A few tips to improve your social profiles

From the latest Newsletter of the Social Media Academy.

Social media profiles are a delicate thing. You may prefer to be rather low key, but you also want to be open and approachable.

So consider those few tips:

1. Have a consistent photo across all profiles - it's your "personal logo"
2. Don't make your photo be "special" - you are unique 100% guaranteed
3. Cross reference other profiles i.e. from Twitter you may point to your LinkedIn profile
4. Always state your real name - nick names are like avatars - so 1990
5. Write your bio as a combination of your business profile and personal focus
6. If you can provide links to your other social networks and blogs
7. Consider all activities on a site as part of your profile, your identity
8. Provide it in a way that it works for both your best friends and your customers
9. Even so you may separate business from personal life - the viewer may not
10. Point to your profiles whenever you have the opportunity

The Academy is expanding internationally. Even though all classes are online, we decided to be more local, adjust classes to local and cultural differences as well as better accommodate regional time zones.

We started the Social Media Academy Australia and already started our first Leadership Class this week (first week of June).

The Social Media Academy UK will be next. The first UK class will be our new class: "Social Competition". The first Leadership Class for UK will start September 3.