this woman’s work

If you want to see my powerpoint…

Mar 20, 2008 Adoption

Email me and I’ll send you the url where you can see it in web format. None of the nifty dissolves between the slides but who cares about that really and the images aren’t as pretty ‘cuz they’re rendered for the web. Obviously you’re missing the discussion I’m giving in front of the screens — for example, I share two quotes that are critical of the survey and then I’m going to talk in-depth about their criticism to share some of the shortcomings of the survey and to expand on what I would do differently next time. Another example: when I show the respondents graph I’ll be talking about how I went about finding people to take the survey and some specifics about the people who chose to do it.

(You’ll note the lack of adoptee information in the overview — this will be explained in the talk so it won’t be as glaring as it is if you’re looking at the slides cold.)

This is the second-half of my talk — the first half is about the site itself: how it got started, how people are using it, etc. The last slide is where I’ll talk about goals for the future and I didn’t list ‘em because I’m mindful of what y’all said about just reading the slides.

I’m hoping for audience participation. Hell, I’m hoping for an audience.

I did include several quotes — I chose those that illustrate common concerns I’ve heard either from site participants, blog comments (here) or in the survey. One of them makes me cry whenever I read it (I hope I don’t cry during the presentation).

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