This document provides guidance on establishing an online professional presence. It discusses the benefits of being represented online, including leading by example for students, reaching a wider audience, and enabling professional collaborations. It then recommends starting with clear goals and slowly building an online presence. Suggestions are made to identify an appropriate forum to share information within a target professional network and to engage with colleagues through commenting and joining groups on sites like LinkedIn. A number of website options for creating an online portfolio, resume, or presentations are listed that allow customizing the visibility to public or private views.

1. Rajinder Gill, Director, Internship
Program
Amy Schulz, Director, CTE/EWD
April 30, 2013

2. • Are you represented
online and in what
way?
• If you aren’t
online, what message
does this send to
others who might want
to learn more about
you as a professional?

3. • It allows you to lead
by example with
students and the
campus community.
• It helps you reach a
wider audience.
• It allows for the
possibility of
professional
collaborations.

4. • http://annecarbert.ca

5. • Start by setting goals.
• Start slowly
• Start with a place that
works for you.

6. • Think about the
professional network you
want to pursue and locate
a forum for sharing
information.
• Use online tools to identify
the employers in a
particular area
• See if other colleagues
have blogs or are on
Twitter, engage with them
by commenting and
responding.
• Join the professional
community on LinkedIn.

7. http://www.myefolio.com Allows you to create an electronic
portfolio that you can set to public or private by invitation
only.
http://visualcv.com Incorporates an electronic portfolio to
save your artifacts but also allows you to create an online
resume, which you can set to public or private.
• Other choices include:
resumesocial.com, razume.com, ziggs.com

8. • www.sliderocket.com Where you can create online
presentations including “Presumes”= Presentation
Resumes
• http://portal.sliderocket.com/sliderocket/Pr-sum-Search-Expert
• http://www.slideshare.net Allows you to host your
presentations, connects them to your LinkedIn profile
• http://prezi.com

9. • Typepad
• Tumblr
• Wordpress
• Blogger

10. • www.wix.com
• http://snappages.com
• http://www.enactusfrc.
org/#

11. • www.linkedin.com
• More to come at 1:30 p.m.

12. • By Kristin Marino
http://www.onlinecolle
ges.com

13. • You can get notified
when your personal
data appears on the
web.
• Alert you when your
personal information--
say, your email
address or phone
number--gets
published online.

14. • Questions:
• Rajinder Gill: rgill@frc.edu
• Amy Schulz: aschulz@frc.edu