I've fallen a bit behind with the Rudaí Things already - mainly due to going away last weekend. But I will have some time over the next couple of weeks to catch up, before I inevitably fall behind again in mid August when I go on holiday. But for now, here are my brief thoughts on Thing 3: Professional Branding, in which we create LinkedIn or About.me profiles and develop our Professional Brands! I already had a LinkedIn profile (with a Profile Strength rating of All-Star!), so I decided to see what this About.me business was all, er . . . about.
I have a vague recollection of looking at About.me a number of years ago, and deciding it wasn't for me. That was in the days before I had a profession - maybe it will be better for me now? About.me is basically an on-line business card. I've treated it as kind of a summary of the information on my LinkedIn page, focussing on the most relevant information and presenting it in a more striking and immediate way. This is what I've come up with. It remains to be seen how useful this will actually be in practice, but it has been a handy exercise to focus on some of my recent achievments and experiences.
I'll leave this brief as I am about to get started on Thing 4: Google!
Hi
I like your about.me page. I think of it as being a bit like LinkedIn, too. But the way you describe it as an online business card is a great analogy. In fact, when my Institute was ordering business cards for us, I asked them to print a link to my about.me page as the "web address" part of the business card instead of the college URL (which is what everyone else got by default!).
The Rudai23 Team
Thanks Wayne, I did use your about.me as a bit of a template!