Promoting Yourself With A Personal Web Site

Jason Puckett

[email protected]

http://jasonpuckett.net

Why make a website?

“One of the first things I did was visit your website.... I think it gives one a very good idea of who you are as a person and what your professional interests are….”

-- Tom Reinsfelder,

ALA New Members Round Table resume reviewer

Why make a website?

“…I actually read your job related activities here before I saw it on your resume.

A search committee member is also likely to spend more time looking at you and your ‘stuff’ because of the website as opposed to just looking at a resume.”

-- Tom Reinsfelder,ALA New Members Round Table resume reviewer

[emphasis mine]

Why: disambiguation

Why: One place for everything

http://www.flickr.com/photos/km1980/2586999193/


http://www.brianmathews.com/


http://informationgoddess.info/about.html


http://www.nirak.net/about/


http://jasonpuckett.net

Why: More flexible than a resume

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmtucker/1271742623/

http://jasonpuckett.net/2008/06/06/games-in-libraries-podcast/

You can’t put multimedia on a resume

http://jasonpuckett.net/teaching/rss-workshop/

You can’t put multimedia on a resume

(slideshare.net)

Why: show your skills

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiftyfeet/125020968/

How: Just Use a Blog?

It’s free, but…

you’ve got limited features…

you can’t choose your domain name…

and it doesn’t really demonstrate any expertise

http://www.flickr.com/photos/poagao/115922089/

How: Web Hosting

http://laughingsquid.net/hosting/

Tiny Squid plan: $10/month

How: Web Hosting

http://lishost.org/

“All the space, all the email, all the bandwidth it takes”: $10/month

Tools: Wordpress

Tools: HTML

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefangmonster/490423135/

Share your projects

http://jasonpuckett.net/projects/podcasting-in-academic-libraries/

http://dalziel.org/karin/publications-presentations/portable-applications/

Promote your appearances

http://informationgoddess.info/upcoming.html

Share your ideas

Get seen•Current content•Post your updates: Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed•Commenting•Google alerts

http://www.flickr.com/photos/estherase/317660299/

A Little Data

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sampitech/1346409923/

Epilogue

“You now have me thinking about putting together a website to promote myself.”

-- Tom Reinsfelder, ALA New Members Round Table resume reviewer

Thank You

Examples•http://brianmathews.com•http://informationgoddess.info•http://jasonpuckett.net•http://nirak.net

Links

Web Hosting•http://lishost.org•http://laughingsquid.net

Wordpress Blog Software•http://wordpress.org

http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/223839049/

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