10 LinkedIn Applications Every Student Should Know About
2011 has undoubtedly been a huge year for LinkedIn; growing beyond 120 million users, stock market flotation and a visit by President Obama among the many highlights. For me, the level of growth is perhaps the most significant of these achievements and the catalyst for such advancement, can in a large part be attributed to the opening up of LinkedIn’s application More...
Fantastic e-portfolio Tool Integrated with LinkedIn
I recently discovered (accidentally) a great e-portfolio service integrated with LinkedIn – it’s from Behance and called the Creative Portfolio Display. The application is not particularly new, having been More...
Landing a Job in the Digital World
I gave a presentation this week entitled ‘Landing a Job in the Digital World’ at Leeds Metropolitan University. The deck focused on using an e-portfolio, blog and social media to record achievement, More...
Ben-cotton.com Launched
I thought I’d let you know that my Lifestream, Ben-Cotton.com has gone ‘live’ after some initial beta testing. A lot of people have asked me, why have I produced this site, so hopefully this post will go some More...
University Wises up to Personal SEO
I read an interesting article in Mashable last week reporting that Syracuse University in the United States has purchased subscriptions enabling its students to use Brand Yourself’s online reputation management More...
Sophia Fantis’ video on Personal SEO
I received a Google Alert the other day, alerting me to the fact that Sophia Fantis had written a blog mentioning my name, only to discover that she had in fact, produced a video based on the presentation I gave More...
WTF is Personal SEO [PRESENTATION]
I gave a presentation yesterday to some Public Relations students at London Met University, having been kindly invited by their lecturer Gareth Thompson who got in touch after our paths crossed at the Euprera Spring More...
Video of my Presentation on e-portfolios
Here is the video recording of my presentation on e-portfolios from Thursday’s learning lunch at Leeds Met. It was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon and both Charlotte Britton and Stephen Waddington have penned More...
Slides of my Presentation on e-portfolios
I shall be giving a presentation tomorrow (Thursday 14 January 2010) at Leeds Metropolitan University on e-portfolios. I will be giving my views from a graduate perspective and how I believe e-portfolios can be More...
