Its a co-incidence that I was looking at Google calendar a couple of weeks ago! I have always used Outlook but you dont get that free, so I have been using Windows Live. It has a calendar but doesnt do reminders, which is a key thing you want a calendar to do. So I was doing some browsing for other options.
I'm not sure about Google calendar, as I dont use Gmail so wont get the reminders automatically. It has been very useful to have the instructions as I would not have found some of its features. Its great that you can customise it so much.
I was surprised that its used in major organisations. More mainstream than I would have expected.
I am concerned about the amount of information that Google would be gathering about me if I used it though. When I clicked on the link to go to the Calendar for the first time, it opened with my main email address, even though its not gmail.
Showing posts with label #cpd23. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #cpd23. Show all posts
Monday, 25 June 2012
Saturday, 16 June 2012
Task 3
'Consider personal brand'.
I'm very impressed by the way Jo has developed her personal 'branding'!
I have checked in Google for various options for 'Sparrow UK' and in the first couple of pages each time its the sort of hits you would expect eg RSPB. This blog comes up in the first page if I search 'Sparrow UK cpd23'
I think that being lower profile with this blog is better, from the perspective of it being a non- professional course log. If I was working it would be more appropriate and useful as part of networking and sharing information.
If I search for my name I get lots of hits. 59 on Linkedin alone! It did make me briefly anxious that I had done something more high profile than I meant to!
I keep in touch with people via (a lot of) email, rather than online.
Jo has a penguin logo. Maybe I could do something with a sparrow pic (copyright free, of course!)
I did do some browsing of background images. One did have birds, but rather a lot and I wouldnt want something too like Hitchcock's Birds!
I'm very impressed by the way Jo has developed her personal 'branding'!
I have checked in Google for various options for 'Sparrow UK' and in the first couple of pages each time its the sort of hits you would expect eg RSPB. This blog comes up in the first page if I search 'Sparrow UK cpd23'
I think that being lower profile with this blog is better, from the perspective of it being a non- professional course log. If I was working it would be more appropriate and useful as part of networking and sharing information.
If I search for my name I get lots of hits. 59 on Linkedin alone! It did make me briefly anxious that I had done something more high profile than I meant to!
I keep in touch with people via (a lot of) email, rather than online.
Jo has a penguin logo. Maybe I could do something with a sparrow pic (copyright free, of course!)
I did do some browsing of background images. One did have birds, but rather a lot and I wouldnt want something too like Hitchcock's Birds!
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Task 1
'Set up your own blog and write what you hope to get out of the programme.'
I set up a blog as part of the course last year. It was a really interesting thing to do. I had used blogs as a potential source of relevant content, but not created my own. The task gave me a reason to create one, and the instructions about how to do so.
What I hope to get out of the programme.
I am a health info prof but was made redundant. I am unemployed and continue to jobhunt, but of course the LIS sector has been hit hard in the recession. I volunteered at a charity for a while, but then their information service was closed. I am a volunteer in an admin role in a community centre. Some of my skills are still useful, but its not a professional setting.
Its really important to be up-to-date, and that can be a challenge, particularly with the rapid rate of development in areas like IT. Its good to challenge myself and and keep up my knowledge.
I am very grateful that this course is free and online. I wouldnt have been able to do it otherwise.
I set up a blog as part of the course last year. It was a really interesting thing to do. I had used blogs as a potential source of relevant content, but not created my own. The task gave me a reason to create one, and the instructions about how to do so.
What I hope to get out of the programme.
I am a health info prof but was made redundant. I am unemployed and continue to jobhunt, but of course the LIS sector has been hit hard in the recession. I volunteered at a charity for a while, but then their information service was closed. I am a volunteer in an admin role in a community centre. Some of my skills are still useful, but its not a professional setting.
Its really important to be up-to-date, and that can be a challenge, particularly with the rapid rate of development in areas like IT. Its good to challenge myself and and keep up my knowledge.
I am very grateful that this course is free and online. I wouldnt have been able to do it otherwise.
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