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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The other day I was quietly working away when I overheard:
But I don’t want to use Twitter, I’m not interested in what people are having for their lunch.
Firstly, how can you not be interested in what people are having for lunch? I actually find this fascinating and often recommend good places for people to get [...]

Teachingcommons: Teaching 2.0 Circle & Blogging
Twitter and Microblogging:
The general theme of last week’s teaching commons was the discussion of blogging – what it is and how it can be used. It intended to offer ideas to both those new to blogging about how to start up and get writing and to those wanting to get [...]