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Meet me at the Brand You World event!

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Check it out, I am in great company. Speakers at this event include Guy Kawasaki (Co-founder – Truemors; Managing Director – Garage Technologies), Dick Bolles (Author – What Color is Your Parachute), Martin Yate (Author – Knock ’em Dead career series), Andy Sernovitz (Word of Mouth Marketing Guru), Tim DeMello (ZIGGS founder) AND MORE! Here’s a link to the ENTIRE daylong schedule.

I get to host an interview with Jason Alba where we’ll talk about How to Use Personal Branding to Take Your Career from Zero to 60 – Jason did it and so can you! In this session, slated for 5 p.m. Eastern, you learn from Jason Alba’s personal job seeker experience as he immersed himself in online branding and created his own online networking tool. In fact, Jason started a business during his job search! From press releases to articles to authoring a book and a blog, this session will help you understand what you can and should do right now, no matter your employment status, to get your brand out there.

Please join us! And the rest of the gang at the Brand You World global event celebrating 10 years of personal branding.

Brand You World Summit

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Hey! Exciting news. I’m one of the hosts for the Brand You World Summit celebrating 10 years of personal branding. Here’s the official info:

On November 8th “Team REACH” is providing 24 hours of free teleseminars with experts in the field of personal branding. Anyone in the world with a telephone will be able to participate in this live event.

In 1997, Tom Peters wrote “The Brand Called You” in Fast Company. Now 10 years later, the personal branding movement is firmly established as a revolutionary and evolutionary strategy for career management, professional, and personal success.

Whether you are a professional in an organization, an entrepreneur or an individual in career transition, personal branding has become synonymous with building our reputation and differentiating ourselves from our competitors.

In addition, HR managers and executives alike are challenged with the need to attract and retain great people in the well-publicized war for talent. Enabling people to develop and nurture their personal brand supports talent management strategies and ability to deliver business strategies.

The Details

“A Brand You World – Global TeleSummit” will take place on Thursday, 8th November 2007.

The event will run for a period of 12 hours commencing at the following times:

7 a.m. – Los Angeles
10 a.m. – New York
3 p.m. – London
4 p.m. – Paris
10 p.m. – Singapore

“A Brand You World – Global TeleSummit” consists of three content streams for:

Career Management Success
This stream is relevant for career professionals who want to apply personal branding strategies for career success. This content stream is also relevant for professionals in the field of career coaching, resume writing, and career counseling. There are nine sessions with expert speakers and three discussion panels.

Talent Management
This stream is relevant for HR professionals and business leaders who want to discover how to attract, develop, and retain talent through personal branding strategies. There are five sessions with expert speakers and one discussion panel.

Entrepreneurship
This stream is applicable for business owners and solopreneurs who want to apply personal branding strategies to grow their business. There are five sessions with expert speakers and one discussion panel.

This event is being organized by a team of leaders in the field of personal branding.

SEE YOU THERE!

Your kid’s blog can get you FIRED

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Have you checked your kid’s blog lately? The content could get you fired.

That was the big news story on WTMJ Channel 4 in Milwaukee last night. They had stories from parents who were fired, turned down for promotions, demoted, and more based on what their kids said about them on blogs.

And the blog quotes from kids were things like, “My parents are lazy alcoholics,” “My dad does drugs,” and other wonders.

How did they get found out? Easy. Online search engines like Google. Online it is very easy to find out who someone is. Parents were found from the kids’ profiles, which they had filled out in detail on social networking sites like MySpace.

Advice to combat this situation?

1. Google yourself – and your kids. Find out what’s online. Uncover any digital dirt – and bury it.

2. Be sure your kids have all the privacy settings checked on their blogs.

3. Regularly check your kids’ blogs for content.

4. Talk with your kids and emphasize the importance of keeping private family matters off blogs.

5. Directly from WTMJ: “A note about privacy settings: Even if your kids turn their’s on when they send messages and pictures to friends, they have no control over whether those friends keep their page private. So the images and info may still get out there. “

Read the entire news story here.

FREE “How To” Guide to Networking

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Did you know 61% to 85% of people land jobs through networking? No?! Get started on your network now. Here’s a free guide to help you courtesy of me, yours truly, and the writers of Career Hub. Enjoy!

Download Your Free Guide to Networking

guide to networking The “Insider’s Guide to Networking” is Career Hub’s fourth eBook and you can download it for free without spending a penny, signing away your first-born child or even giving them an email address!

To download a copy, CLICK HERE.

The experts give their very best advice on the subject of networking – topics include advice on networking for introverts, what NOT to do when networking, and how the Internet is revolutionizing networking.

Get your copy here and check out other eBooks while you’re there. In these books, our experts (yep, I’m one of them) offer advice on job search, resume writing, and interviewing.

Please feel free to share this eBook with others or send your friends here for their own copy.

The Fourth – a great time to network

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Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, Independence Day, and a great time for networking. Throughout the U.S. are cookouts, parties, barbeques, festivals, and other social gatherings making it a terrific time to build and maintain your network. In our teleclass Rebuilding Your Network 5 Minutes a Day, one of the tips was to incorporate your networking into things you’re already doing… if you’re already attending a fun social gathering, make networking a part of it.

A quick tip for networking tomorrow: Listen. That means really listen to your guests for opportunities, problems, or situations during a conversation listen to how you could help them. It could be a nice opportunity for you or someone who is in your network already to help one of your guests. One of my clients, an electrical engineer, was visiting a friend during a holiday. My client’s friend was just hired at a software company and invited my client for a tour. Next thing my client knew, he met the owners happened to be walking around during the tour and my client landed an interview. The interview was much more relaxing rather than a standard grilling because the interviewers had more time to spend with my client because of the standard holiday shut down. It was a more casual and pleasant interview, rather than a standard grilling. This person was more introverted and had been thinking about passing on the party but went and now he’s hired at a new wonderful job.

Something to think about when networking to your next big gig. Enjoy!