Posts under “Social Media” Category
Visual CV’s – Time to build one
I finally got down to making myself a visual CV at VisualCV.com. I have been reading about the buzz on visual CV’s and I think it’s about to gain momentum. The reason why I was putting it off was that I was quite happy with my LinkedIn profile and was focusing on building my professional network on that. But after taking a careful look at the concept I realized that it probably has a different purpose than LinkedIn and doesn’t really compete with your existing LinkedIn profile. In fact I think it probably complements it well. But I suspect more education is needed around visual CV’s and the differentiating factor over other professional social networking sites. For starters there is a lot of information on visualCV.com on what it’s all about and how one should go about creating a visual CV. It’s definitely a better way to represent and brand yourself with all the visual and multimedia capabilities it gives you. It probably makes total sense for consultants, entrepreneurs and top executives of marketing agencies who may have loads of video and audio to share from their previous speaking and consulting engagements.
LinkedIn adds productivity applications
Twitter widgets for blogs
I have been on an ongoing basis been looking at Twitter widgets that would work well into my blogs and facebook profile. Here are four of the many options available to choose from.(not in any order of priority)
Option 1: Tw
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Why i love twitter from a writer’s perspective
I have been using twitter since June of this year and i just love it. I don’t use twitter too much to update my status in terms of what i am doing or where i am headed. I use it more as a tool to quickly capture a fleeting thought that previously would go uncaptured. I have always been hit by these thoughts in the most inconvenient of times, like when i am on the bus or at lunch etc. But now all i need to do is get out my PDA and tweet away from m.twitter.com. I also like the feature where anytime i make a blog post it sends a tweet on my behalf with a tinyurl of my post. In recent month’s this has boosted the traffic on my site. I can see that there is even competition of incoming traffic from twitter and linkedin where i am active also. I recently also hooked my facebook status bar with a facebook twitter application that updates my status bar whenever i tweet. This is great as i no longer need to separately update status bar in facebook. I won’t be surprised if Twitter becomes the default status update tool that feeds other status bars in other social media tools like facebook, linkedin, msn etc. Whoever said twitter is dead got it so wrong. But i did notice that my frequency of blogging has reduced ever since i micro blog at twitter. Check out the best of my tweets. Read hereDo you judge a blog by the comments and number of conversations happening there?
I was having a corridor conversation with a colleague and the discussion centered around blogging. During the conversation he made a comment that struck a sensitive chord in me. He said “Nowadays everyone thinks or pretends to be a good blogger but if you go to their blogs, you will see zero comments on most of their posts”.Well that’s exactly the way my blog is, I thought to myself. Does that make my blog lousy? Well apparently by his standard it does. But I feel that it’s the wrong way to judge someone’s blog. I monitor my blog visitor statistics very regularly. I have a loyal group of subscribers and a decent amount of unique visitors monthly. Also the average time spent and average pages visited on my blog are favorably high numbers as well. Above all this I do get a lot of emails from friends and strangers after reading my post.
