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Are you a 2.0 Egotist?

One of the harshest (and in my view, mostly unfair) criticisms hurled at personal branding is that – when taken to its fullest expression – it encourages and promotes self-centeredness, self-aggrandizement, narcissism and plain outright selfishness. Although anyone familiar with the brief yet intense history of personal branding models and philosophies in the XXI century …

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Personal Branding Weekly and Managing Personal Word of Mouth Networking

Personal Branding Weekly

Editor’s Note:  The Young Entrepreneur’s Council and Glassdoor shared some great articles focused on our career interactions. Loyalty, friendships, strategy and even how to follow-up without being annoying encompassed some of the most popular posts of the week.

6 Ways to “Riff” Daily by Deborah Shane Start Your Brand Now; Iterate Later…
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Friendship: The True Engine behind Social Media

Aristotle spoke about it as a moral good worth pursuing in itself in his Nicomachean Ethics; Cicero dedicated a whole book to it (De Amicitia); Plotinus deemed fit to extend it even to his slaves, whom he emancipated; Ralph Waldo Emerson declared it ‘the masterpiece of Nature’; and ever since every sane thinker has advocated …

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Personal Branding Weekly – Word of Mouth and Scheduled Posts

Personal Branding Weekly

Editor’s Note: This week took us from covering how career advancement is progressive to how your personal brand can survive as mom, entrepreneur and executive.  The Young Entrepreneur’s Council even chimed in on the importance of interesting content.

Dive on in to the list of posts and glean information that’s helpful to …

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5 Recommendations for new Social Media Pros

Many readers of Personal Branding Blog have demonstrated a keen interest in working in social media and some have already joined the ranks of this forward-looking profession. I would like my first message to the newcomers to be a warm welcome: we need the best professionals to make our world go digital and anybody motivated …

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Personal Branding Weekly – Higher Google Results

EDITOR’S NOTE:  This week the Young Entrepreneur Council weighed in on CEOs scavenging social media accounts of job candidates and author, Kristen Fisher, gave some practical tips on how to overcome horrible bosses.

There’s a saying that people don’t quit companies, they quit people (supervisors/managers).  How to excel and propel your brand when “managing up” …

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The Future of ‘Engagement’ in the Social Media

As we discussed in last week’s post (and indeed thank you all for your comments and ‘engaging with me’ here and on Twitter and elsewhere), the hype and excessive emphasis on engagement for social media strategies – to the exclusion of other necessary elements for brands both commercial and personal that need to focus on …