Image Test

My fellow students in my Ales204 class have been having trouble uploading images to their blogs. The problem arise because our University of Alberta emails, which are linked to gmail, are not activated for picasa.

When you upload an image onto your blogger blog Google crates an Picasso album to store the image. All this is done in the background so the typical user is oblivious to it happening. Normally it works perfectly but in the case of our special UofA emails problems arise. As a result our teach JessL has asked us to practice uploading an image to our blog using an alternative method.

I choose to upload this image I took at the Japanese gardens in Lethbridge Alberta. It seems that my class mates have also successfully uploaded images. I like the one on Kylie's blog.

Facebook Profiles

The world is changing. It is now common for anyone you are hoping to do business with to search for you online. If you are not careful this means they could see all the tweets, you tube videos, and Facebook comments and updates that don`t exactly show your best side. So lock down your information! At least the side of you that you don`t want future employers to know about.

The beauty of the web is you can create what they will see when they go online. This is what I recently did with my new Facebook profile. I create it as an online resume as a way of putting my best foot forward when I get searched.

Although my profile still needs some fine tuning and jazzing up. Getting to this starter point was revelatory painless. I simply filled in the information that face book normally asked for but with the question in mind, "Will this help my future employer want to hire me?"

My hope is that over time I will be able to build a well rounded profile that allows professionals to quickly get a great picture of who I am. The hardest part will be maintaining the professionalism while still being me. Fortunately I found a great article to help me with it. My class mates like Kylie also provide great examples of how to establish a great professional profile on Facebook.

Introduction

Hello,

I am Brian Walker. I am a undergraduate student at the University of Alberta. I am studying nutrition and food science. I am very interested in nutrition because I feel that a balanced diet, coupled with exercise of course, will provide a cure for most of the health crisis our modern world is faced with today. It might be more of a prevention than a cure but the point is if we can get people eating right and exercising I believe many diseases would disappear. I want to study how different foods/diets effect the onset of different diseases.

I think one of the biggest advanteges of social media in my field will be educating the public. Blogs could provide easy to access and understand material to everyone. The comment section in blogs also allows for the readers to ask questions and get direct feedback. Twitter could be used as a great research tool. Not only could I read about what other professionals are doing, I would have a direct way to contact them to ask questions, share ideas, and promote new promising research.