Gabriel Dance Guru
Gabriel Dance has a lot of good advice for journalism and multimedia students getting ready to graduate.
One good point was to make sure you pay attention to other sites, especially the company with which you’re trying to get hired. This goes for all careers. If you don’t show any interest in the company you’re applying for, why would they want to hire you when they know that you made no effort to do your research?
He also brought up a good point we have all heard before. Failing is good. Failing shows that you are trying hard.
I also found it interesting when he said that college is the place to try your hardest and make your mistakes because you don’t have any worries about being fired. Your only worry is school and because of that, you should experiment as much as you can and try new things.
I watched the part 8 video about transparency. I thought the panorama was really cool. It shows everything from such a wide angle and from a person in the audience’s point of view. Dance emphasized that this is the best way to grasp how the convention really was.
Questions I have for Gabriel Dance are: What is your favorite part of making a Web site? What do you find the most fun? And what do you think about the few companies or organizations who still do not have a Web site? I, myself, automatically go to google if I want to find out something about an organization. When there is no Web site, it basically doesn’t exist to me. Why do you think some people haven’t grasped the idea of the Web yet?
