Fighting inequity in speaking gigs…
Cliff May 14th, 2008
Following up on Meredith’s blog post about the challenges of speaking gigs in the library community (and the awesome conversation that followed), I’ve created the Library Speakers Anonymous wiki. This wiki will allow individuals to post their experiences of speaking at conferences anonymously (or not, if they wish).
Folks who speak at library conferences talk to each other about how much they are compensated and how well they are treated. The word spreads somewhat informally through conversations, blogs, IMs and emails (whether conference organizers realize it or not). And yes, there are inequities in compensation and treatment. Hopefully this wiki will help bring some of those to light.
So if you’ve spoken at a conference, feel free to tell how you were compensated, how you were treated, and whether you’d do it all over again!
EDIT: The wiki is now *officially* anonymous. A shared username and password has been created and posted to the wiki homepage, preventing your IP address from displaying.
Yay Cliff! Glad you followed up on this. Hope this can help us to inform other potential speakers and to create a united front….