Brand yourself!

After doing some assigned readings for my Online Journalism, I have learned how important it is for student's like myself to develop a personal brand on the internet. It is becoming more and more important for students to stand out from the rest of the pack. Blogging is a great way to start, you never know just who is going to read your blog and be impressed!

I also learned just how important it is to be careful about what you are doing when using Google. A quote from an article stated, Google confirmed this week that it keeps and collates researched terms, which means the company can be forced to divulge them under court order. This is scary and needs to be kept in mind

HTML?

I'd hear of HTML coding a few times here and there but never really understood what it was all about until my Online Journalism class. We have learned how to create our own websites and it's actually pretty cool. Before this class I guess I just thought images and text would appear where you wanted kind of like a Word document but each item, picture, text, everything has a specific code in order for it to show up properly on the web. You can change size, style, add bullets, anything you can do in Word. Right now we are working on our online resume. I think it’s going to be very beneficial to have an online resume because right now more and more is being offered online.