Site of the Week: Zerply.com

In this age of social media, it's tough to keep track of all the sites you've signed up with, much less sending out all those URL's to prospective clients, girlfriends or your future employer. Zerply hopes to resolve just that, by giving you the freedom to create your one page professional profile online, a collecton of all your social media accounts as well as all your data online. Think of it as a sort of a business card online as your profile neatly categorizes your information for simple and easy consumption.

Before you start asking questions about the unique name of the website, Justin Style, the Co-founder of Zerply breaks it down for you. "The name Zerply was our abbreviation of the term Serious Play, which is basically to love what you do so much that it feels like play. Thats how we hope people feel about their profession, and also the experience they have of networking on Zerply".

Right now Zerply is growing at a fantastic pace, for a young network. With more and more professionals signing up everyday, WhyZerply.com has all the goods on what this new type of social network is good for. Zerply has the ability to link up with all the popular networks out there - Facebook, Tumblr, Linked In and Twitter are a given, and lots more. The latest is the ability to link your Behance.com portfolio to your profile for easy portfolio display. Not only that, Zerply has a "follow" type mini social network going on, so you can add and browse through profiles of other interesting people across the network. You can chose to follow and be followed, and not only that, based on the tags of your skills entered, you can meet people that are in that particular stream of work and connect.

My profile was created in just a few minutes and connected to Behance immediately. There are a few themes at the moment which are free, the rest is paid for. I am sure that as Zerply grows, so too will the theme base. However, what was perplexing was the fact that if you wish to connect to a proper domain, it costs about 15$ a year and you have to have a domain already registered with a registrar.

Zerply is a perfect way for professionals to get their multiple creative, social or blog networks together and present a professional view of themselves, condensed neatly into a zerp.ly domain.