Digitization 101: #UNYSLA Spring Conference: Managing the Most Critical Project of All: Yourself

Friday, April 12, 2019

#UNYSLA Spring Conference: Managing the Most Critical Project of All: Yourself

The Upstate New York Chapter of SLA is holding its spring conference today (April 12) in Syracuse, NY. The conference theme is "Managing Projects: Tales from the Trenches." Among the presenters are Elaine Lasda and me, who are talking about personal time management, or as our proposal said, "Managing the Most Critical Project of All: Yourself." Rather than creating a handout, we are posting our resources here, so the links are clickable. Enjoy.

Session Description

To successfully manage a project, you must be able to manage yourself. Elaine and Jill will first introduce you to the tools and processes they use – including Toodledo, Trello, Bullet Journal, and Getting Things Done – to manage projects and bring short- and long-term goals to fruition. Then they will prompt you to consider how you can improve on your current methods in order to excel in self-organization.

Session PowerPoint

Personal Time Management from Elaine Lasda and Jill Hurst-Wahl

Session Resources from Jill Hurst-Wahl

Getting Things Done

Alan Henry. (2014) Productivity 101: A Primer to the Getting Things Done (GTD) Philosophy (LifeHacker)
From David Allen and Getting Things Done

Five Simple Steps That Apply Order to Chaos
Podcast Episode #3 – David Allen guides you through a Mind Sweep (23 minutes)
Podcast Episode #7 – Guided GTD Weekly Review (32 minutes)
Podcast Episode #40 – Best Practices of Email Communication (29 minutes)
Podcast Episode #45 – Dealing with Competing Priorities (33 minutes)
Allen, D. and Fallows, J. (2015) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Penguin Books.

Bullet Journal

Ryder Carroll. (2015) How to Bullet Journal (4:11 minutes)
Bullet Journal Reference Guide - available in multiple languages
Rebecca Greenfield. (2019) The Regular Person’s Guide to Bullet Journaling.
Rachel Wilkerson Miller and Ellie Sunakawa. (2016) WTF Is A Bullet Journal And Why Should You Start One? An Explainer.
Jennifer Chan. (2018) How I Adapted the Bullet Journal Method to Organize My Entire Life

Session Resources from Elaine Lasda

· Tools

· Select “Guru” articles and blogs

· Planners

· Book

Smallwood, Carol et al. (2013). Time and project management strategies for librarians. Lanham:Scarecrow Press.

Addendum (9:15 p.m.): During the session, I mentioned this blog post entitled "Building a Team", which includes helpful links on being more effective with email.