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Self-empowerment: being the best ‘You’ that you can be (CILIP Affiliates)
Self-empowerment: being the best ‘You’ that you can be Affiliates Group AGM & Training Thursday 2nd June 2010 Aston University, Birmingham Lyndsay Rees-Jones and Margaret Watson, from Leading...
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Thing 1
I am taking part in CPD23 because I love learning! I like doing CPD and this sounds really interesting and is free. I also hope to discover new blogs and get to know some new people too. I’m hoping...
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Thing 3: Considering personal brands
Thing 3 is about thinking about your personal brand – how people see your online brand, what brand you would like to convey, and how to match the two. Start by Googling my name (as suggested in the...
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Thing 4, or, I am a completist, this can only end badly
Current awareness: Twitter, RSS, and Pushnote Twitter and RSS feeds: I joined twitter way back in September 2007, to use the then widget as a cool way of embedding quotes into myspace, haha. I started...
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Library Camp: Real Life Social Networks and Social Networks in Real Life
Last weekend I attended Library Camp – an unconference, and a “place for anyone interested in modernising and transforming libraries of all kinds”. Library Camp sprang out of #localgovcamp from...
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#libday8 What do I do?
This post is part of Library Day in the Life Round 8, a project where librarians and information professionals document their day / week through blog posts, photos, video and Twitter updates. You can...
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Mini Library Camp NW – Pop-up libraries and more
pic from #libcampnw wiki On Sat 28th January, I went up to Manchester for mini Library Camp North West, held in Madlab in the Northern Quarter. I used to be a student at the University of Manchester,...
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Academic social-networking tools
I attended an in-house best practice session on academic social-networking tools, including Postgraduate Toolbox; Research Gate; and Academia.edu, as i was interested to see how they could be useful...
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Embedded Librarianship – Library Camp 2013
Embedded Librarianship – session led by Anna Richards You need to work to get out of your space and away from the comfort of your computer – can be hard to make the effort. Being interested in their...
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Pinterest: cupcakes, and… careers?
Lately I have been experimenting with how Pinterest could be used for our Careers service. Pinterest is the hot new social networking trend, with a reputation for content mostly including cupcakes,...
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The ‘Getting into Psychology Professions’ conference was an online careers conference, hosted on our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) — Canvas. The sessions took place over an afternoon using the...
View ArticleUsing video when you don’t like it
Whilst I am not really a fan of video, and would much prefer to read the transcript rather than wait for someone to speak the words out, there are some benefits to including video in a virtual learning...
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