Micro Space of Oliver Ding

I just now read Jia’s new post about her experience of looking for intern job through a unique social media website Slideshare.net

It is a great story that I have been following from 1.0 to 2.0

A brand called Jia 1.0
7 months ago

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Jia said the story about the first slideshow:

I uploaded my first PPT resume 4 months ago to Slideshare and was excited to see so many downloads and comments here. My friend Minmin got inspiration from my ppt and did her own. It was great to know that both of ours are selected into Spotlight section here. 4 months past and my life changed a little. Now I updated a new version of the resume and hope you will like it as well.

In fact, she got the first intern through the first slideshow resume. She was doing the intern of Assistant Marketing Manager at Nuovomedia Laboratories, Boston, she honed her research skills in a business setting, accumulated real world knowledge on marketing, and contributed insightful strategies during team meetings. Her boss recommended her as a great find on Linkedin.

A brand called Jia 2.0 2 months ago

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Jia updated her A brand called Jia 1.0 ppt resume and uploaded it 2months ago.It attracted more traffic as well as feedback. But that’s it, story seems ends:)

Not yet,the story continued… Jia told us the other half story at the new post:

Until one day in April, I got an email from Doug, one of the directors at PJA, that if I’d like to go there and talk for a possible internship. Puzzled? It turned out that he came across my ppt which was featured on slideshare’s frontpage back to then. After checking out the agency website, I was really excited because I almost went out for a on-campus co-op job fair with limited attending companies which could align with my interests. …So, I replied, made appointments, went for three round interviews, talked to five people at the agency, and finally received the email extending a three-month offer to me.

Jia got the intern job again, it is an exciting story that how people use slideshow as social media tool to spread personal brand,improve social capital,and make advantage of career.That is INTERN 2.0 powered by RESUME 2.0.

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Jia’s linkedin public profile

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Jia’s newest post about the original story: Intern 2.0

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This week I am reading many documents from iA Summit 2008. It is a great conference.I got many ideas form it.

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Today I know three new things below:

A guy: Cynthia Shapiro
A book:Corporate Confidential
A website: New Ladder To Success

I read an Interview with Cynthia Shapiro by New Ladder To Success, I found there is an interesting story within its publish process.

NLTS: What inspired you to write, Corporate Confidential? How long did it take you to finish the book and to get it published?

CS: The more I worked with employees, the more damage I saw being done, and the more I felt compelled to do something about it. I simply got to the point in my career where I knew too much about what was going on. I could see what it was doing to the employees, and I simply could not stay silent any longer. This book had to be written. Nothing would have stopped me (and many tried). I felt compelled to complete the process.

Oddly enough, the more obstacles were thrown in my way, the more determined I became. Each obstacle made me feel even more strongly that this information had to be brought to light so everyone could benefit.

The book was finished rather quickly. But then I began a four year struggle to get it published.

You see, I forgot that publishers are companies too, and there were two very large publishers that didn’t want this information out there. They basically tried to kill the book.

Luckily, I found St. Martin’s Press, and the fact that they were willing to go up against other publishers to make it happen says a lot about the type of company they are. (Yes, there are companies out there trying very hard to do it right. The trick is learning how to tell the difference.)

I also had quite a bit of trouble getting people to review the book, and getting the media to cover the book launch, for the same reason.

But a grass-roots movement started from people who were reading the book and talking about it around water coolers, and on the internet. Soon it became so big that the media had to take notice and that barrier was overcome. I still have some trouble with a few media outlets that continue to feel a little threatened by the information, but the word continues to spread.

Also embed some videos from Cynthia Shapiro website.

Today is my first Merry Christmas day in United State. Some of my friends told me they want to edit the posts of my blogs and articles to an e-book before two days. It is best gift to me !

At the end of 2004, I gathered the scraps what I wrote online in the year and edited an e-book called RelationVista 2004 which means my thought and writing covers many fields such as Life, Branding, Startup, Internet, Career and Region.But I didn’t do same thing in 2005 and 2006.

They make alert to me. So I wrote a long list to share more online footprints to them. I’d like to open this long list to you guys.

I’d appreciate you send back to me your advice about my life and career whether online or offline.

1. First Chinese e-book by WORD:

RelationVista 2004 e-book
(Download address, a special blog for this e-book)

2. Chinese personal websites:

NextFuzhou.com 1.0: http://www.nextfuzhou.com
(I wrote some articles covered out of branding field before 2005.)

NextFuzhou.com 2.0:
http://we.nextfuzhou.com
or http://www.netvibes.com/nextfuzhou
(It’s a Netvibes Universe what I am currently doing…..)

BrandVista.com 1.0: http://www.nextfuzhou.com/brandvista
(A very old website by HTML without BBS and Blog, I put some early articles about my career experience on advertising before 2000 )

BrandVista.com 2.0: http://www.nextfuzhou.com/brandvista2
(An old website with BBS, I put some new articles about branding after 2000. In fact, they had been include in RelationVista 2004 )

3. Chinese personal blogs:

Open line:http://microspace.blogcn.com/ (2003-2005)
(It is a life weblog with a lot of scraps but articles.)

Startup @ NextFuzhou: http://nextfuzhou.blogbus.com/
(A special blog of my column for Fuzhou Evening Newspaper in 2006)
(Also could visit pictures in Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordi/tags/fzwb/)

Da Xue Xiao Rong 1.0: http://microspace.blogdriver.com/ (2003-2005)
(I blogging on branding, Internet and Startup there. It is down after the acquisition between BlogChina and BlogDriver. But I had put many articles into e-book RelationVista 2004 )

Da Xue Xiao Rong 2.0: http://oliver.swordi.com (2005-present)
(Maybe you guys know there. I lost some data from 2005-2006 because the hosting downed in 2006. I am sorry I didn’t edit RelationVista 2.0 in the end of 2005, I am regretful for it.)

4. Chinese group blogs and social media websites:

CNBlog.org (Link to my posts)
(Just a little of posts what I wrote there.)

Cnbloggercon.org (2005, 2006-present)
(Just blogging on work for Cnbloggercon）

Douban.com: http://www.douban.com/people/swordi/
(A popular Chinese social review website, I just wrote a little of book reviews)

NPO2.cn : http://npo2.cn/author/oliver/ (2007)
(A social website on innovative non-profit, but it is not active. I just put a little of posts.)

Yeeyan.com: http://www.yeeyan.com/space/collection/202 (2007)
(A active social translation website. I just made several translations but active on other thing inside Yeeyan.)

Web2.0 & Social Psychology: http://caap.cn/blogs/web/default.aspx (2007)
(After the pledge has succeeded in PledgeBank.com, I created this blog.)

5. English Blog

Microspace of Oliver Ding: http://blog.Swordi.com (2005-present)
(It is here ! Its status is same with Da Xue Xiao Rong 1.0 in 2006.)

6. Non-profit design on logo and brand identity:

OOPS (2004) www.myoops.org
SocialBrain.org (2004) www.socialbrain.org
Cnbloggercon (2005) www.cnblog.org/cnbloggercon
Cnbloggercon (2006) www.cnbloggercon.org/2006
Lobbychina (2006) www.lobbychina.org
eTalk Fuzhou (2006) www.fjitren.com
Yeeyan.com (2007) www.yeeyan.com
Edu2do.com (2007) www.edu2do.com

7. Speeches:

The Content is The Conversation
(2006, eTalk Fuzhou Conference, Fuzhou, Download the ppt)

The Business Model of Blog
(2006, eTalk Fuzhou Salon, Fuzhou)
(Post and find the download address inside the post)

The Business model of Psy-Business
(2007,Psychology Business Conference, Guangzhou)
(Post:1,(2 ,tag=心理学商业机构年会), Download the ppt)

8.Special ppt on my career and experience:

The expedition of Identity (2006)
(Post, Download the ppt)

9. Special project in 2007: Webridge

A survey on translate group blogs
http://blog.cnblog.org/archives/webridge/

Work on a website localization project with friends
http://www.pledgebank.com

Observe on Yeeyan.com

Their Internet
(Another project established from a successful pledge of PledgeBank.com, but it need more time to be really successful.)

Aha, it is a long list of Digital Nomads.Maybe you also have a long list of your online experience.

I know many people are talking that Blog can help you create personal brand. I just want to know more details from you guys. Would you mind share your story on it to me? Also, I make some questions below:

1.Do you believe Blog is a very important tool for your career ?

2.Do you have two blogs one is personal live blog and another is career blog ?

3.Do you blogging on a focus ?

4.Did you get a job through Blogging ? (One of my friend done it.)

5.Have you joined one group blog where you share your mind with other bloggers in a blog ?

6.Have you written a book or e-book through blog ?

7.Do you invest guest to blogging in your blog ?

8.Do you show your blog address in your business card ?

9.Does your boss read your blog ?

10. How long do you believe someone should be popular in his industry after he begin to blogging?

I’d like you share your idea with the number of any question. It is also right to answer just one or two questions.

Thanks!