Session Description
Your portfolio IS your MOST IMPORTANT tool to show your talents, abilities, and breadth of experience. Rather than a single traditional portfolio consisting of hard copy work, multiple hard and electronic formats are necessary to portray your skills. Join us on January 18, 2012, for an online presentation that focuses predominately on best practices for presenting your works electronically through leveraging different facets of your social network. Technical communicators who desire to create a professional portfolio will benefit from this discussion of
- What a portfolio is
- What types of projects to include in a portfolio
- How to use portfolio to land a job, project, or client
Session Timeline
- Introduction (3-5 minutes)
- Dissect portfolio options (5 minutes)
- Choose your platforms (10 minutes)
- Choose your projects (15 minutes)
- Present your projects (10 minutes)
- Pull it all together (5 minutes)
- Q & A (5-10 minutes and throughout)
Handouts
- Social Media Marketing Quick Reference Guide
- Tools
- Presentation
Date and Time
- Wednesday, January 18, 2012
7:00 p.m. EST
Cost
- Members: $10
- Non-members: $20
- All payments in advance via PayPal only
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Registration Deadline: Noon on Monday, January 16, 2012.
Speaker Bio
Louellen S. Coker is the founder as well as chief writer, editor, designer, and all around chief of all things content at Content Solutions, a certified woman-owned business. She focuses on helping her clients effectively communicate their message within their organization as well as with their varied communities through writing, design and the web. She has conducted several conference presentations, published numerous articles, and taught workshops on Social Media Marketing.
Louellen holds a Master of Arts degree in Technical Communication from the University of North Texas and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and is a past president of both the Lone Star Community of the Society for Technical Communication and the Women Business Owners of Denton County. She is also affiliated with several professional organizations including IEEE Professional Communication Society, National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and DFW Search Engine Marketers.
When Louellen isn’t leading her firm in creating strategic and user-driven creative cross-pollination of content, she’s either traveling with her husband, hiking all over the world, winning national and state championship sailing regattas, training for marathons, or running in them.
