OEIT Idea: Meeting Followup

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A while back I wrote a post about Trip Reports, and just having returned from another trip, I’m getting more and more convinced they’re good ideas. That recognition, plus a little bit of extra thinking have led me to believe that…

OEIT staff and leadership should:

• Briefing
  • Brief your team or relevant colleagues about the conference(s) or meeting(s) that you attended on the trip. I think in my group we do a pretty good job at this.
  • Better yet, write a trip report and email it to the appropriate people.
  • Even better, post the trip report to a OEIT or personal blog. (Ok, I’m not certain I’m ready to be this open yet. Though I have at least uploaded the trip reports to this blog, they’re just marked as Private for now.)
• Slides/Poster
  • Post your slides or poster in a publicly accessible space, whether it be your own personal website/blog, or an OEIT one.
  • Better yet, post a copy to Slideshare, Scribd, or other document/slide sharing site.
  • Even better, remember to make an audio recording of your presentation, and create a slidecast that gets posted to a document/slide sharing site.

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So, as I mentioned above, I’ve said a bit about Trip Reports. This post is also about posting slides and/or posters. When I started working at OEIT, I decided I should finally join 2005-2006 or so and post my slides. I made the decision to post my slides on my personal website as well as at Slideshare. Why didn’t I do this before? Mostly I wasn’t sure if Slideshare would make it, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to share my slides this way. But, what the heck.

My slides at Slideshare are for the world at large, the ones at my website are mostly for me. For my website, I also took the effort to post a Microsoft PowerPoint version as well as a PDF version. Why both? Because Microsoft has an annoying habit of discontinuing support for previous file formats, so PDF should allow me at least a read-only view of all the slides (all of Adobe’s software releases have been backward compatible thus far).

Sure it takes a bit of work, but I’ve got the workflow down. I include a Creative Commons license. I also make sure to include attribution/citation information as required by the Creative Commons license–something very few people do.

(Aside: One of my other long standing projects is to back convert all of my previous presentations. I’d like to upload these to Slideshare, but they have to allow me to reorder or group or arrange in some logical fashion my slideshows first.)[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]