This is part of a two-day presentation by Bounceback St Louis in September 2010 for prospective job seekers. We cover how your web site becomes your resume, and also look at blogs and twitter to promote yourself.

1. How to create your blog and personal Web site By David Strom david@strom.com

2. 2 Agenda The web site becomes your resume What about blogs What about Twitter?

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4. Become master of your domain No, not that kind of domain! 4

5. The Internet domain! You need your own dot com! Remember my business card? 5

6. Why a domain? It is all about branding! 6

7. 7 Hosting your Web site You need a Web server A hosting provider (different from domain provider), also called a registrar Web browser to control and configure And content!

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9. 9 Cheap hosting providers

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13. 13 Why blogs are a better Web site No programming required Easy to make frequent updates Easy to quickly change the appearance of your pages Automatic posting of your content to Google’s search index

14. The blog IS your Web site Make it your first and in some cases your only Web presence It is very simple to setup! 14

15. 15 Use blog hosting providers Wordpress.com

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22. Google juice! 22

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24. 24 Ties into LinkedIn External Web sites Wordpressblogs Twitter feed

25. List your Web sites Use the “other” choice Also can put a 4th in “Interests” This is what it will look like on screen: 25

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31. 31 Good luck with your blog! David Strom (310) 857-6867 david@strom.com http://strominator.com http://webinformant.tv Slides available: http://slideshare.net/davidstrom