcast for those involved in library training programs and co-host (with Paul Signorelli and Essraa Nawar) of the San Jose State University iSchool podcast “Information Gone Wild.” 

Paul Signorelli, a San Francisco-based writer/trainer-facilitator/presenter/consultant, serves as Library Advocacy Training Project Manager for the California Library Association. He has recently facilitated workshops on advocacy, community, team-building, and leadership online and onsite throughout the U.S. and will be involved in three advocacy sessions at the CLA Annual Conference in Pasadena in October 2024.

About the Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training Series