Breaking News: Facebook Chat (IM) Goes Live
Typically, I leave breaking news about social networks to my peers. Nick O’Neill is world renowned for covering this space (Update – Nick found out about this 3 weeks ago), so I hope he doesn’t mind. I went into my Facebook account tonight and saw that the IM functionality was already in place. I asked …
Forbes, Reuters, Hoovers, and Guy Kawasaki Endorse Personal Branding Blog
I quickly wanted to share a few achievements I’ve had recently concerning this blog. Every time I post here, the blog will magically be syndicated across some very high profile and credible media websites. This is great for anyone I write about, as well as the magazine, TV show, awards and everything else I do …
New Tool Reveals Job Trends for Your Search Terms
Simply Hired is a vertical job search aggregator that takes your search terms and gives you results that are pooled from various job banks on the internet. Their philosophy is to be the central hub for job listings online and today they announced a new tool that measures job trends over time. From July 2006 …
Authors Corner: Co-Authoring The Age of Conversation II – Why Don’t People Get It?
And So it Began
Drew McLellen and Gavin Heaton are two of the top marketing bloggers in the world. They identified this new era of social media as the “Age of Conversation” a year ago. As the editors, they decided to recruit 100 of the world’s leading marketers, writers, thinking and creative innovators in a …
A Brand Assessment of the 2008 Presidential Candidates
I was asked about 50 times to do a brand evaluation of the presidential candidates, but I really can’t voice a strong opinion because I have no interest in politics and haven’t been following the race closely enough to make a full analysis. Brandon Wright was one of the people who asked me and so …
Schawbel Report: The Current State of Personal Branding Worldwide [March 2008]
David Sifry, who is the founder of Technorati, used to always make a “State of the Blogosphere” report. These reports would analyze the amount of blogs being tracked on Technorati (a blog search and ranking system) and other metrics, including how many posts per minute. Relative to when he last did on in April 2007, …
Today is the Personal Branding Blog’s 1 Year Anniversary
Typically I cannot allocate the time to post twice in a single day. I do commit to 5 posts a week; Monday through Friday. I even follow through when I’m on vacation, which certain people question. Anyways, today is the official 1 year anniversary for the Personal Branding Blog, which means it was this exact …
Soon Your Brand Will Be Consumed by The Digital Universe
Typically I don’t promote my work at EMC on this blog, but today we are announcing an update to the Digital Universe Study from last year. I was able to attach many social media components to it, such as the social media press release to your right and the YouTube podcast towards the bottom of …
Do Loyal Employees Exist Anymore?
No doubt the biggest challenge we have as a personal branding community is organizations feeling that we aren’t loyal. This is especially true for the stereotypical gen-y employee. From the human resources perspective, they want to hire loyal employees because they can add more value to the organization of the duration of their stay. By …
Research Report: Top 25 Most Wanted Personal Brands of 2008
I’ve spoken about how there is an economic recession and how there were 70,000 job cuts in January, which is the most since March of 2003. Well, I have good news for the personal brands that are in demand by companies.
Jobfox has released their “Top 25 Most Wanted U.S. Professions” listing, and was nice …