When I first wrote about Twitter in Higher Education (back in November 2008) I’d not been using the service all that long or as frequently as I do now and it wasn’t until early 2009 that I really started to gather my thoughts about how to make the best use of it. So now we’re [...]

Here’s part two of my New Professionals Conference report summing up my notes from session one. Part one is here.
Session one: Developing your skills on a shoestring
Bronagh McCrudden opened the morning session with her (award-winning) paper Would you work for free? Unpaid work in the information professional and how to make it count. Discussing the [...]

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 [...]