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For Reporters, Journalists, Bloggers, and Authors: Build Your Online Portfolio with Cuttings.me

Robin Good: Cuttings.me is a new web service which allows journalists, reporters and authors of any kind to create an online portfolio of their best work.


Users can add their own bio, links to their profiles on different social media networks and links with images to their best articles, PDF and other clippings.


Free to use. 


Example: http://www.cuttings.me/tomdavenport 


Try it out now: http://clippings.me  

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Easily Manage All of Your Profile Settings Across All Social Networks with BlissControl

Easily Manage All of Your Profile Settings Across All Social Networks with BlissControl | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it
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Blisscontrol is a free web app which allows you to easily change your profile settings across all of your connected social networks. 


You can modify your:

  • profile picture
  • bio
  • password
  • email settings
  • passwords
  • and more...
across all major social networks where you have an open profile, including:
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIN
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest
  • and more...


My comment: Useful, and easy to use. 


Free to use.


Try it out now: http://blisscontrol.com/ 




Deborah Fillman's curator insight, November 6, 2013 5:08 PM

A real time (and sanity) saver.

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Curate Your Online Visual Portfolio with Dunked

Curate Your Online Visual Portfolio with Dunked | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

"Dunked makes creating your online & mobile portfolio website super simple. Showcase your design, illustration, video and photography work on any device."

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If you are looking for a free tool that allows you to easily create a visual portfolio of images and/or video clips, organized into categories, Dunked offers an excellent solution.


Simple, elegant and very straightforward to use, Dunked makes it easy to upload one or more pictures at a time and to arrange them on your portfolio page and into separate collections called Projects.


You can customize background, colors for all the elements on a page, fonts, logo and you can add a personalized About and Contact page.



My comments: Excellent visual portoflio tool for photographers, designers and artists of any kind. Compared to having an image or video collection on Pinterest, the difference is that the presentation style is much more elegant, and images are viewed by default at a much larger size. You also have fine control on individual text style, colors and other design elements. The absence of a bookmarklet further indicates that this tool has been designed with the photographer/artist/painter in mind and not to collect stuff found on the web.


Free to use.


Try it out now: http://dunked.com/



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Visual CVs: A Curated Collection of 500+ Great Examples by Randy Krum

Visual CVs: A Curated Collection of 500+ Great Examples by Randy Krum | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it
Great infographic resume designs from around the world.
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If you are planning to create a visual CV for yourself soon, do not waste your time trying out the many cool alternative tools that are available out there to create one, like Easel.ly, LinkedIN Resume Builder, Vizify, Infogr.am and several others.


In my view, even if you use a fancy visualization tool, what makes the most difference is having a unique visual "idea" to support the presentation of your credentials.


This is why I suggest that, if you have the fancy and skills to create your own visual CV, there is no better resource for inspiration that I know of, than this huge Pinterest collection by Randy Krum.


It is invaluable. Worth even a paid print edition. 9/10


http://pinterest.com/rtkrum/infographic-visual-resumes/


*My compliments to Randy for creating and maintaining this.





Anica Petkoska's curator insight, April 18, 2013 5:17 AM

Visual CV, infografic

Ken Dickens's curator insight, April 19, 2013 1:54 PM

Company's are creating infographics to tell their story. Individuals are doing the same to get hired.  Shouldn't non-profits be doing this too?  Yes, you should.  Find a Photoshop Volunteer and make this happen!  -Ken

 

www.2080nonprofits.org

Sonya Nikolova's curator insight, June 30, 2013 3:01 AM

Because in the current stagnated job market, you have to stand out!

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Create a Professional-Looking CV in Seconds with LinkedIN Resume Builder

Create a Professional-Looking CV in Seconds with LinkedIN Resume Builder | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it
Use the Resume Builder to turn your LinkedIn Profile into a beautiful resume. Pick a resume template, customize the content, and print and share the result to your heart's content.
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The new LinkedIN Resume Builder is a great web app which allows anyone with a LinkedIN account to create a professional-looking resume by selecting from a number of ready-made templates.


The new app taps into your LinkedIN account info to extract and categorize all of your profile info, while leaving you with the option to edit and modify any of the data that will appear in the final resume and any of the pre-set fields that will displayed.


There are about a dozen different templates to choose from, and my first impression is that they all look quite good.


Your new final resume can be directly shared with others on all major social media and via a direct URL, and can be also saved and exported as a PDF.


I find Resume Builder from LinkedIN to be an excellent tool to create an always-up-to-date and professional-looking CV / resume in a matter of seconds.


P.S.: There may be some "pagination" issues as you will see when you export to PDF, but these can be circumnavigated easily. I am sure there will be improvements in future updates.


Free to use.


FAQ: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/home/faq


Try it out now: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/



Mirko D'Isidoro - FreelanceWebDesigner.it's curator insight, February 27, 2013 4:15 AM

Il nuovo LinkedIN Resume Builder è una fantastica web app che ti permette con un account LinkedIn di creare curriculum dall'aspetto professionale, scegliendo tra una serie di modelli già pronti.
 

Quest'applicazione prende i dati dal tuo account LinkedIn per estrarre e classificare tutte le informazioni del profilo.

 

Quando inizi ad usarlo, hai la possibilità di editare e modificare uno qualsiasi dei dati che appariranno nel curriculum finale e puoi personalizzare anche i campi pre-impostati che verrano visualizzati.
 

Ci sono circa una dozzina di modelli diversi tra cui scegliere, e la mia prima impressione è che sembrano tutti abbastanza buoni.
 

Il tuo nuovo curriculum può essere condiviso su tutti i principali media sociali e tramite un URL diretto, e può anche essere salvato ed esportato in formato PDF.
 

Trovo Resume Builder di LinkedIn un ottimo strumento per creare un curriculum aggiornato e dall'aspetto professionale, in una manciata di secondi.
 

PS: Ci possono essere alcuni problemi d'impaginazione, come vedrai durante l'esportazione in PDF, ma questi possono essere aggirati facilmente.

Sono sicuro che ci saranno miglioramenti con aggiornamenti futuri.
 

Gratis da usare. Voto: 9.
 

FAQ: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/home/faq
 

Provalo subito: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/

 

Lahcene Daniacene Kebdani's curator insight, September 16, 2013 1:44 PM

allez toujours vers les meilleurs

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Showcase Yourself Online by Bringing Together Your Key Links in One Page with Enthuse

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Enthuse is a web-based app which allows authors, freelancers, professionals and artists to create a personal reference page, kind of a personal media-kit dedicated at bringing together in one place all of the links to your best work and references.


Free to use.


Find out more: http://www.enthuse.me/site/faq


Request invite: http://www.enthuse.me/signups/new


Check it out: http://www.enthuse.me/



Didier Daglinckx's comment, June 12, 2013 3:19 AM
What makes it better than the other similar sites ?
Robin Good's comment, June 12, 2013 4:22 AM
I think it offers an alternative way of presenting info, and it gives you a lot of options to actually showcase data about who you are. Pressfolios is another good one in this direction.
Robin Martin's curator insight, December 2, 2013 2:42 PM

Robin, now I've got tons of work to do but these tools will make it much easier! Thank you!!

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A Collection of Visual Infographic-Style Resumes

A Collection of Visual Infographic-Style Resumes | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

Robin Good: A great collection of visual resumes, often in the style of an infographic. If you are looking for inspiration on how to style and assemble your next one, this is a must stop gallery to check.


Over 300 examples.


Great selection. Exhaustive. 8/10


http://pinterest.com/rtkrum/infographic-visual-resumes/



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A Mask That Stands For Who You Are: The Art of Logo Design | PBS

Robin Good: Excellent PBS video illustrating through the faces and voices of several brand designers the history and role of logo design. From prehistorical times until today logo design has been always an activity characterized by the need to communicate easily and effectively what a person or an organization is about and (in some cases) the character and the traits its stands for (think of aristocratic or noble shields).


"Utilizing a silent vocabulary of colors, shapes, and typography, logo designers give a visual identity to companies and organizations of all types."


"Logo designers need to have a sense of what the company wants his personality to be, and then it "manufactures" this mask... and the logo is essentualy a mask, an identifier, that stands in for who you are"


Featured in the video:
Stephen Heller, http://www.hellerbooks.com/
Sagi Haviv, http://sagihaviv.com/
Kelli Anderson, http://kellianderson.com/
Gerard Huerta, http://www.gerardhuerta.com/


Great visual gallery of examples commented in real-time by those who made them. 8/10


Video: http://youtu.be/x3jTSB2ez-g

(Thanks to MarketingHits for uncovering this gem)

Barbara Rc's comment, February 19, 2013 12:42 PM
La imagen que una empresa pueda tener se refleja en su logotipo o frase característica, se considera como un personal bran ya que es la imagen que la empresa da al mundo de lo que hace.
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Credibility Builders: 9 Things To Pay Attention To

Credibility Builders: 9 Things To Pay Attention To | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

Robin Good: If you are interested in improving your credibility / reputation online here is a good list of recommendations from John Follis at SmallBizTrends.


From the original article: "Whatever your business, product, or service, credibility is key. It’s also true with your personal reputation.


On that note, the information that appears, or doesn’t appear, whenever your name is searched on the Internet is a litmus test of your personal and professional credibility.


It’s called G-cred.


To help with that G-cred, here are 9 things you can do:"


Recommended. 8/10


Full article: http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/05/9-online-credibility-builders.html 

Renee Stuart's curator insight, February 14, 2013 11:11 PM

Your goal with any online profile should be one thing - to gain credibility! Showcase your success, and fill in ALL the blanks.

Paola Cinti's curator insight, May 18, 2013 3:21 AM

Qualunque sia la vostra attività, prodotto o servizio, la credibilità è la base della vostra reputazione personale. In tal senso, le informazioni visualizzate o non visualizzate, ogni volta che il vostro nome viene cercato su Internet, sono una cartina di tornasole della credibilità personale e professionale. Si chiama G-cred .

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Google Plus Cover Photo: How To Create One Starting From a Facebook Cover Photo

Google Plus Cover Photo: How To Create One Starting From a Facebook Cover Photo | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

From Louise Myers blog: "If you find Facebook con­fusing – wel­come to Google Plus!


After being baf­fled by the G+ Cover Photo size require­ments, which then get cropped, I decided my readers would appre­ciate a post on how to create a Google Plus Cover Photo.


And, I’m gonna tell you how you can repur­pose a Facebook Cover Photo to G+.


This method will work as long as you can afford to sac­ri­fice about 20% of the height of your FB Cover Photo. Yes — even though the G+ Cover Photo is SO skinny! Check this out…"


Good guide. Illustrated. 8/10


Full tutorial: http://louisem.com/1489/how-to-create-google-plus-cover-photo-from-facebook-cover-photo 

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Online Resume Builders: Create a Professionally-Looking CV In Minutes with Resumonk

Online Resume Builders: Create a Professionally-Looking CV In Minutes with Resumonk | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

Robin Good: Resumonk is an online resume builder that saves you money and time by helping you create professional and beautiful resumes.


Key features: 

- Fill in your details approach

- Intuitive interface

- Manage and edit multiple resumes

- Chhose from templates collection

- Save your resume as a PDF

- Publish it on a unique URL

- Share via email, Facebook and Twitter.


Available templates gallery: http://www.resumonk.com/resume_templates 


FAQ: http://www.resumonk.com/faq 


Find out more: http://www.resumonk.com/ 

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Professional Email Signatures with Sigwich

Professional Email Signatures with Sigwich | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

Robin Good: If you want to have professional looking email signature, there is an alternative service to WiseStamp, that you may like to check out if you are using a Windows PC.


Sigwich has created a very simple and intuitive web interface which allows you to create and edit a professionally-looking signature in a number of minutes with no effort at all. Just fill in a few fields, pick the social networks to display, upload a photo and you are ready to roll.


There is a great number of cool addition and features that can be added to your email signature, but the coolest of all is the “Text Me” feature allowing people to send you text messages right from your signature.


Other features:

- Six different signature layouts

- Each layout is customizable

- Live preview - As you add the features you want you can see exactly what your signature will look like, instantly.


"Once you are happy with your email signature click save and download your customized file to your computer and install it. Now when you open up your Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo mail, AOL or Hotmail, you will get your signature automatically inserted into your emails."


Available for Windows only.

MacOS and Safari is coming soon.


Sigwich works with Outlook, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome.


More info and immediate try-out: http://www.sigwich.com/  

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Curate Your Visual Appearance Across Social Media with the AP Social Media Image Maker

Curate Your Visual Appearance Across Social Media with the AP Social Media Image Maker | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it



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The Social Media Image Maker from Autre Planète is a free web-based tool which simplifies your job of creating and personalizing your profile or official page banner image across all major social media channels.


The Social Media Image Maker supports Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest, Vimeo, LinkedIN and several more.


To use it, you simply go to http://www.autreplanete.com/ap-social-media-image-maker/ and you click on the social media channel for which you would like to create a custom profile image or banner.


You are provided with all the tools you need to crop, resize, filter and modify your image so that it fits the specific size requirements of each and every platform.


My comment: Excellent tool for non-techies who want to straighten up their profile images around the web with a friendly and powerful helping hand.


Free to use.


Try it out now: http://www.autreplanete.com/ap-social-media-image-maker/




Deborah Fillman's curator insight, November 3, 2013 11:28 PM

How convenient!

Robin Martin's curator insight, December 2, 2013 2:39 PM

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this Robin! This will save me tons of time!

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Create a News Portfolio To Showcase Your Best Content Online with Pressfolios

Create a News Portfolio To Showcase Your Best Content Online with Pressfolios | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it



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If you are an author, blogger or journalist and you would like to create an online professional portoflio of your best work, here is a free service that provides a simple, but excellent personal branding and news portofolio service: Pressfolios.

Pressfolio is basically a portoflio site service for writers and journalists who want to organize, store and showcase their best content online.


You provide URLs for the articles and clips you have already published and Pressfolios crawls out to grab its key meta-data and makes it easy for you to integrate it in the free one-page profiler that Pressfolio creates automatically for you.


You can create different sections of your content clips as to organize them according to different topics / industries / issues / years / publishers.


Last but not least Pressfolios automatically helps you create a profile page for yourself to support your content showcase, in which you can list your "professional focus", skills, social networks you are active on, and some kind of text introduction alongside an image of yours and a theme-image that you can also choose for yourself.



Free to use.


More info and try it out now: http://www.pressfolios.com/


Here is a real world example I have put together to fully check Pressolios and its features: http://robingood.pressfolios.com/





Robin Martin's curator insight, December 2, 2013 2:40 PM

Thanks again for sharing this one too Robin! 

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Internet Radio: Create and Broadcast 24/7 To Unlimited Listeners with Citrus3

Internet Radio: Create and Broadcast 24/7 To Unlimited Listeners with Citrus3 | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it
Premium shoutcast hosting services, Start your own internet radio station in minutes with unlimited listener shoutcast hosting
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Citrus3 is a Shoutcast-based service which allows you, for as little as $15/month to have your own non-stop radio station capable of broadcasting to an unlimited number of listeners 24/7. They do everything for you, including installing and setting up your Shoutcast server.


You can upload and play your favorite .mp3/.aac tracks or set your station on auto-pilot, so that it will play your ready-made playlists one by one.


Citrus3 offers three plans: the most economic one, costing 15eu/mo($15) supports 32Kbps bitrate, unlimited listeners, and unlimited bandwidth with 24/7 support via helpdesk online, telephone and forum. The 128Kbps plan offers higher quality at €30/mo($35), and 256Kbps offers top audio quality at €45/mo($50).


Citrus3 inludes also listener statistics and unlimited storage for your .mp3 tracks.


No free trial available.



Features: http://www.citrus3.com/index.php


Pricing: http://www.citrus3.com/eu/shoutcast.php


Find out more: http://www.citrus3.com/

(Image credit: Radio host - Shutterstock)

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Create Your Professional Profile and CV Page Online with Epik CV

Create Your Professional Profile and CV Page Online with Epik CV | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it
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Epik CV is a free web app which allows anyone to create a highly visual, professional-looking and well organized curriculum vitae online.


Epik CV is organized around four key content and presentation areas:


1) a "Timeline" which displays your professional work engagements up to

today,


2) a "Profile" where you can provide personal info,


3) a "Portfolio" where you can showcase your work in images and clips,


4) a "Text" area where you can post additional text-based info about yourself.


Epik CV can import data directly from LinkedIN and populate your CV with that information in no time at all.


Your completed Epik CV can be set to be "private" or "public", in which case it can be shared with anyone by way of a direct link to your public page or by exporting it as a PDF document.


Free to use.



Features: http://epikcv.com/about.html


Example: http://epikcv.com/flat_cv.html


Try it out now: http://epikcv.com/



LLatipi's curator insight, February 6, 2013 8:08 AM

Really cool...

Victor Alejandro Polanco Frías's curator insight, March 12, 2013 11:56 AM

Para redactar una Hoja de Vida fascinante

senameintr's curator insight, June 30, 2015 1:41 AM

Epic CV is a free app by which you can create a professional CV page. 

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Create Your Own Media Portfolio Online with Clippings.me

Create Your Own Media Portfolio Online with Clippings.me | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

Robin Good: If you are a blogger, writer, journalist, reporter, radio personality or other media content producer, looking for a service that allows you to create an online portfolio of your best work Clippings.me may be a valid solution.


Clippings.me is a free web-based service which allows you to create an online portfolio of your media clippings, no matter whether they have been published online, in print or on-air. You can customize and personalize the look of your portfolio page, hook it to your social media channels and be listed in the Clippings.me directory page.


Examples:

http://clippings.me/users/tomdavenport

http://clippings.me/users/rebeccamrobinson

http://clippings.me/users/jofaragher

http://clippings.me/users/kenekaplan


Directory: http://clippings.me/users/directory


Check this trailer video: http://youtu.be/0Q0mnbJzf84


Try it out now: http://clippings.me/





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Get Your Video Business Card with Eyejot vCards

Robin Good: The Eyejot vCard is an iPhone app that allows you to create your own virtual video business card. The vCard doubles up also as a cool name-badge to use with your lanyard at any event or conference.


Eyejot vCards makes it extremely easy to record your own short video introduction associated to all your contact and social media links. The video card can be easily shared with your new contacts by simply inputing a phone number or email address.


Buy from iTunes/App Store: http://vcard.eyejot.com/clkn/http/itunes.apple.com/us/app/eyejot-vcard/id499939385?mt=8 ($0.99)


More info: http://vcard.eyejot.com

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Personal Visual Portfolio: A Guide To The Best Tools, Themes, and Templates Available

Personal Visual Portfolio: A Guide To The Best Tools, Themes, and Templates Available | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

Robin Good: If you are looking for a tool, service or template that makes it easy for you to create an online portfolio of your best work, here is good guide providing numerous options including a list of tools, themes and templates.


Very useful. 8/10


Full guide: http://www.noupe.com/design/building-an-online-web-design-portfolio-tools-themes-and-templates.html 

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Personal Branding: Write Your Story Before Someone Else Does

Personal Branding: Write Your Story Before Someone Else Does | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

From the original article by Merry Richter: "Your brand is the sum total of your reputation, both personal and professional.


It’s a representation of your skills, character, trustworthiness, dedication, honesty, work ethic, appearance, and personality.


Basically every aspect of yourself that employers, co-workers, friends and family care about…everything that makes you YOU."


Robin Good: But the issue is, how can you take control, steer and direct your personal activities online so that they contribute to build up a "brand" that reflects your key strength and abilities?


"It’s scary to realize that some portion of your brand is being determined and communicated by other people, but in the age of hyper-social sharing, commenting and endorsing on the sites we all know and love, that’s exactly what’s happening.


So now, more than ever, it’s essential to take control of your brand. Write your own story before someone else writes it for you.


The first aspect of this is fairly obvious: live up to your own hype.


Deliver on the promises (implied and otherwise) that you’ve made..."


Basic. 7/10


Full article: http://blog.upmo.com/2012/05/12/personal-branding-in-a-hyper-social-age-your-brand-is-your-bond/ 

Barbara Rc's curator insight, February 19, 2013 12:46 PM

Tener una imagen frente al mundo no solo refleja quien eres como personas, tambien es necesario para una empresa para que los clientes persivan la valides de la misma.

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Design and Share Your Own Cool Digital Business Cards with CardFlick

Design and Share Your Own Cool Digital Business Cards with CardFlick | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

Robin Good: CardFlick is a desktop and mobile app which allows you to design supercool digital business cards for yourself and to share them easily with anyone else with a mobile.


CardFlick offers 30+ beautiful business cards design themes that you can choose from, and you can easily personalize the colors and the information on your card. In addition you can use your favourite Instagram and Facebook photos.


Once you have selected your card, you can "flick it" anytime there is a nearby user using CardFlick, allowing you to share your personal card and to receive the other person info.


The great thing is that anytime you update your info on your business card, it updates also your digital copy that you have shared with other people.


Free to use. 


Pro version coming. It will allow for priting your own stock of cards at low price and to completely customize the design of your card.


FAQ: http://cardflick.co/faq 

Download on App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cardflick/id436005366  


(Android version coming)


More info: http://cardflick.co/ 

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For Reporters, Journalists, Bloggers, and Authors: Build Your Online Portfolio with Cuttings.me

Robin Good: Cuttings.me is a new web service which allows journalists, reporters and authors of any kind to create an online portfolio of their best work.


Users can add their own bio, links to their profiles on different social media networks and links with images to their best articles, PDF and other clippings.


Free to use. 


Example: http://www.cuttings.me/tomdavenport 


Try it out now: http://clippings.me  

Fulvio Colasanto's comment May 11, 2012 3:41 PM
http://www.clippings.me
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Online Portfolios: Five Alternative Tools To Build One

Online Portfolios: Five Alternative Tools To Build One | Personal Branding World | Scoop.it

Robin Good: If you are looking to create an "online portfolio" of your credentials, samples and best work, Mashable Heather Huhman has selected and reviewed 5 tools that do jus this.


Informative. 7/10


Full article: http://mashable.com/2012/04/15/online-portfolio-tools 

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