This week I attended the second New Professionals Conference at the University of Sheffield on Proving your worth in challenging times, organised by the Career Development Group of CILIP (in partnership with the Department of Information Studies). I’ll be breaking my report down into three parts to match the conference programme.
First up is the welcome, opening address and plenary, which will [...]

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 [...]