I will confess i am not the worlds most natural networker. I am the awkward one in the corner trying to pluck up the courage to say hello. Most people who know me would probably find this difficult to believe as i am also the chatty one, always have been, my school reports always said at the end 'Aline is a chatterbox'. Somehow, I still find it hard to talk to my colleagues for networking purposes. This is where online networks can come into there own, it does make it a little easier to get involved.
I am on Facebook but so far i have used this mostly for keeping in touch with friends and family. I am also on Linkdin though as yet i haven't networked or really participated in any discussions. I do however use a number of JISCmail discussions to follow current practises and find these very useful. In particular the e-forums held by the Cataloguing and Indexing groups are very useful.
I think that this is an area that i need to develop more and as i stated before online networking should in theory make this easier. I have had a brief look at Cilip communities and will be looking at this further in the future. Time to take the next step and get more involved!
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