Professional Image
I have a fairly established brand under the alias "Mattc0m." I choose to even use this alias on my business card or other places where a brand logo may appear. For professional reasons, however, I've left the alias "Mattc0m" absent from my resume.
- Personal website: www.mattc0m.com (currently re-designing, but is a big step up from the previous site)
- Resume: PDF Download (designed / finalized this weekend)
- MyCeeVee: Online (online resume)
- Twitter: twitter.com/mattc0m (new background / theme)
- Business Card: Coming Soon
I worked on this essentially the entire weekend (the resume and work experience). Took a good amount of work, but I'm happy with my results none-the-less.
Fun fact: There is over 34,000 search results for "Mattc0m" on Google... all of which are me! Sometimes using the same alias for everything has unknown repercussions. Thus, it's always important to look like a young professional no matter what the setting is -- Google will find it!
This week I focused on some contacting previous partners, discussing the idea, and discussing it with them. Things were largely discussion-based at this point, but support is slowly getting garnered.
The big progress was the creation of a survey I intend to send out to fellow gamers, peers from school, to my Facebook and Twitter friends, e-mail to family, and more. My goal is to get over 100 responses. I'm hoping for 200 responses total.
However, the challenge is not in sending out a survey, but the creation of one. Originally, I thought creating a survey would be easy and the challenge would lie in getting responses. However, in order to get the results I'm looking for, I have to be very careful in how I construct the questions, setup demographics, and essentially find useful information in the process.
This type of information gathering is a completely new step for me, but I'm enjoying the challenge. I've done some research and reading into how to create a successful survey.
READING
- "Survey Design"
http://www.surveysystem.com/sdesign.htm - "Smart Survey Design" by Survey Monkey
http://s3.amazonaws.com/SurveyMonkeyFiles/SmartSurvey.pdf - "Creating Good Interview and Survey Questions"
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/559/06/
Currently, the survey is in pre-testing. I am still not completely satisfied with it. Suggestions would be more than welcome.
I've also created a simplistic Gantt chart of the project's estimated progress. You can view it online.
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