Personal Branding, Social Media, and Career Strategies
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An easy way to brand your Twitter profile is to provide a URL on your profile where a reader can click through to learn more about you. So, what do you put here if you don’t have a website or blog? You can add your LinkedIn, VisualCV, a link to a recent article you’ve written [...]
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I’ve written in the past, both in my blog and book (“I’m in a Job Search–Now What???”), about TweetDeck. I have found in the last several months a Twitter Management Tool called HootSuite (www.hootsuite.com). I’ve had many people ask how to manage and tweet from multiple Twitter accounts and HootSuite is designed to handle this [...]
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One of the newer features on Twitter is the Twitter List. The Twitter List helps you to organize people into groups that you want to follow (i.e. personal branding, social media, career coaches, etc.). In this respect, it operates similarly to TweetDeck or HootSuite.
Another function I’ve found for the Twitter List is the ability to [...]
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I talked about this a couple of weeks ago in my blog, Twitter Spam, and a week later, my account got hacked.
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Apparently, these people have come up with another unique way of accessing people’s Twitter account. I got a Direct Message (DM) on Twitter from an esteemed colleague of mine who [...]
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On Twitter, you want to make sure that you are providing value to your target audience (your followers) by giving them links to articles, blogs, etc. that give good, useful information. Tweeting is not about self-promotion (although you can use it this way from time to time). Most people agree that you want to tweet [...]
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Spamming on Twitter is becoming very prevalent and I’ve seen where Twitter has taken steps to try to remove spammers. I recently saw where someone retweeted me on something that I never posted. The person tweeted, “RT @KristenJacoway … Healthcare Reform….read more at http://www….” Most people who follow me know that the only thing that [...]
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Hashtags on Twitter place tweets in categories and gives one unique page for tweets using a certain hashtag. You can go to http://www.hashtags.org, type in your keyword, and find the relevant hashtags that support your keyword. Using hashtags also enables people with the same interest to search on a hashtag (i.e. #personalbranding) and [...]
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