Jour – Hello Journalist

Social networking site for the business community. You need need to add your resume which is basically adding each of your experience. Try to use things that are geared toward the field that you want to go in. When it comes to photos you need to dress in the cloths you would wear at that job!

Connect Connect Connect!

Don’t add people that you don’t know make real connections this site is not for friendships its for businesses. Add Linkedin you the end of your email so people can add you and find who you are especially if emailing a potential employer.

In order to build relationships, it is important to join groups that deal with the company you want to work for or the industry that you want to go into. Just make sure you are not in 50 groups (which is the max) because you want to be active with the members and it will be hard to be active with 50 groups.

VIDEO, something I never thought of but a video cover letter would be amazing you can showcase why you really are without someone reading (which they will read two lines and be done) you can engage your future boss with a video about yourself and why you will be great fort the job

https://www.linkedin.com/regineamos

http://www.askamanager.org/2015/06/how-to-create-a-video-cover-letter.html

Twitter

140-character limit and allows you to retweet

Based in San Fran

Created 2006

Must have tool for journalist you can hashtag (#) to get your information out to a broader audience and @ people to show and give the sources

Always remember do not bore people! Tweeting for your audience and giving personality is a must always check sources nothing worst than having wrong information, the internet is big and people will find out and the people of twitter will DRAG YOUU and let you know you are wrong and WHY trust me I see it everyday)

Some great people/organizations on twitter would be CNN, BuzzFeed, Gabby Noone, Quinta B (my favorite) they tweet and know their audience which is most important.

One thing I love looking at on twitter would be twitter fails because the community of twitter will call you out in a hot second. For example, #McDStories this was a marketing plan by McDonalds for people to tweet about good times and foods at McDonalds but it quickly turned to talks of bad food codes, food poisoning and gross food.

Share your twitter with embedded links and gain followers!

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeed?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://twitter.com/quintabrunson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Why is Blogging so important?

cropped-Abee It helped me re-solidify my reason to start my blog in the first place for a place and platform for people that are often unheard and reminded me that blogging is a good start to journalism career although many times people have told me its the start to sloppy journalism. This chapter also taught me a word I never even heard of (microblogging) WHAT? Yet micro blogging is something that I do everyday (probably more often than I should. I love micro blogging or as I call it Twitter it helps me get a quick message out with a link or a picture attached without me having to write a 1,000 word blog post. Also how significant it is to reports to get break news stories. This chapter also touched on how to better brand and market myself with social media and joining I the conversation. This chapter changed my mind on on what blogging is and what it means to me