Online Reputation Management

Your online reputation is extremely important. Not only to your personal life, but also to your career. The more personal things you post on social media sights, the more dirt your employer can find on you. There is nothing wrong with sharing your thoughts and feelings and activities for the day via Facebook and twitter, but you always have to think about what you’re saying, who you’re saying it to, and all of the people that can see it. Keep in mind that what you’re posting will be online forever and even years later people and can go back to see the kind of stuff you were posting. Before every status update, tweet, video or any other post on the internet, think to yourself, ‘What will my grandma think of this?’.

My First Podcast

Today I recorded my first podcast with my buddies Josh, Matt & Ernesto discussing the possibility of the Durham Transit taking away bus passes for student transportation. We recorded it on a portable ZOOM H6 microphone which sounded pretty good for the environment we were in. We then imported the audio into Adobe Audition to cut and edit it to sound like a smooth recording. It was interesting creating this recording. It wasn’t a topic I knew a lot about which restricted me from saying very much, but I like the idea of recording during a conversation or debate to broadcast to others so they can understand somebody else’s opinion and possibly create more debate around it. All in all I enjoyed the recording process and I would like to record further podcasts, possibly on topics I know more about.

Viral Video

I shot a video today that is intended to go viral. I’ve never made a video with the thought of it going viral, but I enjoyed coming up with different ideas and putting together something that I hope others will enjoy. With the help of Ernesto, Josh and Matt, please enjoy our video and help it go viral.