Monday, November 5, 2018

An excellent idea

An excellent idea

Originally shared by Julian Bond

Make yourself easy to find

Build a YASN-Roll. A list of links to your profiles on all the other "Yet Another Social Network" platforms where you have an account.

1) Add to and update the Sites.otherProfiles section of https://aboutme.google.com
It's not clear yet if Google Profiles and AboutMe will survive the G+Sunset but it's possible. In the mean time, it's a key way of finding people's profiles on other systems.

2) If you have a key blog or a personal website with it's own domain, set up an about page or sidebar containing a list of all your profiles on other sites. If you have control over the HTML put in the microformats like this.
$profilePlatformName There are systems out there (maybe) that can recognise circular rel="me" references and use them to validate identity.

3) Put links to your YASN-Roll as the first entry in the About Profile section on each platform. Add it to email signatures, business cards and such like.

5 comments:

  1. Yep, excellent idea. Thanks for the share Andrew Hatchett

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  2. Good idea. But, still, I feel fragmented.

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  3. Zara Altair
    Zara, we all do... and it will take some time to pull ourselves together. :)

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  4. Andrew Hatchett Absolutely! G+ has been my home.

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  5. We somehow have to find another way Zara Altair I feel the same fragmentation.

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