Comments on: “Personal” and Yet Not http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2008/04/03/personal-and-yet-not/ "Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Michele Martin http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2008/04/03/personal-and-yet-not/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Michele Martin Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:52:59 +0000 http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2008/04/03/personal-and-yet-not/#comment-75 Great summary, Britt! Reading what you wrote about David's piece, it occurs to me that there's one component missing--processes. For your PLN to work, you have to change your habits and put some key processes and behaviors into place. For example, you have to get into a sharing mindset, thinking about what you want to share, with whom, and how to do that. If I find an interesting article, I can bookmark on delicious, tweet it, blog it and/or share it through Google Reader. I could also go old school and email it, of course. I think that one of the biggest issues in managing a PLN is finding the best ways to manage your own personal processes. The tools in some ways lend themselves to certain processes, but these aren't entirely intuitive. Sue Waters has some pretty sophisticated comment management approaches, for example, that I don't think everyone uses. I may feel a blog post coming on . . . :-) Great summary, Britt! Reading what you wrote about David’s piece, it occurs to me that there’s one component missing–processes. For your PLN to work, you have to change your habits and put some key processes and behaviors into place. For example, you have to get into a sharing mindset, thinking about what you want to share, with whom, and how to do that. If I find an interesting article, I can bookmark on delicious, tweet it, blog it and/or share it through Google Reader. I could also go old school and email it, of course.

I think that one of the biggest issues in managing a PLN is finding the best ways to manage your own personal processes. The tools in some ways lend themselves to certain processes, but these aren’t entirely intuitive. Sue Waters has some pretty sophisticated comment management approaches, for example, that I don’t think everyone uses.

I may feel a blog post coming on . . . :-)

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