Thing 8

At work I use Outlook calendar and I find it really useful. It is easy to share and schedule meetings. I can access it from anywhere just as I would access Google calendar.

This year I will try, for the first time, to use outlook calendar to schedule inductions - the idea is to allow tutors to see available time slots and book inductions in shared calendar. We'll see if this works.

Thing 7

I went to London to my sister's graduation ceremony and the next day I was flying to my holidays. I was lucky that the same day was London event so I took the opportunity and registered.

It was really nice and well organised. Different networks were presented and that really helped me to understand 'what's there' as I am quite new to librarianship. Also I had a chance to meet and speak to some lovely people, and -surprise, surprise- we had lots in common.

The only downside was that I couldn't stay for the pub-based ending...;)

Thing 6

Just came back from lovely holidays - there is so much to catch up with cpd23!

I use Facebook in my personal life and I think I will leave it like that. I really enjoy keeping in contact with my friends, although I'm not a Facebook addict like some of them;) Still prefer to meet in 'real life' but I find it very useful to keep in touch with people that leave far away from me now. I have a rule not to add as my friend anyone who I work with.

I have signed up to Linkedin, but struggle a little bit with finding people that I could add to my network. Also layout and navigation is slightly confusing, but I will give it a go. I think it's a very powerful tool and it can help a lot in job search/career change.

I am a CILIP member and I love idea of professional networks. While Facebook for me is for my private life and Linkedin I would use to create online profile aimed at job seeking, thematic networks are something that I find useful every day. It just helps so much if you need support, look for inspirations or solutions to the problems.

India...

Just visited library in Mumbai, how did we ever live without computers??