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about.me — Your personal page with purpose, completely redesigned
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I've been an advisor to the company since it started many years ago. It's great to see this fresh new release of the product that's focused on the needs of people today and in the future. Sign up for an account and let us know what you think! It'll literally only take a few minutes for you to get an awesome looking page of your own.
Great update. I'd love the addition of the "Chat to me" Spotlight. http://about.me/shaun
@rickyyean We believe that representation with a minimum of other obligations required (friend requests, constant content creation, work networking requests, etc.) is the basic foundation of a personal page on the web. In the past few years, we got away from our unique brand of simplicity, adding lots of “engagement” features, as we chased metrics. While we generated millions and millions of compliments & collections, we cannot honestly say that either of those features created enough meaningful value for our users.
We decided to reset and the result is a much simpler design: a single page with one prominent button and a few other outbound links. We're not a social network: there’s no friending, or following, or connecting. Instead, there’s just a button we call the "spotlight." It’s a single call to action meant to get visitors to actually do something with the page they’re visiting. Every person who creates a page has to pick one. Photographers might choose "view my portfolio" or "view my photos." Airbnb hosts would choose "stay at my place." For authors there’s "buy my book"; for musicians, there’s "listen to my music." The link points wherever you want it to.
@tonysphere Tony, how do I view who viewed me with this new design? Am I missing something? Otherwise this new redesign looks awesome!
@ellisreppo You will get a weekly email from about.me which includes page views and spotlight clicks.
I love the new update; especially the design and call-to-action feature.
However, I was using About.me as a way to connect with potential customers through searching users with interests listed on their profile. In 2015, I was able to get 25 new customers.
Perhaps bring back analytics, the search feature and collections for behind the scenes?
IMHO "about.me" should have spent their money into creating a "business card/resume portal" viable solution for the next generation rather than simply re-designing their ui.
I mean, if I wanted to go on Tumblr I would have just gone on Tumblr ;)
@orliesaurus I feel like about.me is the new resume- a hub that links to your different profiles (linkedin, git, medium, etc)
@zachherbert they are clearly missing the "attach about.me profile resume" button on all major recruiting sites then ;)
Super pumped to work on the about.me team! Check out some of the new features:
*Beautiful adaptive templates
*Spotlight – your call-to-action button
*Awesome mobile experience
Here's my page: about.me/parisrouzati
If you already have a page, you can update here: about.me/update
@parisrouz Thanks for the update link. Was really confused there for a second when I logged in and everything looked the same as before...
While I approve of the simplification of the service I really miss the social features. About.me used to feel organic and alive, and now it feels like just another digital business card.
So excited to see our new design and spotlight feature in the wild. We believe that representation with a minimum of other obligations required (friend requests, constant content creation, work networking requests, etc.) is the basic foundation of a personal page on the web. In the past few years, we got away from our unique brand of simplicity, adding lots of “engagement” features, as we chased metrics. While we generated millions and millions of compliments & collections, we cannot honestly say that either of those features created enough meaningful value for our users.
We decided to reset and the result is a much simpler design: a single page with one prominent button and a few other outbound links. We're not a social network: there’s no friending, or following, or connecting. Instead, there’s just a button we call the "spotlight." It’s a single call to action meant to get visitors to actually do something with the page they’re visiting. Every person who creates a page has to pick one. Photographers might choose "view my portfolio" or "view my photos." Airbnb hosts would choose "stay at my place." For authors there’s "buy my book"; for musicians, there’s "listen to my music." The link points wherever you want it to.
You can learn more at my blog: tonyconrad.wordpress.com
Interesting. My about.me page looks super cluttered with the old modules now. Time to change! http://about.me/schlomo
@schlomo Hi Schlomo - we moved you over to the new format early. Thanks for making your awesome page.
Not sure about the amount of piled popups to be honest: https://twitter.com/presskind/st...
How do I update to the new design? Mine on http://allancaeg.com is still using the legacy one and I don't see where I can update
I've been seeing a lot of buzz about this new release on Twitter. Awesome to see it out :)
Congrats @tonysphere - can you tell us about the updates?
I'm extremely excited about this redesign! The about.me team did an amazing job. I'm on the board, but also have been a rabid user since day one.
I'll be honest, I was never a big fan of the site due to the former layout and designs that were available. This is clean and simple. I dig.
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