Here was a particularly interesting one: What is the proper balance between personal and professional outreach on Twitter? If I am using my account to promote company and client content, is it also appropriate to carry on conversations on a personal level about sports, a great recipe or my favorite charity? So even if you are playing a business “role” on Twitter, there is no reason you can’t be yourself, unless you are a naturally mean and sucky person.  In most cases, I don’t think it makes sense to have both a personal and business account. No, of course not. MORE >>

The first guideline I share with a new client is, “You don’t build a personal brand. So you must, “Enlarge as a human being, Excel as a social media being and Evolve as a personal brand.”. Love and personal branding, both are primarily about sharing and caring. Collaboration and partnerships can never happen in the ‘I, Me, Mine’ mode, be it love or personal branding. Personal Branding starts with an honest attempt to find the needs of your community members and then looking for opportunities to collaborate. personal branding MORE >>

I’m guessing that within a 12 to 18 months, you will be able to use new augmented reality technology to scan a room of people with your smartphone and get a numerical social rating for every person in sight.  Your information is going to follow you around and be available to every person you date, every potential employer, every waiter at your favorite restaurant. 3) Personal branding starts with social influence. The Harvard Business Review said that creating a robust online presence is the first step toward building a C-suite personal brand. On with the show. MORE >>

We see these little smiling avatars each day without really having a clue about the person behind the picture. Tags: Personal business relationships sociology I am feeling sad and a bit ashamed of myself. Something happened — a wake-up call about this notion of social media “community&# and “conversation.&# It’s making me pause and reflect on what we’re really all about here on the social web. What I’m about. Last year I collaborated with a bright young woman named Jenn Whinnem.   I hadn’t even talked to her on the phone. Want to talk? MORE >>

Click here if you can’t see this interview about  social media influence. don’t often put myself in front of the camera, so it helped a lot when Mike Stelzner of Social Media Examiner made me do it! He did a great job with this interview, which originally appeared this week on his excellent site. In this video, I discuss my philosophy about creating influence through social media, the networking power of Twitter, the democratization of influence, and a host of other timely social media subjects. Tweet. MORE >>