Professional organisations
I've been a chartered member of CILIP for a long time now, it's expensive but does provide some benefits.
Publications and email updates are probably the most useful to me plus the SIGs. I am a member of UC&R and for a few years was Meetings Secretary for UC&R Wales. This was a great experience, being involved with organising and advertising events, working with fellow professionals in Wales and attending UC&R events. These were definitely worth the time invested and helped me to develop and learn along the way.
Thursday 28 July 2011
Thing 6 online networks
Reasons given to network online:
Becoming better known
Becoming better connected
Becoming better equipped
1. is linked to Thing 6, and I have already decided that I don't have a brand. Happy to meet other Information Professionals, in person or online but don't feel the need to shout about it.
2. Looking at the ways I am already connected: JISC mailing lists; attending professional events and conferences; membership of CILIP, UC&R and CILIP communities plus sharing thoughts and ideas with colleagues at Glamorgan I think makes me well connected already.
3. This is a consequence of being connected, and taking part in 23 things has had benefits already. My IGoogle page is getting better all the time as I add to it and tweak it. I can see from this that I don't want to receive so many feeds or tweets that I start to ignore them.
Information has to be manageable and relevant, and I have to fit a lot of work in to my working day as well!
So to summarise, joining online communities to suit the individual is fine, try something, if it doesn't work don't worry about it. LinkedIn is not for me, Facebook is purely personal, and I have looked at LISNPN and decided against it. This Thing has made me think about it all, which is good.
Becoming better known
Becoming better connected
Becoming better equipped
1. is linked to Thing 6, and I have already decided that I don't have a brand. Happy to meet other Information Professionals, in person or online but don't feel the need to shout about it.
2. Looking at the ways I am already connected: JISC mailing lists; attending professional events and conferences; membership of CILIP, UC&R and CILIP communities plus sharing thoughts and ideas with colleagues at Glamorgan I think makes me well connected already.
3. This is a consequence of being connected, and taking part in 23 things has had benefits already. My IGoogle page is getting better all the time as I add to it and tweak it. I can see from this that I don't want to receive so many feeds or tweets that I start to ignore them.
Information has to be manageable and relevant, and I have to fit a lot of work in to my working day as well!
So to summarise, joining online communities to suit the individual is fine, try something, if it doesn't work don't worry about it. LinkedIn is not for me, Facebook is purely personal, and I have looked at LISNPN and decided against it. This Thing has made me think about it all, which is good.
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Reflection
Things 1-4 have been simple to do but quite hard for me to tackle. Social media is not something I feel at home with but I am pleased to have got this far. I think it was partly reluctance to get involved with Twitter that I put off getting on with these things. Never the less I have completed them and am ready to move on to number 6.
I am particularly pleased with my IGoogle home page, it is a great improvement, and fab for keeping up to date with so many things at once.
On to number 6!
I am particularly pleased with my IGoogle home page, it is a great improvement, and fab for keeping up to date with so many things at once.
On to number 6!
Thing 4
Twitter, it's got to be done!
Set up my account months ago but just never had the courage to Tweet.
Thing 4 and I've done it. Following 9 accounts now, including CPD 23 so hopefully will feel more in the swing of it. Getting left behind was not good.
RSS and Google Reader I had already set up so for once was ahead here. My IGoogle page is looking good.
Find the feeds very useful, but there is a danger of too much happening so I keep editing it and moving things around.
Pushnote, is now installed, could be useful but I think Google reader is great.
Set up my account months ago but just never had the courage to Tweet.
Thing 4 and I've done it. Following 9 accounts now, including CPD 23 so hopefully will feel more in the swing of it. Getting left behind was not good.
RSS and Google Reader I had already set up so for once was ahead here. My IGoogle page is looking good.
Find the feeds very useful, but there is a danger of too much happening so I keep editing it and moving things around.
Pushnote, is now installed, could be useful but I think Google reader is great.
Thing 3
My personal brand, hmmm, not sure about this.
I'm a librarian not a product and the whole issue of mixing personal and professional on line is difficult for me. I know this may be very old fashioned but to me it has to be professional only.
I have my work photo on this blog, and that is fine, though sitting in front of a camera is not something I enjoy, I usually end up closing my eyes as the flash pops!
I hope that colleagues and students at Glamorgan find me dedicated and professional, easy to approach and enthusiastic about all aspects of my job here. A blog can add to my presence and help me to communicate with staff and students but for now my brand is my name.
I'm a librarian not a product and the whole issue of mixing personal and professional on line is difficult for me. I know this may be very old fashioned but to me it has to be professional only.
I have my work photo on this blog, and that is fine, though sitting in front of a camera is not something I enjoy, I usually end up closing my eyes as the flash pops!
I hope that colleagues and students at Glamorgan find me dedicated and professional, easy to approach and enthusiastic about all aspects of my job here. A blog can add to my presence and help me to communicate with staff and students but for now my brand is my name.
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