creating and maintaining your personal learning network

Creating and Maintaining Your Personal Learning Network

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What’s in it for YOU?

• FREE consulting with other professionals• Instant news• Exponentially more contacts to help with

research & finding information • Locate resources such as experts,

websites, links, blogs, articles & more• Find & create communities of common

interests• Share stories • Get tech tips• Create and share your work• Get help, empathy & sympathy

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Where to Find Your PLN

• Start with the people you know

• Email

• Professional Associations

• Social Networks

Email

Social Networks

• Facebook

• Twitter

• LinkedIn

• Blog

Facebook

• Find library staff that you know personally• Find & follow people you admire• Check business cards, websites, blogs…• See who the people you’ve friended have

for friends• Look at blogs and websites for links to Facebook pages• Like pages for ALA, PLA, TLA• Look to see who has liked posts on the same pages as you• Professional publications

Twitter• Identify library staff that you know &/or

admire. Use Twitter search to find them• Check business cards, blogs, websites • See who the people you’ve selected

follow and are followed by• Look at their lists• Check Retweets to see if they may be a

person of interest• Look for #ff, Follow Friday suggestions• Follow conference & webinar hashtags to expand your network, #tnla13

LinkedIn

• Find library staff you know personally• Check people’s business cards, blogs,

websites • ‘People You May Know’ suggestions• Search for people from former

workplaces• Look at your connections’ connections• Join groups such as TLA, ALA,

Library Leadership and look at members

• Professional publications

Blogs

• Identify library staff that you admire

• Find their individual and/or organizational blogs

• Subscribe to their blogs RSS feed

• See who they recommend Follow links on their blog

• See if people you follow elsewhere have blogs

• Check people’s business cards

• Professional publications

Top Lists

• http://www.mattanderson.org/blog/2013/01/11/100-libraries-to-follow-on-twitter/

• http://www.mattanderson.org/blog/2013/01/31/100-libraries-to-follow-on-facebook/

• http://www.mattanderson.org/blog/2013/01/22/125-librarians-to-follow-on-twitter/

• http://salempress.com/Store/blogs/2012_blogs.htm

• http://edublogawards.com/

Connect Your Networks

• Hootsuite

• Social Oomph

• TweetDeck

• Scoop.it

Hootsuite

Scoop.it

• Share across multiple networks

• Edit tweet

• Add comment for Facebook

• Provides short url for posting elsewhere

Apps• All of the social networks

mentioned are available as apps for both iOS and Android

• Apps are available for RSS feeds as well (Newsify, Feedly, Newsblur)

• Set alerts on your tablet or smartphone so that you are notified of new activity / mentions on various social networks

• Respond in a timely fashion • Remember, interaction is key in maintaining your PLN

Tap the Power of Your PLN

PLN Maintenance

• Different voices for different networks

• Be positive

• Be human – share your accomplishments

• Be responsive

• Be consistent across networks

• Link to your different networks

Key points & conclusions• Create an account on a social network

you feel the most comfortable• Lurk - Set your privacy setting high at

first while you get a feel for how the social network operates and how you want to participate

• Set guidelines for yourself, keeping your online reputation / professional vs personal presence in mind

• Don’t be shy, interact• Be adventurous, go out of your profession for new ideas• You get out of it what you put into it

• https://twitter.com/search• http://twitter.com• http://www.facebook.com• http://www.linkedin.com• http://www.pinterest.com• http://www.blogger.com• http://www.wordpress.com • http://www.hootsuite.com• http://www.socialoomph.com• http://wwww.scoop.it• http://www.slideshare.com

Key Websites in Creating & Maintaining your PLN

Questions? Contact us! • Jeffie Nicholoson Email: jnicholson@williamson-tn.org Twitter: @jeffielibrarian

Erin Holt Email: eholt@williamson-tn.org Twitter: @LibrarianE13

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