Which Personal Page For You: about.me or flavors.me?
As if you didn’t have enough online profiles to manage already, along come personal pages. But then… maybe the fact that there’s almost nothing to manage is what makes them so appealing?
What are personal pages?Personal pages, also called personal home pages, are one page websites that are meant to be used as web-based …
Is Your Brand Building Harder Work Than Necessary?
Trying to stand out in a crowd is not always the best way to stand out.
First, a storyI was chatting with an old friend of mine recently about his dating struggles. Or rather, struggles about his lack of serious dating.
Now in his late 30’s, single and wanting very much to start a …
Did TweetDeck Just Ruin Twitter For Us All?
Why you should avoid Deck.ly’s dreaded long tweets and more.
One thing I like to teach is that if you want someone to do something, make it as easy as possible for them to do it. Sometimes this advice can backfire when it comes to something that you DON’T want people to do.
TweetDeck, recently …
7 Hits and Misses of LinkedIn’s Fancy New inMaps
LinkedIn’s new inMaps gives you a cool snapshot of your entire LinkedIn network, but is it useful?
In the official announcement of inMaps, LinkedIn asks “Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the way all your connections are related to each other?” Well yes, it would. inMaps is a good start, but it has …
Ask The Experts: What’s Your Favorite Personal Branding Pet Peeve?
I asked all the experts here on Personal Branding Blog for their personal branding pet peeves.
Notice any trends?
Deborah Shane:
One of my pet peeves about people’s personal branding on their social platforms is when they follow a conversation that not everyone knows about. Best to take that stuff one on one or in …
7 Handy New Twitter Timesavers
I’d be surprised if you don’t immediately grab at least one of these productivity-enhancers.
Quick tip on Jan. 28, 2011: I just discovered these tools recently and am still trying them myself. Some of them are very new and a little buggy, but if you like their concept (or even if you don’t), reply to …
5 Choices To Best Volunteer Your Way To A Strong Personal Brand
If you take the time to research and choose the right organization, the right volunteering can really boost your personal brand.
Choose a direction, or discover oneI started volunteering at my local synagogue at a very young age when personal branding not only wasn’t a priority, it wasn’t even in my vocabulary.
That’s okay!…
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #10
Responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and Twitter, starting over, LinkedIn, and more.
Stephen Fells, @StephenFells, twittered: Is it better to tweet under a brand or a personal twitter account?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: Is it better to use a hammer or a drill? It all depends on what you’re trying to do.…
5 WordPress Plugins for the Personal Brand-Building Blogger
Useful WordPress plugins that build your brand while helping your readers too.
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Official description: “A WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of including a picture when writing posts. Authors simply choose from a predefined list of images in the Write Post page to display an image in a post.”
There are many plugins …
How To Best Build a Multi-faceted Personal Brand?
How should you build your personal brand when your expertise spans different, unrelated professions?
I recently attended a local business networking meeting where this topic came up.
Do, Did and NeededThe format was very simple. In the first half of the meeting, everyone in the room had two minutes to explain who they were, …