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5 More WordPress Plugins For Personal Brand-Building Bloggers

Another selection of useful WordPress plugins that build your brand while helping your readers. 1. Jetpack Official description: “a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.” Jetpack comes from Automattic, the creators of WordPress, so you know it’s high quality. Although technically one plugin, Jetpack’s combination of [...]

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The Biggest Danger Of Personal Branding With Social Media

How much of your personal brand do you own? If you follow the good advice provided here on The Personal Branding Blog, you spend a part of your daily routine building your personal brand on social media. But did you know that what you create on those sites can be used in ways you can’t [...]

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Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #15

Here are responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and resumes, tweets, teeth whitening and sales. Resumes of the new world Garth Braithwaite, @Br8thw8t, twittered: Will resumes be a thing of the past? Will Personal Branding via Social Medium be the measure by which employers make there pre-selections? Jacob Share, @jacobshare: Our notion [...]

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The Latest Trend In Online Reputation Management

If googling yourself is painful, you’ll want to read this. There was a common theme among the SEO and reputation management experts in a recent panel. (Last year, a similar panel’s main point was how exposing yourself first can save you from harmful exposure later.) Let’s see what they had to say. Shira Abel Shira [...]

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How To Get and Use Your Own Domain Name, Part 2

For that extra professional touch. A JobMob reader asks: I have a professional question. Do you know how someone gets a domain name that is their name? As in jacob@jacobshare.com? There are actually 2 parts to the question: 1) How do you get your own domain name? 2) How do you use that domain for [...]

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How To Get Your Own Domain Name, Part 1

For that extra professional touch. A JobMob reader asks: I have a professional question. Do you know how someone gets a domain name that is their name? As in jacob@jacobshare.com? There are actually 2 parts to the question: 1) How do you get your own domain name? 2) How do you use that domain for [...]

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Personal Branding Extortion: Your Money or Your Reputation

Has a copyright issue lead to threats of extortion? You be the judge. Background Over on JobMob back in March 2010, I published 20 Funniest Job Search and Work FAIL Pictures, a collection that was gathered from around the web. One of the images initially included in that article was from a photographer’s Flickr stream. [...]

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Does Personal Branding Change for the Disabled?

Do personal branding and disabilities mix? A few days ago, I was standing in line at the post office to claim a package. The woman in front of me was at the head of line, waiting patiently for one of the tellers to become available. I remember that she wore sunglasses even though it was [...]

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Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #14

Responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and Gen-Y, Twitter, presentations and lack of focus. Taylor B., @thbrogan, twittered: can my personal brand involve not taking twitter too seriously? because i enjoy this option. Jacob Share, @jacobshare: “Taking Twitter seriously” should mean carefully using Twitter to achieve your personal branding goals (in this [...]

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My Favorite Personal Branding Blog Comments of 2011

 You’ve shared terrific insights here, so why not share them with everyone? Almost any blogger will tell you that they love getting blog comments, and that’s true even for the ones they don’t agree with. Sometimes, a blog comment is so good that you wish all readers could enjoy it, but that’s the big problem: [...]

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    Dan Schawbel, the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding LLC, is a world renowned personal branding expert. He is the international bestselling author of Me 2.0, and the publisher of the Personal Branding Blog.

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