Mapping our Professional Networks

For Module 1 students (Part 3)

At the 22nd March Campus Session we discussed our current and future professional networks.

We firstly looked at how people out there in the WWW had developed their professional networks. One example was William Greeves professional network using the LinkedIn tool. Chris Butler explored ‘Mapping your professional network’ from the perspective of how often he was in contact with individuals on his network. These are interesting models and many more are easy to find using an internet search.

We then split into groups and discussed our networks, how they were constituted, and where they may go by building ‘maps’ to explore the networks. This built on Professional Network Maps created by students from previous years.

Luke, Kelly and Gemma produced a ‘stellar cosmos’ map, thinking about the relative distance to people in their networks, some closer, some on the periphery.

Simone, Hayley and Anya used their map to look at a different configuration of their networks, especially thinking about the connections between these networks.

Jo, Ahmet and John in their map also looked at the connections between the different ‘nodes’ on their networks.

You may like to view the Blogs of attendees who have or will be posted on this topic.