A quick guide to effectively updating your avatar.
I hadn’t updated my avatar in a long time.
In Why You Should Update Your Personal Avatar Now, I said “don’t change only for the sake of change.” Brand reinforcement is based on consistency, so you need a good reason to introduce some inconsistency with a new …
Great for making new contacts, meeting potential clients, partners and more, all in person. But how to find offline networking events?
Keep in mind
Industry events are great, but not only for your industry. Use the former for mentors and partners, and the latter for clients and referrals. Events come in all shapes and sizes:…I asked the The Personal Branding Blog contributors this question:
What has been the single most effective personal branding tool for you and why?
Elinor Stutz: TwitterIn regard to the most effective personal branding tool, I never thought of it in this light before, but for me Twitter has been exceptional. By posting helpful …
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 …
Here are responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and resumes, tweets, teeth whitening and sales.
Resumes of the new worldGarth 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 …
Has a copyright issue lead to threats of extortion? You be the judge.
BackgroundOver 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. …
