Wednesday 9th November 2011

Today at university we looked at "The Networked Professional" with Alan Durrant. There are many ways you can be or linked to a Networked Professional.

* Potential Business Partner/Customers
* Advertising Yourself
* People on this course/Peers
* Collaborating
* Meet people with similar interests to you
* People who may be learning
* Beneficial
* Google!- Type in your specific field
* Promoting
* Browse/Search Professional Network

There are lots of sites or people you have connected with that gives you the seed to your Professional Network. Such as:

- LinkedIn
- Who you've worked with
- Who you are talking to
- Browsing other people's blogs (I.E previous students from the BAPP course)

We then got into groups and looked at examples of diagrams of Thought. We questioned who? what? how? when?

I was working with Corinda, Rozana and Rhoda. We went and sat in the student union and discussed how we would go about drawing up a diagram that explains our Professional Network. We decided that we would draw up our own individual Professional Network, and then have a discussion about each one and bring our similarities together to make up a diagram named "The Networked Professional". We noticed we had quite a few things in common and that we could ask people on the course if they had a contact we could use (just general forms of communication in case anything in their experience could help us with our experience).

So I could ask Corinda what it feels like to have been self-employed with her own dance company, to then being married and having children to coming back to work. I could ask Rozana if she can teach me some moves that I would like to learn. etc...