Identity

Thing 3

It was interesting to revisit this area a year later. I Googled myself and found myself along with lots of other Pam Riley’s. I didn’t find anything too worrying fortunately; I haven’t had a miss spent youth on Facebook. Although I have identified another Pam Riley in the UK library world in North Wales which I suppose could give rise to some confusion. I maintain that online presence is not something you can design, it evolves from who you are.  

more thoughts on branding

I was watching Murray and contemplating thing3. It occurred  to me that my one line presence is not something I can manufacture. It will evolve along with my involvment and interactions with others on the web. I was getting abit uptight about presenting an "image" and being careful how I appear in case I damage my professional persona. To be honest I am not interested in appearing as some kind of "super library advocate" I believe in the value of libraries, the value of education and the importance of breaking through into the digital age however painful it may be in the short term. Every part of my life feeds into every other and so it would be unrealistic to attempt to compartmentalise them. I missed the end of the match, but Murray is through to the semi!

Personal Branding? sounds painful!

I know having a positive online presence is what it is all about, but I do struggle with the notion of self promotion. I'm a bit too reserved English to feel comfortable with that. I did try to find myself and was quite pleased that none of the Pam Riley's in the world had anything to do with me. However, I will try. Another issue I have is that much as I am a committed library professional,  a lot of my life involves things very much apart from library stuff and I would be afraid of boring people with my ramblings about dogs, church, teenage daughters (who would kill me if I wrote about them anyway). Maybe I should have different blogs for different things? I'm not sure I could manage more than one at a time. By the way, is anybody out there going to Umbrella? I landed myself a sponsored place and it would be nice to have someone to say hello to