If you are starting a blog I would suggest writing technical posts which solve problems you have had.  One of my early posts was UIPickerView which explained how to do a very specific task in the iPhone.

The perfect topics are the ones which you couldn’t find answers to on the internet.  You search and search and then solve it yourself.  Once you do, write it up!

Once you start getting your baseline traffic you’ll get a real buzz!

If you check out my personal blog over at Jordan Carter you will see that I quickly jumped to the front page of Google in the .co.nz index.  You could easily do the same if you use the widget described in that post.  Now if a potential employer is looking for me before an interview they won’t have to look for long and I can control what they do find, making it all positive stuff and stopping them looking for too long which could lead to finding stuff I would rather not have on the Internet.  I don’t think there is anything out there that shouldn’t be found but you never know.  Increasing more and more of what we do ends up on the net, this is good, and bad.

We are becoming our own Big Brother, always watching.

Create yourself a blog.  There is no reason you shouldn’t create one.  There is a lifetime worth of reasons to create one.

The biggest reason for creating a blog is simple, you get found.  If you are looking for a job in IT, I will put money on your name going into Google before that interview.  It has happened to me and everyone I know.  Especially if you are going in the summer of code programme.  What will they find? Continue Reading »