I gathered some tips and ways to take your LinkedIn profile up a level. Here are a few of them… 1.  Change the standard URL from linkedin.com/in/13?3a&3d  to a “vanity URL” so instead change it to this style: linkedin.com/in/blakeimeson This will allow you to rank for your name in the SERPs. 2. Use keywords you want [...]

Mario Sundar, the chief evangelist for LinkedIn just wrote a really insightful post on what makes a worthy post. It all boils down to one thing: Would I read this post if I hadn’t written it? So, ask yourself this… is the stuff you write something you would read?

As a class we came up with these 25 hot sauce tips to give your blog spice. Use with caution. Write relevant content Make it interactive (ask for opinions so readers can respond) Blogging is an accessible way to become an expert Link out generously. Link with long phrases not short words People like lists Add multimedia (pictures, videos, podcasts) PROVOKE people [...]

Recently, I wrote two posts, one on FriendFeed the other on PicLens. Just for kicks I decided to let the companies know that I liked their product/service (…proservductice?) and I had written a post about them. I wasn’t expecting a shoutout on their blog or being added to some list, I just wanted to let [...]

This comes by way of a great feed I’m subscribed to: TechCrunch. StartYourTube is a new site that allows you to start your own “tube” or video site. It allows you to  have a full powered video site on your own domain. You are also entitled to 60% of the ad revenue. Rather than me tell [...]

I’m writing this post because, frankly, I’m a sucker for technology and I needed to share this brilliant tool for viewing photos online. PicLens is what’s know as an “Immersive slideshow”. It allows you to experience photos in a very multi-dimensional way. It is a web browser plugin that provides interactive full-screen slideshows of online images. The [...]

Fragmented online life? This may help. friendfeed is the biggest of a new type of internet service, the social aggregator. The problem friendfeed solves is: people have multiple sites, services and blogs and they need one place where this stream of content can be consolidated. If RSS feeds take all the new content from your fav [...]

These last 2 weeks our class has blogged on YouTube. Here is what we came up with… Hunter told us how to use YouTube to promote a business in: YouTube: How to sell yourself Liam confessed to never rating a video in: YouTube: One Big Nerdy Group-Hug Francisco on: YouTube making the Job Search more efficient… Evolution of [...]

Here is a terrific YouTube video (6:05) that gives a great view of the changes the internet is bringing and also a look at the global environment. Really, it’s not as boring as I just made it sound LOL. In it you learn that… There are 2.7 billion Google searches every month (hmm… wonder how many I’m [...]

Yep, it’s true. Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is BLOGGING! This is the final nail in the coffin, blogging is now mainstream if Iran’s president is doing it! The blog is available in English or Arabic. The comments show what country you are from. If you comment please don’t be like the majority of stupid American’s commenting and [...]