You can now beef up your LinkedIn profile by adding any volunteer experience, a list of causes that you care about, and any organizations you support. After all, volunteering is as good for your career as it is for those you help. And your volunteer efforts … [Read more...]
Need more guest blog posts? Say so in “About Me”
Featuring guest bloggers at your blog is one of the best ways to create content when you're on vacation, or the idea well is dry, or you've simply run out of steam. I wish I'd receive 10 times the number of pitches I do from guest bloggers. Today, as I was looking for interesting content to tweet, I ended up at Arik Hanson's [Read more...]
Tips for updating your LinkedIn profile
By Joan Stewart
Too many of us build out our LinkedIn profile, and then once we see the blue bar that says "100% profile completeness," we forget to return to it periodically for updates.
Job-hunters, publicity-seekers: Wake up your boring bios
Boring bios are more potent than sleeping pills.
Yet you read them all the time in people's online press rooms, in their books, and even on the mini-profiles they write on their Twitter and Facebook pages.
Sometimes job-hunters include a … [Read more...]
Can your social networking profile pass the 10-second test?
How many times do you read somebody’s profile at a social networking site, and then devour everything they’ve written because the profile sounds so interesting?
Almost never. But last week on Twitter, I stumbled across Judy Lederman’s profile:
It clearly passes the … [Read more...]
How to get Google juice from your LinkedIn profile
The more inbound links to your website from authoritative websites, the more authoritative Google judges your own website and the more traffic it will deliver.
And you get extra points from Google as well as traffic if those links include hyperlink text. For example, if someone links to my website at PublicityHound.com, I'd much rather … [Read more...]
Your social networking profiles shouldn’t include passwords
I'm going to comb through my profiles at the various social networking sites where I participate to see if any of them contain the passwords I use for my bank accounts, websites and anything else online. The article "Forgot Your Password?" May be Weakest … [Read more...]
Add social media links to your EzineArticles.com profile
It's difficult enough keeping up with all the updates, profiles, friending, etc. at social networking sites. So thanks to Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com for reminding us to cross-promote … [Read more...]
Obituary for Lex the Husky can help you write a better bio
When Publicity Hound Michelle Tennant of Wasabi Publicity emailed me last week to let me know that her beloved pet, Lex, a strawberry blonde Siberian husky, had died, the obituary she … [Read more...]
Nonprofit bios: Keep ’em short and credible
Nancy Schwartz, one of the foremost experts in marketing for nonpofits, passes along handy reminders for nonprofit execs and others on how to write a bio. She recommends: ---No more than two paragraphs. Make note of any professional designations, associations and awards. These show you have deep connections in the field. ---Write bios for … [Read more...]