So I should’ve mentioned in a first post that I actually arrived in D.C. on Thursday to present at the Emerging Leaders Poster Sessions on Friday, June 25. Oops!

Emerging Leaders get support in completing a ALA chapter sponsored project, and learn about leadership in those chapters. We first met at Midwinter, and then worked online on our projects. Friday’s session was our chance to present our findings to ALA attendees, and we were all busy talking up our projects. You can read all the project summaries on ALA Connect here: http://connect.ala.org/node/10546

I was part of Project P, sponsored by LITA. We evaluated different tools the LITA membership used to communicate with members; most use ALA Connect for official business, with mailing lists coming in a close second. We also developed a few guidelines for how to best use ALA Connect. Do you use ALA Connect? Our group did use it for completing our project, but we ended up using Google Docs for our final project report…What uses are most effective? Any tips for new users?