Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #10 February 16, 2008
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The tenth in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 10: Call to action
If you don’t ask people to do things - guess what - they don’t do anything. So remember that if you want people to contact you or buy from you or talk to you - you need to ask them to do it.
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #9 February 15, 2008
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The ninth in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 9: Talk to strangers
Yes. Talk to strangers before you commit your profile to the digital winds. Ask people who perhaps don’t know you all that well to look at what you’ve drafted - and they’ll tell you where it’s good, and bad. Better to find out now, than later…
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Bessie lands in Scotland February 14, 2008
Posted by David Petherick in : Live, Utterances, mobile, share, sound, streams ,
Bessie is here!
I was delighted to have Fedex bang at my door a little earlier today - and guess what - a whole bagload of goodies from Utterz.com!
I really appreciate this, and of course, my small promotion of Utterz.com is now ready to continue - Bessie will be appearing in a few unexpected places and may be becoming a moovie star in the future.
Thanks to Randy and everyone who helps to make the mooves at Utterz!
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Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #8
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The eighth in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 8: Be human…
Tell me about what makes you tick. I may, or may not be interested in the fact that you like scuba diving and cricket. But what if I love cricket - and you never told me?
I may have a lifetime of loathing for The New York Giants, but at least I can start a conversation with you a little more easily now that I know you are a fan, or send you an appropriate message when your team wins (or loses) a big game?
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #7 February 13, 2008
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The seventh in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 7: Tales of the Unexpected
Are you the most boring person in the world? No, I didn’t think so - but unless you tell me (or show me) something unusual, unexpected, unique and interesting about yourself, it’s difficult to tell that.
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #6 February 12, 2008
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The sixth in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 6: Turn off that webcam!
Here’s a great tip for recording your online video. Don’t.
Unless it’s professionally scripted, shot, and edited, or you’re a natural on TV, you may be better just keeping your home movies for consumption by your relatives…
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Resource for this tip:
Ten Top Tips for an Effective Video by Nick Radcliffe
Just send an email to nickradcliffe@expert.profileprofessional.net
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Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #5 February 11, 2008
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The fifth in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 5: Talk to me!
Talk to people online - literally. Use tools like www.utterz.com to let people hear your voice and connect with you as another person with something to say…
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #4 February 10, 2008
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The fourth in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 4: Use testimonials effectively
I don’t believe what you say, because (of course) you’re biased. But I can believe what your customers say about you. Your customers’ real opinions add to your credibility…
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #3 February 9, 2008
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The third in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 3: Tell me about the Benefits
I don’t care what you do - I am only interested in what’s in it for me. Harsh, but true. Tell your story in terms of the benefits you bring, and you’ll get the ear of your audience…
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Digital Biographer moooving in the right direction…
Posted by David Petherick in : Utterances, authors, brand, corporate blogs, digital biographer, googlicious, online identity, share, social media, sound, streams ,You may have noticed some sound files being added to this blog over the past few days. Well, you’re not alone - the people who run Utterz.com seem to have noticed too, and have created a rotating banner for the site that advertises my content.
I am deeply flattered, and felt the need to reciprocate the attention by writing a little about the site - click the image below to see why I find Utterz such a useful resource to enhance my personal brand online, and do add your own comments when you see the full-size image - you can do so easily thanks to the great Skitch application. I also enjoy the humorous cow metaphor subtly used throughout the site, where Utterz = Udders (Geddit?), so you can ‘be herd, add ‘mooving’ pictures etc.
My Utterz Profile: http://www.utterz.com/~h-davidpetherick/profile.php
HTTV Shortcut: http://httv.biz/utterz/
Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #2 February 8, 2008
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The second in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 2: Look Good
It’s long been said that a picture paints a thousand words - so what does your online photo or avatar really say about you?
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! on Board at OpenID February 7, 2008
Posted by David Petherick in : 2.0, commerce, online identity, share, social media ,A formal announcement has been made today that Yahoo!, Microsoft, Verisign, Google and IBM will all join the OpenID Foundation as Board Members.
What exactly is OpenID? The way they put it at MyOpenID, which is one of many OpenID providers, is simple and compelling: “Start using the last username and password you’ll ever need. Signing up with myOpenID gets you:
- Secure control of your digital identity
- Easy sign-in on enabled sites
- Account activity reports
- Ability to manage multiple personas for different sites, and a whole lot more!”
I think we all find it very useful to be able to just need to remember one sign-in for many different web sites - and it’s also useful to be able to control the level of information and detail that people can see associated with a ‘persona’ - I can choose to have different information and types of information available for my different social and business ‘personas’. It also means that you can more easily update your details, and not worry that dozens of different sites have what might be out-of-date information.
Yahoo enabled openID a few weeks ago, as reported at TheNextWeb Blog, and with this announcement, OpenID seems to be close to becoming the global industry standard for online identity, where a single sign-on will allow access to entirely separate resources, and it should also increase the security of one’s personal identity, and lessen the scope for phishing and ID theft. The OpenID announcement is rightfully bullish about the progress thats been made.
Last year, OpenID grew by leaps and bounds both as a technology and as a community. At the beginning of 2006, there were fewer than 20-million OpenID enabled URLs and less than 500 websites where they could be used. Today there are over a quarter of a billion OpenIDs and well over 10,000 websites to accept them.
At the same time, they also acknolwedge that although Yahoo!’s implentation was a good start, there is still a job to do to make OpenID “clear and comprehensible to those who aren’t geeks.”
So, is OpenID clear?
Ten Top Tips for your Online Profile: Tip #1
Posted by David Petherick in : Live, Utterances, mobile, share, sound, streams ,
The first in a series of Ten Top Tips to make your online profile work harder than you do…
Tip 1: Forget your CV
Most people can not be objective when describing themselves - that is why so many autobiographies are unreadable…
Your online profile is your first, and often your last chance, to make a positive and credible impression online. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do.
Is your profile doing you proper justice and working as hard for your business as you do?
This series of tips will help you to get your online profile(s) working hard for you.
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Follow Gordon Brown on Twitter for real-time news. Er. Hours later… February 4, 2008
Posted by David Petherick in : 2.0, e-government, share, social media, streams ,I was impressed to see Prime Minister Gordon Brown is on Twitter, albeit unofficially hooked up via the 10 Downing Street Web Site RSS feeds. So I added Gordon to those whose tweet nothings I listen in to, so that I can find out what they are up to in real time…
However, it looks like’s Gordon’s idea of real time is a little behind mine. At 15:24, I got notice of his morning press briefing, as shown below. Hey Gordon, it’s the afternoon!
It appears that morning press briefings are only made public in the afternoon. It does take some time to write these things up, I suppose. And then one must have lunch, then check them again, of course…
Actually, I’ll get back to you on this story later…
