I am officially on the speaking schedule for WordCamp Hawaii on Saturday, 24 October 2008.
See Wordcamp Speaker: Bill Sodeman for the announcement of my talk entitled How to Blog Your Career Without Breaking Your Budgets.
I’ll talk about how I’ve used WordPress to help me document and record my teaching, writing and social media activities.
It will be a 30-minute talk, with a few demonstrations, an nice set of slides and plenty of time to talk story with attendees.
Budgets?
Yes, I did mean to use the word “budgets”. People have a financial budget, and they also have a time budget or schedule, too.
It makes sense for faculty members should keep track of their activities, but that can be a challenge. Faculty tend to work on their own, without much or any administrative support. It’s a lot like being an entrepreneur, without the thrills of elevator pitches and business plans.
I have a renewable contract at HPU, which means that every 5 years I must ask the university to renew my contract. We don’t have tenure at Hawaii Pacific University, but in early 2011, I can request a promotion to full professor.
Both the reappointment and promotion processes require me to produce a large, well-organized binder with statements of my activities, and plenty of supporting evidence.
I’ll also discuss how entrepreneurs, students, and other people can use the techniques I’ve developed in WordPress to help their own careers and professional goals.
Many thanks to Roxanne Darling and Judi Clark for all their work on WordCamp Hawaii.
