Connie Bensen

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First Post on Social Media Today

Published in May 9th, 2008

Posted by Connie in Branding, Leadership & Motivation

I was excited to find my post on Uses of Twitter featured on Social Media Today! When you become a member you can add your blog feed & editors there choose which articles to publish on the site.
It’s great to have my writing recognized & shared. And the members of Social Media Today are amongst [...]

Ideas for Using Twitter

Published in May 7th, 2008

Posted by Connie in Branding, Micromedia

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There have been many posts on Twitter & tutorials keep coming out. Awhile ago I wrote about how I had to shift my use of Twitter.
When I had only 120-150 followers I checked in 3-4 times per day. And I would page back through everyone’s tweets & open links that I would read later.
But the [...]

Giving a Brand Personality

Published in November 11th, 2007

Posted by Connie in Branding, Marketing

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Does a brand have personality? This question brought more to mind:

If you asked your customers, would they say that your brand has personality?
As a marketer how do you give your brand personality?
As a Community Manager how can I give our ACDSee brand personality?

All of those questions resulted from reading about Rohit Bhargava’s new book.

Faceless companies [...]

Personal Branding Magazine

Published in October 30th, 2007

Posted by Connie in Branding

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My journey in the past few months has been influenced by so many people! Three months ago Dan Schawbel commented on a couple of blog posts & soon after asked me to help edit his magazine.
I purchased the first edition & was totally impressed with the depth of the information. It also provided much [...]

Connie Benson versus Connie Bensen

Published in October 22nd, 2007

Posted by Connie in Branding

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A week ago I realized that no searches for Connie Benson are hitting my blog. I see that there are 3-4 searches each day for my name. And tonite I see that just Connie is catching Google’s attention too.
Last week when I pondered this problem on Twitter I had to back up & explain what [...]

Personal Branding

Published in September 25th, 2007

Posted by Connie in Branding

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Branding is a journey. The topic has come up in a few conversations this week. Since July I’ve been working on my personal brand. Over the past months I’ve seen Jeremiah Owyang periodically mention how he branded the term ‘web strategist’. I didn’t feel a need to brand a term, but I needed to brand [...]

Facebook and your Brand

Published in September 14th, 2007

Posted by Connie in Branding

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Do you find branding easy or a challenge? In creating this blog, branding it was easy, I used my photo that I’m using at Facebook & around the web and that dictated the color which in turn drove the theme choice. That photo is very representative of me. Someone from my new company suggested a [...]

Finding my voice

Published in September 11th, 2007

Posted by Connie in Branding

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Last January I started blogging & when I added Live Writer to the mix I’ve found that it’s a great habit! Since then I’ve met so many inspirational people! There have been many so times when I wanted to respond on my own blog, but the topic wasn’t appropriate for our readers at DigiScrapInfo. So [...]