Workshop: Mon, April 27, 2009, 6-8 PM
Location: Jobing.com Offices
4747 North 22nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85016

Using Blogging and Social Networking to Support Your Job Search
Fee: $15

Registration:  http://sjnbloggingandsocialnetworking.eventbrite.com/

Section One

  • What is a blog? –Where it started, where it is headed and why you need to be on this train.
  • Why is it important? –What a blog serves in the eco-system of branding, networking and being findable.
  • Will a blog land me a job?

Section Two

1. Getting Started — Elements of a blog: Title, focus, linking, topics and categories.
2. Setting up a blog — Using Wordpress, setting up a blog in 15 minutes.
3. Care and Feeding of a blog –networking, writing, using it to define who you are.
4. Learn More – Live demonstration.

Section Three
Questions and Answers

Speaker Biography: Angelo Fernando
Social Media Today named Angelo Fernando as a “Top 10” most read blogger in 2008. Currently a marketing communications manager at ASU, Angelo writes a media and technology column for several magazines and focuses on the intersection of emerging media, technology and marketing.

Angelo comes from an advertising-meets-marketing world, starting off at JWT and Ogilvy & Mather advertising, before moving into corporate marketing. Angelo’s marketing communications blog is HoiPolloi, he is a founder of the local ValleyPRBlog and also contributes to the International Association of Business Communicator’s global blog. He has first hand experience with the world of corporate layoffs, and is looking forward to sharing information that will help people dealing with career transition.

More information about Angelo can be found at: http://www.angelofernando.com/about.htm  and http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/38942