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Freelancer's online profile: how to?
Hi everyone. I've freelanced most of my life, which is a fancy way to say i was unemployed for a long long time, with the exception of the odd job now and then. Recently i decided to invest more time in my own work, my blog, my personal reserches, and, though it hasn't paid off in money, it helped to boost my visibility and professional contact network. So far so good.
The problem is the following: i have a linkedin profile, a naymz profile, a bilingual blog, a professional website, and a portfolio webpage, besides all the short profiles scattered from digg to twitterdom, but the information is different in each place. I need to change all this to a more coherent block of personal/professional information, but i'm having trouble to know how to do it. So, what i ask,from your freelancing minds, are suggestions to make a better presentation of myself in all of these online venues. Give me links, ideas, tell me how you do it, and how you take profit from it. I'd really appreciate your input. Thank you.
The problem is the following: i have a linkedin profile, a naymz profile, a bilingual blog, a professional website, and a portfolio webpage, besides all the short profiles scattered from digg to twitterdom, but the information is different in each place. I need to change all this to a more coherent block of personal/professional information, but i'm having trouble to know how to do it. So, what i ask,from your freelancing minds, are suggestions to make a better presentation of myself in all of these online venues. Give me links, ideas, tell me how you do it, and how you take profit from it. I'd really appreciate your input. Thank you.
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Permalink Reply by Sean V. Lehosit on
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I think Carlos has a good way of looking at it. I'm doing the same thing at this time. As my projects change, I may have to alter how I work online though. We'll see. Anyone else have any feedback?
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Permalink Reply by Tj Carpenter on -
Well, I'm new at this, but I would say that for it get difficult maintaining all the social networking venues. It's almost a situation where you get spread too thin. Carlos does have a good way of looking at it, the problem is that you have to be diligent enough with things like facebook and twitter etc. to get people to click on that link back to your "central hub" your website or blog.
iPhones man. They make it SO easy to keep track of all that because you have an app for it right there at your fingertips 24/7.
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Permalink Reply by Carmen K. Sisson on -
I had this problem also. The first thing I did was change all my social network names to the same one when I could: CarmenSisson. Note the use of both first and last name. Before, I often used cksisson and a variety of other monikers.
The second thing I did was change my profile photos to the same one. Again, I had various images scattered everywhere.
When possible, I tried to make sure colors matched my website - for example, my Posterous profile and my main site. If I could use a banner, I used the same one as my main site. I made my tag lines match. I keep my tone relatively the same. People are confused if you're witty and irreverent in one place and the serious "voice of reason" in another - or at least that's my opinion.
At first, I worried people would get bored or annoyed that the info was the same everywhere, but I quickly realized that people choose one or two places they really like, and they mostly stay there. I end up interacting with different people on every network.
Now, I don't keep my statuses all the same, though I do sometimes. But when RSS is possible, I try to automate some things to tie my identities together. You'll notice on my profile here, I have my Twitter RSS. On my main site, when it's finished, I will have a blog with a lifestream in the sidebar detailing my activity on all networks, from Flickr to LinkedIn. Once it's set up, I won't have to touch it. At that point, I'll try to make my status more varied across the different outlets.
Few - if any - people follow me across every network, so redundancy doesn't seem to be a problem. If it becomes one, I'll have to rethink my strategy. For the moment though, it's working for me.
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