Twitter --the 140 character social networking site--is becoming increasingly useful for job seekers. It can also be 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.

As the night wears on, business conversation slowly turns into personal conversation. quot; The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools.

Many institutions that are pursuing online/onsite experience connections have lighted on the personal webpage as THE way to deliver post-visit experiences. The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. Contextualize the output socially.

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. Check out this fab slide deck by Kivi Leroux Miller.

Who handles the social media marketing for your nonprofit? 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?

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.

In our sector does the satisfaction come from policy work, hands-on work, social engagements, brands, sex appeal, or something else? Tags: Personal Rants I love this riff. For a long time people in the nonprofit sector that I work with have complained about information overload. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to overeat.

Angry Staff Person responds with a litany of complaints, namely the high cost of implementing and maintaining such an endeavor and concerns about the museum's reputation and image. Edson follows up with some bulleted counters to each of Angry Staff Person's complaints. read more.

Here's a nice article on strategies for monitoring your social media presence in 10 minutes a day. That is, once you've finished these 10-20 min of daily monitoring, what tools do you use to compile, track, analyze and share the social media results? Tags: personal branding social media

One of the things we all love about the social web is that it's so much easier to share than ever before. We're social creatures , we humans, and we love that we can peek in and comment on so many of our friends' lives so easily. What we've hated about the social web is how siloed all those conversations have been. Creepy.