Welcome to my blog!

I'm an experienced Information Professional based in Cambridge, where I've worked for a high-tech R&D company for nearly 12 years. I'm part of the Intellectual Property team, and my main responsibilities lie in conducting searches to support members of the team, as well as our many research scientists and engineers. I also manage our e-journal subscriptions, and provide document delivery and other services. 

Sometime last year I came to realise that I'd let my career drift somewhat, and decided it was time to take charge of matters. At the same time, organisational changes meant I had a new manager; both he and his manager have been encouraging me to move out of my comfort zone and take on new responsibilities.

In November 2011 my company sent me on an "Introduction to NLP" course, which was incredibly interesting, and gave me an invaluable push in the right direction (thankyou Sue Knight!!). Sue's book, "NLP at Work", has been open on my dining room table ever since, and I continually go back to it to extract the next nugget. I can heartily recommend it!  I foresee NLP being the subject of future blogposts.

I've also started to take an interest in Knowledge Management, and see it as a key part of my developing role at work. I'm planning to post about my KM journey, and would be very interested to hear from others about their experiences.

Towards the end of 2011 I started actively looking for networking and development opportunities, and I will be continuing to do so in 2012. Last year I went to two LIKE (London Information and Knowledge Exchange) events, and so far this year I've joined CAMAWiSE (Cambridge Association of Women in Science and Engineering) and attended two of their events. There are so many events around which I would love to go to, unfortunately you just can't do them all! So it's a case of picking out those which sound the most interesting and valuable.

I've been planning to blog for some time now - partly encouraged by the "23 things for CPD" movement. I didn't actually register for CPD23 but I did find the posts very useful and still refer back to them frequently. So I will aim to use this blog, among other things, as a reflective tool, as well as sharing my thoughts with you all out there! I'd love to hear from you if you have comments to make.