Portfolio migration

A couple years ago, I created a work portfolio on Journo Portfolio. I like it as a portfolio site overall, but it’s focused on writing samples (or images, if you’re a graphic designer or photographer). I found it’s difficult to showcase a broader range of marketing projects, which is the type of work I have in my portfolio.

This weekend I started re-doing my portfolio as Canva slides. I’m moving over to Canva for a few reasons.

1. I spend a lot of time in Canva already, so there is no learning curve for me.
2. I like working with Canva slides more than PowerPoint or Google Slides.
3. I have flexibility in slide layouts to easily include text, images, and links. For example, I can include context and impacts for each project, which is difficult to do on Journo Portfolio. Their layout is very much, look at the thing I made, and that’s it.
4. Right now, I have three categories of projects–marketing content, internal communications, and sales enablement. If I want to make different versions of my portfolio to focus on only one type of work, I can do that easily in Canva.
5. I can point a custom URL to the slides' public URL, so they are still easy to share.

I’m re-making and also updating my portfolio, so I’m not just copy and pasting content from my portfolio site over to Canva. Gathering project info and images is taking a bit of time. But I like the direction that the slides are going. They’re a better representation of my work and experience.