http://www.mworker.com/en/managing-your-online-presence/ The online world has become a rather significant part of many peoples’ lives. What’s more, online presence is something that employers or clients tend to check more and more often when searching for professionals or checking candidates. Reputation and trust are crucial for every freelancer, so managing online presence is a task for every independent professional. We provide a list of tips to make this task easier. Google your name. See what results are on the first page – usually these will be your profiles on social networks. If you have a portfolio page, but it is not on the first page, read the last couple of paragraphs of this article. Don’t forget to check the Images section. Review your Facebook timeline and remove or hide all pictures that might not be representative of your professional to your future clients. Tweak your privacy settings on Facebook. You enable notifications about pictures you are tagged in, and choose which ones to publish on your wall. Also, you can set, which parts of your profile are publicly visible. To separate work life from private life, a good idea is to set up a LinkedIn profile. Not only it helps to track your career progress and build reputation, but also it is universally understood as a space to exhibit your professional competencies. Create a profile and engage in professional communities, be it a LinkedIn group, a forum, or a separate platform for professionals of a specific field, like Dribbble. This will indicate that you are passionate about your work, you are aware of the latest trends, and you pay attention to continuous improvement. Keep your information up-to-date. Review your profiles once in a while, and make the necessary changes. Be careful about what you post. Remember the golden rule – once it’s on the Internet, it will live forever. Think twice before posting outrageous comments about anything – from bragging how dumb your clients are to posting racist jokes on social media. It is unprofessional, it is morally unacceptable, and it can put you in unnecessary trouble.

1. Managing Your Online Presence
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2. Managing Your Online Presence
• Do you care about your hair style? How about the
clothes you wear? It is natural for us to care about these
things, but how often do you check, what the Internet
has to say about you?
• The online world has become a rather significant part of
many peoples’ lives. What’s more, online presence is
something that employers or clients tend to check more
and more often when searching for professionals or
checking candidates. Reputation and trust are crucial for
every freelancer, so managing online presence is a task
for every independent professional. We provide a list of
tips to make this task easier.
www.mworker.com

3. Google your name
• See what results are on the first page – usually
these will be your profiles on social networks. If you
have a portfolio page, but it is not on the first page,
read the last couple of paragraphs of this article.
Don’t forget to check the Images section.
www.mworker.com

4. Review your Facebook timeline
• and remove or hide all pictures that might not be
representative of your professional to your future
clients.
www.mworker.com

5. Tweak your privacy settings on
Facebook
• You enable notifications about pictures you
are tagged in, and choose which ones to
publish on your wall. Also, you can set, which
parts of your profile are publicly visible.
www.mworker.com

6. LinkedIn profile
• To separate work life from private life, a good
idea is to set up a LinkedIn profile. Not only it
helps to track your career progress and build
reputation, but also it is universally
understood as a space to exhibit your
professional competencies.
www.mworker.com

7. Create a profile and engage in
professional communities
• Create a profile and engage in professional
communities, be it a LinkedIn group, a forum,
or a separate platform for professionals of a
specific field, like Dribbble. This will indicate
that you are passionate about your work, you
are aware of the latest trends, and you pay
attention to continuous improvement.
www.mworker.com

8. Keep your information up-to-date
• Review your profiles once in a while, and
make the necessary changes.

9. Be careful about what you post
• Remember the golden rule – once it’s on the
Internet, it will live forever. Think twice before
posting outrageous comments about anything
– from bragging how dumb your clients are to
posting racist jokes on social media. It is
unprofessional, it is morally unacceptable, and
it can put you in unnecessary trouble.

10. • Some freelancers have their personal portfolio
website, but it might end up in the second or
third page of Google results, so naturally no
one apart from yourself will read it. To deal
with this problem, we have prepared a short
guide about how to put your portfolio to the
top of Google results.

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