Promoting Yourself
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=== Getting Your Work Noticed By Your Employer === | === Getting Your Work Noticed By Your Employer === | ||
| + | * Be a self-starter. Offer new ideas backed by research to your supervisor or management team. | ||
| + | * Follow through with your ideas when approved. | ||
| + | * Be willing to work on your supervisors's ideas. | ||
| + | * Submit all the thank you cards that your library clients give you to your supervisor. | ||
| + | * Write well. Give your supervisor concise, readable reports that make important points without extraneous information. | ||
=== Getting Your Work Noticed by the Profession === | === Getting Your Work Noticed by the Profession === | ||
| + | * Attend local professional meetings regularly. | ||
| + | * Volunteer to work on committees locally and nationally. Respond positively to the pleas for help that come by email or in library publications. | ||
| + | * Help with presentations at conferences. You can start by being an assistant who collect evaluation forms or does other small jobs. Talk with the presenterators and hosts. | ||
| + | * When attending presentations, ask good questions. Be willing to talk to others after presentations end. | ||
| + | * Network with librarians who share your interests. They will help you share your work with others. | ||
=== Promoting Your Blog and Getting Noticed Online === | === Promoting Your Blog and Getting Noticed Online === | ||
| + | * Don't just be a blog author, be a blog participant. Be sure you regularly join the conversation on other blogs and carefully monitor the conversation on yours. | ||
| + | * There are more blog readers/commenters than there are bloggers...think about that for a bit. If you aren't comfortable authoring a blog on a regular basis, it is okay to read and leave comments. Especially if you can tie other thoughts into your comments. | ||
| + | * Submit your blog to blog lists, such as | ||
| + | ** [http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki Blog Without a Library Blog Wiki] | ||
| + | ** [http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html Libdex's Library Weblogs] | ||
| + | ** [http://www.lisfeeds.com LISFeeds] | ||
| + | ** [http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Weblogs/ DMOZ's Open Directory Project Library and Information Science Weblogs]. | ||
Latest revision as of 15:26, 27 April 2006
[edit] Getting Your Work Noticed By Your Employer
- Be a self-starter. Offer new ideas backed by research to your supervisor or management team.
- Follow through with your ideas when approved.
- Be willing to work on your supervisors's ideas.
- Submit all the thank you cards that your library clients give you to your supervisor.
- Write well. Give your supervisor concise, readable reports that make important points without extraneous information.
[edit] Getting Your Work Noticed by the Profession
- Attend local professional meetings regularly.
- Volunteer to work on committees locally and nationally. Respond positively to the pleas for help that come by email or in library publications.
- Help with presentations at conferences. You can start by being an assistant who collect evaluation forms or does other small jobs. Talk with the presenterators and hosts.
- When attending presentations, ask good questions. Be willing to talk to others after presentations end.
- Network with librarians who share your interests. They will help you share your work with others.
[edit] Promoting Your Blog and Getting Noticed Online
- Don't just be a blog author, be a blog participant. Be sure you regularly join the conversation on other blogs and carefully monitor the conversation on yours.
- There are more blog readers/commenters than there are bloggers...think about that for a bit. If you aren't comfortable authoring a blog on a regular basis, it is okay to read and leave comments. Especially if you can tie other thoughts into your comments.
- Submit your blog to blog lists, such as
