Creativity

How Blogging Helps Your Career #10 – The Trophy Case

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(The roundup for the “How Blogging Helps Your Career Series” is here)

Ever been in an interview and wondered how you prove you know what you’re doing in that short time?

Ever tried to convince someone of your competence if, say, you’re trying to run a convention or help them with a project?

Ever wonder how, in the end, we can kind of ever prove in a few minutes that we’re good at things?  Because it seems way, way too much of our life involves that.  If you’ve ever been on the job search or tried to justify a promotion, you know what that’s like.

We have to show wins.  We have to show proof.  This is one reason I try and end every in-person interview by giving someone a copy of one of my books, because it’s hard to say “you can’t do project management” when I can self publish.*

The proof in many cases has to come quick, fast and solid.

That’s your blog.  Your blog is a trophy case.

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How Blogging Helps Your Career #8 – The Soap Box

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(The roundup for the “How Blogging Helps Your Career Series” is here)

You have things to say.  You have ideas.  You have statements.

You want to get them out.  To broadcast them.

You want to know how to reach people and connect with them.

You want to get over your fear of doing it in the first place.

Come to think of it, on your job, chances are you wish you were better at shooting your mouth off effectively.

A blog is a great way to get better at this.

Blogging is a soap box you can stand on and shout from.

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Got To Love The Fans

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I created Focused Fandom: Fanart, Fanartists, and Careers because I had seen fanartists do amazing things.  The mixture of passion, format, and disinhibition was wondrous to behold.  So I love sharing clever creations

This Fandon Alphabet is one.

It’s cute, clever, and clean.  Each letter gets one fan favorite character or thing.  The artist challenges herself, the artist gets a great portfolio, and we all get the enjoyment of watching her do it.  I hope she can do prints or something (I always get a bit confused over the proper way to handle that since I’m not an artist).

As I proudly have some Ukiyo-e heroes prints on my wall, you can guess my inclinations.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.