Creating a Professional Web Presence

This week we were asked to Google ourselves in class. First off, try it and see what comes up, it is really interesting to see what your current web presence looks like. We learned the importance of having a web presence and we watched a Google Sites tutorial. With more and more people logging online everyday and businesses having access to the internet it is very important that we keep a serious web presence. At any point a company we are applying could Google us or look at our Facebook, it is important to keep a serious presence so that anyone scouting us will only see positive things.

From this point on I will always have a web presence and it will only continue to grow. It is very important to keep it up because it will be a primary way of clients to see who I am and how to go about contacting me. More and more people are skipping the Yellow Pages and hopping right on there computers and clicking on the first link that comes from Google when they are looking to get stuff done. It is important that when people are searching I come up so people can see me for who I am and give me potential new business.

This is a link to an article on ESPN.com. It tells the story of a man who work at a stadium for a pro sports team. After learning his favorite player was not retained through free agency he bashed the team on his facebook for letting the player go. The team saw this and because he did not keep his presence professional he was fired. It shows the importance of how everything you do online can always be seen by someone and it is important to not show yourself in the wrong light.