Rudai23 2017 workbook

Before I read this blog post I disliked the idea of personal branding it has a business  language, right wing, corporate, privatisation, free market style connotations to me. It seems to be say that I should replace my image with a brand and brands come with slogans. Did I need to think of a tag line for myself? I think the idea of it reinforced the notion of private business outlook seeping into other areas which they don't belong. Schools no-longer produce students but units. Later the on its explained that what is meant is your professional identity. This is a much better and more acceptable term and more appropriate for the many areas of work information professionals find themselves in.  Looking at my linkedin page I think there is a few things I can change to better improve my professional identity. Reading through I don't know if my skills and experience stands out as particularly unique. I have changed the web address to give my name and title to make me easier ...

Networking tools Facebook, Twitter etc I have had a Facebook profile for at least the last ten years and a twitter for about seven. I mostly use twitter for professional networking as I tweet from most conferences and seminars I go to either as myself or from a group profile. I have been engaged in several #uklibchat over the years. I found the topics here interesting and people engaging and helpful. They always seem willing to answer questions or point you in the right direction, or on occasion disagree and have a discussion with you.  I find tweeting can be quite challenging even with the new 280 limit it can be difficult to get a complicated point across. Using correct grammar, correct spelling and good vocabulary and generally sounding professional is hard work. The point about online networking being the same as real time face to face interaction is well made. When tweeting or posting anything online it should be polite and on topic. Going to a networking event and ...

Infographics   I'm a bit late with this one and I haven't forgotten thing 7 either I just waiting for access to some photos for the exhibition I hope to make. I didn't particularly enjoy this task. It involves being creative and slightly arty which I'm not so over all I'm not happy with the results. I have used both canva and piktochat before and really like them both and can see the benefit of using them. Reports full of figures are very dry reading and can be very long which may get ignored or skipped over by management. This is a great way of giving facts and figures are dynamic presentation. While I was looking at examples for infographics I came across a few great ones. Photos are rarely used in them but the 12 classic sauses was fantastic it was readable, eye catching, everything was laid out well it was divided up clearly through a use of colour and text.  It can be seen here  The above is my effort not particularly good I not very happy with it too...

Thoughts so far.. contemplation by Rene van Haeften cc by-na-sa 2.0 We are now a quarter way through Rudai23 and its flown by so fast its hard to believe. I signed up to this years Rudai23 course to begin to learn new skills and tools as I have fallen behind in keeping up with new mobile technology developments.  I had engaged with the Gibbs cycle in college and always found it made writing a report easier as it gave a useful framework on which to build your ideas on a topic. I was however always thrown by the "Feelings" portion of the cycle. I have never really had any strong feelings about any task, either could I complete the job or I couldn't. The first task we had to accomplish was to set up a blog. I had set one up before for the last time I did rudai23 but I didn't want to use the same one. I had hoped to keep writing at the time if only for a record of events I attended and courses I took part in. I tried wordpress this time but found it a ...

Presentations I have used screen-cast before for both work and rudai23 in 2015 so I wanted to give powtoon a try. It reminded me somewhat of a flash media creator with the time line and animated options.    There are a few different options to chose from you can start from scratch, you can follow a set story board, or you can choose a template. These give you a great start for your presentation. I had a try of the story board and it was good giving lots of different backgrounds for your slides and allowing you to adapt them. it also gives you what it calls different structures These are various styles to suit audiences education, work or personal.  By using these method you could create a presentation quite quickly. The method I went for though was the create from scratch option. It gives you greater control over your project. As this was my first one I just wanted to create something simple so I went with advice for presentations.  I chose the whit...

Photofunia etc  Until recently I used to own a windows phone. The selection of apps for windows was always poor but when it became apparent that microsoft were never going to compete against Apple or Android developers stopped updating or just never created apps for windows. The whole apps thing because passed me by even yet I only have ones for public transport or texting.  This "Thing" really interested me as I got to explore a few mobile apps that I would never normally have looked at.   The first one I looked at was photofunia I enjoyed using it and thought it was good fun. I created one for my nephew as a Sith Lord as he is a massive Star Wars fan and he loved it.  There was a massive amount of different styles of effects on offer from movies to art galleries.  Though I used for fun I can see how it could be used to promote events with eye-catching visuals ad special effects. Adding a jpeg of a flyer to the worker putting a billboard size ve...

Image Banks I had an idea of when I started this course that I would have a theme running through my posts that would give me a topic on which to hang the tasks around and generally make it easier for me to write a blog.  The topic I had chosen was food including gardening and cooking. It may not be very appropriate for my work but it would give me lots of vibrant pictures.  Using images can bring a minefield of problems. When making posters, writing projects in your own work or helping others with course work copyright can cause confusion. As a librarian I have had to explain to people what they can use and what they can't and how they can use items. I've had to sign agreements with the owners of photographs on how and where it will be used. I sometimes had difficulty explaining this to the person who requested the photograph.  I have used both pixabay and flikr before. I am part of the WRSLAI committee so I have uploaded uploaded photos of our events to our fol...