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My presentation on my BA research on how librarians use Twitter to form & cultivate mentoring relationships.
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Are you my mentor? Identifying and cultivating mentoring relationships
on Twitter.Abigail Willemse
Presentation for Pub-SIG workshopLIANZA Conference 2013, Hamilton Oct 20-23, 2013
How do librarians use Twitter to form and cultivate mentoring
relationships?
Why choose Twitter?
Research in a nutshell
• Variety of methodologies – literature review & qualitative questions
• Responses from 14 librarians from Australia and New Zealand
• Number of themes emerged
Hung up on mentoring?
Phone by Pete Prodoehl via CC license on Flickr
Or informal?
Formal relationship between two people?
How do I know it’s mentoring?
A rose by any other name…
Ementoring
Rose A 6-22-12 1 by Paul Sullivan via CC license on Flickr
Personal Learning Network (PLN)
Networking
We’re all in this together!
Together at last by gemsling via CC license on Flickr
I feel that one of the things Twitter does is flatten out the layers so that, although you know in theory someone is older/more experienced etc, you can communicate without so many barriers. A flatter playing field if you like!
Have you got a minute?
Clock by Earls37a via CC license on Flickr
Twitter + other platforms
BLOGS
Twitter by Andreas Eldh via CC license on Flickr
Wrap-up
• Hung up on mentoring?• A rose by any other name• We’re all in this together• Have you got a minute?• Twitter + other platforms
What next?
• Explore an alternative/expanded view of mentoring – a more informal model
• Repeat the research with more participants
Any questions?
• @ajwillemse91• octopuslibrarian.wordpress.com
Thank you for coming!