Operation Profile Clean Up?
I thought I’d spend some time visiting a few profiles in various social networks to see how they’ve leveraged their “about/bio” section on sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and I’m sad to say that they are costing themselves possible opportunities especially because these individuals are high profiled individuals and they stand a better chance than most of us. They already have a fan base and they already have leverage but not using it to their advantage.
If you are not taking your online presence seriously, if you are not taking your brand seriously then how do you expect sponsors, brand builders, and investors to take you seriously and invest in you?
If you are looking for sponsorship, looking for partners and investors then you need to set aside some time and work on your online presence and a good place to start is to begin sorting out the “about” section of your online profiles. You will need at least a short bio, a long bio and a very short bio. Don’t wait for the last minute, have it ready.
Short Bio
Your short bio should be around 3 to 4 sentences long. You generally would use your short
Are you getting what you want?
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want.
That’s why they don’t get what they want. ~ Madonna
How true is this statement. Why is it that we are so afraid to tell people exactly what it is we want? Most of the time we go about things in a roundabout way not being direct for fear of rejection, humiliation or being told off.
Do you think we’d get more results if we clearly define and tell people exactly what we wanted?
Shall we break our chains and give it a bash and let’s see how telling others what we want exactly will help get us what we want.
I’m looking for funding, I need to raise R200,000 so that I can start a proper training centre to help young school leavers and strugglling and start up businesses to enable them to use the internet and social media to their advantage. That’s what I want to do. We need laptops, internet hubs, software, hardware, furniture and a venue to get started. www.shapingsa.org
What is it that you want?
Facebook Timeline Privacy Threat
Facebook has just announced that it intends to make the new Facebook timeline compulsory which is still ok, but I have a serious issue that when Facebook does this, that by default Facebook will make your timeline public. ALL and I mean ALL your information, including posts will be made public and open to the entire world.
What also concerns me and I wasn’t aware of this is that you have only 7 days in which to change your privacy settings and I’m guessing this is to do with your posts, your old past posts. So if you have not changed this within 7 days then everything you and your friends posted from the day you joined Facebook will be made public.
The other very big concern is that by default anything you post is set to public, in other words, if you do not go and specify that you only want your friends to see the post then it is going to be posted for the world to see. You now have to remember to make sure you set your anything you post to “friends only” before posting it on Facebook.
I don’t think this is cool at all,
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