Folks, I’ve been remiss on the blog front. Especially after saying “I’m going to participate in CPD23!” I’ve been busy (link goes to my other blog, specifically the category of posts about the house my husband and I just bought–we now own our first home!). Luckily, catching up, at least in a “look, I talked about it!” kind of way, is easy: I’m a Dropbox convert, a long-time Google Docs user, and a mean wiki editor. I am already on the social-media-as-professional-development boat, I have a couple of unofficial mentors (though it would be interesting to know if they identify me as an unofficial mentee), and I’m not from the UK but do at least have a master’s degree. There. Caught up. … Sort of.
There were discussion questions–many valid, important questions–having to do with all of those Things. I’m skipping them. Sorry.
And I left some pieces undone on previous Things, for that matter: I never did anything with Evernote–maybe I was experimenting with Mendeley instead? People seem very hot-to-trot about it, but I guess I don’t see the need for it, in my current life. I don’t really take notes on webpages, or if I do, I do it in Delicious. Most of my notes end up being “I need to look at this again when I have more time/a studio/that piece of equipment I’m missing/my current 10 projects done.” Also, “I’m so going to make this recipe!” or “This will be good argument fodder.” Not super pressing, honestly.
And, as far as Mendeley, I went as far as exporting things from RefWorks, which, in turn, I had only bothered trying to use so I’d know enough to fake my way through supporting it for our institution: I don’t currently publish, and when I did publish I didn’t need to track my references outside of Word–this is not a pressing need for me, nor, in my opinion, for most students (though I’m not in charge of curriculum development for the library, or even running instruction sessions, so it’s not my call, or even a rant I indulge in very often). I made a couple of friends, though the social features aren’t super intuitive to me. I’ll wait and see if the library community on there grows, but I have some doubts about it ever becoming something I use on a day-to-day basis.
I do sometimes browse other CPD blogs. I’ve added some cool people to my “Libraries” folder on Google Reader, which has been great! (I’m csheldonhess, there, if you’d like to be friends. I share a lot of cute animals, a little bit of liberal politics, a bunch of cool/geeky crafts, and also, you know, some library-related stuff. :)) So, while I haven’t been giving it my all, I wouldn’t say I haven’t benefited from the program. I’m still hoping to do a better job, through September!
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