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I've been a bit slow with my fourth thing after a busy fortnight so will try to keep it short so I can work on my further posts!

I am personally an avid android user and use a Google Nexus smart phone aswell a Lenovo Android tablet.  I am a huge fan of their various softwares (both personally and professionally) but am not remotely interested in setting my own Google+ profile at the moment as I don't feel it offers anything that other social networks do and will become yet another network to maintain.  I use a Gmail address and a blogger blog as my web page at work so I have experimented with the profile but have found it hard to connect with other libraries/librarians and authors.

Having said that I've had a look at hangouts and if there is a Rudai23 hangout at a later stage in the course, I would be happy to take part.I really liked the idea of google hangouts on air and was interested  but as far as I could see the best way to use it is to already have Google + followers in your network and then share your hangout with them in this way.  In the school I work in we are hoping to set students up with educational gmail accounts over the next few years and perhaps I will then be able to deliver my library inductions or research sessions via hangouts so I will keep an eye on hangouts on air as it develops.

Last week’s things were to a) explore our personal brand online, b) find out a bit about Twitter, and c) explore images online (Pinterest, Instagram etc.)  This is quite an easy week for me as I’m very familiar with all of these things.  

I’ll start with my personal online brand – I googled my name, and unsurprisingly the things that came up about me were my Facebook page (which is set to the highest privacy settings so all you can see are my profile pics, no issues there), my University profile page, and myself amongst a list of other Emma Chandlers on LinkedIn.  When I search for images of myself my Twitter profile photo comes up, but that’s about it.  As I used to work in social media marketing I understand the importance of having a good online brand so I have made sure that my online presence is something that I wouldn’t be embarrassed about a future employer seeing, or perhaps even a future boyfriend! Future boyfriends, however, do not seem to be as concerned.  For example I recently went on a date with someone who seemed very keen and arranged a second date, only for me to find out via Facebook that he has a girlfriend. An epic social media fail if ever I’ve seen one, perhaps I should have pointed him in the direction of a 23 things course.

For the next thing we were asked to explore Twitter.  I have used Twitter in a variety of different ways over the years so I didn’t need to really spend much time on this.  I’ve used Twitter much like everyone else to follow brands that I like, and people that I know, and to search for hashtags on trending topics, and to keep up to date with breaking news.  I’ve also used it as research tool a number of times, mainly to send out online survey links for members of the public to fill in.  In terms of using social media for research I think that Twitter would be high on the list – you can find out pretty much anything on Twitter if you know how!

From a marketing perspective I used Twitter a lot to engage with prospective students for the University. I was actually surprised at how well used twitter is amongst 16-18 year olds, I guess I thought that it was a bit out dated for the younger generation! Younger people seem to use Twitter quite a lot as a messenger system, talking to their friends openly via Tweets for everyone to see. I personally don’t think this is the best idea as I wouldn’t want everyone knowing my business! What with iMessage, Facebook chat and Whatsapp I think that there are plenty other platforms that are better suited to private conversations…

The final thing was to explore images online, specifically Flickr, Instagram and Pinterest.  I use Instagram and Pinterest a lot – in fact these are my two favourite social media platforms to use personally, but I don’t think that I would use them for research purposes. Flickr is something that I’m not too keen on to be honest, for some reason I don’t like the feel of it and it’s not something that I would choose to go to, however I can see that it might be useful for finding images for posters/presentations etc. (assuming that they are copyright free of course!) Personally I would use Getty images or something like that if I needed some good snaps for my presentations.

After completing the #Thing2 and #Thing3 I've came across some very interesting blogs, gained new knowledge and came up with some new ideas on which topics to write about.

For #Thing4 I would say that I was quite surprised when I googled my name. Most search results were expected as I already knew they were on-line f. e. FB account, work, engagement in some institutions; but some were rather unexpected, for some I have almost forgotten about. I will definitely have to close some of my old accounts. I mean, the posts are not shameful, it is just that I was much younger back than and my way of thinking was much different.

I have also noticed nothing special on Socialmention, but I didn't know that even existed. Interesting, will use it from now on for investigating. 

I have also read some interesting articles on how to ‘curate’ your personal brand, so my future plan is to work on that. As read your own on-line image can be a powerful tool in achieving your personal goals so I will also have to start working on my professional promotion, not only personal. Still, when I connect all of my on-line tools, which I am planning too, I want to have them in a hybrid-form, mixture of personal and professional profiles.