Q. Forgive me if you've answered a question like this before, but I don't recall reading it. I contribute to a group blog at my newspaper and would like to include a selection of my blog entries as I search for a new job.
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Our blog does not automatically sort entries by author, so including the entries would entail either printing out individual entries, sending a list of URLs or directing potential employer to the site and asking them to search for my items themselves. What's the best way to present my online work to those I'm trying to impress at other news outlets?
Thanks again for your column -- it's always been a great help.
Group BloggerA. I took a look at your newspaper's Web site and was almost overwhelmed by the number of blogs and bloggers.
It seems everyone is doing it. And there is no reason why you should not be able to use blog contributions as clips if they are good enough.
I would not direct editors to just search out your entries. That leaves too much to chance. They probably go to the trouble to ferret out your work. If they look, they will not necessarily see your best posts. Or, they might like one of the other bloggers more.
Send printouts or some URLs -- the permalinks at the end of your entries.
Printouts work best in a hard-copy application; the permalinks work best in an online application. In the case of an online application, I would list the headlines on the items you want to show off and then turn those headlines into hyperlinks to the corresponding permalinks. That way, editors don't have to be bothered with incredibly long URLs.
Should you ever need to put URLs right into a document, first shorten them with the free service
tinyurl.com. You see a lot of these in
Twitter posts, and they work just fine.
Coming Monday: His workload has doubled with the departure of a colleague, and his editors seem disinclined to do anything about it. He wonders whether this is the future.
