October 7, 2008
How to make a resume that stands out from the crowd? Check out this article from Robert Scoble.
His first two pieces of advice:
- Blog and make sure to put your blog address in the email you send.
- Include a customized video that demonstrates your skills and personality.
That sound like a perfect case for an email signature that includes a link to your personal website at RealMee conveying the skills and personality the employer is looking for. And you could even include a customized video for the job you are applying for at that moment. Robert, we couldn’t agree more.
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Posted by Ronald Carpentier
September 16, 2008
It took longer than expected but last week we released a number of new languages in which you can show your personal website. Currently, it is also possible to show who you are in Italian, Bahasa Indonesia, and Bulgarian. A big thanks to Federica Foroni Lo Faro, Nizar Abdat, and our own RealMee developer Maria! We already supported English, Dutch, Spanish, and German so that makes 7.
Ideas for the next languages we should release? Let us know, and better still, help out if you want eternal Realmee-fame: translating will take you 15 minutes max.
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Posted by Ronald Carpentier
September 3, 2008
We are very proud to announce today (press release on our Dutch blog in Dutch only) that we have agreed on a partnership with the Dutch Creative Investment Fund (Dutch only). In the coming months we will work on the further roll out of RealMee with DCIF partners Telegraaf Media Groep, Sanoma, Veronica (Dutch only) and IDG. We will focus on further developing the functionalities and experience of the service and on growing the user base of RealMee, especially in the Netherlands.
We look forward to this new phase in our existence and are determined to make it a success for our customers, partners and ourselves!
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Posted by Ronald Carpentier
May 22, 2008
I just posted an entry on our Dutch blog about RealMee’s white label proposition. Last week I presented the possibility to integrate a white label version of RealMee to a group of approx. 50 business development type of people in the ISP business. The session was in Amsterdam with Dutch attendees only so I drafted a Dutch pitch. I uploaded the slides in our Dutch blog. If anyone fancies an English version give me a shout and I will do that!
Basically, my 2-minute pitch said that the first online experience for most people is given to them by their ISP, by giving them access to the Web. A logical next step for these people would be to get their own online space. Therefore, it would be logical for ISP’s to integrate a white label version of RealMee into their service offerings. This would offer them the possibility to generate additional revenue streams.
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Posted by Ronald Carpentier
April 7, 2008
Interesting research by Dutch research agency Ruigrok | Netpanel among online Dutch people about their online identity. Of this group, 51% says they are aware of the fact that they have an online identity. That means the rest isn’t to the same degree. I’ll definitely expect that group to become smaller in the near future.
Of the group who is aware of their online identity people will start looking for tools to get some degree of control over it. We think we can offer them an easy and user-friendly option.
More interesting statistics (Dutch only):
- 27% Googles’ themselves now and then;
- 27% Googles’ their friends;
- and 25% Googles’ their family members with any regularity.
Are you satisfied with what people see when people enter your name in a search engine?
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Posted by Ronald Carpentier
March 17, 2008
Until today, it was possible to show your personal website in either English or Dutch. Today, we added two new languages to this list: Spanish and German. A big thanks to the following people for offering their help in translating the texts: Donald Boers (Madrid, Spain) and Willem van Maasdijk (Quito, Ecquador) for Spanish and Alexander Schardt (Germany) for German!
Good to know that Russian, Bulgarian and Italian are already planned and will be available soon.
If you want your language available as well, and want to offer you help by translating, please send us an email. It will take you only 15 minutes and makes your website even more personal. And we’re adding a page to the site soon where you will get an honourable mention 
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Posted by Ronald Carpentier
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