This is Your Brand. This is Your Brand on Twitter.
Many people have been hesitant to start using Twitter, while at the same time many others have joined the Twitter community. Somewhere between picking a name short enough for retweets, gaining new followers and choosing your favorite tweet manager, it is important to figure out what your brand is and how it translates on to …
It’s Official: Google is Better At Searching Twitter Than Twitter
Has this ever happened to you?
You discover a website you like but something’s nagging you about it. You finally realize what it is- it’s missing an important feature. Something that would make this good website GREAT. You could tell the website creators about it, and they might even listen, but your message will probably …
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #6
Responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding.
jay singh, @jaysingh, remarked: instead of personal brand, why not get a personality?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: I had to smile when I read this, it definitely rings true.
Jay, you sound like someone who’s either fed up with people talking about personal branding or people building …
Metrics to Measure Your Personal Brand
How well branded are you? One way to find out is to use metrics – something you can measure against.
The metrics below don’t necessarily measure how effective your personal brand is (go to a personal branding consultant for that), but they do measure your online visibility and engagement.
1. Do a Google search for …
Twitter Chats: A Great Place For Your Brand To Shine
Twitter chats are when you chat on Twitter around a certain subject and mark each tweet with a hashtag (#) denoting that you are associating it with that chat or topic. While many people utilize those hashtags like keywords to be associated with on Twitter, a Twitter chat happens at one specific time and everyone …
Perception vs Reality in Social Media
Is social media everything we really make it out to be? Is there an imbalance between perception and reality? I would venture to say yes. Before we get into the underlying argument of the two terms… let’s define them (from dictionary.com).
Perception: a single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present.…
Your Personal Brand’s Geolocation
Social networking and geolocation are quickly becoming one prevailing and inseparable unit. Geolocation is the latest craze to hit the social media landscape through phone applications like Foursquare and Gowalla and website integrations with Twitter and Facebook. With all of these new ways of sharing where you are and who you’re with, it can be …
How I Got Published
I’ve been asked a lot of questions about this, so I thought I’d put it out there once and for the record. First, I want to tell you that publishing is not an easy process, but it’s not an impossible one either. If you have a great idea, a fair amount of talent, and an …
Ask The Readers: Can Your Personal Brand Be Adversely Affected By Who Follows You on Twitter?
I was recently talking with a personal branding client who’s new to Twitter. He’s an expert in a small but growing industry that involves monitoring and outing certain extremists and they don’t like it, to put it mildly. Death threats are not uncommon and other kinds of harassment are to be expected.
One of the …
I Would Rather Shoot at Fish in a Barrel
This is not a new idea but I think it needs reinforcement in the world of personal branding. The idea is the concept of location based social networking and small being the new BIG.
Chris Brogan has a post that further enforces my idea that SMALL is the new BIG in Social Media. His post …