Well I have been to the photography course for two weeks now and have already learnt heaps, it is really great. It seems that the three hours go in no time. We have been having our cameras on manual and doing everything ourselves, looking at the differences. I have taken several photos but only a couple are worth going on the blog they are below. Enjoy them, hope to take some better ones soon.

New Beginnings

Okay so I haven't been a very regular blogger! I just don't know where all the time goes to but this year 2013 I have promised myself that I will try to be more regular at my gym classes as well as looking at what I eat. So far so good, thanks to my great personal training Jane.

I have also enrolled in an Advanced Photography class at CSC night school that starts tonight. I have just looked at the presenter - Tom Dinnings - blog making me very aware how little I used mine! So I am going to try and blog about the course and what I learn which will in turn help me to become a regular blogger.

Oh well that is in theory anyway.

Twitter, RSS & Pushnote

It is hard to keep up with all the new passwords I have been creating! Great fun playing with the new tools. I already had a Twitter account which I don't use as much as I should but learnt how to save searches. I am quite familiar with RSS feeds so really didn't do much there. I hadn't heard of Pushnote and had no idea what it did so it was the tool I found the most useful. I really do like someone else doing the work for me and finding a great website so I know that I will be using Pushnote!

Personnal Branding

I never given very much thought to personnal/professional branding having just really entered into my first professional job. If I was being truthful I would have to say that I find self promotion quite confronting although I can definitely see the benefits. I was lucky enough to attend the M-libraries Conference in Brisbane and found out a great deal of information about presenters & keynote speakers by researching and seeing who they are and what areas of interests they have.
So I have set about starting my personnal/professinal branding, trying to use one nickname on various social media formats is my first aim. Still looking for a nice background to use on all sites, wading through my personal collection of photos waiting for an inspiration.
I was surprised that I actually had some real hits for myself when using Google including my profile on my Libguide as well as my Twitter account. There are plenty of me out there though!

Blogging

After reading some of the other great blogs I was inspired to add another post to my own. I haven't really blogged before only when doing 23 things first time around but never really kept it up. I actually find it quite hard as I would describe myself as a private person with really not a lot to blog about!  I did enjoy reading the other participants blogs and can definitely see the potential in social media tools and having a professional profile. So having made a pact with myself to continue on my journey within the social media environment and meeting some fantastic and wonderful people along the way.

CDP 23 Things

The new CDP 23 Things was brought to my attention today at work. I was asked to have a look, along with a colleague,  at the revamped version and to see what we thought. I remember doing the old version and how much fun it was so decided I would be in for "round two".  Hopefully it will be just as much fun!