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Build your Professional Career with Kareer.me

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 26, 2011
Kareer.me

Kareer.me

If you want to be hired by a good company, you will surely need a good resume to boost yourself from other competitors. And there’s quite a lot of websites that offer to create beautifully- made resumes. ResumeCompanion.com, Emurse.com, and JobSpice.com are just a few examples for that matter. Still, you need all the help you can get if you want to land a job interview of your dream company and there’s one particular startup that would readily aid you with that Kareer.me. Read more of this post

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Wa.ag connects you with fellow professionals online and offline

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 6, 2011
Wa.ag

Wa.ag

Wa.ag connects professionals online and offline so that they can share their knowledge and work to grow.

Yes, we have LinkedIn to connect professionally online, but the difference Wa.ag has introduced is that it not only connects online, but also encourages you to participate in offline events that interest you. At these events, you get to meet your online friends in reality, which is much better than just having them as online friends. You can share much more with them about your profession and bring in more ideas when you know them in real life. Read more of this post

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Find your worth in the market for professionals on Identified

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 14, 2011
Identified

Identified

Identified, the professional job search engine, has come up with world’s first ‘Professional Stock Market’ where professionals can find out how much in demand their education and work experience is in the market.

Unlike LinkedIn and other professional platforms, Identified allows you to communicate with the employers, between companies and between professionals. That is the strength of Identified. This linking Read more of this post

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Path.To: Get your job profile into the limelight

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 11, 2011
Path.To

Path.To

Path.To is a service that helps you to create a smarter looking profile and get it into the limelight.

Because the information on the profile is taken quickly from Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn, you do not need to personally add details. Path.To, then, maps your profile information and sets it up at Path.To in seconds.

Users at Path.To can endorse other professionals too. The more endorsements you get, the better your profile looks.

Anybody who has created a personal profile knows how hard it is to create one that looks interesting and makes you look as good as you actually are. It does not matter whether you are good, you need to project to an employer that you are. And that is one of the areas where Path.To comes in and helps.

Path.To loves skills, just like employers. They have engineered an endorsement algorithm to identify the most skilled people across industries. When you add a skill to your profile, you automatically get endorsed.

You can track the websites that link to your profile using the personal analytics of Path.To. You will be informed when someone mentions your Path.To profile anywhere on the web so that, if you want, you can reciprocate.

On your Path.To dashboard, you get to see who endorsed you and who requested an endorsement along with Facebook friends who use Path.To.

On Leaderboards, you get to compete with other professionals in your area of expertise. Healthy competition will only get you to better yourself and work harder at achieving your goals.

For employers, leaderboards can be a great resource for identifying talent. As the top professionals on leaderboards have many endorsements and are experts in their fields, it makes it very easy for employers to zero in on people they want to hire.

All in all, Path.To is a great resource for professionals who are looking for a way to get noticed.

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PROskore: Perk Up Your Professional Influence

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 5, 2011
PROskore

PROskore

At present, the biggest social network known to people that is firmly dedicated to determine the professional influence, is named before PROskore. It is a recently inaugurated business system that rates your media activity socially together with your professional experience history so as to create your grade that basically tells your professional influence. It ranks business professional manifold levels which include their fame and recognition throughout other networks namely Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Peer validation, professional history, and media popularity are also considered in scoring. The member of PROskore will be able to use these score to aid them in search for new business opportunities.

At the outset, it seems a lot like the well-known service, Klout, which evaluates the professional influence. However, according to PROskore’s CEO, Bill Jula, there are three main distinguishing elements that draw the line between the two sites. First of all, PROskore is generally created to help the professional business players like you to produce good business. It is also about the scores which are grounded on multiple factors in relation to business. Lastly, it generates you business and it is designed for networking. On the other hand, Klout is not for networking at all. Its scoring is also exclusively based on your influence on the social media scene which mostly only helps those advertisers and brands to develop their business more. Simply put, PROskore is a simple social ranking site which will help you boost your chances on business opportunities.

You can get your PROskore by signing up and creating a profile of your own. Then, you can easily take the needed steps to be on top of the game and get an adequate PROskore. All of these services are free but if you want to gain access on more connection and enhance your score, a member ship plan or PRO+ can be an option. With this, some verification are added to your own account to make the most of your PROskore.

While social influence is important to some group, professional influence can greatly take a long way. PROskore is yet another interesting venture that business professional should try.

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Identified – Recruiting Made Easy By Leveraging The Power of Facebook Data Bank

1 Comment Posted by on September 20, 2011
Identified

Identified

Identified is a search engine that helps target professionals from the largest bank of people online, Facebook. Through Identified, you can connect with other professionals, find employees and employers, interact with others in the same profession and increase your professional contacts.

This is how Identified works. It scans through millions of user profiles and assigns them a score based on educational background, work experience and connections. Companies, universities and organizations are also included. Their scores is the average of the individual scores of its members. It can become a serious competitor to famous LinkedIn.

Identified looks to make job hunting and staff hunting easy, effective and efficient. Sorting out good employees for good employers is a difficult task that takes a lot of time and effort, and that is where Identified helps you. One of the advantages of using Identified is that it takes out information from your already existing social media account so that you don’t need to spend time in opening and maintaining another account.

The tagline of Identified goes ‘Recruiting made easy’. Well, this is good news for both employers and employees, but it hints to weigh towards the employers. This newest social search engine has the features to grow big considering the unpredictability of social media market. In few weeks, it has grown to 120,000 registered users and 40 million searchable profiles on the site.

News is that Identified.com has been funded with $1.5 million by Silicon Valley’s premium investors. Identified was founded by Adeyemi Ajao and Brendan Wallace when they were students at Stranford University. Within a week of launch, 90% of students at Stanford were using the search engine. With this success rate and the hope of greater success in social networking, Identified.com is all set to challenge some big names.

Identified, beta, version has been launched. The company is based in San Francisco and has 25 employees.

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GageIn – A Business Networking Platform Powered By Content

1 Comment Posted by on April 4, 2011

GajeIn LogoGageIn is a business networking platform to get business related data about various companies, vendors and other business corporation. The concept is very straightforward; GageIn accumulates all types’ business data under the one umbrella. It’s here to fill the gap between social networks like facebook, twitter and business network like LinkedIn.

User have to register at GageIn using their business or official email address as business email ascertain the possibility of real employee. Since, all profiles are real, user will get more encouraged to follow companies as well as it also ensures that the information about of the company are more trustworthy.

Whenever you follow a company, you can categorize that company according to some business criteria.  User can categorize the company they followed from rivals to customers. For example you are an engineer at a web Development Company, you are following some other web development company, you can categorize them as rival company. In addition when you follow companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple etc in that case you can choose it as customer of that company.

GageIn gives you a synoptic view of business world. Important data about company helps you to make a comparative simulation between your company and your rival company. This simulation helps you to take right decision. Furthermore application developers or web developers can be updated with latest platform or technology. Using GageIn you will be able to get competitive knowledge on business world and demand of users that always keeps you in race with others.

GageIn can also be called as a business directory of all companies and day by day the directory is expanding. Likewise Facebook or twitter you can comment or mention on others. In addition you can also start discussion topic and invite others to take part.

Before, employees have to struggle to get data from business media, company websites, search engine and more source. Now, GageIn shows another way around to get business information efficiently and quickly.

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Tutorhub – Online Tutoring Platform For School Going Kids

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 24, 2011

tutorhub logoTutorhub is an excellent UK based online tutoring platform focused on supporting school age kids with their homework. Tutorhub provides private one-to-one tutoring over the internet using instant messages which kids are familiar with and enjoy. All the tutors in Tutorhub are both CRB checked and experts in their chosen subjects and many of them are teacher and university graduate or undergraduate students. Tutors set their own rates based on their area of expertise. Parents can control their kids account if they wish and can view tutor’s performance on passed sessions.

Tutorhub‘s amazing web based learning platform is for both tutors and school going kids. Tutors can have a profile providing all the necessary information about the themselves such as name, charging rates, area of expertise etc.  Parents or kids can choose their tutor seeing tutor’s profile and select how much time they want to spend with the tutor. This way, people can easily get tutor from this website. If parents feel that tutoring session did not go as expected, there is a refund policy which is applicable if called withing 72 hours. According to Tutorhub, most of the tutors are available from 4 pm to 9 pm at weekdays and from 2 pm to 6 pm at weekends.

Another important feature of Tutorhub is, it provides the opportunity to ask free questions to all and answer to those questions. This helps people to learn many things by asking and answering. In addition, Tutorhub also provides necessary child safety features, so parents can be ensured about their child safety when they are using this platform and they can also report any inappropriate conversations. Tutors are allowed to get payment once a month and they can not request for payment until five weeks after the session.

Feature at a glance:

  • Create a free or paying account
  • Hourly charging rates
  • Payment once a month
  • Child safe design
  • Refund Policy

Finally, we can say that students can improve themselves doing homework, coursework, revising their study and other activity though proper use of this wonderful platform. So, we welcome you to try it yourself and let us know your feedback.

For more information, Learningfy and Kidzmet are two similar platform we have already reviewed about. You can also have a look at those two platforms and compare yourself.

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Roound – Create Your Mobile Social Identity

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 23, 2011

Roound-logoRoound is a free service that combines your personal and social media information into one single mobile identity that can be shared on mobile devices. It gives you an uniquer QR and web address to your profile which you can share easily to promote your social identity. You Roound profile can be shared on mobile devices, blogs, website, social networks, on your comments, email signature, through text messages, name card, printed materials, advertisements etc.

In your Roound profile, you can write a short biography about yourself, show your contact information, share your location information, websites, share your social profiles (it supports more than 35 major social accounts worldwide). What is more interesting about your Roound profile is its QR code, you can share your profile easily using this Roound QR code, you can print it on your name card, printed media kits or even in advertisements.

Roound provides you real-time statistical information to measure the performance of your Roound profile. You can view the number of profile views and traffic source for your profile. Since, your profile contain your contact and other information, Roound lets you control your profiles privacy. Whenever you feel uncomfortable about sharing sensitive information, you can protect yourself by letting unwanted people not to view your profile.

In addition, you can change the appearance of your profile and display your profile widget on your blog and website. If you are looking to promote your identity on mobile devices it might be a better solution for you. So, give it a try and let us know what you think about this wonderful service.

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MyWebCareer – Discover, Evaluate & Monitor Your Professional Online Brand

2 Comments Posted by on February 19, 2011

MyWebCareer logoMyWebCareer is a free analytical tool which lets you discover, evaluate and monitor your Professional Online Brand. We all left some online footprints(s) when we are using internet, connecting ourselves to social and professional networks. These online footprints can include references to you on corporate websites, blog posts, press releases, and social or business network profiles.

All these data specifically those are related to your career make up your Professional Online Brand. It is now common among employers to search Google, Facebook and LinkedIn to get more information about a new recruit.  To gain additional insight about you, employers, colleagues, friends or just acquaintances are increasingly using ever more sophisticated Internet search engines to research your Professional Online Brand.

MyWebCareer provides you with insight into your professional online brand and offers tools to make these data accessible, manageable and actionable. It provides sophisticated link analysis, visualization and semantics technologies to enable you to quickly evaluate and explore data that may relate to you. MyWebCareer also provides you a career score to easily assess your Professional Online Brand and lets you monitor any changes to your score through their monthly monitoring service.

We can summarize the key benefits of MyWebCareer as follows:

  • Get Your Career Score Find out the strength of your professional online brand
  • Uncover Your Online Footprint Discover and evaluate online references to your career
  • Explore Your Network Explore your connections with people, companies, and themes
  • Monitor Your Professional Brand Get notified when your online footprint or career score changes

Finally, MyWebCareer might be a useful tool to monitor your online presence and increase your career prospect by monitoring and utilizing your footprints.

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DocMeIn – Online Appointment Scheduling Service For Private Practices

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 5, 2011

DocMeIn LogoDocMeIn is an online appointment scheduling service for private practices of all types. It is a completely free Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform with no ads on the site. Since, it is an online software, there is no need to install any software on client side. DocMeIn aims to help physicians to manage their time in most efficient way possible by providing a two-way communication medium between physicians and busy patients.

DocMeIn allows a physician/practitioner to maintain their profile with the information they want to show in public. When an appointment is made, patient receives an email message containing a machine readable attachment requesting to accept or cancel the appointment. Patient must confirm the appointment by clicking accept link in the email. Patients Calender management software can read and add the appointment to their calendar automatically without any additional inputs. To keep the patient aware about the appointment DocMeIn generate email remembers as time approaching.

DocMeIn‘s online interface of a practitioner also allows a client to edit or cancel the appointment by logging in to the patient area. A patient can also request a new appointment matching the physician’s calendar which is good to save time and effort for both parties.

Physician can view all the appointments in his/her practice calendar in a graphical interface. All appointments are color coded to easily understand the status. A physician can edit or re-schedule the appointment by mouse drag and drop activity and an email message will automatically generate to inform the patient about the changes.

Today, we all live a busy life with our work, family and society. Not all time we can maintain a doctor’s appointment due to several reasons and some time we just forget. As a result, doctor’s time are being wasted and they suffer because of our distractions and careless. DocMeIn is going to bridge the gap between the practitioners and patients.

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Pixpa – Create Your Online Portfolio As Photographer, Artist or Designer

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 3, 2011

Pixpa LogoPixpa is a smart online portfolio platform for photographers, artists and designers. Pixpa lets photographers, artists and design professionals to create great looking, visually appealing portfolio to showcase, sell and share their creative work with simplicity and style. As a creative professional you can create your unique, personalized and professional looking website using its cost-effective plans.

Pixpa provides full control with over 100 preset designs and you can create your own custom design styles to match with your taste. It also lets you switch design and styles anytime with ease. You can create unlimited galleries and information pages with a flexible menu structure. Not only images, you can also create video gallery in your Pixpa portfolio.

Pixpa has integrated share widget to help you share your content in social media. It allows you to publish your works including videos and galleries easily by embedding at blogs, articles or web. In addition, you can sell your images as prints or downloads by creating a FotoMoto account.

Pixpa supports google analytics to track your visitors, so you know every details about your website usage. By default, Pixpa gives you a sub-domain including hosting space for your website, but you can connect your Pixpa account with your own domain name. Finally, with Pixpa, you can stay busy with your creative world while letting Pixpa handles your portfolio smartly and professionally.

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About.me – Create your personal splash page

2 Comments Posted by on January 25, 2011

About.me logoNow a days, we all have multiple profiles scattered across the Internet like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Orkut, MySpace, Blogs, Google and so on. They all represents as your identity on the Internet. Wondering, how to bring them all in one single page which will represent who you are and what you are capable of. About.me will help you to bring all your identities together with a beautiful and dynamic splash page. You can use this splash page for professional or personal use.

Creating your splash page is very easy only takes few minutes. This splash page will also give you an analytical report about the visitors and uses of your profile.

The design of our splash page is very attractive, the user interface is just awesome, mostly require drag and drop activity. So, why not? Go and create your own splash page now at About.me.

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