{"id":82,"date":"2024-01-23T05:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/?p=82"},"modified":"2024-07-20T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T14:02:36","slug":"linkedin-and-professional-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/2024\/01\/23\/linkedin-and-professional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Personally Divided by the &#8220;LinkedIn Ladder&#8221;, Step One- Ruminations Begin (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"fw-main-row \"  >\n\t<div class=\"fw-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\" col-xs-12 col-sm-12 \">\n    <div id=\"col_inner_id-6a00b674de959\" class=\"fw-col-inner\" data-paddings=\"0px 0px 0px 0px\">\n\t\t<p>I recently created this online Curriculum Vitae, mainly to simplify my ability to communicate experiences for future career opportunities. But in so doing created a WordPress weblog as you can see - and immediately felt split in whether I should begin to blog and write again as I had done previously.<\/p><p>Don't get me wrong in the past I have been an avid blogger for courses that I have taught in Information Technology in a Global Society (now Digital Society), alongside being involved in Facebook\/Twitter accounts on my professional areas of learning. I even tweet regularly on aspects of my coordinator role, my role as TOK teacher etc.<\/p><blockquote><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>So why so divided?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><p>This then led to a bigger question that presented itself - as my new blog had a crafty and simple feature to link to my LinkedIn account, then I should ensure to publish to LinkedIn as well. In one way I have learnt so much from LinkedIn over the last few years - in fact I would be confident in saying it is where I have learnt most professionally anywhere (and I have also recently completed my National Professional Qualification of Headteaching Certification.)<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-418 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tweet-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"To tweet or not to tweet...\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tweet-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aperkins.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tweet-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/aperkins.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tweet.jpg 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>So I should obviously share my thoughts and ideas. A recent LinkedIn post also made it seem an easy decision from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/corporate-rebels---the-search-for-the-happy-grail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corporate Rebels shown below.<\/a><\/p>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\" col-xs-12 col-sm-12 \">\n    <div id=\"col_inner_id-6a00b674decb7\" class=\"fw-col-inner\" data-paddings=\"0px 0px 0px 0px\">\n\t\t<blockquote class=\"quote fw-quote-center fw-quote-lg \">\r\n    <p><em><strong>\"Don't think your article is good enough, publish it anyways.\" - Corporate Rebels<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t<footer class=\"quote-author\">\r\n\t\t\t<span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/corporate-rebels---the-search-for-the-happy-grail_corporaterebels-bestadvice-motivation-activity-7106192993442779136-ZcoY\/\">Unknown<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t<\/footer>\r\n\t<\/blockquote>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\" col-xs-12 col-sm-12 \">\n    <div id=\"col_inner_id-6a00b674df10a\" class=\"fw-col-inner\" data-paddings=\"0px 0px 0px 0px\">\n\t\t<p>The argument against, is simple in many ways I find especially the LinkedIn community and educational school accounts as simply a way of self marketing. I know it is obvious, but it does in some ways rankle. I remember a recent colleague whispering to me - <em>'that teacher tweets all the time, no wonder he is such a poor teacher he has no time to devote to his students.' <\/em>I disagree, but understand the comment as it is true whatever I or anyone else writes on a weblog, twitter (now X) or through LinkedIn does not validate how good you are as an educator.<\/p><p>So with misgivings equal to my desire to share and publish my ruminations and reflections on education,&nbsp; you can obviously see what I have decided. Not to publish to begin with!&nbsp; Thanks to the Corporate Rebels and the Duke of Wellington for leading the way, but I will get there in the end and at least forgive me this is my first post - Rumination No 1!<\/p>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\" col-xs-12 col-sm-12 \">\n    <div id=\"col_inner_id-6a00b674df32b\" class=\"fw-col-inner\" data-paddings=\"0px 0px 0px 0px\">\n\t\t<blockquote class=\"quote fw-quote-center fw-quote-lg \">\r\n    <p><strong>\"Publish and be damned\" - Duke of Wellington maybe?<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t<footer class=\"quote-author\">\r\n\t\t\t<span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/rear-window-when-wellington-said-publish-and-be-damned-the-field-marshal-and-the-scarlet-woman-1430412.html\">Duke of Wellington<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t<\/footer>\r\n\t<\/blockquote>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently created this online Curriculum Vitae, mainly to simplify my ability to communicate experiences for future career opportunities. But in so doing created a WordPress weblog as you can see &#8211; and immediately felt split in whether I should begin to blog and write again as I had done previously.Don&#8217;t get me wrong in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/2024\/01\/23\/linkedin-and-professional-development\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,36,39],"tags":[53,52,50],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-leadership","category-technology","tag-employment","tag-interview","tag-professional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}