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Traveling with about.me: Jakarta

We’re back again on the about.me World Tour with our focus on Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia. One of the largest cities in the world, Jakarta is home to all type of people, including many members of the about.me community.

santiwidzSanti Widyarini (right)  is a slow-runner, an avid reader, an occasional gardener, a passionate business owner, and a seasonal traveler from Jakarta, Indonesia. Check out her page for more, and take a look at the people below.

Mentari Chairunisa Dan Shrd Ditha Andhika Ramda Yanurzha Amelia Winnie

Thanks for coming along for our world-traveling adventure on the blog. For even more pages, click here.

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Students of the Week

A page can help the students with everything from getting to know their campus community to providing a professional platform to land an interview. Students like Elliot Penson can connect portfolios, include videos, and even showoff a GitHub repo to supplement an academic transcript or resume.

Try searching for your college or university to find current or former classmates, professors and coaches. If you’d like to be found via your school, be sure to add your educational info in your biography section while editing your page.

Robyn Fiorda Ashley Sams joshuashaffer Echo Chan Emily Mauthe Chelsea Bock

To all you students out there: now is a much more pleasant time to update your page and resume than during finals or your first week of summer! For instructions on how to upload a resume to your about.me page click here.

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Rob Blaich

Featured Friday #FFaboutme

Happy Friday! The pages today show off informative bios, display creative work, and share personal interests; all the things that make you unique!

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! Be sure to also check out Winnipeg based designer and all-around creative Rob Blaich seen in the header image of this blog post. Jeannie Fratoni Piyush Agarwal Michael ColorgeJohn BentleyKathryn Marquis

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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Mateo Sáez

Ski about.me

The Sochi Olympics mark the first inclusion of freestyle skiing halfpipe at the Games, and while we may not all be able to ski in the Olympics, we can still be passionate participants of the sport.

Check out some of the proud skiers on about.me. From freestyle pro Walter Wood to visually impaired skier Brian Follett, skiers of all kinds show their passion on there pages.

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Students of the Week

A page can help the students with everything from getting to know their campus community to providing a professional platform to land an interview.

The pages here represent just a sliver of the academic community on about.me. Try searching for your college or university to find current or former classmates, professors and coaches. If you’d like to be found via your school, be sure to add your educational info in your biography section while editing your page.

Madison PowersMark HeisigAstrid ShapiroCourtney Ann Neale

To all you students out there: now is a much more pleasant time to update your page and resume than during finals or your first week of summer! For instructions on how to upload a resume to your about.me page click here.

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Swimming for Literacy

This summer, my husband, a close friend and I decided to try to swim from Europe to Africa to raise $100,000 for Worldreader. Worldreader is a non-profit that eradicates illiteracy by delivering a digital library to the world’s poorest people. Our thinking was this: how can educational opportunities between two continents be so vastly different if they’re so close that we can swim there?”

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Mario Torija

Featured Friday #FFaboutme

Happy Friday! The pages today show off informative bios, display creative work, and share personal interests; all the things that make you unique!

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! Be sure to also check out Madrid based online and mobile specialist Mario Torija seen in the header image of this blog post.

A Broader View Volunteers THOMAS RIFFEY Jon McFarlane Suleyman Cavusoglu

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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Traveling with about.me: South Korea

We’re back again on the about.me World Tour with our focus on the Republic of Korea. Known to many as South Korea, the nation of 50 million has changed greatly over the past fifty years.

In stark contrast to the neighbors to the North, the Republic of Korea is a hotbed of technological innovation and a staging ground for pop stars of the future.

There are countless members of the about.me community living, working and studying in South Korea. Here are a few eye-catching pages:

channyZoey RyuJongjin ChoiElvira TanjungphilipwijayaThanks for coming along for our world-traveling adventure on the blog. For even more pages, click here.

The amazing photo in the header of this post is from South Korea based photographer Rachel Gu.

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Italo Brown

Medical Students

This week we are taking a day to focus on a particularly inspiring group of students: those pursuing a degree in medicine.

An undoubtable difficult path, medical students like Italo Brown (above) are on the way to becoming physicians and medical professionals. Before they can spend long hours on the job, they will have spent years working hard in the classroom and in residency to develop the necessary skills to help others.

These medical students come from various backgrounds and parts of the world, but are united in the pursuit of improving other people’s lives.

Lingsa JiaArtyom DyakivAstrid G. HapAlberto Abreu da Silva

If you know any students, follow this link to help them to claim their own page: Invite. A page can help students discover other people with the same interests, and by providing a professional foundation when looking for an internship or job.

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Invite Your Friends

Now you can easily invite friends to join about.me. When a friend signs up, we’ll feature your page for everyone to see.

Invite Your Friends!

If you’ve been paying close attention to the site, you may have noticed the recent appearance of our invite page. After some extra testing, we’re excited to launch a clean and simple way to invite your friends.

It’s fun to see how people you know present themselves on about.me. You might even discover shared passions (you love needlepoint too!?!)  or even connect in a new way or on a new service.

Invite and Get FeaturedYou’ll get featured; more exposure can help grow followers,  promote your work, or help you connect with professional and creative collaborators.

But more importantly you’ll show your friends an easy way to express their unique personality identity on the web.

 

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