Having your resume online is the nice bond paper of twenty years ago now that so many companies have an online first approach to recruiting employees. However, the state of network security in some organizations might be directly at odds with the tools job hunters use to post their resumes online.
I’ve gained a new appreciation for giving presentations since I’ve been volunteering with my church’s Jobs Ministry especially since I now have presentations with no proprietary or otherwise confidential information not for public eyes. So I wanted to look into some options for publishing and sharing the slides from my presentations.
Social publishing sites like SlideShare and Scribd are great for publishing presentations because they offer up another vector for Internet users to find out about you and your message. These options also offer such a clean delivery when compared to just posting your PowerPoint slides online and expecting people to download them via a link.
Here are my impressions about some of the leading online publishing and sharing options:
One you get started with OneNote 2010 it can be hard to stop finding uses for it especially if you work in a writing and research heavy job like the one I do as a technical writer. This is why I always recommend getting a flexible organizational schema in place when you first start using the application. Tagging in OneNote enables you to put key terms on your OneNote pages that can help you better search for OneNote content.
Like many people, I’ve had an ongoing love/hate relationship with WordPress through the course of running my personal blog and some freelance assignments so I am always open to learning more about the platform. I recently read Professional WordPress by Hal Stern, David Damstra, and Brad Wilson from Wiley Publishing, which unlike many other WordPress books focuses on the platform’s backend and tackles the ins and outs of WordPress in the enterprise. Even having some experience installing WordPress myself, I really didn’t know much about its backend and this book really filled in some gaps in my learning.
While there is not much of anything new to learn in the first two chapters, the book really hits its stride when it takes the reader through the WordPress Core and Loop. Both of these topics might be a bit black box to some WordPress users especially if they’ve never had the opportunity to install and tune the product in the wild.
One of the hidden gems of Office 2010 is that it now includes OneNote 2010 – the latest release of Microsoft’s simple yet elegant note taking application. Formerly, you had to purchase OneNote separately making it a special software request inside many corporations and not standard issue. Now that it comes with all versions of Office 2010, my first hope is that it helps slay the useless tradition of taking meeting minutes, but before that comes collaborating with OneNote.
OneNote can serve as an effective backchannel for collaborative note taking, whiteboard session captures, and capturing the myriad of bits and bytes that comes with running a technology project.
Now that you have notebooks teeming with notes and data it’s time to settle in with OneNote as part of your daily workflow. In Getting Started with OneNote 2010: Part 3, we’ll take a look at how to search through your notebooks for information and how to get information out of OneNote 2010 into other applications and to other project team members.
I’ve been debating on whether or not to move the presentations I post on this blog from SlideShare.net over to SlideRocket. Here is how my last Jobs Ministry presentation looks:
SlideRocket is a great service but doesn’t seem to get the attention that Scribd and SlideShare get online. What do you think?
There is more to sharing Word documents than the ancient tradition of attaching them to an Outlook email. Now Word 2010 makes it easy to share your Word documents over the web or SharePoint without you having to leave the application and creating too many steps between your documents and their recipients
Click File. The BackStage View appears. Click Save & Send to access Save & Send options. Here is a breakdown of options that are available:
Professional documents can go through many changes before you declare them final and ready for publication. Along the way to final document, it is real easy to chock up a lot of questions and ideas that don’t have any place in even the draft document. While Word has some great commenting and track changes tool, it doesn’t take too long until the document can flash an unfortunate author back to freshman comp class. Now, in Office 2010, you can take notes in OneNote and link them to your document.
I had the opportunity to give my talk about social media and job hunting again at last week’s meeting of the Messiah United Methodist Church Jobs Ministry. As a volunteer, I am happy to be there to help people, and find myself learning something new whenever I talk to folks on the subject. Getting up and talking in front of a group about LinkedIn and the use of social media as a job-hunting tool also challenges me to refine my own online brand and job hunting approach.
Here are some lessons I’ve learned from two presentations and a lot of reading and research about the subject in between and try to stress during my talks:
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