How To Effectively Communicate With Techies
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Learn simple tips & tools for creating IT & systems interactions that are smooth, fast, & friendly. Helen Linda, Library Systems & Technical Services Librarian at Goddard College in Central Vermont has a foot in both IT and library. She'll share with you the types of things that she prefers when problems & ideas are reported, as well as things her fellow techies have shared. By the end of this session, you will have concrete examples and tools to try so that you will be the library hero for your IT & systems person or department.
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How To Effectively Communicate With Techies
- 1. How To Effectively Communicate With Techies Helen Linda, Systems & Technical Services Librarian, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT helen.linda@goddard.edu New England Library Association Annual Conference 2013, Portland, ME
- 2. Who Am I? ● Half & Half - Library & Systems ● Fake IT Department - First Responder ● Goddard College LITS - One Department ● Library Organization Volunteer Geek
- 3. What’s This Hour About? YOU! Attitude Who you are/want to be Skills How to get there Tools What to use
- 4. What It’s Not About THEM! That said, introducing this into a feral IT department can’t hurt: How To Help People Use a Computer: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/how-to-help.html
- 5. The Courage To Ask ● How does IT prefer to have a problem presented or reported? ● Can they help you learn to do those things? ● Stick with it!
- 6. Image credits: xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. http://xkcd.com Beloved by geeks everywhere. The Courage To Try ● Designed tough inside and out ● Most of what you do can be undone
- 7. Don’t Panic! Problem Solving Thrives on Calm
- 8. The Basics Prevent Panic ● Learn software off deadline ● Save early and often ● Don’t just save to desktop ● Back up your back ups ● Know your undo ● Don’t open attachments ● Use in-software help
- 9. Stop at First Sign of Trouble If It Feels Wrong, It Probably Is!
- 10. Read! Just Because It Popped Up On Your Computer Doesn’t Mean You Won’t Understand It
- 11. Be A Detective ● What did you do? ● What did you expect to happen? ● What actually happened? ● Use the 5 W’s
- 12. Really, Take Screenshot/cast Or, At Least Copy/Paste The Message
- 13. Google It! YouTube Gets The Job Done, Too
- 14. Give The Symptoms, Not The Diagnosis Image credits: xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. http://xkcd.com Beloved by geeks everywhere.
- 15. No Such Thing As Too Much Information ● Collect all the information you can ● Provide it all at once ● They’ll decide what’s relevant
- 16. Keep Learning Embrace Tech! It Might Even Be Fun!
- 18. Keep Current And Be The Person Who Finds Cool Stuff code4lib (computer programming & LIS) DIGLIB (digital libraries) NGC4Lib (Next Generation Catalogs) Web4Lib (library-based World Wide Web) OSS4Lib (open source software & lib)
- 19. Questions? Stories? Things to Add?
- 20. From the NELA Group Discussion The board got erased before I could write down all your wonderful suggestions and points! Did I miss something you shared or remember? Let me know! helen.linda@goddard.edu (some things have already been added to the slides) Q: How do I pick virus free places to download from? A: This is a moving target! Even places considered reputable get infected. Use sources like CNET & the Keep Current slide sources for reviews. Ask your IT folks for their advice. Try your best but know that if you follow the basics from these slides, then when this inevitably happens to you, it will be simply annoying instead of devastating. Huge thanks to Mary Russell for her NELA Conference Blog Post! This was a great, succinct memory refresher! Fun Sources of Information, Collection Development, and Smarty Pants!