Today I looked at PLN's. (Personal Learning Networks)
I had never heard the term before, but had heard of LinkedIn.
I decided to take a look at LinkedIn, as I've never used it before.
I was surprised at how many people here in the library are on it, even some of my friends in different organisations.
I'm glad it's a lot less personal than Facebook, so I will join up. Not sure how much information I'll contribute though, I wouldn't like to misrepresent the University.
I was glad to see familiar library faces on the ACU profile of LinkedIn too.
At the moment, my PLN is purely email based and very small. Just my ACU colleagues and former colleagues really. I really must embrace the change and broaden my horizons!
I guess it also depends on your need...LinkedIn is geared towards recruitment, but also aims to conenct epople through issues, news, comments.
ReplyDeleteThe aim of this *thing* is really to know that your PLN can take any shape or form but there are tools and ways of using and expanding - as you see the need.
My job is very much involved with keeping up to date with emerging technologies, library trends etc- so I rely on my PLN- mainly through blogs, Twitter and RSS feeds- to keep me up to date!