Original Post: January 10, 2024
Hello all,
This week's wisdom is about the power of networking.
Specifically about the importance of intentionally growing your networks along different paths, making sure your networks are diverse, and making sure they flow across and through your organizational and professional hierarchies.
Why? ...it's an ecosystem thing!
Species diversity creates ecosystem resilience, and your professional network diversity creates professional resilience! And not just for you...but for everyone in the network. It does take effort, and here are a few tips to get you started. https://www.linkedin.com/advice/1/how-do-you-make-your-professional-network
Think of it this way, we already know that our resources need diversity, backups, and alternatives to the everyday paths and tools. In libraries, we have multiple copies of critically needed resources, robust borrowing and loaning networks, backup copies of rare archives (if at all possible), more than one copier or scanner (whenever possible) and multiple access points to the same content. IT teams try to avoid single points of failure, plan for data recovery, maintain equipment spares and programming documentation, and invest a great deal of effort into planning and scoping projects with rollback plans to keep critical operations functioning. Well, our thinking, collaborating, and problemsolving networks need to be as carefully constructed with resilience in mind.
None of us in SUNY have all the resources we would like to have in order to carry out our mission..but we can achieve more when we are tightly networked together. And our professional organizations do a great job of helping us connect across SUNY.
So...if you are not yet connected to one or more of these great groups...get connected!
SUNY Groups:
TOA
COA
SUNYLA
EDTOA
NYS Groups:
National Groups:
I'd love to hear from all of you about any groups you'd recommend!
All the best,
Holly
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