Chris Penn CIS Take 2

I was just going on my blog to put up something for another CIS presentation and I noticed there was nothing on the Chris Penn presentation. I was sure I had posted something about it few days after I went to it but I guess I must have closed the window before posting it. So here I go again.

Chris Penn's presentation about branding yourself on the web was very thought provoking, and made me appreciate the potential that social networking sites have as an aid. It seems that if a potential employer were to look up people on the web before an interview it could either make or break the potential employee. While at the presentation I decided to google myself. Not much came up for my name but there were a lot of hits for "flyingdutchman265" which is my name for most webpages. My blipper account, my updown profile, my wikipedia profile, my youtube account, and even an obscure lacrosse website that I bought something from one time. A potential employer could gather a lot of information from a simple web search.

Presentation

I thought Pistachio’s presentation was very interesting. I started thinking about all the applications Twitter could have in the business world. I like how through her answering the questions we really got a sense of how she did her job and how she made a business out of consulting on Twitter. There were some good quotes that were part of the take home message for me. “Why do you rob a bank? Because that’s where the money is” was pretty funny and something like “if you have something that you really need to do… just do it.” Two of my classmates also thought these messages were good and tweeted them which reinforced their importance to me once again. She was very charismatic I can see why she would be a fantastic consultant on anything she was knowledgeable about but because she is so passionate about the future of web applications like this it makes her even more qualified to consult on Twitter. Therefore it might be her passion that makes her successful. Which I believe is the biggest message of all.