You just edited your resumé, your goals and your skills. This information is now stored in Mahara. The beauty of this of course is that you need to go through this process only once, then in the future you will only need to make updates depending on changes in career or skill sets. This is much better than having to update a word processed document!

You should regularly pop back and update your profile information. Also, you should think about using different e-mail accounts within Mahara for different purposes and audiences. Mahara encourages you to do this so that you can receive similar sorts of messages from similar groups of people in separate places.

Mahara asks you to set up a Blog Address as part of your contact information. Perhaps you could use Mahara itself to create a web page that collates your public-facing blogs. You could then enter this page as your blog in your contact information.

Most of all, we encourage you to use Mahara to become a reflective learner. It is not only a useful self-developmental process to use blogs to articulate, capture, and refine your everyday thinking processes, it can also be a useful self-developmental process to:

You saw in the last section that you can add links to your messaging addresses in your profile information. Mahara is encouraging you to play with some live messenger and audio/video conferencing clients such as Skype and Jabber. If you are not using these already, visit www.skype.com or www.jabber.org and sign up. You can also add your MSN, AIM, or YAHOO! accounts. You can now share this information with other users on your profile page as we'll see in the next section, so people have a different way of getting in touch with you.