One of my favorite bloggers, Jacob Share, recently celebrated the 4th anniversary of his excellent JobMob blog. A job search expert on the highest level, Jacob understands and prolifically writes about personal branding, search strategies, social networking, blogging and all the other essentials …
Blogging
World’s Top 10 Best Corporate Blogs
Mark Schaefer (@markwschaefer on Twitter), a consultant, author, and college educator, and Executive Director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions, set out to identify the 10 best corporate blogs in the world. He slogged through the good, the bad and the blah, reviewing hundreds of corporate …
Blogging and Twitter: How Tweet It Is!
You get it. You’re a c-level executive or any level executive or rising star or an entrepreneur and you know you should be blogging. So you’re doing it, or thinking about doing it. Don’t stop there. Don’t limit your social media involvement to just one outlet. If you’re blogging – on your own blog …
Content Stealing: Bloggers Behaving Badly
Until recently, I was spending too much time fretting over and dealing with content thieves. It happens to me a lot. The more content I build on my blogsites, the greater the likelihood and opportunity for people to swipe it and "use" it as their own. Google Alerts and my regular routine of …
Blogging Milestones – Taking Up Darren Rowse’s Challenge
ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse, a pioneering full-time blogger, challenged his readers to choose 7 posts that fit the following specific themes. Here are my own choices: 1. Your first post From May 2008, actually the third post on my Executive Resume Branding blog, but my first decent one, The Inside …
You’re a C-level Executive Job Seeker and You’re NOT Blogging?
Nothing works like a blog with the domain name "yourname.com" to extend your online identity, and build credibility and visibility around your executive brand, value proposition, industry subject matter expertise, and thought leadership. Once it gains traction, yourname.com will likely be the …
My Personal Brand True Colors
It took me some time, but I finally got my blanner (blog banner) together here. My plan, when I launched this blog last November, was to get it up and running right away, and start building content, authority, and link juice, instead of spending several weeks (or months) finalizing the look of it …
Give Twitter 15 Minutes a Day, Land Your Next Executive Job
Impossible you say? Not according to my friends and colleagues Susan Britton Whitcomb, Chandlee Bryan, and Deb Dib, the authors of "The Twitter Job Search Guide: Find a Job and Advance Your Career in Just 15 Minutes a Day". This book is a powerhouse of information and practical advice on …
10 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand Online Without a Blog
A new client of mine understood that he needed to pump up his online presence. A Google search for his name yielded a dismal number of relevant results, plus he had a common name and the little that was out there about him was lost in a sea of same-named people. To win at executive job search in …
A Nifty Personal Brand Writing Tool: Wordnik
Most of my work day is spent writing — creating personal marketing communications for my executive clients, blog posts for my 2 blogs, guest-blogs and articles for various other blogs and websites, and my own business and career marketing materials. I love words and I'm always interested in …