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Children’s book illustrators on about.me

Many artists choose to use their about.me pages to display their art. This week, however we’d like to take a closer look specifically at children’s book illustrators. While their interests are diverse and extend far beyond illustration, all of them here used their works as a strong basis for great pages.

Among this group of artists we have imagination worker, Elissambura, of Argentina who illustrated this post header. Illustrator Bri Mercedes most enjoys drawing nature and fantasy creatures as you can see in her work of art below.

Bri Mercedes Mikael Bistrom Pipah Andy Fielding Marieke Nelissen

Have suggestions for other cool professions we can feature? Leave us a note about it in the comment section!

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Featured Friday #FFaboutme

Happy Friday! We’ve selected the most awe-inspiring pages submitted with the hashtag #FFaboutme from the past week. The pages picked have a great image, concise informative bio, and apps displayed on the page.

Soccer journalist Richard Buxton has covered matches across the Premier League, Champions League, Europa League and FIFA internationals. His photo of the Dennis Bergkamp statue sits atop this blog post. Now is an exciting time to be a fan of the beautiful game, the Champions league final is just weeks away and the World Cup Finals will kick-off on June 12th. Head to Richard Buxton’s page to learn more and follow him on Twitter.

Like everyone included in today’s post, Richard uses his about.me link as part of his twitter bio. This allows all the people who see his tweets to easily learn about his background and interests! Take a look at other great examples below. Click on each image to see their full page, and remember to leave a compliment when you do!

Merary Delgadillo Abhishek Sarin Anthony Mills Alex Di MangoAndre Anktonrania barghout

Don’t see your page here? Give it another try next week. We review them all, but it’s impossible to fit every great page in the blog post!

Make sure your about.me link is in the appropriate section of you twitter bio, and tweet the hashtag #FFaboutme for a chance to be selected next time.

Good luck, and feel free to share you page in the comments below!

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Roxy Kozhevnik

Traveling with about.me: Ukraine

In our travels this week we’re going to the country of Ukraine. Featuring prominently in the news for recent unrest in the country, we wanted to look past the conflicts and focus on the personalities and pages of our about.me members from Ukraine.

In our post header we have Roxy Kozhevenikova, fashionista, blogger and musician whose amazing photograph drew us into her page and Instagram feed kept us there. Let’s not forget self proclaimed geek, Aleksej Leonov, a developer who also enjoys photography and snowboarding.

Aleksej Leonov Solomina Dmitry Chebakov Julia Kurganova Gregory Malenko http://about.me/yp_photo Vitaliy Zasadnyy

Thanks again for coming along for our world-traveling adventure, stay tuned for our next destination! If you have a suggestion of where we should visit next, tell us about it in our comment section.

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Students of the Week

This week’s students really shine with their stunning photographs, fun biographies and varied interests. Siraj Muhammad, in our header image, is a great example with his pursuit of an engineering degree as well as interests in poetry and table tennis. Then there are the talents of Shannon Callihan who showcases her musicianship on her page with a great video of her singing and playing guitar.

So check out their pages and think of what you could add to yours to give the fullest representation of who you whether it be in the classroom, the workplace or everywhere else. This will make you stand out not just to recruiters but others in about.me community who connect with your interests and personality.

Shannon Callihan Daniel Kimball Hafifah Bella Novitasari

P.S. Don’t forget how important it is to give a great first impression through email, add your profile to your email signature so employers can link to your resume and learn more about you. Find out how to add your page to your email signature in our FAQs.

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Tom Paradiso

Athletes on about.me

We see athletes on TV all the time but most of us don’t know much about them off the field.  So today we’d like to feature just a few of the amazing athletes who have pages on about.me and their interests outside of sports.

Olympian and World Champion rower, Tom Paradiso (our post header) works in digital media in New York.  Meanwhile, Andia Winslow, is a professional golfer who thinks of colors in numbers (read more on her page to understand what she means) when she’s not racing skeleton.

Andia Winslow Kyle Korver Susi Mai Grant Elliot Trillium Sellers

Have suggestions for other cool professions we can feature? Leave us a note about it in the comment section!

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Featured Friday #FFaboutme

Happy Friday! We’ve selected the most awe-inspiring pages submitted with the hashtag #FFaboutme from the past week. The pages picked have a great image, concise informative bio, and apps displayed on the page.

Cameron Baraban (see header image) says that he is “your typical, ornery Kansas native who loves his dog, CrossFit, community, and awkward sense of humor.” Like everyone included in today’s post, Cameron uses his about.me link as part of his twitter bio. This allows all the people who see his tweets to easily learn about his background and interests!

Take a look at other great examples below. Click on each image to see their full page, and remember to leave a compliment when you do!

Piyush Gupta Kwame McCartney michael serna Joel Bervell

Don’t see your page here? Give it another try next week. We review them all, but it’s impossible to fit every great page in the blog post!

Make sure your about.me link is in the appropriate section of you twitter bio, and tweet the hashtag #FFaboutme for a chance to be selected next time.

Good luck, and feel free to share you page in the comments below!

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Nicolas Copano

Traveling with about.me: Chile

This week on our world tour we’re heading south, way south, to Chile. A very narrow country, its length nearly matches the width of the United States and is naturally full of different climates. They range from the driest dessert in the world, in the north, to one of the planet’s wettest regions, in the south.

The country also happens to be home to many wonderful about.me community members including our post header, Nicolas Copano, executive producer of MQLTV.com a Spanish-language television channel made for Youtube. We also have piano teacher, Michelle O’Ryan Gálvez and journalist Alejandro San Martín.

Sofia Vicuna Francisco Fernández Michelle O'Ryan Gálvez Juan Carlos Orellana Rosa Martinez Ignacio Bugueño Victoria Lopez Alejandro San Martín

Thanks again for coming along for our world-traveling adventure, stay tuned for our next destination! If you have a suggestion of where we should visit next, tell us about it in our comment section.

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Students of the Week

This week’s students are a diverse group from four different countries and interests ranging from photography to finance. Plus, like Richelle Ji (in our header photo) and Aaron Fisher (below) they’re full of ideas to help change the world for the better.

So check out their pages and think of what you could add to yours to give the fullest representation of who you are in the classroom, workplace and everywhere else. This will make you stand out not just to recruiters but others in about.me community who connect with your interests and personality.

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Amber Rae

Networking on about.me

Networking is an important skill to have and one which you should not be doing just when you’re job searching. You should be networking all the time, and that can mean any number of things.  It can mean getting to know more people in your industry and exchanging tips on best practices with them, building friendships with people who share your interests, helping others with their networking or introducing your friends to others.  There are many ways you can connect with people in an authentic way and we here at about.me aim to help you do that.

Connect with compliments

With our new Search function, announced last week, it’s easier than ever to find others on about.me who are in your industry, share your interests and reside in your geographic region. But what do you do once you discover them in search? How do you reach out to them? One of the easiest approaches is complimenting a person. We all love receiving compliments and it’s a great way to grab someone’s attention.  They’re more inclined to reach out to you if they know you’ve already connected with something in their profile whether it be their biography, picture or interests.

Ed Hunsinger  Dharmayasa  Ivana Obradovic

Jish  Binoyeeta Das  Jarrod Joachim

Connect via email

Were you ever really inspired by a person’s page? Did you ever think, that person and I share so many interests, I bet he or she would be interesting to talk to. Well think no further, reach out via email. While it may take some more time and thought than sending someone a compliment, a nice email can go a long way to really connecting with another person.

Jeffrey Kamilkoff

Be yourself

While it can be intimidating to try to get to know new people, just remember to relax and have fun. Show off who you are on your about.me page and it will make the connections flow even more easily. A person will see your common interests and know exactly why you contacted them. And with a great profile that draws others in, you’ll not only be reaching out to others, people will find reasons to connect with you too!

Abigail Smith  David Hunegnaw  Helena Price

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Artists & Illustrators

Favorite Collections

This past week we made a nice change to our collections, you can now arrange the people in your collections into any order you want, simply drag and drop.  Now Shawn can reorder his Artists collection (in our header) to show his favorite works of art or artists at the top of his collection.

In honor of this change we’ve decided to showcase some of our team’s favorite collections. They range from All Time Faves by Tony Conrad to Pascal’s collection of Storm Troopers. We hope you enjoy perusing them all below and get some inspiration to create your own collections of favorites on about.me

Musical All Time Faves The Hundred Thousand Club Interesting People Diving and Snorkeling Storm Troopers

Not sure how to add people to your collections? Just click the “+” button on their page, in search, under their picture in your feed or hovering over their picture in other collections!

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