Something to know – about.me.
Learn more “about.me”
about.me is a free web service that offers registered users a simple platform to link multiple online identities, websites, and social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, and Tumblr. With it you can build a one-page user profile with a short bio and contact information. Your personal page will be given an easily-remembered name like about.me/yourname.
You can style your creation with your choice of background, fonts, and colors. You can update your information at any time. The end result is very attractive and quite useful for yourself and for those who visit your about.me page. It can be used to support your web presence by helping drive traffic to your sites.
about.me benefits:
- Start or improve your online presence
- Market your business
- Create a public profile
- Help your job search
- Create a personal home page
- Have a central point of contact
Using and publicizing your about.me page is another way you can boost your Search Engine Optimization. Registered users can use the dashboard which has a number of tools to help you do that. The tools enable you to post messages on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. They also help you add a link to your email signature.
The dashboard also gives you statistics on the number of visitors to your about.me page, the number of clicks your page receives, and a list of external sites that point to your about.me page. This can help you see the results you are getting and you should see an uptick when you make a concerted effort to promote your about.me page.
Action steps:
- Check out about.me and register today. It takes less than 2 minutes to sign up for this added value service.
- And check out my own about.me page at about.me/stevenglick.
- Note the footer at the bottom of this page. It contains some of the content from my about.me page and it takes you to my about.me page if you click it. And it’s automatically updated in the footer when I update the about.me page. Pretty nifty, huh?
- Some other about.me pages to check out: Pure Michigan, MSU Alumni, about.me pages tagged “business networking”