Posts Tagged ‘ self promotion ’

Learn How to Brag Without Sounding Like a Jerk

September 24, 2010
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Learn How to Brag Without Sounding Like a Jerk

Believe it or not, self promotion is not something I do well. It is brought home to me regularly when I’m writing monthly reports in the office or when someone asks me for my bio for a speaking gig. A couple of months ago I tweeted that I needed help with this and several people replied that they did too. I am by no means done in my quest but I thought I’d share what I’ve found so far. I didn’t find much online so I turned to books.  My library didn’t have anything specifically about self promotions so I turned to the career books thinking there had to at least be a chapter in each.  The first one I picked up at my library as a book on CD was Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success. The book is aimed at an audience slightly younger than me, probably someone just starting out in their career. But I figure it’s never to late to teach an old dog, or well, slightly older than young dog, new tricks.  There is some good general career advise in this book and I would definitely recommend it. It let me to the second book, Brag!: The

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Top Ten Links – Week 3

January 22, 2010
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Top Ten Links – Week 3

My hand selected best links I shared on Twitter from 1/14/2010 through 1/21/2010 in no particular oder: not enuf women have what it takes to behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks Clay Shirky’s “Rant About Women” post. Both men and women should read this. I meant to blog my reaction to it but have run out of time, I may still do it next week. In a nutshell I agree with him. RT @toptechtrends @sirexkathryn Talking about copia – @griffey and about blio #alamwttt#alamw10 – Take a look at blio & copia, I know I mentioned them in my Top Tech Trends notes, but these 2 things are probably the biggest changes we’ve seen to ebooks and how they work sad to hear so much focus on tools & not the service they provide or needs they meet #alamw10 – This isn’t a link, its one of my tweets but I think it’s so important I’m including it. If you’ve heard me speak you’ve heard me say stop focusing on the tools, focus on your patrons and what’s best for them. The Most Important Success Tip: Stop Lying Down with Dogs, Already from Johnny Truant over at Copyblogger. Did you know your salary & your habits are a reflection of

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