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Happy Birthday to your personal brand!

What are you trying to give birth to? When we talk about branding, it seems as if there is a thought that it is just a thing.  A reputation.  A thought. A tool.  However, in my humble opinion, our personal brand is borne of us from the moment we get on these tools and start [...]

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How To Make A Career Out Of Social Media

Unlike traditional careers, landing a job in social media is not about a college degree or a pimped out resume. You are not going to get hired and trained and only then have the company start expecting results. Companies looking for social media managers are looking for people they know can bring results and who [...]

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Personal Branding – why a job seeker needs to do it

Job seekers want to get hired, and employers want to make a good hiring decision that makes  them more profit.  Sounds easy, right?  If there are only two steps, then it should be easy for job seekers to get that job… then why is it so amazingly hard sometimes?  Personal branding is an important step [...]

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The best 5 free tools for Social Media updates

Update All of Your Social Media Websites at Once How many of you have only one Social Media profile, and think it is the greatest one to have?…anyone?…..Bueller…..Bueller…. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Quora, StumbleUpon, and of course there are more, dozens more!  When you Google my actual name, you get well over a [...]

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LinkedIn Today for today’s Social Media

On March 10, 2011 LinkedIn announced the introduction of a new product, LinkedIn Today.  Until this point the only way that you could gather some information that was current was either reading through updates or using Signal on LinkedIn to gather updates that make sense to you, so this could be a great benefit to participants that are wanting more current information.  After [...]

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How To Turn Facebook Into A Virtual Resume

This article is written by a colleague of mine, Miranda Vande Kuyt, who is a self-employed communications consultant. She writes and edits, as well as creates and manages websites, blogs, and social media strategies for several companies—including the MyERC blog where this article was originally published. In this article Miranda helps us understand Facebook Timeline and how [...]

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