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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 Carlos Alonso on -
Hey Alex,
I don't know about others, but I think that unconsciously followed a blog-centric approach:
All my profiles in different locations, from Pownce to Flickr to Del.icio.us, point only at my blog / personal website. And from there I link back to everyone of them. So if someone founds me on flickr, he/she can see my blog/personal website and from there he/she has acccess to all my other profiles on other platforms.
I tried to be consistent on my profiles in several social networking platforms: same pic, same username, etc. So is easier to anybody to recognize from website to website.
I'm currently trying to improve my 'about' page to show my latest activity in each different platform. This is the example I'm following: http://ulani.de/index.php?s=lana
Currently I've my personal and profesional info in different pages:
http://astillero.org/quien/ and
http://astillero.org/cv/
But I think this is the wrong way to do it. I'm going to mix them in one page, but will keep the CV page to put it on business cards.
I don't know if I'm really answering your questions...
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