A review of hidden LinkedIn features to keep your resume updated, plus common and little-known social networking and collaboration tools that can also be used to easily create an online portfolio of your work that can easily be maintained.

1. Keeping Your Career in The Game
Using Cloud Tools to Build Your
Online Portfolio

2. • www.linkedin.com – FREE!
• Instant running updates of all
contacts
• Public and closed profiles
• Internal messaging system
• Media-rich profile
enhancements
• Follow company profiles and
job opportunities
• “Hidden” resume builder app

3. Resume Builder
• Free! Uses your most recent LinkedIn info
• Formatting options available
• Fully print-friendly and multiple formats
• Private or public link to use on business cards,
email signatures, blogs and other online
profiles
• http://resume.linkedinlabs.com
Other LinkedIn Labs Tools: http://engineering.linkedin.com/linkedinlabs/

5. • www.evernote.com – FREE!
• Cloud application with apps for desktop and
mobile devices
• Multiple notebooks, with tagging and linkback
• Accepts text, docs, links, pics, audio, and video
• Private or share public
• Email entries with attachments to ‘secret’
email address

7. • www.tumblr.com – FREE!
• Popular, easy-to-use media blog
• Variety of layout themes; add’l themes for $$
• Email entries with attachments to ‘secret’
address
• Blog entries can include text, images, audio,
and video

9. • www.pinterest.com – FREE!
• Popular visual bookmarking site
• Create pin boards – like digital ‘scrapbooks’
• Public and Secret pin boards
• Can upload image files to pin board
• Add video links to pin board
– Hint: host your videos unlisted on YouTube

11. • www.trello.com – FREE!
• Cloud project management tool with social
networking components
• Fun, highly-configurable “Drag & Drop” interface
• Manage the project and then upload a ‘snapshot’
of the result/product
• Private, shared or public ‘boards’; allows
comments and discussion
• Collect attachments (10 mb max):
docs, images, links, audio/video

14. • Beta.mural.ly – FREE!
• Online collage/whiteboard/mind map
• Tack content onto board in all formats:
– Upload docs and images
– Embed content from anywhere on the web
• Change background and add graphic accents
• Keep private or share/collaborate
• Presentation-style navigation similar to Prezi

16. • www.alternion.com – FREE!
• Social networking dashboard: One-Stop Shop
• All feeds your following in one place
• Respond to all posts from one place
• All your networking activity in one place
• Showcase your social media acumen!

18. • www.visualize.me
• Build from scratch or…
• Log in using LinkedIn account -- reads directly
from LinkedIn profile
• Turns LinkedIn profile to an instant infographic
• Dedicated link to share in email, blog, etc.

20. • http://about.me
• Your online landing/contact page
• Customize profile photo/background/theme
colors
• Create links to all your online sites and
popular social media profiles
• Custom link to use in email, blog, website, etc.

22. My Portfolio Links
• LinkedIn Resume: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/1w3el4is
• Evernote: https://www.evernote.com/pub/kappadiva/portfolio
• Tumblr: http://tvthomas.tumblr.com/
• Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tvthomas/sample-portfolio/
• Trello: https://trello.com/board/edudiva-work-portfolio/512e67e3ec51247065002204
• Mural.ly: http://mrl.li/VUszQq
• Alternion: http://www.alternion.com/users/edudiva/
• Visualize.Me: http://vizualize.me/tvthomas#.US-TDKKTyrZ
• About.Me: http://about.me/tvthomas

23. What Questions Do You Have?
Tonya V. Thomas
Instructional Design | Performance Support
Multimedia Communications
tvthomas@umich.edu
linkedin.com/in/tvthomas
@tvthomas_umich