Thing 3: Consider Your Personal Brand

OK so, as instructed, I googled my name. Luckily this was quite a straightforward exercise for me as I have quite an unusual name.

The first result that came up was my entry on the Oxford graduate trainee blog from last year, where I introduced myself. This is obviously out of date, as I am no longer there. However the entry is proof of my traineeship if anyone wanted to check in the future.

The second entry was a farmers forum discussing whether or not it was safe to burn laurel (as in the leaves). Suffice to say that does not reflect me personally!

The third was 192.com which gives address details taken from the electoral roll. This was a surprise to me as I didn't realise personal details were so easily accessible online.

After another entry discussing whether or not it was safe to burn laurel prunings were my project presentation and handout from the spreadsheet project I undertook during my traineeship at Oxford, followed by my Facebook page.

I realised this blog did not appear, so I altered the settings so that it will now appear in Google.

Thing 2: Investigate Some Other Blogs

There are so many people doing the CPD 23 things course! In fact, so many that it was almost quite overwhelming to select ones to read. My eyes were drawn to the ones with interesting titles, like Library Wanderer, Meandering the Bookshelves, Eliterate Librarian and Random musings of a librarian, almost.

CPD 23 Things 2011

I am doing the CP 23 things course to build on the 23 things course I did last year in Oxford. This blog continues from the one I made for the course last year. I learnt a lot about Web 2 from the course last year and I'm hoping this course will make me more proficient.

I'm particularly looking forward to the sessions on Online Presence and Twitter, as I still need to work out how to use Twitter. I'm also interested in the sessions on Librarianship Training Options and Careers.