Tips for digital parents

Facebook has become a crucial online communication tool for parents to stay in touch with family and friends in the last decade, the ease of accessibility of Face book through smartphone, tablets and laptop means it is available on the go.

However as always, good things come with its challenages.Kids especially teenager kids are most likely to decline your friend requests from you  to avoid embarrassing moments of you adding a baby picture of them or posting a parent post on their Face book wall.

Here are some Tips to avoid suspicion from kids about accepting request from you.

->Don't join a fan group just because your kid did, give them some space and be yourself on face book

->Don't try to be friends with your kids list of 100 friends-Draws the line when adding friends

-Don’t over share when posting picture of kids

->Don’t post and tag a picture of your Kids

->Online world of communication doesn’t differ much from the real life conversation. Just don’t be judgemental and use face book to your benefit of parent hood

Let's talk about social media.

My experience with social media is certainly not new and at times it becomes a bit of an addiction. I am not talking about Facebook but something which a professional consultant like me, use a lot to promote their skills set and experience. Yes a self marketing free tool which helps you to get your next break, and this particular tool is called LinkedIn.

To me my LinkedIn profile represents a great opportunity to promote myself in this era of Globalization and I always seem to thought I am doing a great job.

Until recently when someone (a young HR manager) told me that simply having a LinkedIn profile doesn’t guarantee a new job, you need to be at forefront to make sure your profile is visible to the headhunter out there.

The young HR manager did recommend me few pointers which I thought are worth implementing and I thought sharing with you all.

Your LinkedIn profile should be more than a repeat of your resume.

It should have the necessary keywords that will make your profile visible when a HR Manager searches it on LinkedIn.

Making your name visible on Google Search. A ranking of your name. Never thought that would be an issue; however you would be surprised how many people out there have same name as yours.

Surprisingly my current linked profile views aren’t that great however I done a few tweaks as per the recommendation and will be tracking the progress of new ‘who viewed your profile’ to make sure its reaching the right audience.

Changed my professional headline so that it has the right Keywords

Took a snapshot of my the New ‘who vied my profile’ to track

Check Google rank for my name, which is number already.

Happy to receive any further feedback from the experts out there as I know I have missed alot here.Here is my Linkedin Profile

Promote on Orkut

Recently I saw a new option on Orkut account which says Promote.

Clicking it helps us to Create promotions which you can
promote between your friends and others.Its a easy and
free way to promoteyour small business,website,community
vedios actually anything.You can add Text,
Photo(linked to your Google Picasa) and Youtube vedio.

Another step of Google to Help Promote yourself.
Try it its Fun.

In Addition to be able to promote your Business you
are able to see how many views/clicks you had for
your promotion.This wouldhelp you see how popular
your listing is.

Linking your orkut account with Facebook

Just recently opened up a Facebook account and wanted to link my Orkut
account with it.

The world of social networking is just going so wild and now almost all
accounts can be linked.

To my suprise I am able to link my orkut and yahoo accounts with Facebook.

You just need to go to your Facebook account->Account Settings and click "Add a new linked account.