Monthly Archives: June 2010
Going to the Movies with Your Personal Brand Personality
We all know what it’s like going to see a movie on the big screen. If the movie’s really hyped up, it’s almost hard to contain the excitement and the expectations. If it’s received bad reviews but you just have to pay homage to your favorite actor, you’re a bit hesitant to watch. But aside
Toy Story 3 Teaches Personal Building
We all know and enjoy the heartwarming Toy Story trilogy and its themes of friendship and growing up. The newest release in the series can take each of us (me, at least) back to precious childhood days. Personally, after the movie I found myself sitting in a pile of my old stuffed animals, making sure
Online Reputation Tools: Six Ways to Reclaim Your Facebook Photos
I write a lot about problems that Facebook causes, but it’s not because I hate Facebook. I think Facebook has been great at doing exactly what it set out to do: capture users and their data. MySpace is dying, Friendster is a memory, but Facebook is rapidly passing the 500 million user mark. Lots of
Best of Job Search Help: Top 5 This Week
Here are the Top 5 This Week – @andywergedal Keep the faith, things will turn around. The light is the end of the tunnel. The steps towards getting a job are easy to follow (just read the websites linked in this article). The hard part is keeping the faith throughout the process. Remember, everyone else
Personal Positioning: A Bit of Wisdom from “The 4-Hour Workweek”
Are you feeling burned out, lacking energy and less efficient than you used to be? Has your workday become a practice in managing dozens of distractions while trying to find time to accomplish your priorities? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you need to read “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy
Personal Branding? How About Career Branding!
People who create content and put it out online, either intentionally or unintentionally, create their personal brand. That is a fact. However, there is some thought that one can intentionally create a personal brand or decide, instead, to create a career brand. Personal brand meaning, it’s about “me” and career brand meaning it’s more about
It’s Called Personal Building, Not Clone Building
By now, mostly everyone is well-aware of how important social media is. With the successes of Facebook and Twitter, others are now trying to get pieces of this pie. Though in the next couple years there’ll surely be lots of networking sites, it’s important to know the right ones to use in the process of
Is Creating Your Personal Brand Complicated?
Personal branding should be something that each of us does every day, in both our professional and personal lives. Whether you realize it or not, nearly everything you do impacts your personal brand. I was reading a blog post from Bill on EmploymentDigest.net regarding personal branding and how it is too complicated and over-thought. In
Personal Brand Interview: Co-Founder of Brazen Careerist, Ryan Paugh
I discovered this thing called Brazen Careerist one day when I was playing around on my Facebook account and noticed that a few of my friends had “liked” the page. Of course I had to find out what all the buzz was about, and boy am I glad I did! I quickly joined Brazen Careerist,
Protect Your Online Reputation: Like Diamonds, Comments Are Forever
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reflecting this week about social media comments and conversations. I’m always surprised by what people actually say on the Internet via blog comments. Sometimes they are hurtful, malicious, angry, and just plain ridiculous. Other comments are inspirational, encouraging, relevant, and fun. All Internet activity is trackable, searchable,