Marketing Yourself on the Web

 Now that technology has become a big part of our lives, we no longer have to actually go out and make hand-made posters and waste all the time and energy it takes to post them up on real walls and hand them out to people; the computer can do all of that for us in a matter of minutes. There are apps, websites, programs and lots more that can help project who we are and what we do.

Some websites that help us do that are common ones like: FaceBook, MySpace, and Twitter. And then are other sites such as: LinkedIn, Monster, and WikiSpaces. While the first few ones are mostly social media sites where one can talk about their personal lives, the latter is dedicated to their professional lives and can help them represent themselves and their skills to people either with similar abilities or those in search of those qualities.

I recently created a WikiSpaces, here's a QR Code that you can scan to get there and check it out!

What is the Importance of Having an E-Portfolio

An E-Portfolio is basically your own web page where you can post your information - but nothing too personal - and you have the authority to allow or block anyone from viewing it. I recently created a E-Portfolio and there are various sections regarding me. There's a section where you can read up about me and find out what kind of person I am, what skills I have, and my future goals as well, then there's a section that have all my work - in Photoshop - posted, and even a fun page where you can take surveys, find links to my social media sites, and little widgets like today's date, temperature, a cute little animation, things like that. An E-Portfolio can really help make a person go from being just a normal anonymous person to being someone known and acknowledged, because they suddenly have a creative way to reach out to influential people and get them to notice them.

Here's a link to my own E-Portfolio, and I hope that by checking out my own page, and learning more about E-Portfolios, you too will want to create one for yourself. It's a very simple process and can really go a long way. Or even better, here's a QR Code to getting to my E-Portfolio:

Photoshop

For the past two weeks, I studied Photoshop. Photoshop is the process of digitally altering a picture or video using an image-editing software. The idea of it seems pretty simple, but I've run into more than one issue with something or other. Like when I was trying to crop out a specific picture without including the background, it's very tedious and you have to get it just right or the whole picture gets ruined. But, there are still these really cool tricks to help clean up a picture if it's not looking right or you can change up the little details for it to look even cooler.

Photoshop allows for everyday simple looking objects or people to suddenly have a different body or be transported somewhere they've probably never heard of and I think that's the really awesome part of Photoshop.

Here are some of the works I've created with Photoshop: