Comments on: Measuring Your Online Personal Brand http://mikemywords.com/2008/12/07/measuring-your-online-personal-brand/ From the Brain of Mike McDowell Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:51:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joseph Rueter http://mikemywords.com/2008/12/07/measuring-your-online-personal-brand/#comment-21 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:33:22 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=83#comment-21 To my mind the personal brand is not only dependent on volume. I’d include how someone is introduced to you as at least one of many other strong factors in personal brand. After all, is it not the case that first impressions are powerful?

Most of us are intentionally anonymous online. That’s not a great way to meet people or to be found. Moreover, when someone is trying to find you it is most often the case that they have meet you or know someone who as.

Why do we depend on google so much? Why make people go searching for us? Further, once someone finds a piece of a persons online stuff it is still only a piece and usually it is a space where that person is interacting with others. Why not collect all our web stuff in one place and then share that place with people? We can help them meet us.

I use http://www.extendr.com to help make introductions. I collected all my stuff there and many people have thanked me for giving them both easy access and the option to determine on what level they would like to interact with me.

Yes it is great to have volume but it is all the better to have that volume consolidated and packaged in a strategy for why the volume exists at all.

]]> By: Mike McDowell http://mikemywords.com/2008/12/07/measuring-your-online-personal-brand/#comment-20 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:28:01 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=83#comment-20 oh, HA HA, Jerz. I get it, the photo on the masthead on my blog is stupid. I’ll change it eventually (if I have time to sit down in front of some editing software and design something). But for now, let yourself imagine that I am looking at something cool in this photo. For you, Jerz, imagine it’s a tall can of beer.

]]> By: Ryan Jerz http://mikemywords.com/2008/12/07/measuring-your-online-personal-brand/#comment-19 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:07:54 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=83#comment-19 Nice. I’m digitally distinct also, only with less volume.

I have one question, though. What are you looking at?

]]> By: Phil Barrett http://mikemywords.com/2008/12/07/measuring-your-online-personal-brand/#comment-18 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:24:04 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=83#comment-18 Mike – i totally agree with your POV. People need to manage their brand like they would others.

One more thing about google – it never forgets… so be careful what you share online as it could devalue your personal brand down the road

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