Week 6

Week 06: Social Media & Your Career

We are a Commodity social media can be used as a tool to get higher coverage and awareness of ourselves as a creative individual looking for a job and displaying work and to have an online presence to increase the amount of people in our network and have plenty of opportunity to receive job invitations or offered freelancing work or develop an indy team. Social media can also be used for special business offers and discounts update on current news give our opinions on matters on importance and broaden your awareness of what other people are doing and since social networking has become such a norm it’s to be expected that any person is connect through a social media site and use it to express and sell themselves while having a professional identity. Here are some of the pros and cons and purpose of some social networking sites.

Pros Cons Purpose

• YouTube coverage/free Time wasting Coverage/tutorials

Comments Negative feedback

Possible Funding non directed audience

Quick Accessibility

• Facebook

Directed audience Loss propriety ---------

Events organisation relying on FB

• Twitter Instant msgs

Image centric Purpose

• Instagram Image sharing

• Tumbler ------

• Vimeo Video sharing

• Pinterest Referencing and identity sharing

• Linked in Jobs/Groups/identity

• Stack Linking

• Deviant Art Images/identity