One of the things I tell students to do like Chicagoans vote — early and often — is to Google themselves. You need to know what’s out there about you so you can control the public presentation of yourself when it’s time to look for a job. I demand students clean up their online acts well before potential employers may be lurking around as faux Facebook friends looking for reasons to dump half the stack of resumes they’ve got. I Googled myself and found this YouTube clip. It’s raw footage from an interview I did with some of my Oregon State University students on the impact of new media on the election of President Obama:
January 3, 2011
Google thyself
Posted by pamcyt under Industry news, New Media Models, Social Media Networking, Student Work | Tags: CNN/Facebook, Facebook, impact of new media, Obama election, Social Media, YouTube |1 Comment