Brand-Yourself.com Platform
Not sure how to market your services online? Brand-Yourself.com is here to help. The company uses a 4-step process to help folks promote themselves - and their services - online:
1. Build
2. Optimize
3. Promote
4. Monitor
Plus, the service features customized tools to help you track your progress through each step. Looks kind of cool!
While you’re at it, check out Jacob Share’s 50 tips for branding yourself online.
Netvibes - a French technology company - has released Wasabi BETA. Wasabi is a data feed aggregation that looks pretty darn cool. It collects all of a user’s newsfeeds from various social networking and news sites into a customized dashboard that is easy to read.
According to the Wasabi Web site, the tool offers 3 main features:
1. The best of both worlds - a personalized dashboard and the world’s fastest reader.
2. Instant, near real-time, updates.
3. A mosaic view. This is not your standard newsfeed ticker tape.
Check it out! For us Web and social networking people, Wasabi may very well change the way we’ll be communicating in not too long…Wasabi already has 20,000 BETA users. Netvibes - a similar tool - has 3.5 million users.
Google has launched Sidewiki - a tool that allows them to publicly annotate Web pages with their own notes. The tool is helpful for folks, like me, who want to take notes as they read and share opinions or facts that correlate to whatever it is I’m reading. Sidewiki is, in essence, similar to adding a note in the margin of a library book for all to read.
Each note not only contains whatever the writer wants to say, but also the writer’s name, date of the post, and the writer’s avatar or photo. Talk about making the Internet more personal!
Sidewiki will come with a version of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox. The tool has a special algorithm that filters high-level comments from low-level comments. High-level comments will be moved to the top where they are more easily seen by the public.
While many companies have experimented with annotation tools on Web pages, Google’s tool has, perhaps, the most potential for success. After all, it’s a Google tool and Google is the gold standard for Internet tools.