Share your Inman profile with others by using retaggr

I know that a lot of you maintain a presence on a lot of different social media sites. You probably can't fit links to all of your profiles in your email signature, or easily on your blog or website. That's where retaggr comes in.

Retaggr is a site that allows you to enter the information for all of your online profiles in one place. The best part is that retaggr uses the information you input to generate an "interactive Web 2.0 social and business card." You can then embed the card on your blog, website, or email, and then when people view it, they can click on the icons and be taken instantly to the site of their choice, where they will land on your profile.

Ok, but here is the BEST part. If you have an Inman.com profile (you do have one, don't you?), you can enter the information into retaggr for inclusion on your profile card. How cool is that?

Here is how it works:

Go to retaggr and sign up for an account.

Click on the "customise profile card" tab, and then start entering in your personal and business information (you can include a photo, too).

Be sure to visit "websites you use." This is where you enter all of the information for the sites on which you maintain a profile.

Included in the list of sites is a classification for "real estate." The list will look like this:

 In the box for Inman.com, you will need to enter your Inman username. This is where I had some difficulty. In order to find out exactly how to enter the information, go to http://www.inman.com/community/members and do a search for yourself. When you click on the link, the URL of your profile will be revealed. It will look something like this: http://www.inman.com/community/members/daniel-rothamel-inman-community-manager

You just want to enter everything after the "members/" classification into the Inman box on retaggr. I had to enter "daniel-rothamel-inman-community-manager" Sounds funny, but that is the way it works.

Once you have put in all of the information, you can save it, and take a look at your profile card. It will look something like this:

There are then instructions for embedding the card on your website, blog, or even including it in your email signature. The whole card wouldn't fit in the sidebar of my blog, so I opted to embed the retaggr badge, which looks like this:

When people click on it, my profile card comes up, and people can connect to me through there.

Overall, retaggr is a pretty cool service. It certainly makes it easier to point people to one place that shows all of your social networking participation. And now, it makes it easier to show people that you are one of the dedicated real estate industry professionals that participates in the Inman Community.

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