I am skipping past Thing 7 but I will come back to it shortly!
Thing 8 is Google Calendar. I only started using this relatively recently.
Like most I used to be happy with a pocket paper diary but unfortunately this left my colleagues frequently unsure as to when I was around or where I had disappeared off to. To help remedy this I acquired a Dell Axim x30 PDA and started using Outlook. It was already a dated bit of kit at the time but it has served me well and I am not looking forward to it finally pushing up the digital daisies (a relative has taken to buying replacements for his Psion on ebay when they die but I don’t care for it that much).
I have stayed away from Google Calendar for lack of need. Lately it has also joined the group of sites that do not work with IE6 so it is hard to use at work. However – I recently took on looking after a Google Calendar for Cilip in London where I am adding events that may be of interest to those working in knowledge, library and information roles. The Calendar also feeds through to the CILIP in London Twitter account. The plan will be to slowly build up a group of people who keep an eye out for things of interest and of CPD organisers who want to promote their events. Please have a look and send suggestions along for items to add.
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Sign in nowThanks Ben – pleased to be offering something generally worth reading.
I am finding it hard to know where to turn in the torrent of potential reading – I have enjoyed more than a few things I have read but I wonder if future posts without the CPD23 motivation would necessarily remain a priority? Hopefully some good new stuff will bubble up as you say.
Interesting post. I think you’re right that having the group blog is a little confusing (IMO partly because the title of it implies a single author). Maybe if the blog had a little avatar next to each post representing the author, that might make it clearer?
Also agree that keeping personal and professional totally separate is near-impossible.
I have a near-unique forename/surname combo; feel it might be a blessing for branding but a curse for any semblence of privacy/anonymity…
Good point on the avatar thing – I suspect a previous blog template did include this information but at the cost of the post titles showing. No doubt we will change it again in the future.
The title reflects the fact that I think this blog started as one person affair and slowly borged into the present arrangement.
I note from your blog that you are a London based CPD23er – I hope you will take advantage of the event in week 5 (advertised elsewhere on this blog!)
[...] is not a new thing for me. I had a long love affair with Bloglines that I used for a good six years and I have commented already about my current RSS [...]
[...] thing for me. I had a long love affair with Bloglines that I used for a good six years and I have commented already about my current RSS [...]
I haven’t heard of Pushnote but it must have had some decent hype to have you fight to get it working. I’ve been using StumbleUpon sporadically over the last couple of years but I suppose this is more for transferable bookmarks & tags than assigning a rating to things.
I use something called Yoono that embeds in Firefox for Twitter access. It recently had access issues possibly because I use it across home and work but these seemed to resolve when I upgraded. It seems quite good and I’ve tried some of the ‘flash in the pan’ ones.
You have to fight to get rid of it too!
Your post made me smile. I am one of those who have worked in medical education and know the term ‘reflective practice’ and find that it’s almost easier to do it than to explain it!
I’m interested in your hope that CILIP will introduce mandatory CPD; with my Devil’s Advocate hat on for a minute, would you be concerned that in an attempt to ‘professionalise the profession’, it would discourage people from Chartership/CPD altogether?
For me the need is to make Chartership enduringly meaningful both to those in the profession and our employers. Chartership at present is a useful process but a one shot deal. I know you can revalidate but without the push will people do it? Signs point to only a limited level of uptake.
People are doing the CPD anyway – stacks of it. The mandatory element would be the tracking. As a pay off for the small effort of online tracking (beyond the personal value of actually doing the reflection) there should be a public online site that I could point to that would allow employers to verify that I was maintaining my Chartered status. As a recruiter I would value this.
Hi,
I get much more out of the CILIP discussions on LinkedIn than I ever did with CILIP Communities. People just seem to use it more often so it becomes much more dynamic. It’s quite nice to be able to check someone’s profile when they have commented on something too – just to check that they may know what they are talking about! Sarah
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*Headdesk*
*eye roll*