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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
This year, the Tweetsgiving campaign also asked people to gather in person, offline and have gratitude parties, where people could also donate in person to the project.  Technology for Change What’s your favorite example of technology helping people create positive change in the world? I
 
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Can we deliver health care $10 per person? Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. I'm still very jet-lagged and adjusting to both the time zone and culture in Mumbai.   I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. 
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
I think developing a set or some really clear guidelines could be a potent tool to allow for personalization while staying on message. If you can offer two or three acceptable styles (short, medium and long or official, colleague and more personal) and make them easy to get into the emails staff will be able to match the signature to the message. Easily Overlooked Opportunities to Polish your Brand Online This is the second of a handful of small ways to extend your organization's brand through out your online presence. As I was trying to come up with a good handful of easy wins
 

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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 . Should You Blog? To the question of "Should I Blog?" If you want to read some real-life stories of how blogging has accelerated several careers, definitely check out Heather's paper. Sacha Chua , another poster child for how blogging can support personal Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job...
an effective part of your personal branding campaign. Twitter Avatars as Personal Branding How to Give a Personalized Touch to Your Twitter Page Twitter for Personal Branding: Getting Started 30 Twitter --the 140 character social networking networking site--is becoming increasingly useful for job seekers.
And while the Brain exhibition has some qualities that were significantly improved over other RFID-enabled exhibitions (better scanning of the tags, more content-rich personalized welcome screens, effective timeouts if you walked away, a semi-useful group option to accommodate families), it offered an output mechanism that is dated and downright frustrating: the personal webpage. Many institutions that are pursuing online/onsite experience connections have lighted on the personal webpage as THE way to deliver post-visit experiences. Yesterday, I visited the Experimentarium , a science center just north of Copenhagen in Denmark.
They want to have tweets from multiple personal Twitter accounts copied to a single corporate Twitter account. For example, each time one of the staff tweets about the event from his or her personal Twitter account,  it will repost to the corporate Twitter account. The goal is to automatically create a lively, central point of Twitter activity using multiple personal Twitter accounts. O ne of my non-profit clients is planning a Twitter campaign for a major event in June. Note: For more about managing two or more Twitter accounts, see “ Combining Broadcaster
Tags: Personal Rant I love this riff. For a long time people in the nonprofit sector that I work with have complained about information overload. In this following post, the author spells out information overload like a Vegas buffet. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to overeat.
Often, in a small organization, the job falls to the most enthusiastic person — or to the Gen Yer on staff (on the theory that “that generation knows all about this web stuff”) — but wouldn’t it be nice if there were some convenient scoring system to help you pick the right person? Who handles the social media marketing for your nonprofit? Tom Humbarger has come up with a skills-assessment matrix based on the D.A.R.C.
One of the questions that came up was how to use a blog for personal branding, particularly during the job search.  What's your best advice for job seekers who want to start a blog as part of their job search and personal branding process?  What We had our first webinar today for the folks at Career Commons . As Jesse put it in our call, "there's a broad blank canvas of possibilities when you start writing for your professional blog,  so how do you get started?" Jesse had a great idea--he plans to start responding to the Learning Circuit's blog Big Question .
I have a pretty clear opinion on this issue , and I believe it will become more and more impossible to separate personal and professional digital identities, but I also think that many of us are in the pretty enviable position of being able to think about this from the start. See what you think. Personal - Professional Mix in Social Media: For Nonprofits View more presentations from kivilm . ...Tags: Check out this fab slide deck by Kivi Leroux Miller . Nice nonprofit examples, and she raises the questions you're probably asking yourself too.
The session I've been percolating, though, is the one on personal branding which was a debate of sorts (though they both seemed to agree on everything) between Aaron Brazell ( @technosailor ) and Amber Naslund ( @Ambercadabra ). Aaron also posted a follow-up blog post which summarizes his view on the issue of personal branding. Basically, both Aaron and Amber were of the opinion that personal brand should not trump corporate brand, if you work for a company. I was at BlogPotomac last week, and as you'd expect in a room full of bloggers, there were some great roundup posts.
Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like... museums . Funded by the UK MLA and launched on July 9, i like... museums is a website on which