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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ALAO Preconference: Social Media Spark: Tips and Tech Tools to Ignite Your Community<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">October 24, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Stark State College, North Canton, Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Preconference website:
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://osu.campusguides.com/preconference" target="_blank">Social Media Spark</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.alaoweb.org/events?eventId=698178&EventViewMode=EventDetails" target="_blank">Register for ALAO Preconference</a>
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">-- Register early, space is extremely limited!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Registration deadline is October 14, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Registration is $25 and includes boxed lunch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Registration from 11am to noon, lunch noon to 1pm, program 1pm - 4pm.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">[This message is cross-posted to various lists and other media. Please excuse duplications.]</span></i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Lots of experts will tell you how to succeed at social media, but very few will lay
out a clear path to failure. Learn what the most common points of failure are for libraries, and why libraries often aren’t getting what they want out of this new medium. Find out if your library is on its way to a social shipwreck and how you might be able
to change course.</span></i></strong><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Keynote: Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS, is the Library Services Manager for the
<a href="http://www.oplin.org/" target="_blank">Ohio Public Library Information Network
</a>and the former Web Applications Manager for the Cleveland Public Library. She is a
<a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/profiles2010/moversandshakersknappandsolomon.csp" target="_blank">
2010 <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Library Journal </span>
</em>Mover & Shaker</a>. Her book <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Doing Social Media So It Matters: A Librarian’s Guide</span></em> was published in late 2010 and
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Librarian’s Nitty-Gritty Guide to Social Media</span></em> was published in 2013. </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Please note that this is an
<i><span style="color:red">interactive</span></i> workshop and <span style="color:red">
participants <i>will need to bring a laptop</i></span>.</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Questions about the preconference can be directed to Kathryn Venditti (<a href="mailto:kvenditt@ashland.edu" target="_blank">kvenditt@ashland.edu</a>)
or Sara Klink (<a href="mailto:sklink@starkstate.edu" target="_blank">sklink@starkstate.edu</a>).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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