Thing 4 - RSS feeds, Twitter, Pushnote

I already use Twitter, to a very limited degree, and RSS feeds (although I often forget to look at them). Pushnote is something I've never tried, so I'll have a look at what my colleagues say about it first, before I give it a try . . . .  more later.

Update @ 5th Dec, 2011 . . .

Had a look at Pushnote and can't see any benefit to me, in my present circumstances. Couldn't really get the hang of it either - so had a look at Laura's blog (one of my more able tecchie colleagues) - she wasn't impressed either, so that's good enough for me.

RSS - revisited a few blogs to try to work out where I was going wrong and it seems that I'm not really 'going wrong' at all - you still have to check Google Reader or another similar space to read all your RSS feeds - so have to be disciplined enough to do this . . .

Thing 3 - Consider your personal brand

In considering my 'personal brand' I regret that, for the purposes of this project, I didn't start up an entirely new blog, rather than reinstate something which I'd set up in 2008. 'DayDreamBeliever' is the name of my blog and  having read posts by other librarian colleagues, I can see that it's important to keep the personal and professional separate. I will certainly find this difficult - because my ramblings tend to occur when I'm trying to talk about something else - it's just the way I am (I'm thinking fondly of Ronnie Corbett here) . . . 

Seriously though, if I want to use my blog for the benefit of the Faculty that I support (Care Sciences) then 'DayDreamBeliever' simply won't do, will it? However, for the purposes of the 'CPD23 Things' project, I'll carry on as I am. . . . I'm not even sure how to rename my blog anyway (I'll have to tackle that later) or start up an entirely new 'professional' blog (probably a much better idea).

I really like the idea of using a blog to promote and discuss new developments within the library; updates on the  e-databases we subscribe to etc. (i'm an Information Librarian). As a colleague pointed out (thanks Emma) if I've blogged about it, then I know where to find it - so there's no need to keep re-writing information in response to queries from students or academics.  

Thing 2 - Explore other blogs . . .

Did I mention that I'm the world's greatest procrastinator . . .

I've investigated some of the other blogs, which seem to range from very technical 'group' blogs, with several members & lots of interesting stuff going on down the side of the page, to people like me - with not a great deal to say and not much idea how to do any of the 'fancy' stuff (to jazz up the look of the page and make it more visually interesting) . . . Anyway, I'm now in the habit of visiting blogs written by my colleagues - most of which are very commendable - but a few, like me, have barely got started. . . . I found a lovely blogger called Jo (Jokemi), who had actually visited my blog and made some comments. . . she's probably given up on me now though, because I haven't written a thing since the end of June!