Guest speaker, Mr Lionel Chin come by today to interact with us.

Be a freelancer, slowly make you way up. If we are interest of having a job in this sector field, we should start building our portfolio now. One should continue to improve, be an independent learner, able to gain loyal customers, keeping in touch with the current trend in technology, social media tools, programmes, etc. Speaker says that the best way to advertise yourself are Twitter, Nuffnang, Goggle Adwords, forum, Search engine optimization (SEO), etc.

Being a freelancer is good in term of upgrading yourself. But what been share by the speaker itself said that there are negatives to it. In term of upgrading yourself, we will upgrade ourselves in term of the area we are expert or interested with it. We are trapping ourselves in the comfort zone, not waiting to expose to other type of expertise. Thus is not good just to be good in one area, one should be good in every areas.

To further add on, a freelancer may not able to commit fully. Partly because we are still schooling, thus we have to able to cope extremely well through our school works and personal activities. If we can’t cope well, we would not be able to commit in giving our fullest in completing the job. Thus it result, insincerity of completing the works or giving up / backing away from the project given which eventually led to unprofessionalism.

School assignment project and company base project. Speaker commented there’s a huge different gap. Lecturer will give you negative comments in a good way. But for clients there will screw you / scold you, right, left, back, front and centre. They are classified as the unforgiveable customers; they expect changes and solution to be done immediately. We have to continuously re-do till they are satisfied. The way we plan draft on school assignment, thinking it’s acceptable by the lecture; it may not be the same in the company. The company may want more or may actually reject your proposal. Thus we should keep in mind that, we should be well prepared for negative remarks. Not crying your tears out or cursing them.

New words learn were, Content Management Systems (CMS). Taken from Wikipedia, “A Web content management system (WCM, WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system (CMS) software, implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and essential Web maintenance functions.” The most to what I can understand is that, the client is able to make changes and edit even thought they are not IT geeks and content are save in database. They don’t need the help of the creator of the website to do for them unlike the Static website.

Since I missed a few minutes of the introduction due to lateness (i’m sorry for not being on time), and I ask around who is he, whoa! I’m surprise that he start up RippleWerkz Studio; basically he may be so call the boss and has its own company at the age of 25. That incredibly young! Maybe someday, I will be inspired to have my own a company. But before that, it’s best if I were to able to able to work with a well known company mainly just too impress my resume to the interviewer.

The works that the company work on impress me. I didn’t know that Xia Xue blog was created by RippleWerkz. I was amaze when I first revisited her blog (a curious reader), that the site was revamped incredibly nice. The way every time a visitor enters in, the main image chances. I didn’t know how to the coding goes, and how the twitter box came about in a speak box. Mainly because of the back coding, I’m inspired to actually wanting to know how they did that. If I knew all coding, I would have it apply it on my own blog.

I was inspire with this statement I heard today, it not just how well and perfect your output is but how you add something to generate the traffic flow. The bigger the traffic flow is, the better your site are well know, thus the creator of the site will feel the wonders of satisfaction. Thus leading of wanting to achieve more.

I personally think it useful having guest speaker to share his / her experience with us. Mainly because they will share their working journey with us, we are expose to the local company that available in Singapore that we ourselves don’t even know. I would prefer if the speaker could have exposed us with more information. I can’t blame the speaker that he doesn’t have enough contents; he is new to this since it’s his first time, it’s acceptable. Maybe it’s our fault for not asking relevant questions, it’s just that we are use to listening instead of asking. A two way communication learning? It’s quite hard to see this happening. And the speaker was friendly with us, since he is young; communicating with us was rather enjoyable.

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