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I’m pleased to announce that re.vu (pronounced “review”) is generally available. Click the image to the right or visit re.vu to establish your personal brand today. For those of you who don’t know what a re.vu is, here is a handy primer.
A visual resume
It’s not just a visual resume, it’s a better visual resume available to everyone, free of charge. And yes, there is a place to link to your traditional resume too. See re.vu/stephen for an example, or better yet, create your own re.vu!
Fast start, import your LinkedIn data
You can get started by importing the data they have already entered for their LinkedIn profile with one click. This is a great starting point, but personalization makes your re.vu much more powerful.
Actively integrated into social networks
Your re.vu is actively integrated into LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. There are integration points with over 19 social networking/media sites and the ability to integrate into custom sites.
A collection of infographic widgets
A standard re.vu offers access to 12 complementary infographic widgets. These tools help you express more than just your work history, they provide an outlet for your creative genius.
Professionally designed themes
The re.vu team has invested in over 10 themes that change the look and feel of your re.vu instantaneously upon selection. Don’t like our themes? Create your own through a point and click interface.
Live linkage to your online assets
Have you got a web site you created? A document you’re proud of? A video you directed? A song you composed? A book you’ve written? Great, any and all of these can be part of your re.vu.
Limited only by your imagination
The combinations of widgets, themes, and content is nearly infinite and how your re.vu shows up is limited only by your imagination.
Get Started Today!
1) To get your free (now and forever) re.vu, visit re.vu – enter your mail address (no spam ever,) a password, and your preferred URL (https://re.vu/whateveryouwant.)
2) If you have a LinkedIn profile, you can get a great starter re.vu by importing your profile in a single click, just follow the prompts. Otherwise skip to the next step.
3) Explore the features of re.vu. Personalize your data, social networking sites, infographics, portfolio, and design options to have re.vu tell your unique story.
4) If you like the result, share on Twitter, blog, Facebook, e-mail, Google+, and LinkedIn under the Dashboard, Promote option.
5) Follow @resumevu on Twitter and Like re.vu on Facebook!
(Pro tip: re.vu works best with modern, standards based browsers like Firefox, Chrome, or Safari.)
There is a feedback button on each and every page, please make sure to share yours!
re.vu, the cure for the common resume.
Like a drunk on a bender manages alcohol, we the people of the USA are spending our way into oblivion. If you care even a bit about getting the country back on track, invest 20 minutes to listen to the presentation that Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins gives. It gives data and suggestions that are easily understood about the financial condition of the USA and their implications.
We are at a crossroads. While I do not approve of the grandstanding and or social imperatives of the so-called tea party, I am grateful that this has brought the debate into the forefront of our collective consciousness. It’s clear we have a choice and that isn’t just about cutting things, it’s incumbent upon us to have a plan for fiscal well-being and a commitment to execute against this plan.
This isn’t a new position for me, I’ve written about it many times before and well before it was a political football to be misused by the political idiots we have elected. Our lack of education in basic math skills was never more apparent than in the latest round of budget machinations.
So, what do we do here? Do nothing? Continue to argue? Or actually take on the hard decisions to cut expenses, increase revenue, and grow our long-term future? I say we actually do something sensible, but I think that is much easier said than done.
As outlined in a previous entry, I’m happy to have a new project underway in the form of re.vu (pronounced “review”) – a radically better way to represent one’s self than a plain old resume.
Last week, re.vu was selected as the winner for the “In Process” category of startups at the contest 59 Days of Code. There was some tough competition there and we were fortunate (and happy) to be selected as the winner in our category. This is the second year of the contest that is held in California’s Central Valley and since one of our co-founders works from Fresno, it was a great forcing function to build out re.vu’s features and functions as well as an opportunity to engage with the startup/tech community in and around Fresno (we’re looking at you Hashtag and many, many others…)
Watch this space for news as we move from private beta (our present state) to full release in the very near future. The best time to think about how to market yourself is before you need to, so you are invited to come create your re.vu now. It’s a free service and it’s a fantastic way to create a package that tells your story in a way a plain old resume can’t.
No need to be a graphic designer, you can create different looks using templates, widgets, and forms. Here’s a piece of my re.vu as an example:
For those of you who have followed this blog for any period of time, you’re probably wondering why it’s been like the sound of crickets on Musings from the Coast. Well, there are three explanations.
1 – Switch of Roles at my Day Job. That’s right, I’ve changed jobs and now am responsible for all things developer at Juniper Networks. Note, this blog is mine and mine alone, it has nothing to do with Juniper and I don’t speak for Juniper in this medium. The things posted here are my personal views, opinions, activities, etc. Treat the content as such.
2 – A new venture: re.vu. Having needed to update my resume in recent times, it became clear to me that the boring, plain old resume was not the way to go. Thus, I cofounded re.vu (pronounced “review”) with 2 colleagues and we’re driving this forward as a new way for job seekers to market themselves creatively. In these economic times, with almost 14 million Americans looking for work, we think this can be a great tool to help. Check out my re.vu to see what I’m talking about. If you’re reading this and we’re still in beta, leave a comment and I’ll get you a code.
3 – I’ve Converted to Twitter. That’s right, after all the bad stuff I had to say about it, I’ve come around to thinking it’s a good way of communicating and have been using it actively since mid-April (3rd time is a charm.) Now, if you’re like me and think about Twitter as being the way to be narcissistic, I can understand that. However, it’s all about who you follow and what you choose to share. You can see my recent tweets to the left in the sidebar. Follow me on @mah1 if you feel so inclined.
All this being said, I’ll try to be a little more diligent and post more than say, once every 60 days.
