I recently read an article posted by a web design company, explaining how they monitor the use of social media by copywriters, designers and coders, who work with them on projects! It was a fascinating insight into how unthinking use of social media could cost you your job, or even your next one!! The relevant content is re-posted below:

That’s why we monitor what they say online.

Here’s the thing: If we can read it and you can lose work with us over it… how many POTENTIAL clients did you lose also?

It’s not only self-employed freelancers, that need be concerned about this. Anyone looking for a job, or already employed, needs to be aware of what they post on the social networks &  how deeply employers are prepared to probe to find out about YOU!

I personally find it far too Big Brother for my liking; who hasn’t gone out & had one to many & it’s no wonder if employers expect everybody to be like worker drones, but it pays to be aware that if you post every detail of your behaviour on a social networking site, people can see it who you may rather not know what you got up to last night!!!

It’s been sometime since I blogged about web design work that I’ve been doing – is there any time inbetween affiliate marketing for other things?!!! O  Well, I suppose I have to earn some money to pay for the advertising, which sometimes seems like a bottomless pit! In fact, I don’t know why we don’t all give up affiliate marketing & just become advertising agencies instead – that seems to be where the real money is!!

A few months ago, I was asked to build a website for Change Social Care – a London based recruitment agency, with over 20 years experience specialising in the recruitment of quality Social Care Professionals & Administration and Secretarial Staff for Public and Private Sectors.

The budget for the job was around £300, even though the site took some time to complete, due to the regular re-writing of the content /  But, the site was finally completed to the satisfaction of the client & has been up & running now for some months.

I was contacted recently by an advertising agency, to build a 3 page website within a couple of days! They supplied all the copy & the site was built & uploaded on schedule, at a cost of just £100! The site www.mediatalent.co.uk is pretty basic, but looks fine & what do you expect for £100?!!!!

The major project I’ve been working on for some time has been for Roberts Roofing, a London roofing contractor working on projects worth £4 million last year! So, the pressure was on with this site!! They already had a website, built by the company itself, but wanted it brought up to date & modernised.

The new site was designed with a great deal of CSS and was constructed to emphasise the projects they have worked on, showing decent quality images of them. They wanted clean, simple lines & all relevant infomation to be available within a few clicks of each other, whilst removing a lot of the personalisation that had existed on the original site.

The site has finally been finished & the client is VERY pleased with it – so am I )

New website built for Roberts Roofing