The contributors to the Forrester Marketing Blog are taking their own advice and getting more personal with their readers. An excellent initiative, adding a picture of the author to each post, so you can get a view of who actually wrote it.

Professional bloggers like Problogger and marketers like Seth Godin all let you get up close and personal with the author, showing the face of the authors in pictures and videos.

Not to be outblogged, here’s a picture of yours truly, in case you haven’t seen me elsewhere. I won’t add my picture to every post yet, but that day will come, along with some better illustrations in my posts.   

This picture is on a lot of social networks, and not to just show you what I look like, here’s my activity in social media online.

14 ways to connect to an Internet Marketing Addict

Here are the social media I am most active in.

• Internet Marketing Addict blog - this blog is where I post most of my findings in Internet Marketing. You can also subscribe to the feed for this blog.
• FriendFeed - aggregation of my social media activity, including this blog, shared bookmarks and microblogging posts.
• Linkedin - I am selective in who I connect to on Linkedin. It has to be someone I know, or a relevant business contact that we both benefit from (Internet Marketing professionals, business contacts in Europe, clients, and so on).
• Twitter - despite my previous statements, I have continued using Twitter a little, since I have connected with a few more people. Still, it is not very useful, and I use it for small announcements, like what social media I’m interacting on, promoting my blog, and some other information, like that I support the WWF.
• del.icio.us - my most active social bookmarking tool, where I add most links I find.
• StumbleUpon - in addition to del.icio.us, I use StumbleUpon to quickly ‘thumbs up’ a page I’m reading, without adding any comment or tags.
• Facebook - I’m rarely on Facebook. Perhaps once a week, when I get new invitations. I am sorely tired of the applications that get sent to me, and have blocked just about all but five or so, that don’t interrupt me too much.
• Technorati - I have used Technorati a bit lately, adding some favorites and subscribing to some blogs. However, del.icio.us and StumbleUpon along with BlogCatalog serve me a lot better in keeping track of blogs I’m following. FriendFeed helps a lot as well.
• BlogCatalog - a great collection of blogs, with a lot of activity from bloggers and useful features.
• MyBlogLog - I have just signed up for MyBlogLog, and I like what I have seen so far, but I don’t know if it can compete with BlogCatalog yet. Please join my community on MyBlogLog if you’re interested in Internet Marketing (especially if you have interest in a European perspective)
• Bebo - also just signed up. I’m not active on Bebo, but some day I might be.
• Google Reader - you can follow my shared items on my Google Reader page or through the feed.

I am on several other social media networks and activities, but these are the primary ones. If you are interested in Internet Marketing, like or dislike what I’m writing, please let me know. Add your comments to this post or connect to me through any of the above social media.

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