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Don’t Let Your Personal Life Catch You Out Online

Think twice before you post personal photos and videos on social networking sites – it could ruin your career prospects.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 2, 2007 -- Everyone loves to share photos and video, and the Internet is increasingly the medium of choice. Research and experience proves, however, that it can be a severely career-limiting activity.

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Remember Delta Airlines flight attendant Ellen Simonetti, who got fired for posting amusing pictures online of her posing provocatively in her uniform? Her employer was not amused.

Seventy seven percent of recruiters use search engines to perform background checks on job candidates according to ExecuNet. Ten percent of hiring managers size up recruits via social networking sites, with a whopping 63% dropping a candidate because they didn’t like what they saw, according to CareerBuilder.

The answer to sharing pictures and videos and staying out of hot water is a new private file-sharing service Quickeo, which avoids uploading files to a public Internet site for all to see.

How does Quickeo do this?
Simply, Quickeo sends an email to your chosen friends’ inbox. The recipient of the email is immediately able to watch or listen to the multimedia file(s) using Flash streaming. "Quickeomails" contain no attachments.

Quickeo lets you share any file, any size (video, audio, photo, other) to anyone through email. Quickeo is a Microsoft Windows application. Only the sender of the Quickeomail needs to have the Quickeo application installed on his/her PC.

So, go ahead, share all of those Spring-Break-in-Florida photos with your buds - just not your employer.

As Quickeo’s founder says: “You are what you post on the Web. While it’s fun to share photos of your antics, it can also get you into a lot of trouble. A good rule of thumb is, if you wouldn’t want your mom or employer to see it, don’t post it on the Internet.”

You can download the Quickeo software from www.quickeo.com for free.

About Quickeo
Quickeo is the only sharing service that lets you create a rich multimedia gallery (of videos, audios, images and other files) and choose exactly who may view each gallery. Quickeo allows you to present your multimedia content in a newsletter or album format, with video introduction (can be captured in Quickeo), written commentary, soundtrack, etc.

Useful links:

ExecuNet survey

CareerBuilder survey

San Francisco Chronicle: Beware if your blog is related to work (Ellen Simonetti case)

cnet: Want a job? Clean up your Web act

Viadeo NetRep survey

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Quickeo gives a new edge to the use of emails, turning them into a tool for broadcasting these files. In other words, Quickeo transforms the contact lists of its users into ready-made communities. Quickeo thus removes all the middlemen between the producers and consumers of content, and encourage creativity and greater freedom of expression. Quickeo is available for download from www.quickeo.com.

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