why blogging is good for your cv....

A regularly updated blog is a see-able, readable, watchable space that can say something about you and your interests......and your self discipline, professionalism and focus, plus your ongoing curiosity....and your generosity.

An article at the 'buffersocial' blog highlights some of the things we do because we blog:

Curating 

Crafting 

Posting 

Scheduling 

Measuring 

Analyzing 

Responding 

Listening 

Engaging 

Helping 

Planning 

Experimenting 

Some of these would be perfect on a cv, and evidence of your blog would prove you're as good as your word.

A selection of creative cvs / résumés

Melissa - on fabric

mistis

iTudor

ChuckDLay

fede-moral

not-so-secret-formula for becoming known...

"Do good work and share and share it with people."

"Make stuff everyday.....Fail. Get better."

"Put your stuff on the Internet".

- Steal Like An Artist - Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon: a writer who draws (and blogs)

Influence others with your ideas. Get them thinking, creating too....

Sketchnotes of Austin Kleon’s Creative Mornings Talk on Showing Your Work

from The Graphic Recorder Blog

tumbling

A tumblelog sits somewhere between a microblog like Twitter... and a blog - such as this.

Like Twitter it supports short content, but unlike Twitter it is designed for easy upload of other media content too. These include video, audio, quotations, links, images (also possible on Twitter), and 'chat'.

The word tumble log has become synonymous with Tumblr because of its clever appropriation of the term tumblelog into the site / social network's name.

previous tumblr post here

safe blogging

Basic recommendations for safe blogging are:

• Don't disclose private information about yourself

• Remember that what you say online stays online

The Get Safe Online website gives good and safe blogging advice. Here are some examples:

• If you are new to blogging, start cautiously. Understand the features of the software you use and how the blogging community (the ‘blogosphere’) works, including how to filter comments.
• If you want your blog to be public, disclose only what you want everyone on the Internet to know. Otherwise, keep your blog private. 
• Keep details that identify you only to yourself and trusted people.

• Remember – what you post online stays online ... anything you post remains in the public domain and accessible indefinitely. Even if you subsequently delete the post, it may have been cached in a search engine or internet archive, or in a company server.
• You may think you have a small audience, but blogs are public and it is very easy for people to find information on them via search engines.

Edited version of Get Safe Online - Blogging

naming your blog

Before you start your blog take some time to think about what to call it.

Your blog doesn't have to have your name.

If you're using it as part of your academic study - whether as a research resource, or as a piece of work in itself, a title about your subject, rather than about you, might be preferable.

Anonymity online is useful when you're first getting used to how everything works, and in the longer term - your privacy.

what a blog is

A blog (a truncation of the expression web log)^[1] is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).

wikipedia tuesday 26 August 2014 20.53 GMT

blogging

blog

verb

gerund or present participle: blogging

1. add new material to or regularly update a blog.

   "it's about a week since I last blogged"
   
   

   write about (an event, situation, topic, etc.) in a blog.

   "she blogged about starting a blog"

   • note: A gerund is a noun made from a verb by adding "-ing."