This is my presentation for the Building Your Professional Identity in Technical Communication Workshop http://events.stcwdc.org/event/building-your-professional-identity-in-technical-communication-workshop/

1. Expose Your
Best Self
Online
Using Social Media to
enhance your job search
Viqui Dill @viqui_dill
STC WDCB Chapter @STCWDC
April 21, 2015
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2. Icebreaker!
• Who are you?
– What are your
super powers?
– What is your
Kryptonite?
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3. Video Viqui
• Motto
– This softw are is so sexy !
• Super powers
– user empathy
– warm yet energetic voice -
over
– impeccable sense of timing
• Kryptonite
– isolation
– needs coffee to perform
– snow
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4. Your best self
• Accent your
superpowers
– Career advice from
the Career Sherpa
– Create a home on
the web
• Know your
Kryptonite
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5. Career advice from the Career Sherpa
• Career Sherpa, Hannah Morgan
– http://careersherpa.net/
– http://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahmorgan
– https://www.facebook.com/careersherpa
– https://twitter.com/careersherpa
• Job search
• Reputation management
• Social media
– LinkedIn is primary
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6. Create a home on the web
• Blog your content and information
– http://www.hylawrence.com/
– https://viquidill.wordpress.com/ (free)
– http://techcommgeekmom.com/
– http://andreajwenger.com/
– http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/
– http://thebookshelfofemilyj.com/
– http://writing.rocks/
• Start with a blog
– Blog your social media contact links and set up crossposts
– Blog your writing
– Blog your presentations from http://www.slideshare.net/
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7. Know your Kryptonite
• Clean house online
– View your profile as an outsider
– Focus on what to show.
Worry less about what not to show.
– Google yourself and set up alerts
• https://www.google.com/alerts
– Get to know about EdgeRank
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeRank
• https://www.facebook.com/help/327131014036297/
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8. Online resources
• LinkedIn
• Job boards
– http://jobs.stcwdc.org/
– http://www.stc.org/job-bank
• Hashtags on twitter
– #TechComm
– #eLearning
– #ContentStrategy
– #DCTech
– #STCorg

9. Connect with me
• Bio
http://wdcb.stcwdc.org/about-us/chapter-bios/dill-bio/
• Blog
https://viquidill.wordpress.com/
• Email
social_media@stcwdc.org
• @viqui_dill
https://twitter.com/viqui_dill
• Linked In
https://www.linkedin.com/in/viquidill
• Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/viqui.dill
• SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/viqui_dill
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