I love this article on ways to make your first 100 days in a new position impactful. Here are the highlights:
- Deeply understand how the business creates value
- Learn how to serve all your constituents
- Stay focused on what you do best
- Show what you will do differently
Do you have any other tips for “wowing” in a new position/job?
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Allison Morris recently contacted me about a post she wrote on social media addictions. I do believe they are real – but exactly how much harm are we doing to ourselves? Many jobs require social media strategy (my, how times have changed!) and many family and friends keep in touch, find each other, and have relationships based in part on their interactions online.
Can something that feels so right be so wrong? Like other addictions, it turns out it can be harmful…but when our jobs and family/friendships depend on it, how (or DO) we manage our “addiction”?
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This awesome tool connects your LinkedIn profile with a video creator – genius!! You will need to translate it when prompted at the top of the page.
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Infographics are KEY to winning over your audience. I love Piktochart, but there are others. What do you use?
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Mary Ellen Bates’ blog post on “Is an MLS Still Relevant” isn’t surprising, but should be noted by anyone with an MLS or anyone planning on pursuing a career in Library and Information Science. The big takeaways from this post are that candidates with a MLS must have the following skills to make them relevant in today’s job market:
- Ability to strategize
- Build deliverables
- Provide data visualization
- Understand what data is saying and tell the story
- Summarize information
- Communicate value
- Market yourself and the information center
- Utilize traditional online sources and new social media for a variety of research needs
So, how relevant is your MLS? Do you feel your degree has prepared you for the points above?
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Libraries of all kinds bring up mixed emotions in people. They are wonderful sources of information, but can’t I get everything on the internet? They are changing and adapting to the digital age, but aren’t they going the way of the dinosaur? I keep reading and hearing about 3D Printers, and to my surprise, there are some public libraries that are incorporating them, as well! More and more, libraries are becoming spaces for innovation and discovery – not that they haven’t always been – just that this is how they are more obviously branding themselves. This is a move in the right direction! How is your library – public, special, school – ahead of the curve when it comes to technology?
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If you haven’t heard, I heart SharePoint. I’ve been working with SharePoint since 2004 and never really understood its full potential until around 2011. Technically, I am a “Power User” or “Business User”, but my interest expands in all different directions – training, development, administration, design, etc. I love how it enables people to communicate and share and organize – all things that as an info pro I strive to help facilitate. From a change management perspective, I’m fully aware of how important it is to get users to embrace new technology or methods of communication. I was happy to see this article on Forbes.com about how Microsoft itself is embracing social as part of the enterprise software.
Just saying “SharePoint” makes some people cringe – which is really unfortunate. They either didn’t receive good/any training, don’t see the usefulness of it, or aren’t drawn to it for any reason. I think having social technology (whatever flavor that might be) as a large part of the platform is the key to winning over the masses.
What are your thoughts on making SharePoint more social? What are your favorite Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s)? Yammer, Newsgator, AgreeYA, others?
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I was recently listening to a NPR Technology podcast and the question came up as to how people perceive a subscription to something vs. using an application. It’s much more hip to have use an app to subscribe to your favorite magazine, download a book, etc. than to subscribe the old fashion way. Changing the way we talk about library services, and even our information titles, changes how people understand and use our offerings. Are you an “embedded” librarian? An Information Professional? How do you use modern language to describe your job duties?
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You have a library degree. What in the world are you going to do with it? Well, take a look at this list and re-think what your future might hold.
I recently went from a library job to a non-library position and can testify to the fact that librarian skills translate to many types of positions. Organization, web design and development, metadata needs, research skills, etc. are all relevant and useful for ANY job!
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This is my first blog post of many, many more from our iPad. Like the iPhone, I have no idea what I did without this thing. I love everything about the iPad so far! I can do everything I can do on a regular computer, and much more! This is truly a mobile device and I am definitely hooked!
Do you have an iPad? Do you love it?
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