Tips to Creating a Portfolio
- 1. Audience for Your Portfolio Public portfolio – an online overview of your skills and sample work products. Custom portfolio – tailored to a specific organization or targeted job.
- 2. Use a Portfolio to… Proactively promote your work Respond to the request of clients or prospective employers Identify your own strengths and areas of opportunity
- 3. Content for your Portfolio Writing samples Facilitator guide Participant guide Toolkit content Scripts for videos Course samples Captivate Articulate CourseBuilder
- 4. Content for your Portfolio, cont. Program Information Program descriptions Summary of results from evaluation Brief description of your role
- 5. Never and Always – the absolutes Never… Take credit for someone else’s work, even through implication State your role on each project Clearly document team projects Instead, always…
- 6. Never and Always – the absolutes Never… Include proprietary work Get permission to share company material, or Instead, always… Re-create generic, non-proprietary materials for samples
- 7. Putting it Together Consider Adobe Acrobat 9 Build a shell to link and describe your content Use online tools Highlight your art or graphics on Flickr. www.Flickr.com Create a free blog on Wordpress. www.wordpress.com Use Flashden.net to create a portfolio with your own content
- 8. Build your Social Media Presence Facebook Search for instructional design groups, chat with other professionals Manage your profile LinkedIn Twitter Flickr
- 9. Additional Resources http://www.linkedin.com/ http://www.wildyak.ning.com/ (my business partner and I formed this online community of business and community leaders who want to help other people, very new, not yet in Beta) http://www.istockphoto.com/ (royalty-free art) http://www.techead.com/ (Richmond staffing and Adobe training firm)
- 10. Additional Resources http://www.elance.com/ (good resource for freelance jobs, including e-learning design and development and writing jobs) http://www.facebook.com/ (I also have a business page: iDiscover: www.facebook.com/pages/chesterfield-VA/iDiscover/11908576082 ) http://www.tofslie.com/ (online portfolio for a web designers) http://www.ted.com/ (Great resources for content from leaders from HRD, technology, business, and other entities)