China Blogger Tour Update: Melissa Sconyers wins VisualCV contest!

Melissa Sconyers was just announced as the winner of the contest to join the blogger tour to China and blog for Mashable!  The contest was sponsored by VisualCV and promoted by Mashable, and the tour led/organized by The China Business Network, Web2Asia, and CN Reviews.

Melissa’s winning VisualCV

Here’s Melissa’s profile on VisualCV: http://www.visualcv.com/msconyers

UPDATE: Be sure to follow Melissa here:

• Twitter:  girk
• Blog: gee.ky

I asked Pierce Resler, Director of Marketing of VisualCV, what she wanted to say about Melissa and why she was selected. This is what she had to say:

We were impressed by all the contest entrants…However, Melissa’s VisualCV put her in front of the pack. Using several of the features of VisualCV.com, Melissa depicted her experience, passion and talents in a multimedia and visually compelling format allowing all of the judges to understand how she is a perfect addition to the China 2.0 Tour.  The ability to include text to outline your experiences and expertise alongside of examples, supporting documents and links help make a VisualCV powerful. Melissa tapped this to build a VisualCV that taught us about her and sold us on selecting her as the winner. Congratulations, Melissa!

VisualCV is partnered with The China Business Network and also with Guy Kawasaki.  With ardent promoters like Christine Lu and Guy Kawasaki, I think we’ll hear a lot more about this company.  According to Pierce, VisualCV’s can be a resume, online professional profile, business development tool, mini website, speaker’s bio, or any use you can think of.  Ultimate self-promoter Guy Kawasaki says so too.

I learned a lot about Melissa that I wouldn’t have on a traditional paper resume, which by the way I think is totally obsolete.  For example, she worked as a photojournalist for That’s Beijing (now called The Beijinger). Her Flickr photostream really got my attention and I can’t wait to go on tour with her.  Here’s a sample from her China Favorites album:

Congratulations Melissa!