Thursday, March 1, 2012

Blogging Experience

Well, I have not really learned very much from blogging this quarter. This is because I currently have 6 blogs (across different sites) that I maintain and regulate. Having this background with blogs, I can personally tell all of you that all blogs are not like blogger. I am letting all of you see my Tumblr blog. This is a very informal blog that I frequently am on. I do not post too often on this though. When I do post something that is original, I am expressing a more poetic side of me. This sometimes will reflect how I am feeling, but has no relevance to my overall life. I follow a few of my friends on it and mostly will browse photos on this site. Many different blogs on this site have some "inappropriate" images though. I also have another blogger account that I use for communicating with many of my gaming friends. I do not wish to enclose this hyperlink because there are some pretty nasty comments on there about and from me. Some people (including myself) will get very involved in a video game and take it very personally.

The one thing I have learned through doing this, is how to use a blog for business purposes. This is my only blog that I have used for research and educational discussion. I do not see many of you keeping your blogs or keeping them up to date, but I would actually advise you to do this and to post something once a week about what you learned about your career path. This will build a small reputation (if it kept professional) and also be useful to other people that may be researching a topic included within your blog. This is why (or at least why I believe) that Mrs. Dalley had us go and research professional blogs. You can also use another professional blog (with a reputation) to give you pointers or advice on what you are posting about. This will also help build that small reputation I was talking about. If you are really proud of your professional blog, you may even use it as a resource to make yourself stand out to potential employers. Many of you will not see this and probably think I am nuts, but a professional blog may provide an employer with the knowledge of knowing how much you are capable of and what you are already comfortable with in your field of study. I will probably keep this blog up to date, but I may change the address of this blog (and of course notify my followers on a post) for professional purposes.

I hope that many of you have learned many things in this class and will do great in your future,
Cody

1 comment:

  1. I agree with what you said about your blogging experience. Especially the part with using the blog for business purposes like sending memo's and notes through the workplace without evening getting up from your desk. Also it's a fast and easy way to let fellow employee's know about meetings and conferences.

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