Thing 2: investigate some other blogs

So, I have now roamed around a few of the other blogs, new and old, that participants in CPD23 have registered. I did this via Delicious, where participants have been helpfully tagged for easier browsing. But what criteria to use to check out someone's blog, given that I definitely couldn't look at all of them?

First I looked at a few people who were in the same sector as me. In my limited experience, the role of a librarian or information worker varies wildly between (and actually even within) sectors, so I thought I might have more of a chance of knowing what people were on about if I focused on academic/research libraries like my own. Edit: forgot to say that I was also on the look-out for people working on repositories and open access, as I've recently been involved in setting up our repository and hope to expand my knowledge in that area...

I also looked mainly at UK people, not because I don't enjoy and learn from all the US and other overseas librarians I follow via their blogs or on Twitter, but because in terms of professional development I have more to contribute, and learn, about the UK.

A third criterion was to - initially anyway - ignore people I already know, either in person or online. I am very interested to see how my existing contacts get on with CPD23, but decided that I wanted to seek out new people first!

I found it interesting stumbling on the blogs of people who had never blogged before (my library contacts are a pretty self-selecting group of social media mavens!) and people who didn't like the idea of putting themselves 'out there' online at all. I wonder if they will change their minds by the end of CPD23?

I have subscribed to a few of the blogs via my Google Reader and will no doubt add more. Now to go forth and comment!