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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

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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enthuse.me has been chosen from among thousands of startups that applied to exhibit at what Forbes called “The new hot ticket on the tech conference scene”. 

Over 5000 start ups applied for the ALPHA program for just a few places at the conference.   The ALPHA program is a means for the Web Summit to support early stage start ups by giving them free exhibitor spaces at their flagship annual event.  

enthuse.me will be set up at their own exhibition stand during the 2 days of the Summit, so if you’re also attending, be sure to stop by and meet us!

The Web Summit

Often called “Europe’s SXSW”, it’s where the world’s brightest minds in technology gather for two days to hear from over 300 speakers; from the world’s leading founders, investors and CEOs to inventors, designers and entrepreneurs. The world’s leading tech companies and the most successful and innovative startups will be there, demonstrating their latest products and services.

We’re excited and want to share this great news with the rest of the world :)

If you feel like it, help us spread the word by sharing our blog post.

Thanks!