As you're probably aware, if you can cast your minds back a week, I wasn't at Online09 this year. My presentations were instead most superbly interpreted by Karen Blakeman and Mary Ellen Bates. This is a lot easier said than done, since I tend to produce presentations that are screenshots, photographs and images without little integral content and I talk around them, rather than directly from them. This is great for me, but not so easy if someone else takes on the job. However, I wasn't that concerned since both Karen and Mary Ellen are such superb professionals it wasn't an issue. Many thanks to both of you!
If you want to see the presentations in native form however here they are. The first is a Twitter 101 for librarians, the second is a toolkit for searching the social web.
Now,the reason that I wasn't there was that I contracted H1N1 on the friday, ironically just before I was supposed to be getting my jab on the saturday. I'd felt pretty much fine all day, since I'd been running a course, but as soon as I got back to the car I really started to feel ill - by the time I got home I had the heater on at 24 degrees and I was still shivering. Then I slept for 48 hours. I did get Tamiflu, and it was awful - to the extent that I never even finished the course. I was pretty much entirely out of it for the rest of the week, and only started to come back to life at the weekend. Even now I'm sleeping for 12 hours at a stretch, but I think the symptoms themselves have finally run their course. I've had flu about 4 times in my life, prior to this one, and I've gotta say, this was by far and away the very worst bout ever. I'm told by those in the know that it'll take another 2 weeks before I'm back to normal again. The only bright point is that Jill had already had a vaccination against it, so she was ok.
Seriously - this is one thing you do NOT want to get!
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