Session 5: About.me

Social Media for Journalists, Fall 2014

Adjunct Professor Liz Borod Wright

lizborod@gmail.com; @Travelogged

Have You Googled Yourself Lately?

Notice What Shows Up First?

Control What Shows Up…

• By making sure that you have optimized your existing social media profiles…

• And possibly setting up even more social media profiles…

• And consider setting up a website!

Look at #3 & #4: My Own Website

No Website? No Problem!

• It takes minutes to make a free one-page website (also called a “splash page).

• About.me is a great, free tool for this and very social media-friendly.

My About.me Page:

http://about.me/travelogged

Why Should You Have an About.me?

• It’s a FREE web page! More on the premium version later…

• Show off your social media profiles

• Good for SEO – shows up high in searches

• Good for Personal Branding – you control what others see

• If you don’t have a website to list in your social media profiles, your About.me page would be a good one to list!

Should You Upgrade for $48 a Year?

• Could be a nice, simple web page solution…

• Removes About.me branding

• Custom domain name

• Google anayltics

More Free Websites to Help Your SEO

• Flavors.me: similar to About.me

• Contently.com: Show off your published clips portfolio

• Re.vu: a cross between LinkedIn and About.me

Why not create one of each?

PS: Don’t Have Time to Google Yourself

or Your Business Constantly?

Set up a Google Alert!