Personal Brands and Engagement: CPD23 – Things 2 and 3

This whole Thing thing is already moving too quickly for me… although I’m not going to write about all the blogs I’ve visited and the comments I’ve left you’ll be pleased to hear that I have actually been doing this. Commenting on other blogs is something I do do, just not very often. I find [...]

What to expect from the Ronseal Effect

The feedback from the New Professionals Information Day in London indicated that attendees would have preferred to have more information about sessions before deciding which they wanted to attend. In response to this I thought it’d be useful to post up my brief and tell you a bit more about what I’ll be covering tomorrow [...]

The Tech Set

Want to get up to speed with some of the tech trends in library work but don’t know where to start? Well, the Tech Set may well be for you. I’ve just picked up the first three from the ten part series at the library and was so impressed by the short introductions I’ve just [...]

CoFHE/UC&R Fifth Joint Conference – Day 2 (Pt. 5)

Workshop Six: New professionals: Build your network using social media
My final workshop of the conference was another of Jo Alcock’s sessions, this time focusing on social media – blogs, Twitter and social networking in particularly. I’m not really sure whether I’d be considered an ‘early adopter’ or not, having originally set up this blog in January 2006 – back when [...]

Out with the old and in with the new…

I’m not much of a New Year’s Resolution type person but last year I did write a list of 25 things I wanted to do in 2009. I thought it’d be worth going over what I did and didn’t do ready to prepare a new list of 26 things I want to do in 2010. [...]