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make the web work for You!

Manage your online image & take advantage of social networking opportunities to promote yourself & your work using…

• Facebook• LinkedIn • Twitter• Blogs• Pinterest

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Did you realise…?

See http://www.onlinedegrees.com/degree360/visuals/social-recruiting.html for the full picture

Make the most of your Facebook Profile

Timeline = your personal profile

Check your public view to manage best self-promotion activity

Add a ‘subscribe’ button so non-friends can view your public posts on their newsfeed

Create ‘lists’ to manage who sees what

SeeThe Beginner’s Guide to Facebook

See ‘Get started with LinkedIn’

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network

Includes job search & recruitment tools

Join groups to share news, search for jobs & network with others

Post status updates – share what you’re working on or reading

Using LinkedIn

Building your LinkedIn Profile

Represents your professional image

Completely controlled by you to showcase your skills & talents

Embed content from your other online accounts

‘Build Your Professional Brand’

’10 Tips to a More Professional LinkedIn Profile’ ‘8 Creative Tips to Maximise Your LinkedIn Profile’

Adding Content

You can embed visual content, such as…

(for PowerPoint presentations)

WordPress (for blog posts)

Behance (online portfolio for creative industries)

videos you have created

Graeme Anthony C.V.I.V - Intro

• SlideShare gives you the ability to share PowerPoint presentations, Word documents & PDFs

• You can also view, download & embed others’ presentations

• Sign up for a free account athttp://www.slideshare.net

Using SlideShare

A WordPress blog is an online journal & website.You can embed pictures, presentations, Google maps, videos, etc…

Blogs are good for sharing expertise and showing writing, journalistic and design skills. Readers can also leave comments, which can be good for getting feedback or developing ideas. Leaving comments on someone else’s blog is a good way of expanding your network.

Get started with a free blog at http://wordpress.com/ You may also find this ‘WordPress Ultimate Guide’ useful.

Blogging with WordPress

Using Behance

• Behance is a network for promoting, selling & finding work in the creative industries

• Free, easy to manage & supports unlimited multimedia content

• Sign up at http://www.behance.net/

An online portfolio to showcase your creative work

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Watching ‘Twitter in Plain English’

ann expert @twittergirl

Users share updates in 140 characters – these can include links & is great for real-time news – see ‘Twitter Search in Plain English’

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Twitter is a great tool for expanding your professional network even further through ‘following’ like-minded users Luki Here @lookinup

See ‘The Twitter Guide Book’

Twitter

A virtual pinboard you can share with others

Pinterest is another platform which is becoming increasingly popular. You can easily create an online portfolio of your work by uploading images or linking to your content . See

‘5 Ways to use Pinterest for Your Job Search’ & ‘Pinterest: A Job Search Tool?’ for inspiration. Be aware though, others can repost your work and copyright implications can be

complicated. See guidance from JISC Legal.