Digital Biographer™

¿No has oido? ¡LinkedIn ahora es en Español! October 6, 2008

Posted by David Petherick in : digital biographer, linkedin, online identity, search marketing ,

Haven’t you heard? LinkedIn is now in Spanish!

A subtle little detail caught my eye on the right hand side of my LinkedIn profile this evening - a little global map, and the world ‘language with a dropdown icon to its right…

It’s a beta version of LinkedIn in Spanish. All I need now is for them to add Russian, and I’ll have to use all three of my languages in my profile.

Just searching LinkedIn’s blog, I see that this was announced in late July but it’s been kept fairly low on the radar for some reason. Naturally, it makes the interface easier to work with for those with Spanish, rather than English, as their primary language, but it also signals growing focus on developing LinkedIn in the Latin American market, where LinkedIn say they expect to double their user base by the end of this year.

Spanish is the second most-spoken native language in the world (500 million people), after only Mandarin Chinese, and is the third most-used language on the internet (behind English and Chinese).

Twellow adds more features to increase your online visibility October 1, 2008

Posted by David Petherick in : 2.0, authority, brand, googlicious, linkedin, microblogging, online identity, search marketing, social media ,

Twellow, the ‘yellow pages for Twitter‘, has improved its utility with the ability to create your own biography entry.

As well as being able to claim your twitter profile, and classify yourself in up to 10 categories (although I’m in 14 for some reason), you can also add your own social media links to your profiles on Pownce, LinkedIn, Flickr, FriendFeed, etcetera - as well as creating a brief summary and what’s termed a ‘bio’ or biography entry.

The search facility in Twellow includes the data in your summary and pick ups keywords and links used there, and your biography information can also include basic HTML, so links and visual formatting can be added. The summary is indexed in search - the biography does not appear to be indexed yet.

Apart from being a great way to find people using Twitter with similar interests, and pinpointing interesting people to follow, categorized Twellow profiles are also becoming visible in Google and Yahoo searches. So I’d recommend making sure you claim your profile at Twellow and add your details and social links to ensure your online visibility and credibility stay high. It’s free, and there are over half a million people listed there, so it’s worth spending a few minutes to make sure you’re visible, coherent, and linked up here.

A picture paints a thousand words: Profile photos arrive at LinkedIn September 27, 2007

Posted by David Petherick in : digital biographer, googlicious, linkedin, online identity, social media ,

LinkedIn, the business networking site, will tomorrow for the first time allow its members to upload their photographs to their profiles.

LinkedIn have announced that you can opt to have privacy of the image, and thus restrict its visibility to your connections, your network, or everyone, and also choose not to see others’ photos in a similar pattern. In addition there is also a cropping and centring tool to be made available to cut down large images to the ‘head and shoulders’ suitable for a profile photo.