During Tuesday's class I had the honor of watching Trish Skram's presentation on blogging and branding that she presented. Trish graduated from UW-Whitewater 5 years ago and now works as a media specialist and marketing person at Mercy Health Care. She also works at Janesville Gazette as a freelance writer and a blogger. Trish came to our Tactics II class with alot of great points, as well as statistics on blogging, such as:
-55% of corporations use social media for job applicants
-77% of internet users read blogs
-60-80% of blogs are abandoned within the first month.
She also gave us some reasons on why we should blog, kind of letting us know that will broaden our horizons on the job front; some of the reasons included:
-It helps expand your network.
-It helps build your relationship with customers.
-It helps "boost" your brand.
I thought Trish Skram was a wonderful speaker and I learned so much from her presentation! The fact that she was so positive about her career made me feel less anxious about graduation this May. I definitely am going to try blogging more because of this!
The stats she presented to us were pretty amazing!I too learned a great deal about social media and blogging from her presentation!
ReplyDeleteWay to use one of her tips when writing blogs to use lists to make it easier for people to skim through when they don't have time to read the whole post. It is always nice to here about other people's success stories to easy the fear of graduating.
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