Social networking is all about staying in touch with friends and making new contacts. On Google Plus, you add friends by putting them into your circles. You meet new people by hanging out in Google Plus communities.
In this article, I give you a freelancer’s guide to who you should add to your circles, how to meet new people in communities, and how to use communities and circles as a marketing tool.
Let’s get started by looking at what circles are.
There’s even more proof this week that designers are the new rock stars of the tech world. Adobe announced on Thursday that it has acquired Behance, a community site for designers’ portfolios. Adobe will integrate Behance into its own Creative Cloud community and tool-sharing site that it launched for designers and developers earlier this year.
The companies didn’t release terms of the deal. Behance, founded in 2006 and now with 32 employees, has 1 million users and hosts 3 million projects. Earlier this year Behance raised a $6.5 million round from Union Square Ventures, along with angels Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Path founder Dave Morin, designer Yves Behar, 500 Startups’ Dave McClure, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp, Chris Dixon, and Dave Tisch.
As a blogger you strive to get your written words distributed on as many blog sites as you can, especially if you are looking to have your name publicized and associated with certain niches, communities and subjects. You already know that remaining “stale” or “stagnant” is not an option as a writer; in fact they just might be two of the most despised words within the blogosphere. Although you need to spend a lot of time learning and finding sources to promote you (if you are a serious writer), after finding a blog that will publish your words of art, then is the moment it should become about them.
A portfolio website is a good way to promote your designing skills online. You might be aware of the portfolio communities which the designers have in different social networking sites. These sites give them portfolio pages and also personal profiles. The portfolio communities do not have only professional graphic designers hovering around but also some users who are new and want to learn making a new portfolio.
There are some free platforms for the people where they can learn to be creative professionals and the output is really nice. Some dynamic portfolio’s can be built for the latest projects in your hand. They are insights for creative professionals and leaders from the creative industry use it to hire talented people. One can form groups, share content or receive the feedback from this network. Some sites let you manage and display your portfolio at the same time. They have a range of tools which lets you modify the work you wish to showcase. You just to signup and fill the form and you reach the personal dashboard. The about tab is clicked to fill in the personal details to make it the way you wish the portfolio to appear in public. You can add projects along with images, flash movies. The projects are to be grouped with details like title, description, client URL etc.
Camus wrote, “Life is a sum of all your choices.” The same can be said of all the things that just happen to us. And lucky you, Hunch has correlational data for both.
Have you ever played the drinking game “Have You Ever?” or its more complicated cousin “Never Have I Ever”? They both involve confessing things you’ve done while also trying to predict what other players have or haven’t done.
The privacy concerns around the tracking of consumers and targeted advertising online may be coming to the physical world.
At a Federal Trade Commission workshop about the privacy implications of face recognition on Thursday, all eyes were on the new “Find My Face” feature in Google+, announced at the conference. The event, however, also focused on how face detection is being used offline in “smart sign” technology and other applications.
If you’re a designer, you need a place to display your work. Fortunately, there are a number of online portfolio sites that are quick and easy, and require little to no technical expertise or capital expense.
Here is a list of sites to showcase your online portfolio. Some of these sites feature job boards. Other sites feature social tools to help distribute your work. Nearly all of these sites have a free option.
When people speak, do you listen? How much of what's communicated do you internalize?
Recently, I was talking to someone who was not very present in the conversation. Even though she would nod and say "Yeah" the whole time we communicated, her follow-up comments would reveal she wasn't listening 100%.
