Living on the Edge

So you’ve built up your personal brand to superstar status. Everyone is watching. You are setting the pace and rocking it as an A-lister. Your community loves & adores you. Everything is awesome right? What could go wrong?
An unintentional mistake …
I’ve watched it happen over the past couple of years. The blogging community [...]

What’s Your Personal Brand Worth

Beth Harte has a great post on Personal Brand Equity. And it’s very timely discussion for me because we talked about it at MSP Social Media Breakfast yesterday. Our topic was the community manager role. In discussing the role & the impending culture changes that Gen Y’s are going to bring to the workplace someone [...]

Joining Techrigy & Building Community for SM2

Not too long ago Aaron Newman, Founder of Techrigy, & I began a conversation about his product and the needs of the community. That evolved into his inviting me to join his team & lead their community! I enjoy the brand monitoring space for a number of reasons so it’s a good [...]

Extending your Personal Brand’s Reach

We are all building our brand. I have enjoyed studying the process & finding ways to maximize my efforts. There are people that are masters at it. My personal branding mentor and THE expert, Dan Schawbel checked in with me last week. If you have mentors (and you should!) then you appreciate their feedback & [...]

Taking a break

Isn’t this amazing? Click on it to see the detail. It’s growing in our yard near a tree. It’s a foot in diameter & about 6 inches tall. And the most wonderful orange color! which is my most favorite color (I have orange flowers, luggage & now a car).

I had been thinking about this [...]