Are Professional Headshots in Social Media a Bad Idea?
I was trolling #journchat last night, periodically weighing in with my usual blend of calculated nonsense when I found something worth blogging about. I think a lot of new grads and job seekers read Socialbyte, so I thought it would be extra intriguing for those peeps. (For the record, #journchat is a weekly tweetchat centering on media, PR, journalism and social media. Questions are asked, and loads of Twitter peeps respond. It’s a gas, and I recommend checking it out sometime.) One of the questions put forth was “What can new graduates do to market themselves, esp. online?” My response was “New grads should leave the headshot at home when marketing themselves online. So hideously formal. Ew.” A conversation happily ensued with folks weighing in on different aspects of professional portraits and their utility in the social web. Some pointed out that broadcast professionals’ credibility is tied to their faces and that starchy portraiture is the only means of capturing their austere ste
