Social Capital Management Software – Key Asset in Your Resilient Career SLA Rocky Mountain Chapter March 14, 2007 Kim Dority, G. K. Dority & Associates, Inc. [email_address] www.rethinkinginformationwork.com Christian Gray, Safari Books Online [email_address]

The Resilient Career – - Agile - Opportunistic - Sustainable

Your guide for the evening will be the famous and ever-popular Christian Gray… aka, the Guy Who Actually Knows Something About Social Networking! -- Kim

BIG PICTURE Personal Information Convergence Reunion & Alumni Social Network Contact Manager People Search Match Makers Industry Association Gov. Records

BIG PICTURE Example of social network diagram Cindy Christian 1 st Degree 2 nd Degree 3 rd Degree Mike Wanda Scott Kim

You have to sing every day to work up to being, you know, amazingly brilliant. – Mick Jagger Start building… … visibility

Start building…

… visibility

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody – either by becoming grounds for action, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action. – Peter F. Drucker Start building… … your portfolio

Start building…

… your portfolio

Only connect. – E. M. Forster Start building… … your community of colleagues

Start building…

… your community of colleagues

Use social software to build: - Visibility - Portfolio - Community of Colleagues

Hell is where you just drift – heaven is where you get to steer. – George Bernard Shaw Take charge of your agenda… … multi-purpose your jobs, projects or assignments

Take charge of your agenda…

… multi-purpose your jobs, projects or assignments

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself. – Søren Kierkegaard Start exploring… … your professional options

Start exploring…

… your professional options

“ You” is a very fluid concept right now…. – Hitch Consider the many, many ways to use LIS skills…

Consider the many, many ways

to use LIS skills…

Use social software to: - Multi-purpose your projects - Explore your profession - Find ways to use an LIS degree

You’re not the boss of me! – Every two-year-old in the known universe And consider yet another way to use your LIS skills…

And consider yet another way to

use your LIS skills…

Use social software to: - Go independent

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. – Henry Miller Start exploring… … your boundaries

Start exploring…

… your boundaries

Everything I know I learned bodysurfing in Southern California. -- Kim Dority Anticipate Position for opportunity Paddle like crazy Enjoy the ride, but know it will end Don’t take the sand in your suit personally Know that a new wave is always on the way

Anticipate

Position for opportunity

Paddle like crazy

Enjoy the ride, but know it will end

Don’t take the sand in your suit personally

Know that a new wave is always on the way

Putting This in Play…. Write up a one-page Linkedin plan – finish in 3 weeks Build/improve your profile Request endorsements Search “just for fun” & some serious surfing Invite others to join – the network effect

Write up a one-page Linkedin plan – finish in 3 weeks

Build/improve your profile

Request endorsements

Search “just for fun” & some serious surfing

Invite others to join – the network effect

Resources: Learn More The Virtual Handshake by David Teten & Scott Allen, www.thevirtualhandshake.com Guy Kawasaki, http://blog.guykawasaki.com www.Wikipedia.com , search social network

The Virtual Handshake by David Teten & Scott Allen, www.thevirtualhandshake.com

Guy Kawasaki, http://blog.guykawasaki.com

www.Wikipedia.com , search social network

Freedom is actually a much bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash. – Harriet Rubin SLA Rocky Mountain Chapter March 14, 2007 Kim Dority, G. K. Dority & Associates, Inc. [email_address] Christian Gray, Safari Books Online [email_address]