2009 Spotlight on Your Career: Building Your Professional Network
Mark your calendars! On Saturday, February 28, 2009, the 2009 Spotlight on Your Career event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Rocky Mountain Special Libraries Association (RMSLA) and Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL) are co-sponsoring this year’s informative and exciting event. First listen to a national expert on social networking then stay for networking and interactive technology demos!
Spotlight 2009 promises to entertain, inform and educate you about social networking in a professional environment. Keynote speaker Liz Ryan, delivering “Social Networking: Business Relationships Built Here,” is an award winning speaker, author, and expert on the New Millennium workplace. Her “Ask Liz Ryan” online community reaches more than 30,000 professionals interested in sharing and exploring business, career, marketing and life advice. Liz is also the author of the book “Happy About Online Networking: The Virtual-ly Simple Way to Build Professional Relationships.” Regardless of your generation this program will benefit you. Liz Ryan addresses issues of buy-in, relevancy, practical use and more every day, and will address them in her presentation for Spotlight on Your Career.
To carry Liz’s message into a practical application for your own professional life, and to inspire you to put your newly acquired knowledge into action, the event will include technology demonstrations. These short sessions provide real hands-on opportunities to see for yourself how some of the technologies work, and offer you a chance to set up profiles and explore various applications of social networking with guidance and advice from other users familiar with the methods and benefits of some of the most popular and valuable social networking tools.
For more information, contact Lori Dubois at loridubois1@yahoo.com.
2008 Spotlight on Your Career: Travel Tips for the Road to Success
On Saturday, February 23, 2008, the Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL) and the Rocky Mountain Special Libraries Association (RMSLA) presented Spotlight on Your Career 2008: Travel Tips for the Road to Success. Made possible by a grant from the AALL/BNA Continuing Education Grants Program, this year’s event featured two remarkable key speakers. Kathy Stroh, an accomplished speaker, writer, and teacher with over 20 years of experience, presented "Juggling Master: A Hands-on Lesson Dealing with the Most Difficult Obstacle in Your Path to Success—You". Kim Dority, renowned author, teacher, and president of Dority & Associates, presented "Putting Yourself in the Path of Opportunity".
2007 Spotlight on Your Career: Communication
On Saturday, February 24, 2007, the Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL) held its second annual conference on career development for library students, librarians, and other information professionals. The title was “Spotlight on Your Career: Communication.” The keynote speech, "Wake up and Smell the Power: How Candor is Your Key to Outrageous Success," was delivered by communications expert Meryl Runion, CEO of SpeakStrong, Inc. The conference also included two panels and lunch. The first panel focused on improving communications between IT professionals and librarians. The second panel focused on another difficult kind of communication: negotiating with library vendors.
2006 Spotlight on...Your Career
On Saturday, February 25, 2006, the Colorado Association of Law Libraries held a conference on career development for librarians and other information professionals in the Frank H. Ricketson, Jr. Law Building at the University of Denver. The conference’s 100 seats were sold out about a week before the event. Rachel Singer Gordon delivered the keynote address. Rachel, who is a consulting editor at ITI Books, the author of several books on library careers and management, and the webmaster of Lisjobs.com, suggested several ways for participants to keep their careers on track, including publishing, presenting, participating online, keeping current by using technological tools, and building a personal network. Rachel’s address was followed by the Librarians as Authors Panel, which involved a lively discussion among several authors and editors about what editors are looking for, how potential authors can generate ideas and complete projects, and how to find and negotiate with publishers. Participants then networked and relaxed over a lunch catered by Pasquini’s. After lunch, the Careers Panel featured several successful information professionals talking about how they created their own successful information careers and how others could imitate their success.
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