Join us for the next NCompass Live: "Tech Talk with Michael Sauers: Who’s Out There? User Personas and Libraries", on Wednesday, April 20, 10:00am – 11:00am CT.
Description: In this month’s episode, Michael Sauers will talk with Jennifer Koerber, Web Services Librarian at Boston Public Library, about User Personas and Libraries. Any marketer or web designer will tell you that creating user personas is a great way to target your services, but just how do you do that? What are the steps involved, and how can we narrow the wide variety of people we serve down to a few "types"? By brainstorming, collecting data and talking to your users, you can make tools to help you develop new programs, focus a marketing campaign, or redesign your website. In this brief overview, Koerber will introduce the basics of persona-making and give you resources to go through the process yourself.
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Upcoming NCompass Live events:
April 27 – The Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing, with Peggy Barber
May 4 – Introducing Nebraska Libraries on the Web
May 11 – 2011 Nebraska Book Festival
May 25 – Tech Talk with Michael Sauers
For more information, to register for upcoming NCompass Live events, or to listen to recordings of past events, go to: http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/ncompass/ncompasslive.asp
NCompass Live is broadcast live from 10am – 11am Central Time. Convert to your time zone on the Official U.S. Time website: http://time.gov/
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