UMBC ebiquity » Blogging http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:42:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Students: brand yourself with a blog http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/06/students-brand-yourself-with-a-blog/ http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/06/students-brand-yourself-with-a-blog/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 23:05:51 +0000 Tim Finin http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/06/students-brand-yourself-with-a-blog/

ACM’s TechCareers site offers “career-related resources, news and job postings for IT and engineering professions”. They recommend that IT professionals and those seeking to become one, should try Branding Yourself With A Blog.

“… Certainly personal branding isn’t a new concept, but the future of personal branding could be in at your fingertips—with a blog. One of the first steps in creating a brand for yourself is to make your blog visible. Post meaningful entries, comment on your industry’s top blogs, or simply gain a regular readership. “Visibility creates opportunities,” says Schawbel, a social media specialist at EMC Corporation. He believes that when you brand yourself, the competition becomes irrelevant. “The goal of personal branding is to be recruited based on your brand, not applying for jobs,” Schawbel says. …”

This is especially good advice for students.

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