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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A brand called Jia 1.0 ppt;

A brand called Jia 2.0 ppt;

Jia’s linkedin public profile

Jia’s slideshare space

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

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This month I know a new friend V who is living in Singapore. She is Chinese and runs a branding identity design firm. I knew her blog when I read some posts about London 2012 logo which designed by Wolff Olins.

(By the way, I like this idea, I also wrote a post in my Chinese blog.)

Though V is blogging in English, I thought she is also fluent in Chinese. This week I received a message from V. She said below:

Will I have any audience from China if I translate the more interesting posts from my blog into Chinese?

When I received the message above, I reply to her below:

Dear V,

Nice to hear you will blogging in Chinese. I know a friend called Jacky Peng  who is also living in Singapore.

He is blogging in Chinese and English. He often translates some articles from English blogosphere into Chinese blogosphere. He also worked on PledgeBank.com translating project with me. You could visit below to read his translation:

- Education Translating
- Blog Chinese Translating

Here is a bridge between Chinese blogosphere and English blogosphere. People write blogs in double languages. People also translate blogs and articles into Chinese or English.

Last year I held a survey called Webridge to learn more about translation blogs and websites. You could visit the link below to know more detail in Chinese:

I believe here are a little of people blogging on brand management and brand identity design in Chinese blogosphere. If you translate your more interesting posts into Chinese, then people would like to read them. Also, you could translate some great articles or posts which wrote by other brand experts or bloggers.

I also have interesting on translate some information on NPOs brand identity design case. I will write on some cases below:

Landor done for The Paley Center for Media

Wolff Olins done for Product RED

New identity of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)

Maybe you don’t need to setup a Chinese version blog in the beginning; you could translate your posts in www.Yeeyan.com which is a translation community website. I like yeeyan.com very much   Their last e-mail list has been attached below, you could know them more.

Enjoy your trip in Chinese blogosphere 

Best wishes,

Oliver Ding

http://blog.swordi.com

V should trip in Chinese  blogosphere, hope she meet nice people in the future.If you are blogging in double languages, then tell me. I will put your link in my blog

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!

This Illustration was create by Julien Epoque,He uploaded it to www.Coroflot.com in January 17, 2007.

It is cool website.There are 46,947 portfolios and over 135,000 registered members.

Today I also read a post about Job board on TechCrunch.com, after read the post, I visit some Job board websites and some blogger’s job boards below:

http://www.crunchboard.com

http://www.jobthread.com

http://jobs.ReadWriteWeb.com

Job-a-matic http://www.jobamatic.com

Marketplaces http://www.edgeio.com/view/marketplaces

Guy Kawasaki’s job board: http://guyk.jobamatic.com

Cnbloggercon 2006 is coming, I will leave Fuzhou to Hanzhou in Oct 27.I saw some bloggers designed the personal business card for this conference. Today I design mine below:

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