Having been out of the office all day yesterday I'm just catching up with the e-forum messages. I'm Helen Williams, Metadata Manager for LSE Library and part of the CIG committee.
One of my top tips is to try and keep looking out at the audience - or if you're nervous about that, looking up and looking to the back of the room! In the early days I was sometimes put off by the sea of faces looking back at me, and thinking that no one looked very interested - but as Gordon's said - when a number of people come and talk to you about it afterwards, you realise there is a lot of interest, and the sea of blank faces is probably due to concentration or note-taking! If there are faces in the audience who are smiling or nodding in response, then I try to look up in that direction as well because I know it will encourage me!
Speaking at conferences has changed my audience participation as well, and now I try to smile at conference speakers who are clearly trying to engage with their audience!
I'm in and out of meetings like a yo-yo today, so may not manage to respond in real-time, but thanks for all the useful top tips and discussion - it's very helpful!
Best
Helen
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Good point Debbie. On a slightly related but off topic note it's good to keep a record of rejected proposals. You never know when they can be turned into something else.
Claire
On 2015-09-08 15:36, Lee, Deborah wrote:
> Great tip. I would like to echo this. Sometimes the call for papers
> (etc.) might be extremely specific, but it is still worth submitting a
> proposal even if your idea doesn't exactly match the call. It is also
> useful to think about the wording and terminology used in the CFP. If
> you can use similar terminology - and let's face it, as librarians we
> are surprisingly good at have a number of names for more-or-less the
> same concept! - this can help reviewers realise that your proposal is
> relevant.
>
> Debbie
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> I ask gave colleagues and friends who aren’t able to dip into the
> forum today if they had any top tips to pass on. Here’s a good one
> from Tom Bishop (Royal College of Surgeons):
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> If the conference itself is themed, or strands within it, make sure
> the theme is addressed in your proposal, but don't panic if it doesn't
> obviously fit 100% - sometimes themes are very specific but (at least
> at the conferences I tend to go to!) more often than not they give
> enough leeway to allow you (hopefully without the need to tortuously
> twist things - if you need to do that you my need to reconsider
> whether it is indeed the right match of paper/conference!) to persuade
> the organisers that what you're proposing works to support the whole.
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