Promoting Yourself

Your digital footprint can be seen as a promotional tool and as with all tools it needs to be kept sharpe and focused. After doing some research and reading the following articles my tips to you would be:Tutor.comSafe Smart SocialThe Princetown Review 

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Check your Name

Search for yourself online using any search engine. What do you find? Some of you may find nothing, although that can be seen as a positive you may want to push out some positive information.

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Check your images

Your images represent you. Do they show you as you want to be seen? Look at the images of you and the images that you share.  What do they say about you? Would you be happy for a stranger to judge you on these?

Kept it sensible and secure

sexybeast@gmail.ch might seem like a fun email. However, when you are applying for jobs and/or university it will be disapproved off and your application might not be considered. You need to show a professional front and the first stage is to have sensible email addresses/twitter handles/blog titles. These will be representing you long before anyone has even meet you!This should be common sense but.......please check your security settings. This is the only power (limited as it is) you have to protect what people can and can't see and do with your information and images. So please use it!

Promote yourself:

Thanks to Joe the Goat Farmer

Your Blog and YoutubeMake sure you have used your blog to show off any - Sporting Activities, CAS, Work Experience, Good Projects, Portfolios.The more links you add then the further it might travel up the search engine results. Links and clicks = higher ranking.This is the same for your YouTube channel. These channels can be a great place to display your creativity and extra curricula activities.FacebookOkay okay I know that Facebook is not the place for you to be. However this is where universities and employers will search. Make sure you have cleaned it up - remove images you are not happy with, un-join groups that do not represent you now.Then join groups that do represent you. Add images that you want to represent you. Write posts that represent you now. If you no longer see Facebook as your social media platform then why not make it your promotional platform.InstagramThis is where universities and employers will search. Make sure you have cleaned it up - remove images you are not happy with, un-follow people that do not represent you now.Then follow people that do represent you. Add images that you want to represent you. Collate the images under useable hashtags. This can be a great place to promote aspects of yourself that you want external people to see.LinkedinThis is a professional site where you can make contacts. Do you have page? It might not be as fun as Snapchat or Instagram. However, this site has the potential to put you in touch with people in the jobs you are interested in and gives you a platform to do some thorough research into possible careers.TwitterTwitter can again be used professional; in-fact that is all I use it for. Follow people who are influential in the area you are interested in. Follow topics that interest you. Follow topics that would look good on a college application. Make yourself more aware of what is going on in the world. You do not need to tweet but if you do think about what you want to say. If you produce a great tweet or get retweeted or quoted why not pin that tweet to the top of your twitter feed!Join Groups/Blogs/ForumsFind relevant groups, forums and blogs to follow. This will allow you to keep up to date on a topic that interests and you and it will allow you to comment. Use the techniques you have learnt at school and write thoughtful comments. These in turn might be read, quoted, commented upon and your profile grows.At your fingertips you have mass communication possibilities. Data is being stored about you all the time. You are creating data at a massive rate. Your mission is to make the internet say what you want it to say!