Putting yourself out there.

Are you out there?...I mean are you really putting yourself out there? Are you letting people know who you are and why it is best to be exactly the way YOU are and not something else?

Questions like these are ones that I have been asking myself in the last week or so. Trying to create a slideshow presentation of myself, as an aspiring journalist, I wanted to make it as compelling as possible. It is always a good thing to reflect on who you are and why, both professionally and personally...And not least, who you want to be. It can be difficult to come up with answers to those questions, but most people have an idea of who they (think they) are. How best to convey what you want a specific audience to know about you is the tricky part.

If you consider yourself a modest person, much like me, it is not easy to write a presentation of yourself. However, in this day and age, it is becoming increasingly important to be able to put yourself out there. The days of the resume are gone and it's time to get creative. You really don't have any excuse not to take advantage of the possibilities new technologies offer in terms of new ways to present yourself.

And haven't we all been portraying ourselves in different ways for a while by now?...Just think about your profile and how it changes depending on who your audience is. Your Facebook profile is different from your MySpace profile, which again differs from the information you put on your LinkedIn profile etc....

But while audiences change, you have to keep in mind that any audience probably can find all of your profiles just by Googleing you. Therefore you should make sure that one profile does not contradict another. Rather, they should complement each other by creating a diverse yet coherent image of yourself.