Melissa Niu

Featured Friday #FFaboutme

Happy Friday! Do you have your about.me link in your twitter bio? What about on your Instagram or Pinterest? Using your about.me link on your social profiles helps people learn about you, not just browse about your tweets, photos, or pins.

JANET HSIEH

More Than Your Tweets.

The pages featured in this post are all included in the individual’s Twitter bio. With great images & informative bios these pages help new twitter followers learn more about the person. We’re all more than our tweets, your page can fill in the personality missing from your social profiles.

Take a look are the featured pages, click on each image to see their full page, and remember to leave a compliment when you do! Michael ArnoldEmily HellerKazumichi Mario Sakata

If your about.me link is in the appropriate section of you twitter bio, tweet the hashtag #FFaboutme for a chance to be selected next week. A clear, high resolution image helps too.

Good luck, and feel free to share you page in the comments below!

May 30, 2014  :  about.me, FFaboutme  :  Leave a comment
Anne Marie

Traveling with about.me: Panama

Panama, the southernmost country of Central America, connects the continents of North and South America and is the location of our latest trip around the world. With a population of just over 3.5 million people, the country is home to a number of members of the about.me community.

Located in our header photo we have art lover and fashion stylist of Canadian and Panamanian descent, Anne Marie. Below, we have Harold Maduro, founder of the coworking space, CascoStation, in Panama City. Be sure to check out all their pages!

Harold Maduro Stephanie M. Sanz Jorge Yau Miriam Benitez Italo Estrada Petrocelli Elena Hernández Luis Escobar Flor Nuñez de Ciampoli

Thanks again for coming along for our world-traveling adventure, stay tuned for our next destination! If you have a suggestion of where we should visit next, tell us about it in our comment section.

May 29, 2014  :  about.me, World tour  :  Leave a comment
Amine Sai

Students of the Week

Our students of the week are a diverse group from around the world. In our header we have Amine Sai who studies software engineering in Algeria. Just below we also have graphic design, painting and illustration student of Ukraine, Mariia Levchenko.

Be sure to check out all their pages and, as we mentioned on Tuesday, don’t forget to add your school or university to your page.  It could make it easier for recruiters to find you or even just other students and alumni who are looking to make connections at their schools.

Mariia Levchenko Wiktor Warchalowski

P.S. Don’t forget how important it is to give a great first impression through email, add your profile to your email signature so employers can link to your resume and learn more about you. Find out how to add your page to your email signature in our FAQs, and if you have Gmail, check out our new signatures.

May 28, 2014  :  about.me, Students  :  Tagged  :  Leave a comment
Graduation

Graduation Time

It’s the time of year when students finish class, commencement speakers share words of advice, and graduates proudly collect diplomas.

It’s also a great time to update the contact information on your about.me page, starting with educational info. Both recent and not so recent grads should make sure their educational details are up to date.

David Brock

Including educational information is a great way to connect with current or former schoolmates or simply other alumni from your school. Add your high school or university information and see who else on about.me represents your alma mater. You may be surprised by who you’ll find!

about.me engineer, David Brock, has University of Texas at Austin on his page. By clicking on that school in his bio, anyone looking at his page can see others on about.me from his same university. In this way, others researching University of Texas at Austin student or alumni pages, are more likely to find David or others associated with the school.

So take some time to click on Edit Page (biography tab!) and update your missing education information. To have even more people see your page, add your most recent professional experience and your current location. Including more info will allow your page to be visible when someone is looking for people in your city, town, or line of work.

Once you’ve made updates, don’t forget to promote your page (via Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin) to let others know your updates.  And if you have Gmail, be sure to add it as a beautiful signature to your emails. It’s easy!

May 27, 2014  :  about.me, Tips  :  Leave a comment
LINA GUSTAFSON

Staff Picks

This week in Staff Picks, we have four great pages handpicked by our team. These pages are examples of how to display personality in a professional way combining creativity and passion with academic or work oriented goals.

Our stunning header image features graphic designer, Lina Gustafson of Malmö, Sweden. Don’t forget to have a look at all the pages below and check out even more on our Staff Picks page.

Doug Chavez Jen Horsey Brian Tong

Have a fantastic week! Remember to discover more great pages on our Staff Picks page.

Staff Picks

May 26, 2014  :  Featured Profiles, Staff Picks  :  Leave a comment
Stephan Saugestad

Surfers on about.me

In celebration of the upcoming summer months, we’d like to highlight the pages of some of our favorite surfers on about.me. While their interests are diverse and extend far beyond surfing, all of them here emphasized their passion for the sport with their amazing background photos.

In our post header we have studio manager and sometimes photographer, Stephen Saugestad of Canada. Coco Ho, featured just below, hails from Hawaii and comes from a family of surfing legends. Check out all of their pages to learn more about them.

Coco Ho Ayden Sims Sarah Lee Carlos Alonso-Goya De Lope

Have suggestions for other cool professions or groups of people we can feature? Leave us a note about it in the comment section!

May 24, 2014  :  about.me  :  Tagged  :  Leave a comment
Muhammad Umair Khaliq

Featured Friday #FFaboutme

Happy Friday! Below, we’ve featured some fantastic pages submitted with the hashtag #FFaboutme from the past week. These pages nice images, concise informative bios, and apps displayed on the page.

Like everyone included in today’s post, Muhammad Umair Khaliq
(above) uses his about.me link as part of his twitter bio. This allows all the people who see Muhammad’s tweets to easily learn about his background and interests, like software engineering, football and photography! Take a look at other great examples below. Click on each image to see their full page, and remember to leave a compliment when you do!

Shubham Sharma Igor Glotov Nihal Farid

If you don’t see your page here, please give it another try next week. We review them all, but it’s impossible to fit every great page in the blog post!

Make sure your about.me link is in the appropriate section of you twitter bio, and tweet the hashtag #FFaboutme for a chance to be selected next time. A clear, high resolution image helps too.

Good luck, and feel free to share you page in the comments below!

May 23, 2014  :  about.me, FFaboutme  :  Leave a comment
Zatashah Idris

Traveling with about.me: Malaysia

This week we’re traveling to the tropics to visit the country of Malaysia. Divided by the South China sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia, the country is considered to be one of 17 megadiverse countries in the world due to its large numbers of endemic plant and animal species.

In our header we have the stunning photograph of Zatashah Idris whose page highlights her entrepreneurship and passion for style and travel. Just below is filmmaker James Lee whose film reel, embedded directly in his page, enthralled us.

James Lee Amber Chia Alan Soon Fiona Jitab Chin Je Mein Intan Nuraisyah Michael Yip Eva Eva

Thanks again for coming along for our world-traveling adventure, stay tuned for our next destination! If you have a suggestion of where we should visit next, tell us about it in our comment section.

May 22, 2014  :  about.me, World tour  :  Tagged  :  2 Comments
Inês Mateus

Students of the Week

This past week we had a great time down at UCSD talking to students about how about.me could help them connect with possible employers, alumni (like our very own Ryan Freitas) and many others. In our post today, we have a great group of students including Inês Mateus, management student and travel lover who appears in our header photo.

Be sure to check out all these student pages and think of what you could add to yours to give the fullest representation of who you are from the classroom, to the workplace to everywhere else.

Luke A Johnson Jessie Ker Thomas Andrikus

P.S. Don’t forget how important it is to give a great first impression through email, add your profile to your email signature so employers can link to your resume and learn more about you. Find out how to add your page to your email signature in our FAQs.

May 21, 2014  :  about.me, Students  :  Tagged  :  Leave a comment
Carla Turco

Get the Most from Your Page

What makes a great about.me page? Take a look at these examples to help perfect your presentation on about.me.

Photo First

You don’t need a professional photographer to have an awesome photo. A clear, in-focus image is the foundation of any great about.me page. When using a picture of yourself, it’s extremely important to avoid letting the bio cover your face.

Julia Ling

Short and Sweet

When it comes to writing your biography, less is more. The optimal length is between 4-6 sentences. White (or lighter) text over a dark background, or black text over a light background helps make your content easy to read.

Gabriel Barreras

Interested?

In addition to your city or town, educational background, and vocation, be sure to include interests on your page. The interests you include allow people to find your for the right reasons, based on your chosen tags. Visible interests on your page help new contacts quickly and easily get to know you better.

Carla Turco

For more examples and added inspiration, check our Featured page.

Featured

May 20, 2014  :  Tips  :  1 Comment