Networking on the move

I'm currently sitting in the barbican foyer reading the stage applying for 1 or 2 jobs featured and replying to emails received from recently made contacts.
On my way back from a week in Norwich I realized how reliant I am on my iPhone; on Tuesday I had a call from a friend who wanted to put me in touch with a songwriter who had heard of me in "the circle" by the end of the day I had scheduled a meeting and familiarized her with my voice through sending my demos and photos (all done through emails on my iPhone). The following day I received a text from a friend who wanted me to audition for a lead singer of an "up and coming band" and the same thing happened. Yesterday on Facebook through my iPhone I got a message from a "friend" that had been assistant director in the last play I had been in,introducing me to a director who had auditioned me in the past and wanted to get hold of me personally, we've now arranged a meeting at one of his current musicals to go from there. To top the week of late last night I received a casting from a "friend" for this morning by email on my iPhone.
So in just one week, in which I never got to a desktop, through many different contacts made since graduating I have at-least three meetings lined up for the next week, all of these might not have been in place had I not been able to access the needed web tools 2.0 so easily.
In the car home as I was reflecting on the past week I found myself thinking how this course so far had made me realise how much and often I am networking online.
At a cast reunion a couple of weeks ago I was having a chat to the casting director about phones and she mentioned how difficult the past year had been waiting for her upgrade,not having a blackberry or iPhone to access her email, at times she'd be in an auditions wondering why recipients hadn't turned up but the whole time she had emails in her inbox informing her of their Ill absence. This also sparked the thought of how important it has become for us to have regular, easy access to web tools 2.0 on both sides of the industry.
I conclude this post finally feeling like a reflective practitioner because before now I hadn't realised I actually have been "networking" over the past 6 months.
:)

Finally Embraced Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54772553@N06/show/

Atlast i plucked up the courage or patience to work out how to post photos online to discover I had made a  mountain out of a mole-hill! It was easy and quite pleasant to browse through photos I hadn't looked at in a long time.
Have a look and let me know what you think of my random selection of snaps.

My catch up on the campus session I missed...

As I logged into my Google Reader  I discovered there was a large amount of unread items for me to dig my teeth into to. These mostly being reflections and summaries from the latest Campus session.
Therefore I read the course reader on Professional Communications Technology as there seem to be much discussion on the use of the web tools, the difference between web 1.0 and web 2.0 and the Pros and Cons of Using these a Professional Practitioner.
This clarified how the development of web tools has allowed text to be Participatory opposed or additionally to just being Published, meaning it is open to opinions etc by the reader.

Thanks to my subscriptions I now have a clearer understanding of the difference between the web tools and the ways in which we use them in everyday life. As Joanna Adeyinka said in her recent post on the campus discussions, analysing the ways in which we use the web to network has made me realise quite how useful it is and how reliant I've become on these tools.
When reading various peoples blogs on the Pros and Cons I started to reflect on how important our reputation depicted through our online sites is and how I should be more sensitive to how easily our 'online personality' can be deformed. Therefore I am going to put some focus into exactly what and where there is informations/ photos of me. For example, Facebook what I want people to have access to, I saw that the idea of having seperate profiles for PROFESSIONAL and PERSONAL contacts however like Mark Iles states I wouldn't know which group to have many contacts in as often there not a clear segregation...

Thankyou guys for putting clear feedbacks from the session I've learnt alot.. These blogs are handy after all!!