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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


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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,

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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.

Want to check out some other great pages, here you go.

  1. http://about.me/ryanchris

  2. http://about.me/tonyconrad

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