Concepts of a professional persona and initial steps to build and improve your online professional presence.
03 Sep 09:00 AM
Outcomes assessed: Create a high quality professional persona, Create high quality technical essays
This assessment will evaluate your ability to define a professional persona consisting of a portfolio site, membership in professional networks, and technical essays that satisfy class standards.
Discussion:
A common problem is the home page, which will leave a first impression on your visitor. Many portfolios contain a picture that is too big for the page and that pushes the content beneath it. Your picture does not need to be any larger than, say, 300x300px, and then it can be inline with the text. In contrast to the picture being too big, the text content is often too small! Provide the user with at least a couple of paragraphs about yourself, your background, and your goals.
Another significant source of difficulty is the project page. Again, more time needs to be spent presenting projects in a way that helps the reader understand what you did, what you didn’t do, what you learned, and what you might do next.
For your own benefit, please try to fix these problems. I am happy to take additional looks at your portfolio as you make changes if you want further feedback. Just email me.