Twenty-three Things for Professional Development, has been an experience so far. This crash course in updating myself with changing technologies is an excellent source of information. I feel that in my field and in my position here at the library alot of tasks are dealt with trial and error. Alot of my work here in the library is learning new technologies and then being able to apply them in the library or to teach them to others.
This program has definetely reminded me of things to work on like blogging, branding, and Twitter. I really enjoyed the activity on branding, but I feel that this may involve several different attempts. I agree with Deirdre when she blogs about thinking that reflection is easy. It's not, but it definetely needs to done to assess your previous work and therefore to improve it.
Twitter has been my biggest challenge thus far. I have been fighting with myself about the question of "is Twitter right for our library?". Many librarians have noted that no it's not very useful. Unless you have a ton of activites that are going to capture the attention of many followers it may not be right for you, but I am going to continue to make the effort of using Twitter as a marketing tool. I am going to let everyone know about every possible detail of the library that I can get my hands on and make this work.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Thing 4: Current Awareness-Twitter, RSS and Pushnote
Thing 4 has opened a new door for me....I have used RSS feeds, my business computer is not able to use a different browser, so Pushnote is out of the question for me, but I did create a Twitter Account! I have always been a little sceptical of Twitter, because yes I believe it's all about everyone saying that they are walking to work, or they just woke up, or they just had a tuna sandwich for lunch. I think I could spend my time a little more wisely, but I stepped outside of my box and created a Twitter account for our Library. One thing I definetely didn't know, but I think is a great concept are the hashtags! It can group all one common subject, and this is great. i am going to keep using Twitter to get the full affect, but so far it's not bad!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Thing #3: Consider your personal brand
Aaaaaaaa, personal branding! I love trying.......attempting to find myself on Google! With a name like Sarah Brown, there are millions of us! Sarah Joy Brown is an actress on General Hosptial, As the world Turns, Cold Case, Without a Trace......and the list goes on. What a presence! HAHA! If I localize my search a little more to my hometown, I still come up with a 73 year old woman in my home town. I am not 73 years old or anywhere near close to this age, but about the third one down is officially me! It shows my position here at Northeast Community College Library and contact information. Thumbs up to this! The next thing that shows up is not my personal facebook page, but the very active facebook page which I have created for the Library, and last but not least my graduating highschool class alumi shows up. Overall I think that my image online shows some wonderful achievements, but is very much in connection with a professional image.
I am not to keen about using a photograph online of myself, but I definetely see the positive side to doing so. I really like the idea of branding myself in a way though. Instead of posting pictures of myself all over the place, I need to stick with certain color schemes or a certain character like the penguin. (very cute by the way)
Overall Great Thing #3 and always a good reminder to keep up on your own identity.
I am not to keen about using a photograph online of myself, but I definetely see the positive side to doing so. I really like the idea of branding myself in a way though. Instead of posting pictures of myself all over the place, I need to stick with certain color schemes or a certain character like the penguin. (very cute by the way)
Overall Great Thing #3 and always a good reminder to keep up on your own identity.
23 Things Week 1
Hi there,
I am so excited to be a part of this program! I have been participating in Nebraska Learns 2.0 for about 9 months now and have definetly gotten a lot of great and fun ideas to use here in the library at Northeast Community College. I am a library assistant at Northeast Community College Library and absolutely love my job. I hope to get more great and useful ideas out of the CPD23 Things, as I have from Nebraska Learns 2.0. Hope to hear some great feedback and wonderful ideas from everyone. :)
I am so excited to be a part of this program! I have been participating in Nebraska Learns 2.0 for about 9 months now and have definetly gotten a lot of great and fun ideas to use here in the library at Northeast Community College. I am a library assistant at Northeast Community College Library and absolutely love my job. I hope to get more great and useful ideas out of the CPD23 Things, as I have from Nebraska Learns 2.0. Hope to hear some great feedback and wonderful ideas from everyone. :)
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Thing #46: Stixy
Whoooo Hooooo Stixy! I love Post-it-Notes, so I definetly love Stixy! I am just like Kathryn. At home my desk is plastered in sticky notes and they have even started moving to the small bookshelf next to my desk.
Stixy is a wonderful tool. I like it because it is very User friendly. Everything you need is very easy to access, and right in front of you. I think that Stixy could be useful here in the library, but we do already have a sort of collaborating tool. Here in our library we have a thing called a Wiki where we keep in touch of upcoming events, brainstorm new ideas, and have a calendar for everyone to list when they may have an event, or meeting. Stixy is much more colorful though. This is an interesting idea to include a link on our facebook page though and have students or instructors include upcoming events, or comments to use it as a bulletin board.
Stixy would be useful for a number of things but one thing that comes to mind is if a large family was planning on having a Family Reunion. You could email everyone in the family the link to the Stixy Board. Title it Someone's Family Reunion, and include photos of where you were hosting the reunion, what foods certain people are to bring, certain recipes, games being planned, and weather updates. Stixy would be great for a public bulletin board or even a private collaboration of a large project.
My mock up board is simple, but I was inspired by anticipating Spring and to show off my YouTube Video I did for the NECC library. Hope everyone enjoys, and my applause to Kathryn for helping suggest this as Thing #46!
You can access my mock up Stixy board at:
Stixy is a wonderful tool. I like it because it is very User friendly. Everything you need is very easy to access, and right in front of you. I think that Stixy could be useful here in the library, but we do already have a sort of collaborating tool. Here in our library we have a thing called a Wiki where we keep in touch of upcoming events, brainstorm new ideas, and have a calendar for everyone to list when they may have an event, or meeting. Stixy is much more colorful though. This is an interesting idea to include a link on our facebook page though and have students or instructors include upcoming events, or comments to use it as a bulletin board.
Stixy would be useful for a number of things but one thing that comes to mind is if a large family was planning on having a Family Reunion. You could email everyone in the family the link to the Stixy Board. Title it Someone's Family Reunion, and include photos of where you were hosting the reunion, what foods certain people are to bring, certain recipes, games being planned, and weather updates. Stixy would be great for a public bulletin board or even a private collaboration of a large project.
My mock up board is simple, but I was inspired by anticipating Spring and to show off my YouTube Video I did for the NECC library. Hope everyone enjoys, and my applause to Kathryn for helping suggest this as Thing #46!
You can access my mock up Stixy board at:
Password is: Nebraska Learns 2.0
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Thing #45
Thing #45 Account Settings
I am a firm beliver in always checking your settings when you sign up for a new email account, facebook page, blog, or anything new to see what advantages that certain site may have over others. I went in and checked my setting for my email account. Things here that I found that I always think are interesting but I tend to never use is the setting for the vacation reminder. A setting that will allow an automatic response to emails while you are away and on vacation. This is also where you can setup your signature, a picture to go with your emails, and even pictures for your contacts.
The other site that I wanted to mention was Facebook. I actually think that alot of these setting are great. I had a fellow co-worker that was asking some questions about facebook and didn't understand why she was receiving emails everytime anyone even (practically) looked at her facebook page. I took her into the settings and showed her that she had email notifications on everything checked. Obviously we went through and took alot of check marks out, and she was very happy!
Just to bring up another quick one, I really like all the setting on Blogger. For our NECC library blog that I have created, I have added the setting that keep a counter on how many times our blog is visited, which is a wonderful tool, and also I have added a little pond of goldfish to the bottom. Some very cool settings are available here, so if you haven't checked them out yet, now is the time. Thanks for Thing #45 great project.
I am a firm beliver in always checking your settings when you sign up for a new email account, facebook page, blog, or anything new to see what advantages that certain site may have over others. I went in and checked my setting for my email account. Things here that I found that I always think are interesting but I tend to never use is the setting for the vacation reminder. A setting that will allow an automatic response to emails while you are away and on vacation. This is also where you can setup your signature, a picture to go with your emails, and even pictures for your contacts.
The other site that I wanted to mention was Facebook. I actually think that alot of these setting are great. I had a fellow co-worker that was asking some questions about facebook and didn't understand why she was receiving emails everytime anyone even (practically) looked at her facebook page. I took her into the settings and showed her that she had email notifications on everything checked. Obviously we went through and took alot of check marks out, and she was very happy!
Just to bring up another quick one, I really like all the setting on Blogger. For our NECC library blog that I have created, I have added the setting that keep a counter on how many times our blog is visited, which is a wonderful tool, and also I have added a little pond of goldfish to the bottom. Some very cool settings are available here, so if you haven't checked them out yet, now is the time. Thanks for Thing #45 great project.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Thing #44
Well this little assignment is quite interesting.... I have gone ahead and done all the little details of Thing #44 and it seems fun, but well it seems like a game on Facebook. I mean don't get me wrong, I like it, it is creative, it is a game, it's fun, but it's not really all that useful. Well, okay I take that back! It is Useful, it is useful for businesses if they use it for promotion, the benefits of checking into things so often and deals you can post, but personally I don't think I'll be using it to much. I work out quite a bit and I guess becoming the Mayor of the local YMCA could be impressive and a little fun to brag about though.
Anyway, this little game does not freak me out because yeah it's fun to see where all your friends have been, seeing them become a mayor of something a little off the wall, and checking out some new deals at a new coffee shop that opens in my town.
Our Library was not already listed, but our college was, which I am part of an academic college so depending on how you look at it, you could go either way on whether it was listed or not. I did create a listing specifically for the library though, and under the campus listing we do have a mayor.
I also went ahead and checked out what some of the local listings were for businesses in our area, and I definetly was surprised to see how many were already listed. Definetly something fun for anyone to checkout though. If you are interested you can click HERE to check it out.
Anyway, this little game does not freak me out because yeah it's fun to see where all your friends have been, seeing them become a mayor of something a little off the wall, and checking out some new deals at a new coffee shop that opens in my town.
Our Library was not already listed, but our college was, which I am part of an academic college so depending on how you look at it, you could go either way on whether it was listed or not. I did create a listing specifically for the library though, and under the campus listing we do have a mayor.
I also went ahead and checked out what some of the local listings were for businesses in our area, and I definetly was surprised to see how many were already listed. Definetly something fun for anyone to checkout though. If you are interested you can click HERE to check it out.
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