Anne-Chantal Besong's Blog

This video is a presentation of the skills I have learnt through the University of Leicester's ONE  Award and how I plan to show case my personal brand and improve on my online presence through my blog and other social media sites.

A few months back I used to hear people say “ I have a social media account in order to network with other people ”. To me this meant hooking up with old school mates and friends, well that is what I saw most people around me doing anyway. So when I thought about getting other social media accounts I felt like what for? I do not want to bug my head with so meaning pass words. To me networking online and selling one’s skills could not be done. With so much content and chatting who will see me and my skills? How will they know the kind of person I am without seeing me face to face? But later this thought changed as I saw more and more people whom I respected and considered as role models inviting me to join this or that social media and when I checked their profiles it looked so professional and I thought to myself so what do I have to lose? But the big bang!!! That finally convinced me that networking online and em ployability were real and serious and not just some ...

When I had to help my former boss in ensuring that each time he travelled out of the mission he wrote a blog, in used to find it as easy task but when I was asked to write a blog in his stead once I did not find it easy. The words will not just come. I kept asking what I should say. Barely a year has passed since then and now if somebody should say I am a beginner in the area of blogging I am sure those who know will laugh and say no. But yes it is my first time. Dabbling around the blogger interface was not an easy task at first, but thank God! for the Leicester University Online Networking and Employability course I am presently taking, it has made things much easier. For example when I was setting up my blog I named it Announcing the Commonwealth Games in Cameroon but today while looking through the notes from the first unit I said to myself if I have to use my blog to show my personal brand to the public, it is supposed to bear my name as title. S...