Personal Branding and the Digital Economy
The world is changing and it’s going to have a monumental affect on every profession and person. The rules and boundaries have shifted as the internet and social networking have evolved into staples of our everyday lives.
Change is inevitable – growth is a choiceThe world economy is in the process of going digital …
Personal Brand Audit: What’s Your Facebook Score?
This is the second in a series of Personal Brand Audits (see Part 1: LinkedIn Audit), where we’ll make sure you’re keeping the touch points of your personal brand up to date.
Facebook is a vital part of your personal branding efforts online. If you don’t have a Facebook account yet, start by reading Dan …
Personal Brand and Word of Mouth, Part 4
This is part four of a five part series of the importance of personal branding in garnering positive word of mouth. In our hyper-connected society, word of mouth has become “world of mouth” and recommendations truly craft your online and offline persona and value. It makes all the difference between positive or negative word of …
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 Brand Audit: What’s Your LinkedIn Score?
This is the first in a series of Personal Brand Audits, where we’ll make sure you’re keeping the touch points of your personal brand fresh and up to date.
LinkedIn is an absolutely vital part of your personal branding efforts online. If you don’t have a LinkedIn account yet, start by reading Dan Schawbel’s How …
What is Your Digital First Impression?
You only get one chance to make a first impression.
You have all heard that saying before and I’m willing to bet that most of you don’t find much insight in those words. And at first glance you would be right – but lets dive deeper and look at this statement in context of our …
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 …
Are You Absent, Invisible, a Reflection or an Impression?
You may be among us and we might not know. If you’re not blogging or at least leaving comments on blogs, not tweeting or at least re-tweeting, or haven’t posted or at least contributed to a thread on a social network: you may be present but virtually invisible to us.
That’s unfortunate if you believe …
How to Use Linkedin to get the Job You Want
If you want to get a job in this economy you better lose the “depression mindset” and start using social media to open more doors for you. Despite all the garbage you hear on TV about job losses, some companies are hiring, but they won’t come looking for you. You must go find them.
In …
The “Music-Resume” Approach to Personal Branding
In mid-July, I was being smothered by the metaphorical unemployment mosh-pit at this summer’s hottest event for recent graduates: The Post-College Job Search. It’s a chaotic cluster of potential employees scrambling atop one another in hopes of landing a career launching entry-level position. It’s claustrophobic. There’s pandemonium. You might get stepped on if …