Blogging For Learning Professionals

Building an Internet Reputation

Parag Shah

DIYComputerScience.com

Agenda

What is Internet Reputation ?

Why should we care ?

How do we build an Internet reputation ?

What HR managers will not tell you

If you do not exist on Google, you do not exist at all

How do we become professionally googlable ?

Blog

Twitter

Stack Exchange

Open source projects

Make a portfolio of your skills

Why Do I Blog ?

To share my knowledge with others

To help people become better programmers

To promote my services

To make money

Why Should I Read Blogs?

To enhance your knowledge

To engage with others in meaningful conversations and build a network

To become better at a skill

To keep up with news

To keep up with friends

Because you not have anything better to do

How Do I Keep Up With Them?

By visiting their website regularly

By subscribing to their feeds

How Do I Subscribe To Blog Feeds?

By using a blog readerBloglines

Google Reader

Yahoo Reader

Your Email Client

Twitter

Is a micro blog for quickly sharing stuff or for quick opinions

Stack Exchange

Is a group of very high quality Question / Answerforums

Other StackExchange Sites are for

ProgrammersUbuntuetc...

Open Source Projects

http://mashable.com/2011/05/13/open-source-students/

Hosting Open Source Projects

GitHub

code.google.com

Social Learning

diycomputerscience.com

Codecademy

Portfolio

Use all of these to create an online portfolio of yourself as a person and your capabilities

Learn evolve and have fun