Do I know you? I really hope this is not the response that we get from someone seeing us for the first time who has only seen a picture of us on our business card or online profile.
How often do we look at someone's profile picture - as posted on Facebook, Trulia, ActiveRain, Linked-In, Zillow, Plaxo, or other sites - and wonder just how long ago that picture was taken?
Unlike years past, when a "sitting" at a professional photographer's studio was required to produce a suitable head shot (that after it was touched up and air brushed maybe didn't really resemble us that much anyway), we now can produce a digital image at will - and with much less expense.
We can vary our settings and our outfits from very casual to extremely formal.
I discuss these issues in my podcast post today, "PROFILE PICTURES" (click to hear or download the podcast).
If it's been a while since we updated the picture that we post, if we don't have one uploaded, or we aren't that fond of the one we're using, it's easy to get another taken and posted.
I think we need to be real and authentic in our posts and in the pictures that we use. We want to be believable, and that goes for our profile pictures as well.
How often do we look at someone's profile picture - as posted on Facebook, Trulia, ActiveRain, Linked-In, Zillow, Plaxo, or other sites - and wonder just how long ago that picture was taken?
Unlike years past, when a "sitting" at a professional photographer's studio was required to produce a suitable head shot (that after it was touched up and air brushed maybe didn't really resemble us that much anyway), we now can produce a digital image at will - and with much less expense.
We can vary our settings and our outfits from very casual to extremely formal.
I discuss these issues in my podcast post today, "PROFILE PICTURES" (click to hear or download the podcast).
If it's been a while since we updated the picture that we post, if we don't have one uploaded, or we aren't that fond of the one we're using, it's easy to get another taken and posted.
I think we need to be real and authentic in our posts and in the pictures that we use. We want to be believable, and that goes for our profile pictures as well.
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