Author: Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin’s Press) and the #1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan Publishing), which combined have been translated into 15 languages.
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Part 2 of 3: Teachers Talk About Social Media in the Classroom and Personal Branding!

This is part 2 of 3 in a series where I talk to two college teachers about their use of social media in the classroom.

In part 1, they discussed why blogs are important in classrooms and the advantages of using blogs as a learning vehicle. Today’s discussion is around the relevancy of “Blackboard,” which …

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8 out of 10 People DON’T Get to Play to Their Strengths

…just one piece of research uncovered by Marcus Buckingham after decades of research.

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I spoke with Marcus Buckingham last night and it was the greatest half hour I’ve spent in a long time. Marcus is a bestselling author (selling millions of books) and a world famous public speaker (speaks to Toyota, Coca-Cola, etc). He …

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Part 1 of 3: Teachers Talk About Social Media in the Classroom and Personal Branding!

I’m starting a three part series on how social media influences the classroom and can provide value to both the professor and student, in an educational setting. To do this, I found two teachers that “get it” and have used blogs for student collaboration and skill development. They also feel it is an innovative and …

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A Veteran CEO Gives Practical Advice for Your Personal Brand

Today, I interview Gary Harpst, who has decades of experience as an executive and is now a famous business book author.  Today, he shares his practical knowledge on how to achieve business success in this execution revolution.

Gary, we all know that enterprises have tremendous resources for executing on various business/marketing programs.  How can individuals …

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Social Networking: Number Friends Vs the Quality of Each Friend

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A lot of very influential people are sounding off that it’s not the number of friends you have on social networks that matter, but rather the quality of the relationships. For instance, many people would rather have 100 close knit contacts on LinkedIn than 600 “lose contacts” or people …

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Brand Yourself as a Mathematician or Become Obsolete

Today, I spoke with Ian Ayres, who is an author and law professor at Yale. He shares insights as to why you really need to learn about statistics and how companies are using these so-called “Supercrunchers” to conduct business.

Why do we need to understand numbers to succeed and survive in our world? Should every …

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Become a Top Brand Using a Single Roll of Toilet Paper

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I asked Mike Michalowicz to give you some personal branding tips. Mike has started companies from scratch, is a frequent guest on The Big Idea with Donnie Deutsch and is an author of a new book called The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Some may believe this title to be a bit too “over the top,” …