I have signed up for “23 Things for Professional Development.” It is a free, self-directed online cpd course for info professionals at any stage in their career. It starts on 20th June and will end in October. All you need is a blog! Here’s a breakdown of the coming weeks:
The Plan
Week 1 (20th June) – Blogging
Thing 1: Create your own blog, write about what you hope to get out of the programme. (If you already have a blog, then you’re welcome to use that.)
Thing 2: Explore other blogs and get to know some of the other cpd23-ers.
Week 2 (27th June) – Online presence
Thing 3: Consider your personal brand
Week 3 (4th July) – Current awareness
Thing 4: RSS feeds, Twitter, Pushnote
Week 4 (11th July) – Reflection week
A bit of a breather to think about what we’ve covered so far.
Thing 5: Reflective practice
Week 5 – (18th July) Online Networks / Real Life Networks
Thing 6: Online networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, LISNPN, LATNetwork, CILIP Communities)
Thing 7: National/Regional group, Special interest groups and looking outside the library sphere
Week 6 – (25th July) Organising yourself
Thing 8: Google Calendar
Thing 9: Evernote
Week 7 – (1st August) Librarianship training options
Thing 10: Graduate traineeships, Masters degrees, Chartership, Accreditation
Thing 11: Mentoring
Week 8 – (8th August) Catch-up week / reflections
Thing 12
Week 9 – (15th August) Filesharing/Collaboration
Thing 13: Google Docs, Wikis & Dropbox
Week 10 – (22nd August) Organising your references
Thing 14: Zotero / Mendeley / citeulike
Week 11 – (29th August) Getting involved
Thing 15: Attending, presenting at and organising seminars, conferences and other events
Thing 16: Advocacy, speaking up for the profession and getting published.
Week 12 – (5th September) Presenting information
Thing 17: Prezi / data visualisation / slideshare
Thing 18: Jing / screen capture / podcasts (making and following them)
Week 13 – (12th September) Catch-up week / reflection
Thing 19: Some time to think about how you might integrate the Things so-far into your workflow and routines.
Week 14 – (19th September) Careers
Thing 20: Library Day in the Life and Library Routes/Roots
Thing 21: Volunteering to get experience
Week 15 – (26th September) Promoting yourself in job applications and at interview
Thing 22: How to identify your strengths, how to capitalise on your interests, how to write something eyecatching that meets job specs.
Week 16 – (3rd October) Final reflection
Thing 23: What have you learnt and where do you want to go from here?
