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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.

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

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.

The year’s most anticipated tech event, Web Summit, is rapidly approaching. Tickets are booked, pitches are perfected, practice drinking sessions are planned. enthuse.me is going to be there, and hopefully you are too.

If you are going, tweet us on @enthusedotme and we’ll add you to our directory of attendees on enthuse.me. You can familiarise yourself with some friendly faces in advance of the event right here.

Not yet on enthuse.me? Register now in seconds using this link and you’ll automatically be added to our directory. Plus, you’ll have a simple, sexy one page pitch that showcases how brilliant you are, and helps you win new work.

Let’s chat in Dublin! We’ll be both pitching and exhibiting at Web Summit, so say hello and let’s have a chat. Drop our founder Dan or our Product Manager Toby an email now if you’d like to meet us.

We wanted to share some of the useful tools that help us improve and refine the enthuse.me website. First up…

Optimizely

What? Sexy and simple A/B testing

One of our core company values is to test assumptions and try to back up decisions with real data. Optimizely is a great A/B testing app that lets me (a fairly non-technical member of the team) tweak links, text and styles on our landing and marketing pages to work out which changes will give us the best conversions.

For example, after a few tests that had no significant difference on the number of visitors who clicked the ‘Get Started’ button on our homepage, one small change of the button text size from 18px to 28px resulted in a near 100% increase in conversions. That’s double the number of people clicking that button! Invaluable.

- Toby Vacher, Head of enthuse.me Product

An Oxford graduate with a degree in Mathematics, Simon Sacerdoti was one of the founders of Avalon in 1992, a multiplayer game world (RPG) in the very early days of the consumer internet. In 1997, Simon qualified as a chartered accountant, and moved into corporate finance, where he advised numerous startups during the dotcom boom.  In 2011 he founded WeSwap with Jared Jesner. After a lengthy closed beta in which they ironed out many bugs and operational issues, they officially launched in July 2013, and are doing a brilliant job in disrupting the travel money sector!

Simon visited us at our office; we ate falafels and had a lovely -brief- chat where he shared some great insights from his experience in the startup world.

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We thought you might find it useful if we’d give you some advice tips on how to set up a good looking enthuse.me profile and actually be useful to you!

Although it might be easy for some, or self explanatory for others, we still think that most of us enjoy having some guiding tips once in a while if we want to use a tool properly. Because -you know- you can have the best, high-quality ingredients in the world, but if you don’t have the recipe then the food won’t taste that good, would it? 

So, let’s see how you can get started and get the most out of it.  

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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.

"It’s all about the way you tell a story. From a product to a brand to an idea to strategy, it’s about the core story, not just what you want to say, it’s what you want to tell. Then comes the implementation." 

A talented film-maker and screenwriter, Philip Berger narrates his journey, discusses some of his exciting projects and shares with us his passion about storytelling -as well as some cool advice tips on film-making- .

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