I've just googled myself and discovered that, in online terms, I barely exist. I have to admit that this has never bothered me before, but in the context of CPD23, I do feel I need to do something about it. The first reference to Janet Westcott was a 192.com entry from 2002, so completely out of date. The Facebook entry was not me (not surprising as I hardly use it) and the 5th reference was to my LinkedIn profile - but I've put hardly any information on it, so it would be difficult to contact me through it. 7th is this blog, and 10th is a link to minutes of a meeting I attended in 2003! So, no brand at all.
Thinking about what I might do about this, I feel quite sure that I want to keep my professional and personal lives quite separate - though has calling my blog 'a librarian by the sea' already merged them? I certainly wouldn't be blogging about my family life or personal things, but it would be helpful for me to have people able to find out something about my professional life online. Obviously more work required.
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