Monday 11 July 2011

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!

Sunday 10 July 2011

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!

Thursday 30 June 2011

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.

Tuesday 21 June 2011

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!