“I’m Stuart Baggs ‘The Brand’ – I’ve got a certain type of charisma.” Whenever I think of personal brands Stuart Baggs, a recent participant on The Apprentice, pops in to my mind. Unfortunately this has a negative effect – what I see in Stuart is not charisma, but arrogance. Therefore linking the two makes me really dislike the idea of a personal brand. Instead I prefer to call it my online identity. Jo’s post for this week’s thing asks us to consider four elements of our identity, and I will address each one in turn below. Name used When I [...]
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Things 3 & 4 – Blogs
Thing 3: Create your own 23 things blog and make your first post. Thing 4: Register your 23 Things blog and explore others. I have been blogging for a long time. I think I started my first blog in 2000 on the now obsolete site diary-x. For the first few years I flitted around different platforms with different usernames until I settled down with Digitalist and WordPress in January 2009. For me the key thing about having a blog is knowing what you’re going to write about. I struggled for a long time trying to write about both my social [...]
