Thing 2 - Explore other blogs

Blogging Wordle by Kristina B on Flickr

This thing took me longer than expected - so many great blogs to choose from! As I've recently returned from USA, I initially thought I would narrow it down to participants from there, though I discovered that many of them are currently behind on their things (pot... kettle... black, I know!). But as I wrote thing 3 for the programme about personal branding, I thought I'd take the opportunity to read and comment on some of those posts. I also already subscribe to a number of the blogs involved in CPD23, so I tried to discover new blogs. There were some really interesting reflections on personal branding (more on this when I write thing 3), and the ones I chose to comment on included:

• Dreaming in the stacks by Bibliojenni - who feels more comfortable with thinking of branding in terms of showing your online personality.
• CPD23 with I Read Lots by ireadlots - who was advised (at library school) to keep personal and professional interests separated. That's not something I tend to do (I favour a profersonal approach) so I was interested to hear about that.
• Thing Thinking by Archelina - who prefers to keep areas of her life separate.
• Chronicles of a Library Quest by agentK23 - because I love the hand-drawn images which form part of their brand.
• Shannon Robalino is being rather professional by srobalino - who uses some really great images in her blog posts.
• Headstrong Ways - who prefers to remain anonymous (and I am intrigued to know why).

I'm amazed by how many people are involved in the programme, there are currently over 800 registered participants! I'm really looking forward to following some new blogs :)