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Personal Branding

• 07.03.08
  Blogher Warmup: Time to Flex Those New Media Muscles! 5 Pre-Conf Warmup Exercises Attention, Blogher08, Creative, Geek, Personal Branding, Projects, Remarkable, Tech, Truth, Upcoming Events, Women, entrepreneurship |

  What We Do: DIY Content Syndication and Promotion There are now so many ways to get your word out, that every blogger has to make the decision: how far and wide do I want to distribute my content? Do I want it to be automated or selective? When do I start to feel like a spammer, not a sharer? Which tools are really effective, and which are just taking my content for free? How do I track my words, once I've set them free? How do I still protect my content? What about audio and video? We'll be talking tools like ...
• 06.30.08
  The Nintendo Party: Taking it to the Next Level* Creative, Geek, Nintendo, Personal Branding, Remarkable, Tech, Women |

  Nintendo + You Like many of you, I was in elementary school when I started playing video games. I remember that grey box, by today's standards an unwieldy hunk of retro plastic...the cartridges were more than double the size of my tiny hands. I'd slide Duck Hunt in with a click and shoot ducks with a plastic gun to my heart's content. Flash forward twenty years. Two years ago I stood in line at Yodobashi near Yokohama station with hundreds of beskirted Japanese schoolgirls...all of us awaiting the release of the highly anticipated Nintendo DS Lite. We were ...
• 06.05.08
  How to Make Your Users Happy: Real Love Creative, Design, Personal Branding, Remarkable, Tech, Truth |

  Yesterday I had a branding consultation session with a client and a few questions came up that I'm going to tease out here. This post will cover questions and answers on how to attract (in new media speak: how to get people to engage your brand) and keep users to your site happy. This is the first of two posts on this subject. How do I attract people to my site/brand/product? There are so many answers to that question. It helps if you live in Boulder where everyone and their mother (it seems) has a new venture of some ...
• 05.28.08
  A Dash of Design Makes All the Difference: The Designer Dishes Attention, Creative, Design, Geek, Personal Branding, Plunge Artist, entrepreneurship |

  Every time I pick up the proverbial hatchet and start hacking away at design and CSS I discover a heap of trouble. It's never as simple as "redesigning" my site. Inevitably some tiny existential crisis emerges from the code-struggle. If I move it 10 pixels left will it better reflect my "balanced" personality? I mean, come ooon, I think to myself. You are so much bigger than a pixel! You can do this! This morning I emerge from the code heap and give you the new design of gwenbell.com: Welcome to it! Paul, my friend and ...
• 05.16.08
  Personal Branding: Yes, Looking Hot is Part of Your Brand Personal Branding, Remarkable, Truth, entrepreneurship |

  A few months back I wrote a slightly cheesy post on personal branding that got a lot of feedback, both online and off. It has been on my mind again (and folks have asked me to follow up on it) recently. That was November and since then I've moved to Boulder from Chapel Hill, worked on my own brand and the brands of multiple companies, traveled extensively and given the question a lot more thought. This is a continuation of that dialog that began more than six months ago. Looking Good Is Not An Option. It's Your ...

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