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Social Capital Management Social Capital Management SoftwareSoftware

– Key Asset in – Key Asset in Your Resilient CareerYour Resilient Career

SLA Rocky Mountain ChapterSLA Rocky Mountain ChapterMarch 14, 2007March 14, 2007

Kim Dority, G. K. Dority & Associates, Inc.Kim Dority, G. K. Dority & Associates, [email protected]@gkdority.com

www.rethinkinginformationwork.comwww.rethinkinginformationwork.com

Christian Gray, Safari Books OnlineChristian Gray, Safari Books [email protected]@safarijv.com

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.rethinkinginformationwork.com/


rethinkinginformationwork.comrethinkinginformationwork.com

The Resilient Career –The Resilient Career –

- Agile- Agile

- Opportunistic- Opportunistic

- Sustainable- Sustainable


Your guide for the evening will be Your guide for the evening will be the famous and ever-popular the famous and ever-popular

Christian Gray…Christian Gray…

aka, the Guy Who Actually Knows aka, the Guy Who Actually Knows Something About Social Something About Social

Networking!Networking! -- Kim -- Kim

BIG PICTURE BIG PICTURE Personal Information Personal Information

ConvergenceConvergence Reunion &

Alumni

Social Network

Contact Manager

People Search

Match Makers

Industry Association

Gov. Records

BIG PICTUREBIG PICTUREExample of social network Example of social network

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Cindy

Christian 1st Degree

2nd Degree

3rd Degree

Mike

Wanda

Scott

Kim


You have to sing every day You have to sing every day to work to work

up to being, you know, up to being, you know, amazingly brilliant. amazingly brilliant.

– – Mick JaggerMick Jagger

Start building…Start building…

……visibilityvisibility


Knowledge is information that Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody changes something or somebody – either by becoming grounds for – either by becoming grounds for

action, or by making an individual action, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of (or an institution) capable of

different different or more effective action. or more effective action.

– Peter F. – Peter F. DruckerDrucker

Start building…Start building………your portfolioyour portfolio


Only connect.Only connect.

– E. M. Forster– E. M. Forster

Start building…Start building…

… …your community of your community of colleaguescolleagues


Use social software to build:Use social software to build:

- Visibility- Visibility

- Portfolio- Portfolio

- Community of Colleagues- Community of Colleagues


Hell is where you just drift – Hell is where you just drift – heavenheaven

is where you get to steer. is where you get to steer. – George Bernard Shaw– George Bernard Shaw

Take charge of your agenda…Take charge of your agenda…

……multi-purpose your multi-purpose your jobs, jobs, projects or projects or assignments


To venture causes anxiety. Not To venture causes anxiety. Not to to

venture is to lose oneself. venture is to lose oneself. – Søren Kierkegaard– Søren Kierkegaard

Start exploring…Start exploring…

……your professional your professional optionsoptions


““You” is a very fluid concept You” is a very fluid concept right now…. right now….

– Hitch– Hitch

Consider the Consider the many, manymany, many waysways

to use LIS to use LIS skills…skills…


Use social software to:Use social software to:

- Multi-purpose your projects- Multi-purpose your projects

- Explore your profession- Explore your profession

- Find ways to use an LIS - Find ways to use an LIS degreedegree


You’re not the boss of me!You’re not the boss of me!

– Every two-year-old in – Every two-year-old in the known universethe known universe

And consider yet And consider yet anotheranother way way to to

use your LIS skills…use your LIS skills…


Use social software to:Use social software to:

- Go independent- Go independent


All growth is a leap in the dark, All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act a spontaneous unpremeditated act

without benefit of experience.without benefit of experience. – Henry Miller – Henry Miller

Start exploring…Start exploring…

… … your your boundariesboundaries


Everything I know I learned Everything I know I learned bodysurfing bodysurfing

in Southern California. in Southern California.-- Kim Dority-- Kim Dority

• AnticipateAnticipate• Position for opportunityPosition for opportunity• Paddle like crazyPaddle like crazy• Enjoy the ride, but know it will endEnjoy the ride, but know it will end• Don’t take the sand in your suit personallyDon’t take the sand in your suit personally• Know that a new wave is always on the Know that a new wave is always on the

wayway

Putting This in Play….Putting This in Play….

• Write up a one-page Linkedin plan – Write up a one-page Linkedin plan – finish in finish in 3 weeks3 weeks

• Build/improve your profileBuild/improve your profile

• Request endorsements Request endorsements

• Search “just for fun” & some Search “just for fun” & some serious surfingserious surfing

• Invite others to join – the network Invite others to join – the network effecteffect

Resources: Learn MoreResources: Learn More

• The Virtual Handshake by David The Virtual Handshake by David Teten & Scott Allen, Teten & Scott Allen, www.thevirtualhandshake.comwww.thevirtualhandshake.com

• Guy Kawasaki, Guy Kawasaki, http://blog.guykawasaki.comhttp://blog.guykawasaki.com

• www.Wikipedia.comwww.Wikipedia.com, search social , search social networknetwork

http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/

http://www.wikipedia.com/


Freedom is actually a much bigger Freedom is actually a much bigger game than power. Power is about what game than power. Power is about what

you can control. you can control. Freedom is about what you can Freedom is about what you can

unleash. unleash. – Harriet – Harriet

RubinRubinSLA Rocky Mountain ChapterSLA Rocky Mountain ChapterMarch 14, 2007March 14, 2007

Kim Dority, G. K. Dority & Associates, Inc.Kim Dority, G. K. Dority & Associates, [email protected]@gkdority.com

Christian Gray, Safari Books OnlineChristian Gray, Safari Books [email protected]@safarijv.com



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