personal+branding

Personal Branding/Reflection Hello reader. In the land of pokers and tweeters, time plays tricks on you. One day your blogging about Rebecca Black, the next your blogging for a job. Student life was the best of times if only someone had told me.

Julie Tyios. I found her lecture on online networking valuable. The job market is different now: there's new ways to get one but more ways to lose one as well. Her discussion on the importance of Twitter (or any social media) with regards to getting a job actually pushed me to start building my online reputation. I started joining groups, discussions, networks, and career sites. You never know who you will encounter. Great stuff.
 * What stood out for you?**

On the first assignment, we learned what works and what doesn't. Of course, I'm not talking about pure content/aesthetics, distribution and strategy as well. In the second assignment, we had the chance to apply design knowledge by creating our own ads. We needed to consider our design approach with regards to our target audience. In the final assignment however, we incorporated our knowledge on strategy; more importantly, teamwork. This was extremely important because it taught me how to work in a marketing team. Something I'm sure I will need soon.
 * What did you learn?**

Thankfully the course wasn't heavy on the text. I find that having a collaborative forum such as Wikispaces was very helpful. Guest lecturers were great as well, except when some (not all) ramble too long.I think it would have been more helpful if it was more interactive: activities, questions, visuals.
 * What did you learn about how you (and others) learn?**

But the best learning experience for the class, in my opinion, is the last assignment. It gave us a great learning experience about the industry. Learning in class is completely different from the real world. You can only learn so much from the text about meeting client's needs. Until you've spent two hours on the phone with a client changing logo designs, you don't know sugar from Shinola.

Guest lecturers who were not interactive. They did have great material but after an hour of one-way listening, my brain starts to wander. Maybe it's just me?
 * What challenged you?**


 * Inspired you?**
 * Julie Tyios. I have to give it up to her once again. Ever since her presentation. I have been more involved online - not in a Rebecca Black viewing kind of way, but substantial stuff that can actually help me get started in my career: networking and building an online presence. **