Building an Internet reputation is as (or posibly even more) important as grades ...

1. Building an Internet Reputation
Parag Shah
DIYComputerScience.com

2. Agenda
What is Internet Reputation ?
Why should we care ?
How do we build an Internet reputation ?

3. What HR managers will not tell
you
If you do not exist on Google, you
do not exist at all

4. How do we become
professionally googlable ?
Blog
Twitter
Stack Exchange
Open source projects
Make a portfolio of your skills

5. Why Do I Blog ?
To share my knowledge with others
To help people become better
programmers
To promote my services
To make money

9. Why Should I Read Blogs?
To enhance your knowledge
To engage with other’s in meaningful
conversations and build a network
To become better at a skill
To keep up with news
To keep up with friends
Because you not have anything better to do…

10. How Do I Keep Up With Them?
By visiting their website regularly
By subscribing to their feeds

11. How Do I Subscribe To Blog
Feeds?
By using a blog reader
Bloglines
Google Reader
Yahoo Reader
Your Email Client

13. Twitter
Is a micro blog for quickly sharing stuff or for
quick opinions

16. Stack Exchange
Is a group of very high quality
Question / Answer
forums

18. Other StackExchange Sites are for
Programmers
Ubuntu
etc...

19. Open Source Projects
http://mashable.com/2011/05/13/open-source-
students/

20. Hosting Open Source Projects
GitHub
code.google.com

22. Social Learning

23. diycomputerscience.com

24. Codecademy

25. Portfolio
Use all of these to create an online portfolio of
yourself as a person and your capabilities

26. Learn evolve and have fun