Today I took a big step: Inspired (as I often am) by a series of career related posts over on Flight Path, I’ve been doing a lot of career thinking and planning lately. While I may have to do some sideways stuff to get there and I’m not entirely sure what it might look like, my…
I’ve blogged here briefly before about the fact that I look after the social media for Cronulla Water Polo Club. I run the facebook and twitter accounts and while I really enjoy it, it’s usually pretty routine. However, every now and then something comes along that really makes me smile. Among plenty of others, the club accounts follow USA…
Last week I attended the inaugural conference of the Australasian Association of the Digital Humanities, held at the Academy of Science’s Shine Dome at ANU in Canberra. I was there because of the interest at MPOW in our library supporting academic research and e-research in particular is becoming increasingly important to our role as Outreach librarians…
I’m going to be bold (and controversial?) and say that I think I am generally less informed as a result of my involvement with twitter. Don’t get me wrong. I love twitter. I love the connection to a professional community of like minded others and the speed and ease of communicating with those folks. I…
Alisa Howlett, blogging at Flight Path recently wrote a post based on Jeff Utecht’s 5 stages of PLN adoption. I would echo much of what Alisa has written, so pop over and read it rather than have me repeat it all here. Essentially, the 5 stages are identified as immersion, evaluation, know it all, perspective…
Over the past year I have heard about the Arizona State University library’s (ASU) creative use of YouTube for their library minute initiative, but hadn’t had a look until today. For the uninitiated, the library has put together about 30 short videos (they are literally a minute) on a range of topics – for instance, today I…
I have blogged about the value of my personal learning network before and my use of social media to build this network, but I rarely think about what I consider social networking to be. Social networking is the process of using social media tools to build a network of friends, colleagues, professionals, or business contacts,…
Once upon a time there was a librarian participating in #blogjune who had run out of ideas by the 21st day. A quick lunchtime mention of this on twitter resulted in no less than 6 responses, all different. The librarian is happy now because this will take her through to the 28th day without having…
Last week, @acrystelle tweeted the following question: PLN & PLE – Same thing? Or different? What do you believe to be definitions for these terms? Any opinions or thoughts? I had to ask what exactly a PLE is, but now that I have an answer (it’s a personal learning environment, as opposed to a PLN…
Towards the end of 2010 I lost my librarian mojo – I could really sympathise with this post from A work in progress about being dazed & confused. I’m in a not-so-different situation to Fiona, OK, I have a job in libraryland but it’s a first job and I need to start thinking about the…
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