Wednesday, August 27, 2008
How to Make Your Portfolio Site More Effective by Adding a Blog
FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog: "Having a killer online portfolio is obviously invaluable to freelancers. The portfolio will show the quality of your work and get potential clients excited about what you can do for them. A great portfolio will sell you and your abilities–you just have to get people to see it.Having a killer online portfolio is obviously invaluable to freelancers. The portfolio will show the quality of your work and get potential clients excited about what you can do for them. A great portfolio will sell you and your abilities–you just have to get people to see it."
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Good tip; I've always felt there's always a fine line between professionalism and becoming too personal in one's resume. The blog idea allows you as a designer to control what people know about you. However, similar to social networking sites, I'm sure you'd have to be very conscientious of the material you posted.
This is a very clever idea for a portfolio! In fact, I think that is something I'd like to try and keep over the coming years--even being a student. Since much of the theatre profession deals with process work and ways of thinking, in addition to a final product, giving readers a unique insight could only help I would think. It also goes without saying that the reader would get a small reading of one's personality from such a blog; which, could be a good or bad thing.
Such a project log, perhaps altered and simplified slightly, could be a good way of tracking one's own progression in thoughts and ideas in school as well. The grade and comments on an assignment can only tell so much--only the student knows what they were really thinking in the course of completing a given work; which, I would consider valuable information too.
I read a number of art and illustration blogs, which post a different artist or designer's website every day. Almost all of them have blogs where they post process photos, painting-a-day posts, etc. I had always wondered why all these famous artists and illustrators were so open about their process and their personal lives. Now that I think about it as a way to increase traffic, it makes perfect sense. Posting process photos gets you posted on blogs for students, and getting there means increased visibility. Interesting.
That is an interesting article...It's really strange to me how much the world has changed recently. I guess now the internet is a freelance designers best way to become known. I also never really looked at Blogs as professional or something that professionals do. The only thing that makes what they suggest hard in my mind is creating a schedule of when to blog. As they state in the article you don't have to do it everyday however you do need to have a schedule.
I agree that this is a very interesting and innovative idea though I've always been hesitant to include personal-type things in my resume or professional website. I suppose this is a step forward into using more of the everyday tools we use in our professional lives but there's always a fine line you have to walk in separating your daily personal activities with your professional life.
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