Week 3: tasks 7 & 8: social bookmarking and tagging

Task 7: Explore different bookmarking sites such as Delicious, CitUlike, Connotea, and PearlTrees. Join one and connect with other users; blog about your experiences.

Task 8: Explore social cataloguing sites such as LibraryThing and WorldCat. Begin your own bookshelf, share details with colleagues and comment on their collections.

Pearltrees:
I signed up to www.pearltrees.com in March 2012, at the then B&PC LRCs Manager's request. LRC staff were invited to team up with the B&PC LRCs Deputy Librarian's LRC Tools Pearltree. 
I created one Pearltree myself, of the B&PC LRC social networking & eResources.
I'm afraid I didn't 'get it' and wasn't confident I could support tutors who chose to use them. 
In April 2012 this particular role was assigned to Lisa at NR LRC.

Other social bookmarking sites:
https://delicious.com - Keep, share, and discover websites
http://www.citeulike.org - Service for managing and discovering scholarly references
http://www.connotea.org - Discontinued on March 12, 2013 

Social cataloguing sites:
http://www.librarything.com
Interesting, but less so to me as I buy and store very few books at home myself as I work in a public library and so have quick, free access to almost any book I want to read, and I usually have 10 or so books on the go - I'm too busy actually reading books to go online about it!

http://www.worldcat.org
I have explored this before and think its very interesting, although rather too US-centric; for example nothing from Dorset Libraries ever shows in its search results.

Week 2: tasks 5 & 6: RSS feeds and Twitter

Week 2 Current awareness: Task 5 RSS feeds; Task 6 Sign up Twitter.

RSS feeds
I added the 3 RSS feed on the right.

Twitter
I signed up to Twitter in August 2009, but at first I didn't use it much. Several things changed that: Firstly, I read Grace Dent's 2011 book called "How to leave Twitter" which goes through the typical stages of Twitter use, and how not to tweet, in a funny, friendly way. Then in August 2011 I experienced some news events that were so fast-changing that even news websites could not deliver current, useful information i.e. the London riots and the summer flash flood in Bournemouth town centre on the first day of the Air Festival. In November 2011 I used Twitter to arrange a last-minute refund on a train ticket that I could not use because of snow, having been unable to reach their customer services by phone or elsewhere online, and I was impressed that I got through immediately and was refunded quickly and easily. I also used Twitter in my CILIP Chartership, which I submitted in January 2012. In early 2012 I attended some events in London (Guardian Open Weekend and TEDxObserver) where everyone was using Twitter. Finally, at Christmas 2012 I got an Apple iPad on which Twitter is much quicker and easier to use.

My Twitter name is @BomoSarah. Currently I have about 135 followers, and I follow about 400 people and organisations. I have tweeted or re-tweeted over 1,150 times. I also get re-tweeted by others, for example: 

I recommend following these:

For 23 Things: @cpd23 @bpclibrary20 @twitter

For academic library and CILIP news: @ciliphw @cilipsw @arlgsw @arlglondonandse @cilip_arlg @cilipcdg @infolitgroup @cilipcig @cilipevents @cilipinfo @cilippresident @philbradley @annie mauger @ukeig @timeshighered @sconulfocus @uksg @fefocus @fenews @feontap @felibraries @infoism @library_connect @skills_learning

For other work-related news: @bpcollege @jellicoetheatre @bpcsu @bpcollegesports @radioaspire @bournemouthuni @heritagelms @hug @dawsonera @dawsonbooks @rscsouthwest @jisc @jisccollections @jiscevents @netskills @jisc_techdis @jisclegal @cla_uk @colric_tweets @aoc_info @swrlsdir @copac @thinkuknowuk @ceopuk

For local book-related events: @bmthfestofwords @bufestivals @artsbournemouth @artsinpoole @poolelibraries @poolemuseum @lighthousepoole @gulliversbks @waterstonesbmth @waterstonesbcp @poolewaterstone

For local news and travel: @bournemouthecho @bbcdorset @bbcradiosolent @bbcsouthnews @itvmeridian @hot1028news @bournemouthbc @boroughofpoole @wave105travel @yellowbuses @morebusco @dorsetpolice @pccdorset @envagencysw 

For national news: @guardiannews @bbcnews @bbcbreaking @skynewsbreak

Week 1: Introduction and tasks 1 - 4 : Blogs

Although I missed the training day on 10th April 2013 when the Learning 2.0 / 23 Things Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme was introduced to Bournemouth and Poole College (BPC) Learning Resources Centre (LRC) staff, I would like to join in with it.

I have looked at the home blog http://bpc-library20.blogspot.co.uk and think I know what to do.

Here are the first set of tasks - on Blogs:

1 Set up your Google ID and Blog accounts.

2 Create your first blog post - write about what you hope to get out of the programme.

3 Consider your personal brand. Post how you will achieve this.

4 Explore and comment on your colleagues' blogs.

I already have a Google/Blogger account, and some blogs (CILIP South East Hants & Wight - for events and past events of this CILIP sub-branch, The Bournemouth Librarian - which I use to list links for local library-related events & talks and public library news, and Emerald Guide - from 2007) but I created this new blog for my BPC LRC Learning 2.0 / 23 Things CPD. 

This is my first blog post on this new blog. 

I hope to learn new things and get this CPD professionally recognised when I finish it.

I will use this blog to document and comment on each of the 23 Things that I do for this CPD.

I have looked at the other blogs that my colleagues have created - early days so far! I did post a comment on Lesley's blog http://lesleymcd23things.blogspot.co.uk admiring her template.