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Important changes to your enthuse.me profile

We’ve made a few big changes to the way your profile displays your information and some profiles will look a little different as a result.

Please log in to check your profile and make any changes you need to ensure it still shows off your talent in the best light.

So what’s changing?

All stats like twitter followers, view counts on YouTube, SoundClound likes and so on are now displayed in one ‘Online Presence’ section.

If you had stats on your profile before, you’ll now find this new section at the bottom, but you can drag the circular icon in the menu at the top of the profile to re-order it.

YouTube and Vimeo sections have been removed, and a ‘Videos’ section has been added in it’s place.

If you had YouTube or Vimeo videos on your profile, they will now appear in the Videos section. You can drag the icon to move this to your preferred place on the profile, as well.

The LinkedIn section remains the same, but is now named ‘Experience’.

The Slideshare section is now ‘Presentations’ and will allow you to embed slides or presentations from any website, not just slideshare.

The Soundcloud section is now ‘Audio’ and will likewise allow you to post sound clips and players from any site.

Why are we making these changes?

enthuse.me has always been about focusing on the most relevant examples of your expertise, and not just about combining information from all your (most often less relevant) social networks. The change to less specific sections should mean that fewer people add a section purely because they have an account there, and more because they have relevant content of that type to showcase. For those of you who do have impressive stats that are relevant to your expertise (A video producer should show off that they have millions of YouTube views for example), the online presence module now provides a simpler way to showcase those.

These changes mark the end of profile work for a while, while we turn our attention to the Personal Marketing Dashboard. Check back there soon for more features to help you market yourself and grow your audience both on enthuse.me and elsewhere online.

Please comment below or e-mail [email protected] with any feedback or questions. We’d love to know what you think, and how you use these new sections.

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Tools we love: HipChat

Continuing our post series on useful tools that help us improve and refine the enthuse.me website... next up, HipChat.

It seems odd when someone realises that we often have a conversation on HipChat, our internal instant messenger, even though we’re sitting meters away from each other. Actually though, it’s an incredibly useful and efficient tool that we use every hour of every day.

Developers often prefer to work undisturbed and so if you have a question for them that can wait, you can send it in HipChat for them to pick up when they’re free. This way the other developers are also kept in the loop, and you avoid confusing e-mail threads with loads of CCs. You can share files, set up rooms for certain groups (just designers for example) and send personal messages to invidividuals.

The best feature of HipChat is it’s ability to integrate with almost anything. We push GitHub notifications to the main chat, see Airbrake errors, see passed or failed builds on our CI server (Semaphore - also a great tool!) and even notifications of a new support email in our helpdesk. It’s a really great way for all discussions and notifications to be kept in one place.

- Toby Vacher - enthuse.me Head of Product and UX

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We won! enthuse.me wins the People's Lovie for Web Services & Applications

We did it! You did it! enthuse.me has won a People's Lovie award in the Web Services & Applications category. The Lovies are voted for by real website users like you, so this award is thanks to the people who use and love our product every day. Thank you to everyone who voted for us, the cookies are on the way.

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enthuse.me has been nominated for a Lovie Award

Party poppers and champagne all round.

We're delighted to let you know that enthuse.me has been nominated for a 2013 Lovie Award in the Web Services & Applications category. We're nominated alongside the fantastic Eventbrite and Issuu so we're in great company.

The Lovie Awards, the sister to the world-famous Webby Awards, is the internet's highest honour for the European Web. enthuse.me was picked from over 1500 entries from over 20 European countries, and previous winners include Skype, VICE, Moshi Monsters and Soundcloud.

Most importantly, the Lovie Award winners are decided by... you. So free cookies for anyone who loves what we do and wants to vote for us.

You can do so here, before October 10th.

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Introducing enthuse.me Premium!

Try it free for 14 days, then have 50% off, on us!

I’m excited to announce a great set of tools we’ve been working on to help you get even more out of your enthuse.me profile, and ensure it really is the best way to promote yourself online, gather a following and get what you want out of your work, skills or passion.

Our team have done a great job of putting together these tools for you, and as a thanks for supporting us in our early days, we’d like to offer you a 14 day free trial of all these features, and then 50% off for your first 6 months. With the discount, that’s just $2.50 per month for all this lot:

Or read on for more about each new feature...

Cover photo My personal favourite premium feature is the ability to upload a photo or picture to the top of your profile. Don’t forget enthuse.me is all about showing off your expertise in the best light, so no drunken party pictures! Once you’ve upgraded, just click the button at the top right of the profile to upload one. You can see mine here: www.enthuse.me/toby, or our marketing manager Olly’s - www.enthuse.me/olly (that’s not his boat...)

Custom Domain Using your own domain increases your credibility and improves your chance to show up at the top of search results for that name or phrase. If you already own www.yourdomainname.com you can set it up to point people to your profile on enthuse.me.

Custom SEO By default, your name and headline will appear in search results as the page title, and your profile bio will be the page description. If you want to edit how your profile appears in search results, add keywords or generally just tweak it to get the best chance of jumping to the top of google search results, you can edit these in settings (the gear icon in the top bar of enthuse.me)

Promotion in site search You can already search enthuse.me users at www.enthuse.me/search. If you’re premium, and people search for your name or people like you, you’ll appear at the top and be highlighted so you stand out even more.

  Priority Support As a premium user, we’ll make sure we respond to your e-mails in record time. Hopefully, if we’ve done our job well, you won’t have any problems you need to email us about, but even if you just want to ask us a question or get in touch, we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Try it out! So remember, it’s free for 14 days while you try out these new features. If you sign up with the discount code ‘GIMMETHEFIFTY’ before September 30th, you’ll also get 50% off for 6 months after that. If you pay for a year in advance we’ll throw that 50% on top of the 20% yearly discount as well!

It’s a no-brainer! Try them out, and we think you’ll like them so much you won’t want to give them up.

~Toby Head of Product at enthuse.me

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Great startups that have got us enthused - our team choose their favourites

WeSwap.com

Having worked in the fintech space prior to founding enthuse.me, I’m always interest in innovative consumer fintech propositions. WeSwap harnesses the concept of peer to peer with travel money, allowing you to buy and sell foreign currencies directly with other users. This approach cuts out the middleman therefore leading to lower fees and better value for money.  

Dan, CEO

Thread

I find clothes shopping incredibly boring, but I like to put a little bit of effort into what I wear. My friends make fun of me for always wearing green trousers... I also have blue, though!

Thread sends me an e-mail from my assigned personal stylist every week with outfits I might like, and they learn my preferences the more I use it, so these days I'm buying one or two things every few weeks. I haven't been to a clothes shop in months! Anything I like from the e-mail, I click 'Try on' and without any other input from me (or any cost for the delivery), it turns up at the enthuse.me office a few days later. I try the stuff, and if i like it I keep it and I'm charged a couple of weeks later; if I don't like it, or it doesn't fit, I send it back for free.

The best thing about it all though is that I can e-mail my stylist and they get back to me really quickly with exactly what I'd asked for. I said "I'm running out of T-shirts and I tend to wear plain, bold styles with my colourful trousers" - 2 hours later I have 5 suggestions in my inbox, all plain, bold styles. Ideal.”

Toby, Head of Product

Makeshift

Makeshift are a studio who output lots of interesting little products aimed at helping ‘makers’ do what they do best. These include Attending.io, a lightweight RSVP system; HireMyFriend, a new take on job-seeking and HelpMeWrite, which helps you decide what to write about before you even begin based on feedback. It’s exciting whenever they push out something new.

Lewis, Front-end Developer

Histropedia

A reference tool allowing people to explore the history of anything, through beautiful interactive timelines. #watchthisspace 

Dennis Schipper - Web Designer

Pusher

Pusher is a service that enables realtime communication through different platforms and languages, using a ridiculously simple API. I like it because it helps push the web forward, and make it a first-class platform along with some mobile platforms.

Unai, Code Lord

Playmob

Playmob is the first in the market for raising funds for charities using mobile and game engine technology, using in-app sales. In numbers:

1m in first round funding.

$66K raised so far.

100% a great idea.

Brendan - Developer & Evangelist 

HowAreYou

Healthcare is going digital and HowAreYou are at the forefront.

Check out the demo and you’ll wonder how we’ve put up with such bad user experience in the past. Not only is HowAreYou beautiful, but it has the engineering behind the scenes to back it up. The engineering team (led by Gerhard Lazu) are pushing Ruby-based web apps to the limit, and sharing their discoveries with the rest of the community.

Matthew - Rudyist 

Silicon Drinkabout

The beards. The beer. The near-legendary night. If it’s Friday evening, you’ll find me at Silicon Drinkabout drinking too much Minimum Viable Pale Ale and calling it ‘letting off steam’. The original and the best Old St Roundabout startup social, it tours the pubs and tech spaces of east London. It’s free, almost always brilliant, and can now be found in London, Manchester, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Not been? Go. First beer’s on enthuse.me.

Olly, Marketing Manager 

wireWAX

WireWax lets users create clickable videos by enabling tagging people and objects within the video. As you can imagine the potential of this app is tremendous! It revolutionizes the way video can be used, not only by companies but also individuals, as it allows interactive content and information to be shared. Music bands, fashion companies, football clubs, organisations from the publishing & entertainment industry, galleries, professors, students, families, friends… anyone really!

And as the saying goes: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million :)

So... have a look at the videos to find out for yourselves here. 

P.S. Check out the BBC Interactive trailer. How awesome is that?!

Tania - Marketing & PR

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Twitter hacks for SME

bout Twitter (like 140 character tweet), best social media for both B2B & B2C (other than eCommerce - that's FB's arena), high ROI and meant for long term vision/objective.

Yet it’s way too high for promotions for SME, here I have pinpointed a tactics implemented by a online dashboard app - enthuse.me

Couple of weeks before enthuse.me rolled out an email campaign to all its users - with a tweet competition 

Where they tried to promote enthuse.me via their users for a $ 50 amazon gift

a glimpse @ number of tweets

WIIFM enthuse.me: ranking in SEO, free promotion, sort of like word of mouth promotion to all Your followers - all these features @ $50 Dollars.

for more twitter hacks & tactics subscribe @ cartic.tumblr.com/rss OR follow me on Twiiter @iCartic

tCARe

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