If you’re an up and coming graphic/web designer just out of university, you’ll know it’s quite hard to break into workforce. You have to contact employers one by one, spend your time traveling and lugging your portfolio to their offices. Well, things have changed, and for better let me tell you. Now you can make your own on-line portfolio on Internet, and send its web page address to numerous design companies at once so they can all see your work easily. You don’t even have to leave your house and organizations all over world can access your work easily.

Individual businesses will get to know your particular style and your capabilities. It’s exactly like having an interview but with no schedules to have to adhere to and they don’t have to meet you in person! You might even consider leaving your MSN address so people can conference with you instantly. As quality of web sites are reaching great heights, you can exhibit very detailed artworks in full color and if you gain a little technical knowledge (easily attained) you can even make them interactive. You can also have links to graphics sites that you admire giving employers and potential clients knowledge about what truly drives you.

Can you remember a friend or relative’s name that has disappeared from Earth? You haven’t had contact with them in decades, but now you want to find out where they are so you can get in touch. In old days this would have been nearly impossible, but now things are different. There are many different ways to find people lost in ‘space and time’ on Internet. Some are free and some cost, but amount of personal information you can find about any individual in world is astounding.

Besides simple International White Pages web sites, there are many companies that are masters of locating personal information. Say you used to live overseas when you were a child and you want to see how your best friends from primary school are doing in their lives. You can find out their address, email, and phone number, even about their personal history, like whether or not they’ve got a criminal record! Some might perceive this as an invasion of privacy, like ‘Big Brother’ in book ‘1984’, but if one’s intentions are true and positive, I think this can be great for finding buddies, loved ones, and relatives.