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• 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 ...
• 12.10.07
  Can You Brand Yourself? The Devil’s in the Disparities Attention |

  I was in the middle of writing a new post on personal branding (how-to) when I noticed I had a trackback from Michael Goldhaber, a guy that I've been paying a lot of attention to this year. He's an expert on the Attention Economy and its ramifications for your life and mine. In his response to my post, Goldhaber challenges the concept of building a personal brand, positing (rightly, perhaps) that people are not like objects. Slapping a pretty website up, handing out sexy business cards and defining a personal niche won't do, even though it's mighty ...
• 12.04.07
  Welcome to the GwenBell.com Redesign or; Cleaning up my Hutches Blog, Creative, Design, Geek, Projects, Tech, Women |

  Things get ugly when I code. My room becomes a veritable pigpen, with piles of clothing-paperwork-shoes all over the place. I call these little piles "hutches." Hutches are ok when they are single origin piles. I can handle a clothing hutch, but when there are belts, jewelry and business cards (broken beer bottles, wigs, ripped pantyhose), it trips me out and I can't go in the room. So, I sleep on the couch. Gwenbell.com version 1.0 was starting to get some hutches of its own. I added little widgets here and there and suddenly I ...

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