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Ned Potter

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Right then, this is the one. I'm all in. I want to talk with you about libraries, Higher Ed, communications, and LIFE. As a freelancer I run workshops on marketing, social media and presentation skills: https://www.ned-potter.com/training

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Oct 21

I'm sure you lot know all this already, but if you're newish to Bluesky here are ten top tips for getting started:

www.ned-potter.com/blog/bluesky... 📚

(Featuring profiles, the glorious lack of algorithm, similarities and differences from twitter, moderation tools, custom feeds, alt-text & more!)

Bluesky is the one! 10 top tips for joining the growing social media platform — Ned Potter

Bluesky is great, and it’s really starting to build now: in fact in under two months it has doubled to 12.5 million users. It’s especially good for individuals seeking to rebuild their professional a...

www.ned-potter.com

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 6d

Nailed it 😀

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 6d

This is fabulous. Have you ever seen the UK comedian Troy Hawke? He’s like a sort of human version of this.

youtu.be/brhCaBC7Cpg?...

CHISWICK | GREETERS GUILD | TROY HAWKE

YouTube video by Troy Hawke

youtu.be

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 10d

First favourite tree klaxon!

The tree - with chopped branches and a thick trunk - with the sun behind it

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 14d

Registrations close tonight for my Alternatives to PowerPoint course with UKeIG! www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Thursday lunchtime.

We'll look mainly at the interactive Menti, the divisive Prezi, the massively underrated Sway, and Google Slides (with its useful Q&A feature), should be good.

CILIP: the library and information association

UKeiG CPD Zoom Course: Alternatives to PowerPoint, presented by Ned Potter

www.cilip.org.uk

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 15d

During early pandemic times when the library first reopened but many people couldn’t travel to it, I did one as a sort of sounds of the library thing and people LOVED it! People said they could finally research again when they put it on etc.

(Doing it was really weird experience tho!)

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

Like a Study With Me thing? They’re a popular thing!

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

The second clip looks like it's sped up but it isn't, I'm just holding my phone upside down so the camera lens is almost touching the water...

University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 16d

The river is up in #York! If you like slightly whimsical videos of flooded rivers with a mellow sound track, this video is for you.

Normal service will resume shortly.

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

You assume correctly, yes

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

Oh yeah - there will be no computer generated voices, and no roleplaying, I can promise that... My enthusiasm will be genuine and alternative format info will be provided!

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

You are not the first to suggest this 😄

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

Ooof. As someone who used to live on the Foss in one of the houses shown on the right of this picture (albeit many years earlier than the story below) I remember the feeling well of dragging everything draggable upstairs when the floods got bad...

It was not relaxing!

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 16d

After all the rain we have had over the last few days it's not surprising that the River Ouse in York has flooded (a little bit).

A similar soggy outcome happened nearly 10 years ago but with a far more serious outcome for the Hall.

Join us as we tell you about the 2015 Boxing Day floods.

We are looking at the Hall - a timber framed building, surrounded by flood water. The garden and trees are submerged under water.

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

Yes! Absolutely, I can provide different ways of accessing the same fundamental info for sure.

And structure will be key, also - easily findable chunks. Thank you both this is great, keep it coming...

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

Haha, listen I hear you but I've been asked to make videos so I shall be making videos!

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

I know exactly what I want to say, content-wise. And I want to give people stuff to DO off the back of it.

But in terms of the way it's packaged, are there self-paced-learning type video styles which make you want to switch off, or styles which keep you locked in and engaged..?

Thanks all.

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

If you were watching a video, for CPD purposes, perhaps at your desk or during a lunch hour, what would make it more or less likely to work well for you? I'm doing two videos for some libraries and I'm keen to make them as useful and engaging as possible, would love your thoughts on what you like! 🧵

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 16d

What a team!

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 22d

The welcome is back! 📚

University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 22d

Our hyper-local, mega-specific, extremely niche personal welcome screen is what greets new students and staff as they enter our library...

Welcome to those stepping into an academic library for the first time: it is massive and it can be intimidating but this is YOUR space. Welcome returning students – we hope you’re feeling refreshed! Welcome people of Yorkshire. Welcome visitors to the Borthwick, ready to get hands-on with 1,000 years worth of history in our archives. Welcome 3rd years who haven’t really been to the library much before but need to turn your 2:2 into a 2:1 sharpish; no judgement here. Welcome taught postgrads whose dissertations will be NICHE; we’ll support you any way we can. Welcome children of students, here to use the Family Study Room. Welcome watcher of the Entourage Season 1 boxset we inexplicably have in our audiovisual collection. Welcome people who love the Burton because it is Silent. Welcome people who love the Fairhurst because it isn’t. Welcome new academic, having a little look to see if we already stock your books. Welcome to the explorers of augmented and virtual realities in our Creativity Lab. Welcome first member of your family to go to University, you’ll be brilliant. Welcome to York everyone, and welcome to the Library.

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Sep 5

*First misty picturesque run of the season klaxon*

Figures silhouetted against the mist on a grassy stray area

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Aug 26

Flashback to the time in Venice we saw a bloke who looked just like my dad who was dressed in the exact same outfit as my Dad, walking just behind my Dad

A Venetian street, including two men dressed remarkably similarly

Close up of the two men. They are both wearing a brown jacket over a navy top with blue jeans, and neither have much in the way of hair

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ha! That is fabulous, congrats to them both

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Aug 15

Picked my Dad up from hospital yesterday after a minor procedure to correct an issue with his tear ducts, and he was telling me how brilliant everyone was throughout.

He just texted me:

"The NHS would move me to tears if I still had any!"

It's a good line...

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is so well written that I read it even though I am on annual leave and not thinking about libraries today

Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is part of See Yourself On The Shelf (subjectguides.york.ac.uk/your-voice/s...) which - certainly the name at the very least! - came from Uni of Kent library originally.

Subject Guides: Your Library, Your Voice: See Yourself on the Shelf

A collection of reading lists on a range of equality and diversity themes.

subjectguides.york.ac.uk

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Aug 11

I really love the work our Student Curators do at York. They have a budget for new materials, they create both physical and digital displays, and they pour their passion into their projects.

Here's one which has just gone live, take a look. 📚

University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · Aug 11

Each year we ask two Student Curators to work with the library on a project they feel passionate about. These paid positions always result in fascinating work, including expanded and diversified collections.

This thread is about Lola Furniss's curation, on working class women in England.

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Visibility and Resistance: a curation honouring the lives of working class women in England, 20th Century to present

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Aug 11

Just two-factor-authenticated into an online training module about the different coloured fire extinguishers.

I'd love to see the journey-mapping for the fraud this is preventing...

'So, they've successfully stolen your username and password. They immediately do your overdue Fire Safety Training'

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