Facebook page

This week in the lab for Ales 204 we were given the opportunity to create professional Facebook pages. I have been using Facebook for about 4 years to keep in touch with friends near and far though had never thought of creating a page. The layout and set up of the page was simple and strait-forward. I would recommend it to anyone looking to advertise their business and keep in touch with clients while gaining new ones.

One Facebook page I frequent is the Dalai Lama's page, full of insightful advice, check it out:

http://www.facebook.com/DalaiLama

We were instructed to fill the page with information that would be found on a resume: skills, education, work and volunteer experience. However we were also able to include personal interests which is often not included in a resume, and it makes the information much more personal than just chronology of employment. The addition of a photo makes the page enjoyable to look at while putting a face to the information given.

This page will help me in the future by allowing me to advertise skills and experience relevant to a work or volunteer positions I seek. It will also allow all my Facebook friends to stay current on my career goals and achievements. I plan to use the page to share with friends, and whoever may be interested, information I choose to share regarding nutrition. This page helps to connect my personal life with my business life, while allowing me to be in control of how much of each I choose to share.

My page can be found at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kandice-Mueller/336534619712695?sk=info

I recommend you also take a look one of my classmates blogs: Clara T is also in nutrition and I look forward to reading the information she will be posting!

http://ales204ct.blogspot.com/

Introduction

Hi there, thanks for visiting my site.
I'm Kandice Mueller, a second year nutrition student at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. I have created this blog as an assignment for a communications class as required by my program.
The class aims to encourage students to increase their awareness and use of social media to communicate in their field of science.
Communication is a huge part of nutrition, as nutrition knowledge is extremely valuable not only for those in a clinical practice but for everyone interested in a healthy lifestyle for themselves and loved ones. Currently, communication is important for my education, allowing me to access information online and though the library journal database. The Internet is also valuable to help me stay current on popular topics being researched or discussed by the scientific community and the public. Social media also gives me the opportunity to share my knowledge and opinions about topics in nutrition with others, this blog being my first step in that direction. In the future, I will continue to use this blog and social media as a means of communication with a vast group of others with the shared interest of well being.
This blog, as the title states, is about beans. This fall I began a volunteer position with a dietitian at the St. Josephs auxiliary hospital who gave me the opportunity to organize nutrition month for the facility. After considering many ideas I decided the topic of nutrition month would be beans; I hope that by providing people with the the knowledge of the nutritional value of beans and the versatility and ease of preparation will lead to an increase in their consumption. Many people, especially the older generation, view beans as the poor mans meat and that if one can afford meat, beans are unnecessary. The modern shift towards plant based diets has shed some light on beans as a nutritional powerhouse, but the benefits of bean consumption remain mostly unknown.
My goal is to change the common perception of beans, and encourage increased consumption by sharing nutritional information, recipes, and my personal experiences with the magical fruit.