So, this is cheating, since I didn’t write ‘naught but the intro. That said, check out this month’s ZoomInformer for Recruiting, some great content on using Twitter for human capital acquisition & management.
The ever interesting Yann Gourvennec has a brilliant post up about managing your online reputation, a must read for anyone who is, well, anyone in this brave new world. Get yourself out there.
Interesting – actual quotes from an ex-Googler. There’s a post by Michael Arrington up on TechCrunch with loads more like this:
What was strange with me at Google was: while outside, I had all these
big ideas I could do if I ever worked there.
Once inside, you have 18,000 (at the time, Feb 2008 ) other googlers
thinking the same things.
Knowing yourself matters for all sorts of reasons: general happiness, success, and avoiding being perceived as a jerk. Personal branding matters because it’s how you let the world know who you are. That said, if you are the aforementioned a-hole, maybe you should work on that before you let the rest of the world meet you.
Chris Brogan (not an a-hole) has a great, free, and short eBook on Personal Branding you can download here. Good stuff.