I am just writing a light one today as its a Friday afternoon and the sun is shining so to be completely honest I want to get my tan on while this lovely (brief) "summer" is still here.
So here goes...
Blogs have been around for many years now, around twenty years if we want to be precise. The first blogs are recongnised to be those of Jerry Pournelle and Dave Winer who were created in 1994, and were mainly used for personal use. As many people still do today. But over the years they have become popular for enhancing a brands image, increasing publicity and just generally getting some recognition and feed back from our publics.
At first blogging did not really take off, which is strange to believe now as most people within a profession, especially within the Media Industry tend to now have one. And what a brilliant tool it has become.
I personally only started my blog a week ago, but its something i have been interested in and meaning to do for some time now as i feel its vital when starting your career in the Media Indusrty to show you have an opinion and hopefully get some recognition as a result of that. And even if you do not get any recognition at least you are showing you have an interest, whatever interest that may be, it can only look good to a future employee. Saying that, if we are going to use our blogs as a personal diary and wish to divelge our personal lives through social networking sites, blogging may not be the right channel if you want to get noticed for career prospects...
As a student I recognise blogging can give alot of power to those in higher education. It enables us to be heard as individuals and possibly communicate with people in our chosen profession, if we get noticed through publishing our work via Social Media sites.
Not only is Blogging a great networking tool its also extremely fun. By publishing blogs via sites such as twitter and linkedin, you are giving yourself an opportunity that you have full control off. If someone within your industry spots you and likes what they see you could be lucky enough to land yourself a job as a result, and if not a job you have the ability to get responses and feedback from a possible very reputable source.
As the current economic state stands, finding a job is hard enough. So why not help ourselves out a bit, show some initiative and take control to improve our chances of getting noticed? Or even better, employed.
Happy blogging people and have a good weekend!
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