I loaded my first PowerPoint presentation onto slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/a few weeks ago and was very surprised to see that in the first 3 hours I got 331 views. The thing was I consider it to be a very dry subject, about open access and institutional repositories. Of course as people point out when wanting to be negative, just because someone opened it doesn’t mean they actually got anything from it. I have to agree they may only have seen the first slide and left it at that, but is that not what happens when you take a book from the shelf in the library? You may only read the title and sometimes the back cover and then put it back, but does that make the content any less useful? I have been spreading the positive message about open access for a few years now, so I thought it was about time I started sharing my work. After all we all learn as we go along and if we can share our knowledge with others and save them time when they are learning something new is that not a worthy action? I have also been using social media for a fair time now and have realised that people are noticing me and my work. Today I am being interviewed by Berkeley Press the people in the US who host our repository. They have heard about how I use social media and a newsletter to share information about our database, and they want to provide details to repository managers in the US who need some ideas on advocacy and encouraging people to use their repository’s. So if you have a subject your interesting in why not use social media to share your information with others. Or put your slides on slideshare, maybe you will get offers to present in the future. No one is going to contact you if your presentation is sitting on your hard drive, after you delivered it to 20 people two years ago. Remember you can search slide share too and maybe see a very interesting presentation you never got to see at the time it was presented. Posted by Misha Jepson, graduate school
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