Personal Branding Interview: Paul Dunay
Today, I spoke to Paul Dunay, who is an ex-Personal Branding Blogger, author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies and is the Global Managing Director of Services and Social Marketing for Avaya. In this interview, Paul tells us why the web is the best place for marketing, how he got his book deal by blogging, tips …
Digital First Impressions Part II
My post last week on digital first impressions created some good debate and awesome comments! I wanted to dive into one of the points that was brought up, offer a few more insights and add some focus to an evolving trend in personal branding.
From Barry:
Nice ideas about digital first impressions. However, I think …
Personal Branding Interview: Curtis Silver
Today, I spoke to Curtis Silver, who is a full time geek, writer & father who moonlights from 9-5 as a financial analyst. He is also a blogger for Wired. In this interview, we discuss how technology has blended personal and professional lives, Curtis’s career, how journalists use social networks to think of stories, and …
Creating an Online Presence to Develop Your Brand
As an online journalist and news junkie, there are multiple platforms that I use in gathering news and digesting the plethora of information out there. Whether it is to keep up on my areas of interests (tech, social media, business models in journalism) or areas of news that I simply enjoy being informed about (local …
Has the Word “Humble” Changed From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0?
A lot of people confuse personal branding with shameless self-promotion and for good reason. Personal branding involves letting your audience know that you exist, including your achievements, what you stand for and what you can provide to them. Branding would be ineffective if you just did it for a single day, which is why our …
World Wide Rave with Your Personal Brand
Great video from David Meerman Scott author of the new book entitled World Wide Rave.
While you watch the video think of the implications for your personal brand or your business and what you can be doing to get ahead and reach your goals!
What is clear is that those who do something different and …
Position Yourself for the Career You Want Not the Job You Have
I prefer the term career over the term job. A job is a single occurrence, while a career is something built over the course of your life. A career is typically made up of many jobs. Sometimes they are interrelated and other times there is no real direction, therefore there are multiple careers leading to …
Personal Branding Interview: Julien Smith
Today, I spoke to Julien Smith, who is the New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, with Chris Brogan, and one of the first podcasters. Julien talks to us about what a trust agent is, why it’s important in the online world, and then gives some examples of trust agents. He also explains how …
Personal Branding Interview: Richard Sambrook
Today, I spoke to Richard Sambrook, who is the Director of the BBC’s Global News division, responsible for leading the BBC’s international news services across radio, television and new media. In this interview, Richard talks about the future of journalism, how the demographics of his blog readers compare to the BBC’s, international news, personal branding …
Personal Branding Interview: Ryan Paugh
Today, I spoke to Ryan Paugh, who is the co-founder and community manager at Brazen Careerist. Ryan is one of my good friends and I had the pleasure to connect with him close to when I started blogging a few years back. Ryan, along with Penelope Trunk and Ryan Healy (also good friends), have re-launched …