Your_PLN

Steps for Building a Personal Learning Network
Barry Dahl ([|link]) Check your Web2.0 rating ([|link])
 * 1) Create a blog
 * 2) consider a wiki if you have information to share (other than periodic blog entries)
 * 3) wikis are also good for collecting information from others (who may edit or add their own information)
 * 4) use your blog as a reflection device and to-do list
 * 5) I usually have several unpublished posts that I am working on
 * 6) I use posts to crystalize my thoughts on a subject.
 * 7) Nothing worse than reviewing a website or coming back from a conference and doing NOTHING with that valuable information.
 * 8) Even if you have not had a chance to research something, blog your research plan as a form of to-do
 * 9) register your blog at Technorati ([|link]) so you can be found
 * 10) Build a network of important and relevant blogs
 * 11) consider blogs from people in your field and blogs that make you think
 * 12) pick an RSS reader (or maybe two) to synthesize all of your blogs
 * 13) blog about education-oriented websites or hot topics
 * 14) blog about good projects or lesson plans
 * 15) Build a network of bookmarks using Delicious or Diigo
 * 16) profile users by looking at their "Top 10 tags"
 * 17) some users list their blog at the top of their Delicious page
 * 18) Diigo has groups that you can join
 * 19) Diigo has an easy way to profile users to see if they have similar bookmarks andf groups
 * 20) Once you bookmark a website at Delicious, find other users who have bookmarked the same site
 * 21) find other relvant users by reviewing how they tagged the site and how long ago.
 * 22) I am always impressed by users who blogged great websites years ago.
 * 23) Add a widget to your blog with your own bookmarks and bookmarks from important friends
 * 24) Build a Twitter network
 * 25) try and find professionals who have relevant Tweets
 * 26) people who Tweet several times a day usually have irrelevant tweets ("walking my dog", etc.)
 * 27) Twiter Directories: (link) (link) (link) (link)
 * 28) keep your network informed of important discoveries you make
 * 29) websites, conversations, articles, events
 * 30) Create alerts using Google Alerts ([|link])
 * 31) Join relevant Nings
 * 32) Do this after you feel comfortable with other aspects of your PLN
 * 33) You don't have to wait, but the people on Nings are relatively tech-saavy and assume others are too
 * 34) See what I forgot by reviewing my original blog posting ([|link])
 * 35) Shelly Terrel's guide for building a PLN ([|link])
 * 36) Donnelle O'Brien's PLN advice ([|link])
 * 37) Andrew Marcinek's PLN strategy ([|link])
 * 38) Personal Learning Network Resources