30 Things You Should Do This Summer and set yourself apart from the pack
1. Start a blog and post at least twice a week
2. If you already have a blog, write a post that gets retweeted 20 times
3. Shoot 100 amazing photos and post them on Flickr
4. Friend at least 50 journalists on Twitter who in turn follow you back
5. Become a part of a crowdsourcing project (start here)
6. Improve at least 5 Wikipedia entries
7. Create an audio slideshow using Soundslides
8. Shoot and edit a 3-minute video and post it to YouTube
9. Create a website from scratch using HTML and CSS
10. Create and maintain a Delicious account with at least 50 links that you find interesting
11. Create an online portfolio
12. Learn at least one other form of blogging (e.g. photoblogging, videoblogging, liveblogging)
13. Crop, resize, and color correct 50 photos using photo editing software
14. Start your own podcast
15. Create a profile on LinkedIn
16. Learn another computer language besides HTML (e.g. XML, PHP, MySQL)
17. Create an avatar and use it on all your social networking profiles
18. Learn how to create a basic slideshow in Flash
19. Subscribe to at least 25 non-journalism blogs using an RSS reader
20. Record, edit and embed a 3-minute piece of audio.
21. Interview 10 people using a handheld audio recorder
22. Interview 10 people using a video camera
23. Create a map mashup using a CSV file
24. Set your social network profiles to private or remove any incriminating evidence
25. Create a multimedia project that incorporates, video, audio, and text
26. Create a Flash project that uses ActionScript 3.0
27. Write a blog post that is Dugg at least 20 times
28. Join Wired Journalists
29. Attend a multimedia training workshop or take an online course
30. Remind yourself why you want to be a journalist [Ed. *or any other kind of employee]
This is a solid list that really everyone who’s looking for a job should be doing.
