It has been one week since I was in Knoxville, TN for The Collective Conference. It was a fantastic conference where I got to meet lots of new people, learn new things, and take some ideas back with me to Pennsylvania.

Things I learned included:

How to ACTUALLY use Trello, a project management platform.
Tips and trick to manage social media (done in a well played Harry Potter theme)
The wide variety of student-advisory groups institutions have (so many!)
How to marry two ideas that seem to have nothing in common (it's fun!)
What digital humanities is (still wrapping my head around it but I've gotten a better idea)
Librarians know how to throw a shindig
Knoxville is a cool city that I'd like to visit again
New ideas for assessment and planning for outreach
How to make videos that don't suck

I am also trying to put these new skills to use. For example, I've gotten on Trello and am attempting to manage my bi-weekly newsletter on it (more on that later if I can make it work). And, I've made a video (below) that I hope doesn't suck. It's a recap of the conference, paired with some footage I took during the session on making videos. Enjoy! As usual, one of my favorite parts of making a movie is choosing the free music to play underneath.