Think blogs are useless? Donna, while applying for jobs, got a email back from Central Pa Magazine.
They happened to have read her blog and asked her to write a column on food/health for them. Let’s all cross our fingers for her that they ask her to be a regular columnist. | Woo Hoo Donna. You give good hope to future journalists that blogs are an extension of a résumé. —Brian McCollum
Very interesting in light of the ongoing discussion of Dvorak’s anti-blogging column. Neither Brian nor Donna are in any of my classes — in fact, Donna graduated before I started at Seton Hill. But both are regulars on the New Media Journalism @ Seton Hill University website. Congratulations, Donna!
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Yay for me! I’d like to thank the academy…. maybe not. But seriously: I must give a huge thanks to Dr. Arnzen for helping to improve my writing during my time at Seton Hill. I’d also like to shout out a big “I told you so” to anyone who considered my obsession with food “silly.” :-)
I’m VERY proud of Donna! She might have developed her online journalism skills in our program, but her writing alone won that editor’s attention. And a job writing about food is PERFECT for her. Ah…It seems like just yesterday when she was writing an expose about the cafeteria as the front page story for The Setonian (http://donnahibbs.com/foodservice.pdf). To think, I was there when she wrote her first restaurant reviews on Epinions for my Internet Journalism course (http://www.epinions.com/user-drhibbs). Man has she come far! I think her destiny has called and she’s picked up the phone: Food’s on the line! Best wishes to Donna Hibbs (at http://www.donnahibbs.com)!
In a time when resumes and cover letters need be outstanding and often left to professional services because of internet-increased competition, blogging may prove to be the portfolio you only pray you get a chance to show off. A weblog is most certainly a more accurate and honest portrayal of writing style and proficiency than a form perfected by an agency geared to sell someone they don’t even know. Congratulations!