A new tool to unify your Social Media “About.Me”
I have a ton of Social Media tools I have been connecting, creating accounts, reserving user names, and generally planning ahead.
So you ask “Scott what is a way to keep track?”
Well one option that has been getting some steam is the About.Me personal landing page. I have been working to find the right image to tell the story, and your profile story should hit it right on the head.
http://about.me/digitalmacgyver
Here is my text.
SharePoint Technologist Roaming the Portlandia My personal mission statement: Integrity My Specialties: SharePoint 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Training, SharePoint Records Management, SharePoint E-Discovery, Records Management Training, SharePoint Solution Architecture, Customs and Trade, International Law, Digital Forensics, Litigation, Technical Writing, Systems Architecture, Microsoft Training, On-Line Instruction, Technical Instruction, Large Scale Instruction, SharePoint e-Learning Platform Design.
Pros:
You can personalize your URL, you give your page your own title,
You get the option of including Tags on the page, visible and searchable. I like the idea, just have not found the right ones.
My usage: Now I use mine as a way to show my active social service accounts. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Klout, and other services.
The nice part is this becomes a version of a business card. I know what you are saying Business Card….naaah Sure. One of the Offers is a great business card with the site info, and a Digimark.
Sure I give them a single link to look at, add to my signature line of an email, and Ta Da, they now have links into my Social Hub.
Downside – Cons:
Ok so I have talked up the tool, now the downside. The page format is a little restrictive. Generally not so good on a mobile device or a Tablet unless you like looking at the page in Landscape mode. You can only get so much above the fold.
Second, this is only a linking tool, it does not give you a way to populate content to those dozen social sites you just connected. That is a drag…..so I will have to pick up a different tool for that. Alternion, but I will talk about that in another post.
Lastly, background image. If you have not already seen, that is a pretty big image, and it needs to be high res, and massive. Recommend a Desktop Wallpaper size image, but that also translates to slower load times. Sorry to look good takes bandwidth.
This image of Portland I am currently using in this post is 1024 x 768 and about 874kb in size. I plan on getting a better more personal image soon, but that takes time.
Conclusion:
Fan, and plan to find new ways to use it.
Simply Unify your social media.
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