Maggie McDonald [email_address] www.schipul.com // www.magsmacncheese.com Personal Branding The Art behind the Self Branding RockStars http://www.flickr.com/photos/restlessglobetrotter/2132076796/ HCC DigiCom Student Association November 21, 2008

What the heck is Personal Branding??

What well be talking about

• What the heck is Personal Branding?

• Tools of the trade

• How to rock a Personal Brand

Create your Personal Brand

• Keep it consistent EVERYWHERE

• Create an Avatar

• Add important links / personal brands to your email footers

• Promote your Personal Brands through your company

• www.schipul.com/magsmac

Tools of the trade How do I do this anyway?

• Blogging

• Twitter

• Facebook

• Myspace

• LinkedIn

• Flickr

Tools of the trade Blogging: MagsMac n Cheese http://www.magsmacncheese.com/on-social-media-and-friends/

Tools of the trade Twitter: MagsMac http://twitter.com/magsmac

Tools of the trade Facebook: Matt Mullenweg Matt Mullenwegs Facebook Fan Page

Tools of the trade Myspace: Molly Crabapple Molly has 9,686 Friends on Myspace http://www.myspace.com/mollycrabapple

Tools of the trade LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/

Tools of the trade Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/386762837/

Who is rocking out their Personal Brand?

Personal Branding RockStars Meet Gwen Bell http://www.gwenbell.com/

Personal Branding RockStars Connect with Gwen Bell Online http://www.kirtsy.com/ http://twitter.com/gwenbell http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwenbell/3033440927/ Gwen on Facebook

Personal Branding RockStars Meet Matthew Inman http://0at.org/blog

Personal Branding RockStars Connect with Matthew Inman Online http://mingle2.com/ http://twitter.com/oatmeal http://www.seomoz.org/ http://www.oneplusyou.com/q

Excited about Personal Branding? Quickie To-Dos

• Join Facebook ( www.facebook.com )

• Join Flickr ( www.flickr.com )

• Join Twitter ( www.twitter.com )

• Get Blogging!! ( www.wordpress.com )

• Track the buzz about you ( www.google.com/alerts )

Get Personal Branding! Maggie McDonald Operations - The Web Marketing Company www.schipul.com // www.tendenci.com Blog: www.magsmacncheese.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/magsmac Find my slides on Slideshare: www.slideshare.net/magsmac