I don't really talk about my job on the blog very often as I'm sure a lot of you wouldn't find it very interesting. I don't work in fashion or PR or the music industry or any of those jobs that Cosmo tell you how to 'bag' in those articles which annoy me. I might want to be a farmer or a dentist, not all women want to work in fashion. Anyway, I digress...
I've been using the skills that I've learned through blogging to promote the library and I've been sharing this with people at events. I spoke about blogging at a CLIC(Cardiff Libraries in Co-Operation) event a few months ago you can see some photos here and I've got a few more talks lined up at conferences in the near future. I never really thought that I would be using what I have learned from blogging in the world of work and it's great to be able to share this with colleagues and the wider library community. Who know blogging would teach you so many transferable skills?!
I've also planned a few blogging events in Cardiff and I put those organisational skills to use when I helped to plan Library Camp Wales as part of a team. A library camp is Librarycamp is 'user generated unconference' for people
interested in libraries. Anyone can organise a librarycamp - they run
across the UK and there's a larger event every October in Birmingham.
Our event was held in the rather grand Glamorgan Building here at Cardiff University where I work. Doctor Who and Sherlock have been filmed there.
It’s an unconference so we followed the principles of Open Space events - people can wander in and out of sessions, tweet, blog and take photos all day. Sounds a lot like a blogger meet up and it's actually very similar. I got to meet library staff who I only know through twitter or reading their blog and eat loads of cake.
Me and the rest of the lovely organising team. It was such a great day and we all pulled together to create a fun event that brought people together an enable them to share ideas. I took photos and tweeted all day (again skills I picked up through blogging) and created a Storify for the event which you can look at here if you want to.
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Your job sounds awesome! I'm a phlebotomist and receptionist in the real world- really can't apply blogging life to that one! x
ReplyDeleteI think your job sounds wonderful! Working within a beautiful setting, surrounded by books and eating cake; not half bad! I'm currently an art history with history student and use blogging as a way to improve my confidence with writing, but if inspired by a certain theory does make its way on the blog.
ReplyDeleteit really is, I think I'm very lucky to have full time work in this climate too.
DeleteThis looks like so much fun! It's great you've got a good network across the country you can speak to and get advice from - I often feel like PR is so insullar because we're all competing for clients and coverage. Glad to be standing up for the non-glam PR girls out there too, last week 70% of my week was on a building site in a hard hat and steel toe capped boots haha! Can't wait to see you next week xxx
ReplyDeleteBet you rocked that hard hat Claire ;) yay not long xxx
DeleteThis does look like a lot of fun! I love my job but ublishing is nowhere near as glam as people seem to think haha!
ReplyDeleteMaria xxx
P.S. Looking forward to seeing you next week! :D
I love the cake and badges! I went to Library Camp South West last July which was great fun but not nearly as busy as Library Camp Wales looks like! :-) x
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