This document provides tips for digital job hunting and self promotion, including using Google alerts and RSS feeds to monitor for relevant job postings, building an online community through social media to increase visibility, using one's community to make themselves known, and choosing portfolio hosting options like blogs, websites, YouTube, Vimeo, and podcast services. It emphasizes using digital tools to actively search for jobs and promote one's work online.

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DIGITAL JOB
HUNTING

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SEARCHING
SCHMOOZING
& RAMPANT SELF
PROMOTION

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JOB
Guardian Media
Hold The Front page
Journalism.co.uk
BBC Jobs
Jobs4journalists
SITES
Media UK
Grapevine
The Radio Magazine
Mediaweek

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JOB SEARCHES
USE GOOGLE ALERTS TO MONITOR AREAS FOR SEARCH
e.g. radio OR broadcast jobs UK then focus in on the sites of interest
USE RSS TO FILTER AND TRACK INTERESTING SITES

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BUILDING A
COMMUNITY
BUILDS YOUR
VISIBILITY
TWITTER FACEBOOK BLOGS WIKIPEDIA

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USE THE
COMMUNITY
FOLLOW THE FOLLOWERS MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN
LOOK AT BLOG ROLES BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION
SUBSCRIBE TO SITES SHOW YOUR WORKING OUT

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PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
blogging software website builders
Free and (mostly) no ads Free but (often) ad supported
Restrictive with A/V Control over layout
Layout restrictions Can be frustrating
Blogger Restrictive with A/V
Wordpress Drupal Gardens
Tumblr Weebly
Posterous

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3RD PARTY YOUTUBE
VIMEO
MEDIA
BLIPTV
SOUNDCLOUD
PODCASTBEAN
PODCASTMACHINE
HOSTING Most of these will embed
in to blog and websites.