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Blog Disclosure Policy – Do you have one yet?

Martin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:52:41 +0000

On December 1, 2009, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s new disclosure guidelines for bloggers and affiliates went into effect. The best
Blog Disclosure Policy Generator is at the http://disclosurepolicy.org site. If you receive any free stuff or compensation or affiliate income for your blog, you should review the new FTC requirements.

Blog Disclosure Statement Resources

Google Profiles is the New Global Directory

Martin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:39:01 +0000

It appears that Google Profiles could be the new Global Telphone Directory or Global White Pages. Today I created my Google Profiles entry and in less than a 30 minutes, when I searched on my name it showed up in the Google Search Results with the other Martin’s in the world.

When you search on a person’s name and scroll to the 11th search result, Google will now display a special “onebox” that shows links to people with that particular name and links to their Google profile.

It took me about 30 minutes to enter my Google Profile information. Before you start entering your “public” profile information I would suggest the following:

1. Go to http://www.google.com/profiles and browse the example profile pages such as the profile of Felicia Day. You should try and get a general idea of wht type of information about yourself that you want to show such as your company, your blog, your personal contact information etc. Google profile allows you to store your personal contact information such as your Instant Messaging Accounts, emails, phone numbers and decide who can view this information. You can even let your Medical Contacts / doctors from Google Health could have access to your mobile phone and email address, if they were members of Google Health.

2. Get your list of all your Social Media Profile accounts such as your Twitter, LinkedIn. If you don’t have a list, now is a good time to create one.

3. Get the picture your will be using for your Google profile.

4. If you have don’t have a Picasa or Flickr photo account, now would be a good time to sign up for and upload eight public photos to display under your profile. If you already have one of these photo accounts with a Public Galley, then you should review any public photos before linking your public Picasa or Flickr galleries. The issue is that the Google Profile Photo widget is mandatory and if you don’t want a big white space of blank photos on your profile page, you’ll need to upload at least eight of them. In my case, I uploaded eight scenery photos of Miami.

4. So go to http://google.com/profiles to sign-up for your Google Profiles account today. My profile page is http://google.com/profiles/martinog

Links to Your Social Media Profiles are like Football Helmet Stickers

Martin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:10:53 +0000

Your should consider your social media links to sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn like stickers on a football helmet such as in the picture above. Are you promoting your profile so that you can increase your company or your personal brand awareness? Here is a list of places you should promote your social media profiles:

Email Footer -Do you have them links in your email footer? See an example below.
Business Card – Do your business cards contain your social media profiles? see an example below
Blog – Does your blog contain links to your social media sites?
Twitter.com – My Profile Page – You can have one website link.
LinkedIn.com – You can enter 3 website links on your LinkedIn profile page.
Facebook.com – Facebook allows ou to put your websites in our contact information as well as your work website. In addition, when you write a Facebook message, if you put your website link in your message footer, FB will import an image with an automatically generated image of your company logo, hopefully the correct one.

Email Footer Example

Business Card Front

Ogawa Design Business Card Front

Business Card Back

Ogawa Design Business Card Back