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WordPress + about.me = awesome

We’re always on the lookout for partnerships that expand our offerings and benefit our users. We’ve found such a partnership with WordPress and are thrilled to announce the about.me WordPress widget.

Available on both WordPress.com and WordPress.org, this widget shows off your about.me background, bio and services within your blog sidebar. Take a look!

The beauty of this widget is that you have an instantly populated about section for your blog with your about.me content. Not only is it visual but it connects your readers with who you are and where you have a presence online.

And, it automatically updates as you use the services you’ve connected or edit your biography at about.me. It’s a realtime snapshot of who you are, always.

To add this to your WordPress.com blog:

1. Go to the Widgets section of your Appearance settings.
2. Drag the about.me widget to your preferred Widget Area.
3. Add your about.me username to and configure your widget.

To add it to your WordPress.org blog follow these steps:

Upload the widget archive to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Go to Appearance/Widgets to move the widget into your theme and configure it.

Using the about.me WordPress widget ensures your identity is consistent wherever you are online. Besides personalizing your blog, it’s specific and unique to you.

October 11, 2012 : About.me : 6 Comments

Rediscover memories with memolane on about.me

If about.me is who you are today, memolane tells the journey you took to get there. Memolane changes the way we view and engage with all our tweets, posts, check-ins and pictures. It’s a digital scrapbook that allows you to bring social media content from family and friends together, all in one place.

The real value is that with memolane you can make sense of all your social media postings by curating individual stories based on life events and fun adventures.

Memolane even allows you to “like” and comment on stories. Add memolane to your about.me page to show off your journey!

October 9, 2012 : Platform : Leave a comment

Health Style

I first heard of health style from Darya Pino, blogger at Summer Tomato. In perusing about.me, I’ve found dozens more who focus on health and wellness!

It’s impressive and inspiring to see people take their own health and wellness to the streets, to help others lead healthier lives.

I love the idea of a food whisperer!

How’s your health style?

October 8, 2012 : Featured Profiles : Leave a comment

Stop, Collaborate and listen

We’ve gone through bios and backgrounds with the compliments we offer. But collaboration is a bit different. Each person might have different guidelines for who’d they’d want to work with or help.

Still, each of these people are offering collaboration in their bios, so straight from their pages here are some of the best!

So go ahead: compliment, connect, create and collaborate!

October 5, 2012 : Featured Profiles : Leave a comment

New Backgrounds!

Once again, we have to thank the amazing about.me community and the talented photographers on our platform, for our most recent collection of backgrounds just today available in the Gallery.

Thanks to the following for their contributions:
Geoffrey Orthwein
Yadunandan Pujara
Simon Fenton
Larry VanHowe
Ekin Caglar
Jacqueline Allott
Philip Dygéus
Knut Storvestre
Yoann Grange
DeAnna Watters
Danny Anderson
Antoine Mollion
Kevin Currie
Steven Polunsky
Amr J. Miqdadi
Hansel Dobbs
Jean-Jacques Halans
Trevor Brown
Arthur Arnesen
Tom Denning

We shared a few of the new backgrounds here, but head to your Background tab and check the Gallery to see them all!

Thank you once more to our departing group of photographers who shared their talent with the about.me users.

If you’d like to have a photo you’ve taken considered as a background, please email one or two images to aboutphotos@about.me (they should be 1680×1050 px 72 dpi).

October 3, 2012 : Design, Product : Leave a comment

Display your Kred Story

The Kred Story app lets you show off your most influential social media activity as a visual stream on your about.me page. Knowing who you influence most can help you target the information you share and track changes.

Your Kredentials are a one-click summary of your social media presence, including your most used words, hashtags and links, so people can instantly see what they have in common with you.

Unique to this app, Kred shows the people who have mentioned you lately on Twitter, ranked by Kred Influence, and allows you or anyone follow them within the app. See your full influence story and zoom in on meaningful moments.

Explore the posts, pictures and links that make you influential. Display your influence and add Kred Story today!

October 2, 2012 : Platform : Leave a comment

Brasil

We’ve got some amazing pages to show off about.me users in Brazil!

From sweeping city shots to individuals with stunning backdrops, it’s been a joy exploring these pages.

One of my favorite scenic shots:

What do you think? Have you been to Brazil?

October 1, 2012 : Featured Profiles, World tour : Leave a comment

Your bio is well-written!

There are so many awesome pages to compliment. This post is focusing on the scribes of about.me that have crafted some excellent biographies.

These wordsmiths have earned compliments from the about.me team with their bios. Click through the images to read more from our highlighted pages below.

They say that a picture is worth 1000 words, but text can be precise, playful and point the visitor in the right direction to learn more.

Tammie shows off her personality with the copy on her about.me page.

A Wordologist! Amy is a perfect example of a clean and well-written professional page.

And in case you weren’t sure what she does, her background image reinforces it.

Short and sweet, Ginevra speaks volumes with few words, compelling a reader to discover more about her!

Just Jon’s headline packs a powerful punch.

What pages have you seen with well-written bios? Let us know in the comments below!

September 28, 2012 : Featured Profiles : 1 Comment

The early advocates

We’re going old-school with featured pages today!
Investors are a critical piece of a company developing, supporting them as ideas in entrepreneurs’ minds. And this group has been on the about.me platform since the beginning. Product Guy Josh Elman, above, kicks it off.