Setting up your presentation can sometimes feel overwhelming, so here’s a
checklist to help you spend more time sharing your passion for Mendeley
with your colleagues, students or friends.
Plan
What are your audience’s
needs?
What you would like them to know by
the time they leave? How will you be
able to see if you’ve achieved this goal?
What is the best way to
present the information?
A hands-on workshop? A demo? A live
presentation? A webinar?
Where can you host the
event?
If it’s hands-on, a computer lab or a
space where people can bring their
laptop might be best.
Consider timing.
What are the busy times in your audi-
ence’s schedules? How long do you
want to take?
Remember to allow time for Q&A.
Promote
Register your event.
Visit https://www.mendeley.com/advisor -
community and register the details of your
event. We’ll advertise your event via our
events calendar and help you to track
attendees who sign up.
Submit a merchandise
request.
As part of the event registration process
you can request merchandise to distrib-
ute at your session. Give us 10 days’
notice to ship your swag!
Share your event link.
You’ll also receive a unique ID when you
register your event. You can use this link
to invite people to your session.
Advertise!
Think about how you get information on
seminars. Email, social media posts or
groups, in-person posters, digital
message boards, or department lists
and intranets.
Present
Practice.
Run through your presentation at least
once, and make sure to read it out
loud. This helps to find any sticking
points and figure out a way around
them.
Be prepared.
What are some of the questions you
had about Mendeley when you
started using it? Try to mentally
address those issues first.
Take a deep breath.
Try not to talk too fast. Taking a deep
breath may help you from getting over-
whelmed.
You’ll do great!
Just be who you are, you’re a
Mendeley Advisor after all!
Let us know how your event goes!
The Mendeley team loves getting updates from around the world, so please send
us email to tell us about your event.
We also love seeing pictures - so be sure to take a few snaps during the session.
We’ll share these through our Flickr account and feature some of the best on our
LinkedIn Mendeley Advisor group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8997080/.

email: community@mendeley.com

Keep in touch with your attendees

When people start using Mendeley for the first time, they sometimes have a lot of
questions about how to best manage their research. We recommend keeping in
touch with those who attend your events so that you can help them with any
issues they face.
You might want to give them your email address - or even set up a Mendeley
group so you can keep in contact.

Start thinking about your next event

What went well with your event? What would you like to do better next time? What
did the attendees have to say about it?
Learning lessons from your event can help to make your future sessions even
better. You’re not on your own, however, so if you get asked a tricky question you
can open it up to the Mendeley Advisor Community for help!

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8997080/