E-Portfolio & Networking

Blogger

Bright Fuse
Use BrightFuse To...

Create a professional web presence

Post projects and work samples

Keep in touch with colleagues

Network with industry peers

Carbonmade
Carbonmade is...

* The easiest way to display and manage your portfolio online
* A clean canvas to show off your work
* Instant updating with no HTML experience necessary
* A set of easy to use management tools
* Images, flash, video... Oh my!
* Used by over 45,000 designers and artists worldwide
* Carbonmade is your online portfolio!

Coroflot
Coroflot Portfolios: The fast, easy way to get your creative projects online and in front of the right people.

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Digication
Digication opens the lines of communications by combining elements of e-Portfolios and learning networks. The software allows users to create a community that can learn and grow both inside and outside the classroom.

ePortfolio
Use ePortfolio to achieve your goals:

• » Create a plan of study
• » Maintain a dynamic resume of your experiences in life, work, study, and at play
• » Store examples of your achievements (documents, photos, graphics, spreadsheets, web pages)
• » Create media rich Guest Views to share with family, friends, employers, faculty, and others
• » Showcase your accomplishments!

FAIRspot
FAIRspot.com is an online resource dedicated to giving the creative industry a spot to find inspiration, share work and stay updated with news, events and competitions within the community.

Unlike many other design resources, FAIRspot uses moderated submissions to maintain a high-end platform that creative professionals are proud to use for promoting their work or business.

Folioplanet
Created by illustrators, Folioplanet is a directory of 2027 illustrator links, 251 illustration portfolios and 36,341 stock illustration images. They are not a stock agency and do not represent artists. Art buyers should contact the artist or their representative directly.

InSource
Becoming a member of InSource gives you not only access to these tools, but access to the InSource community, a community of people just like you. Through the InSource Forum you can easily reach out to your community to share learnings and ask questions.

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JibberJobber
JibberJobber is more like a personal relationship manager that allows you to do everything you need to do to manage a job search and optimize your network relationships - for the duration of your career!

LinkedIn
LinkedIn brings together your professional network

* Stay in touch
* Discover job & business opportunities
* Get expert business advice

MyPortfol.io
At MyPortfol.io we give you the potential to stand out from the crowd.
With easy to use tools you can create your own individual look to showcase your work, either in a portfolio or a boutique. You can choose how you present your work and make the most of your space. You can also choose what information users can see about you and determine how you want prospective employers or buyers to contact you.

pbwiki
PBwiki is the world's largest provider of hosted business and educational wikis.

• Access from anywhere – Eliminate schedule conflicts.
• Secure collaboration – It doesn't have to be hard to use to be hardened.

Build a Killer Online Portfolio in 9 Easy Steps

Every freelancer should have an online portfolio. You’ve got one, right? If not, skip to the last paragraph of this post. It’s written for you.

If you do have one, you can breathe a sigh of relief. You’re halfway there.

Building your portfolio is easy. The hard part is making it good. A killer portfolio does more than just showcase your work. It transforms visitors into clients. Best of all, it’s an automatic work generator.

In this post, I want to show you how to take your online portfolio to the next level.

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Stand Out with an E-Portfolio

Take a minute to search your name on the Internet. What comes up? Your MySpace page? An old paper you wrote in college? A court document archiving your arrest from college?

While some of these citations are worse than others, none of them are items you want to showcase – especially to potential employers. And believe me, they’re looking. Thirty-five percent of hiring managers use Google to do online background checks on job candidates, according to a recent survey by Ponemon Institute, an information and privacy think tank. Nearly one-third of those Web searches lead to job rejections.

“If an employer is going to be searching for you online, would you rather them find pictures of you at a party or valuable information about your experience, expertise and career goals?” asks Kelly Driscoll, president and co-founder of Digication, a technology solution firm.

Enter the e-Portfolio, the newest career tool in our tech-savvy era of job hunting. Not only will an e-Portfolio give you a competitive edge in the job market, it also gives you a positive digital identity when companies search for you online, Driscoll says

“E-Portfolios are becoming increasingly important to supplement, support and extend a résumé into a dynamic profile of an individual with not only descriptions of work that was done,” Driscoll says, “but actual examples that give employers the ability to learn much more about an individual before even entering the interview process.”

Want to learn how to hone your digital identity as a competitive advantage in your job search? Read on for a crash course on e-Portfolios.

By Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer
Click here for Full Article.

Stand Out with an E-Portfolio

Take a minute to search your name on the Internet. What comes up? Your MySpace page? An old paper you wrote in college? A court document archiving your arrest from college?

While some of these citations are worse than others, none of them are items you want to showcase – especially to potential employers. And believe me, they’re looking. Thirty-five percent of hiring managers use Google to do online background checks on job candidates, according to a recent survey by Ponemon Institute, an information and privacy think tank. Nearly one-third of those Web searches lead to job rejections.

“If an employer is going to be searching for you online, would you rather them find pictures of you at a party or valuable information about your experience, expertise and career goals?” asks Kelly Driscoll, president and co-founder of Digication, a technology solution firm.

Enter the e-Portfolio, the newest career tool in our tech-savvy era of job hunting. Not only will an e-Portfolio give you a competitive edge in the job market, it also gives you a positive digital identity when companies search for you online, Driscoll says

“E-Portfolios are becoming increasingly important to supplement, support and extend a résumé into a dynamic profile of an individual with not only descriptions of work that was done,” Driscoll says, “but actual examples that give employers the ability to learn much more about an individual before even entering the interview process.”

Want to learn how to hone your digital identity as a competitive advantage in your job search? Read on for a crash course on e-Portfolios.

By Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer
Click here for Full Article.