maximizing your online presence

I just finished reading a great article from theabundantartist about maximizing ones online presence. I am not at a point where I am ready to start marketing myself, but when that time comes it certainly makes sense that I not only need a blog but a website as well where I can display my portfolio, contact info etc...This article speaks to the need to have both ones blog and ones website linked together to ensure that your web traffic is directed to both sites. There are also links to tutorials on how to merge your current blog with a website. Great info to reference when the time comes!

Lately I have also been overwhelmed with social media. It can be so time consuming to keep up with it all!! Below are some great articles that can help maximize ones online presence while at the same time cut the amount of time spent maintain ones blog, twitter, facebook, linkedin accounts, etc...

from the Abundant Artist  ("How to use social media and still have a life") who then links to an article entitled:" Streamlining your social Web presence in six steps", "Free services to streamline your social networking experience", and "It's about time: 5 tools to streamline your social media". Tools like twitterfeed, igoogle and using google alerts are suggested.