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The original incarnation of my technical editors' website (on CompuServe,
about 5 or 6 years ago) was my resume and a portfolio of items to which I
hold the copyright. Obviously this left out a lot of material that I had
written or edited for hire (to avoid any breach of copyright), and as the
online portfolio was in HTML it gave no indication of the appearance of the
material as originally published. Today I would consider including some
PDFs in an online portfolio, to show layout and design as well.
Since then the website has gone through several iterations and I have added
lots of material that was written specifically for the site, but it still
serves as my online portfolio (among other things). Obviously I think this
approach is a good thing <grin> and recommend it. Just don't include
anything that you don't own, unless you have explicit permission from the
owner.
One of the main reasons I wrote a lot of short pieces for publication in a
variety of magazines, both popular and trade, was to build up a portfolio
of writing samples that I could use without question. I started doing this
around 1988, when I lost a job because the company I worked for went out of
business.
My question is, does anyone put their portfolio online? Do you think this
is a good/bad idea? Coming from a web background and looking for work in
the web industry, it seemed to me like a natural thing to do. However,
perhaps there are issues that in my inexperience I have not considered
(although I have long been a technical communicator, this is my first
"tech writing" job search).
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