Archive for June, 2009
How to Build — or Erode — Your Personal Brand
A student asks a wonderful personal branding question. I’ll paraphrase:
“How can you project a personal brand online without coming off as arrogant? If all you do is go online and brag about yourself and how wonderful you are, doesn’t that make “arrogant, self-absorbed, narcissistic jerk” a big part of your personal brand?”
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Social Media for Business: 8 Ways to Get Smart
When it comes to using social media for business, I often run into two camps of people. One camp views social media as a threat, and another camp views it as an opportunity.
Those in the threat camp have an alarming tendency to put knee-jerk policies into place. “No employees will be allowed to have FaceBook [...]
