Last week, I asked my readers to share their best advice for using a blog for personal branding and job searching. So below is the Bamboo Project Readers' Guide to Blogging for Personal Branding. Sacha Chua , another poster child for how blogging can support personal branding, offers additional advice in her presentation, Networking 2.0:

The other day I posted on how to blog when your industry or occupation hasn't embraced the whole social media thing. Organize a local meetup or tweetup for your online friends to meet in person. Tags: Blogging personal branding professional development Some of these ideas include: Ask people for advice and favors. 

Personally, if the end is nigh, I think someone’s going to be pretty pissed to see the earth in such a sad state of repair.). Who’d of thunk it? simple shoe — well, actually two — thrown with the right twist could so clearly express an opinion. It was a shoe heard ’round the world. Shoes have power. throw my shoes at 2008.

Personally, if the end is nigh, I think someone’s going to be pretty pissed to see the earth in such a sad state of repair.). Who’d of thunk it? simple shoe — well, actually two — thrown with the right twist could so clearly express an opinion. It was a shoe heard ’round the world. Shoes have power. throw my shoes at 2008.

Personally, if the end is nigh, I think someone’s going to be pretty pissed to see the earth in such a sad state of repair.). Who’d of thunk it? simple shoe — well, actually two — thrown with the right twist could so clearly express an opinion. It was a shoe heard ’round the world. Shoes have power. throw my shoes at 2008.

Personally, if the end is nigh, I think someone’s going to be pretty pissed to see the earth in such a sad state of repair.). Who’d of thunk it? simple shoe — well, actually two — thrown with the right twist could so clearly express an opinion. It was a shoe heard ’round the world. Shoes have power. throw my shoes at 2008.

Here's a problem many museums would like to solve: How do you design an intuitive way to give visitors unique IDs so that visitors can receive personalized content and feedback and institutions can receive real-time data tracking on visitor behavior? It's not a new problem. They can be clunky and hard to use. How do they do this? Step 1.

Main | Online Organizing: Social Network Study of Race and Use Clusters of Myspace or Facebook based on Incoming Class at Northwestern » November 27, 2007 Sway opinion within an industry: Blog This seems like a really interesting result of sitting on an industry and cranking out solid content over time. Welcome to 2003. del.icio.us/networks

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The comments offer a few additional ideas, such as setting up RSS feeds to monitor blogs in your industry or occupation where you can go to observe, interact, comment, etc. Tags: personal branding social media I've written before about the importance of monitoring your online reputation. Or compile and rank tweets, LI answers, etc.?