Spending Time in My Content Garden

By Chris Cochran

I caught up recently on a great program from AIIP 2024 Symposium – the annual conference of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) – that I couldn’t attend in person. Luckily for me the program was recorded and available for viewing after the event – I didn’t miss out on anything except maybe the opportunity to ask questions at the real-time presentation.

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Professional Development: Getting Back to In-Person Conferences

By Chris Cochran

I recently returned from the first in-person conference I’ve attended since April 2019. At both that time and last month, it was the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) annual conference, which was canceled in 2020 and was virtual in 2021 and 2022. The 2023 edition was a hybrid conference – an in-person component spanning four days in Milwaukee combined with virtual events held over the last two weeks of April. In some cases, live events from our in-person component were simultaneously broadcast on Zoom.

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