The document discusses using social capital management software and social networks to build a resilient career. It provides examples of how to use social networks to increase visibility, build professional networks and communities, explore career options, and leverage library and information science skills in new ways. The document encourages attendees to start using social networks to take charge of their careers and explore opportunities by writing a LinkedIn plan and improving their online profile.

1. 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]

2. The Resilient Career – - Agile - Opportunistic - Sustainable

3. 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

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

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

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

7. 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

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

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

10. 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

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

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

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

14. 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…

15. Use social software to: - Go independent

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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]