Oh, Google and Facebook. Thanks to the two giants of search and social, you can’t really hide very easily anymore. If you have things in your past that you don’t want known, businesses considering hiring you don’t have to hire an investigator to go beyond the standard background check. They simply need to find you online.
Regardless of whether you are in business, trying to put your startup on the map, new to the working world or focus mostly on non-profit work, LinkedIn is a very good networking tool to help you achieve your professional goals.
A hunting ground for headhunters, HR managers and new businesses looking for partners or opportunities, it will do you good to have a professional LinkedIn profile set up, to let you take advantage of this.
Facebook Pages, in Facebook’s own words, “give a voice to any brand, business or organization to join the conversation with Facebook users.” To engage on Facebook as a brand, business or freelancer, you need a Page. As Facebook puts it, “Everything you do on Facebook starts with your Page”.
In a Freelance Switch screencast I showed you how to create your Facebook Page, which covers basic facebook page setup.
Once you’ve created your page, you’re ready to configure it. That means getting a profile picture, a cover, and a vanity URL. It also means filling out your about page, and tweaking your Page settings.
You can do most of this in your page settings, which you access by clicking “Update Info” in the Edit Page menu.
LinkedIn makes sense for professionals, but what about for freelancers?
In my experience, LinkedIn is an important tool in my marketing toolbox.
Being on LinkedIn allows me to showcase my skills and experience. Additionally, LinkedIn is a networking platform, which makes it perfect for finding prospects, hooking up with new clients or reconnecting with past clients.
In this article I show you how to set up your LinkedIn profile as an effective marketing tool. Setting up your profile for success is important because it provides the foundation on which to build your LinkedIn networking and marketing efforts.
Here’s what you want from your profile.
Facebook just announced it's partnering with seven new anti-virus companies, in addition to the ones it already worked with. They'll be offering software in the Facebook AV Marketplace, which lets users download antivirus security software. But the real benefit might be in how they affect Facebook at large.
Your Facebook cover photo is the very first thing customers—and potential customers—see. A study released earlier this year by EyeTrackShop found that the images are the main attraction, with 100 percent of those surveyed looking at them. (Somewhere between 65 percent and 92 percent viewed the profile photos on the old brand pages.)
So what can you do to make your cover image work for you?
First, of course, there is the question of what photo to use. The EyeTrackShop study found that cover images with faces attracted more attention than those without. Wendy Tan-White, chief executive of Moonfruit, which builds e-commerce websites, suggests featuring an image that relates not only to your product or service but also to your customers. Got What It Cakes, a Charlotte, N.C.-based small business, features its owner, Mandie Miller, sitting at home with three striking cakes in its photo. Baby photos are visible on the wall behind her. Many of Miller’s customers are mothers.
Recently, Twitter has updated your profile design. Now your new Twitter profiles includes a Facebook or GooglePlus-like cover image and repositioned profile image. The new awesome design is already rolled out to all Twitter users.
Twitter Covers is the first website that collects the best Twitter Covers around the world. There are different categories you can choose from, for example, Abstract, Art, Nature, Photos, Places and etc. Here we have selected the following 30 Amazing Twitter Covers for Your Twitter Profile. Please feel free to leave a comment and tell us your favorite ones.
Few days ago, Twitter pushed live new updates, launching version 5.0 and refreshing the user interface, introducing fresh profile views, new photo streams. Twitter has released New Header Images for each user’s profile. You may now change your Twitter Covers if you like.
Simply choose to edit your profile using the iPad app, touch the “Header” button, and choose your preferred cover image. If you’re visiting Twitter using your computer, you can upload your cover by clicking the image of the cog in the upper right-hand corner and choosing to “Edit Profile.” Choose “Design” from the left-hand menu, and then scroll down to the “Customize Your Own” section.
As our life gets more busier, we often turn to online dating websites to help up find that special someone. Having an algorithm find our soul-mate might sound weird, however it has proven to be successful for many happily married couples. To take another spin on this ongoing phenomenon, the team from Nextmovie.com created hypothetical online dating profiles of superheros. Superheroes need some love, too, you know. Enjoy!
Gawker started a row against Facebook last month by pointing out some of the moderators it outsources work to in Morocco, India and other countries are paid $1 per day.
As Forbes points out, Gawker initially made a non-story into a story: while $1 per day is not great, it does amount to the standard minimum wage in the countries where Facebook is sending work. "One of the problems is that many people don't quite understand how poor many parts of the world are," Tim Worstall wrote for the magazine.
That "Friends of Friends" option on Facebook might seem like common sense, but be careful.
According to a new Pew study, if you have a large number of Facebook friends, information you make available to "Friends of Friends" could be seen by over seven million people.
Good catch by Farhad Manjoo: Apple earned $13.1 billion in income in the quarter ending December 31 last year — higher than Google's $10.6 billion in revenue in the same quarter.
Apple brought in $46.3 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter, completely smashing Wall Street expectations. Google missed Wall Street's estimates for its fourth-quarter earnings and revenue.
Also, Apple is twice as valuable as Google — and its shares have shot up more than 7% on Apple's earnings announcement today.
Social networks have grown into the norm in today’s sophisticated Internet. Modern web pages have become very personalized over the past decade including a number of user interface features. One such example is the user profile picture often accompanied by each username.
There's a ton of reasons to love Chrome, but syncing isn't one of them--yet. Google has just built a new feature into Chrome 16 that could make multiple account management much better.
Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner filed a lawsuit against Facebook in August claiming that the social network is creating "extensive profiles" of non-users with information gleaned from the profiles of its 800 million users.
“Facebook Ireland is gathering excessive amounts of information about data subjects without notice or consent by the data subject," the filing reads.
There is a lot you can tell about a person by reading their Facebook profile. From incriminating photos to friendship insights, Facebook tells all. That's one of the reasons so may parents are joining Facebook, according to a recent study. As it turns out, more than half of parents use the popular social network to spy on their kids' Internet activity--and 11 percent of parents joined Facebook for the sole purpose of snooping on their kids! But with the growing number of underage Facebook users, are parents snooping, or safeguarding? Find out the stats on parents and Facebook in the below infographic.
