creating and maintaining your personal learning network
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Presentation at the Tennessee Library Association 2013 Conference on April 25 with my colleague, Erin Holt.TRANSCRIPT
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
You
family
Co-worke
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TLA
Knitters
Friends of the
library
Where to Find Your PLN
• Start with the people you know
• Professional Associations
• Social Networks
Social Networks
• Blog
• 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
• 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: [email protected] Twitter: @jeffielibrarian
Erin Holt Email: [email protected] Twitter: @LibrarianE13
Williamson County Public LibraryTwitter: @wcpltnFacebook: facebook.com/wcpltnPinterest: pinterest.com/wcpltn
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