Organizing and Sharing Your Work

One of the best ways to share your work is by keeping Team DLF updated on your current activities, projects, and plans. If there is something you want us to promote on behalf of your group through DLF’s communication channels please tag us in social media, add it to the DLF Community Calendar, or let us know directly—we love to help DLF groups share their work!

In terms of organization, many DLF working groups and committees organize drafts and in-progress materials independently using GitHub and Google Drive. DLF’s Open Science Framework (OSF) repositories are good for finished white papers or other grey literature—especially documents for which you would like a DOI.

General Resources

“Knowing that things would always be in the Google Drive folder has been a lifesaver -- no digging through email looking for the right attachment, being able to be part of the conference call even when mobile, and super-easy linking in our One Doc to Rule Them All.” —Franny Gaede

• “How to Organize Google Drive - A Best Practice Guide for Teams”
• OSF Guides, for help using the Open Science Framework

DLF-Specific Communications Venues

“[DLF’s Community Calendar is] a great one stop shop for conferences and events in digital + cultural around the world. If you know of an event that should be there, it has a crowd sourced component, so go forth!”—Alex Gil

• DLF-Announce, our primary listserv. Please, please please sign up for this low-traffic list and share your group’s activities and upcoming meetings and events there!

• DLF Contribute (our regular, short-format blog series) We also welcome other guest posts and blog announcements about DLF group activities. Here’s an example: https://www.diglib.org/archives/12594/

• DLF Community Calendar: http://digital-conferences-calendar.info

• DLF on OSF (including OSF for Meetings, our repository for 2016 DLF Forum presentations)

• Facebook (We know you like us, but have you “liked” us?)

• Twitter (Get our attention for a retweet or signal boost using @CLIRDLF and/or hashtags such as #DLFforum, #DLFteach, #ourDLF, and #DLFvillage)

• Storify

• DLF Jobs Board (Don't forget that job postings are free for DLF member institutions!)

• LinkedIn (Group and Page)

• Flickr / Instagram

• YouTube / Vimeo

• DLF Wiki (You are here!)

Table of Contents

1. About DLF and the Organizers' Toolkit
2. Working with Team DLF
3. General Facilitation and Goal-Setting
4. Facilitating for Diversity and Inclusion
5. Preventing and Managing Burnout
6. Gathering Info/Building Enthusiasm
7. Planning an In-Person Meetup
8. Setting Up Year-Round Meetings
9. Talking and Writing
10. Organizing and Sharing Your Work