Building Your
Professional Career with
Networking
Greg Hardin
TxLA13
April 24, 2013
Preparing new librarians for career
and organisational impact
Julia Leong and Maree Vaughan
RMIT University Melbourne
Australia
Personal Learning Networks (PLN)
“the people you choose to connect
with and learn from.”
~ Shelly Terrell
Notes on cultivating a personal
learning network
tips from
Howard Rheingold
Explore
Search
Follow
Tune
Feed
Engage
Inquire
Respond
• Consume
• Connect
• Create
• Contribute
Networking At Conferences:
Developing Your Professional
Support System
Organize your
Favorites
Meet New
Collaborators
Virtual Participation
Maintaining
Momentum
Building Blocks for
Personal Brands
What’s My Name?
Refine the Message
Channel Surf
Build Bridges
Revisiting the ALA
Membership Pyramid
(Young Professionals
Task Force)
ALA
ThinkTank
What do you want to learn?
Use & monitor #hashtags
Read & comment
Don’t forget to share
Watch & learn
#makeithappen
References
All Images from the University of North Texas Libraries’ Portal to Texas History
http://texashistory.unt.edu/
Frierson, E. (2011). Revisiting the ALA Membership Pyramid. In The Library With The Lead Pipe, 1-6.
Kowalsky, M. (2012). NETWORKING AT CONFERENCES: DEVELOPING YOUR PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT SYSTEM. Knowledge
Quest, 41(2), 60-63.
LaGarde, J., & Whitehead, T. (2012). POWER UP YOUR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING. Knowledge Quest, 41(2), 8-13.
Leong, J., & Vaughan, M. (2010). Preparing new librarians for career and organisational impact. Library Management, 31(8),
635-644. doi:10.1108/01435121011093405
Rheingold, Howard. (2011). Notes on cultivating a personal learning network. Howard Rheingold's Teaching Notes
http://howardrheingoldsteachingnotes.posterous.com/notes-on-growing-a-personal-learning-network
Thomas, L. (2011). Building Blocks for Personal Brands. Journal Of Web Librarianship, 5(2), 142-145.
Thank You!
Greg Hardin
@ghardin

Building Your Professional Career with Networking