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Blogging has changed


2009
12.13

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I’ve recently realised something about the blogs I now read.

I started using feed readers around 2006 to keep up with the burst of blogs that suddenly permeated the internet. It was all the craze then, and everyone had a blog. My feed reader consisted mostly of friends and fellow bloggers that I met through the Project Petaling Street community. It was a brave new world then.

Nowadays, most of my friends have stopped blogging, and their section in the feed reader is woefully silent. The feeds that are updated the most are usually informative blogs, and other websites that use RSS feeds.

If my feed reader was a coffee shop, it’s an entirely different crowd now. There are a few regulars from the old days, but the place is mostly buzzing with a different type of read and feed now.

Things have changed.

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The type of people who sign up for Facebook


2009
12.06

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I Googled “types of Facebook users” to get a background for this post, and most articles I came across generally talked about two things: Certain ways people use  Facebook and their annoyance rating. (i.e. here and here.)

Those lists are entertaining, and do have a massive ring of truth to them, but they seem to come across as “don’t do this, it’s annoying.” If you used those lists as a guideline to what not to do on Facebook, you might as well delete your account and have no social media presence. Silence is the least annoying option.

If you’re going to be on social media, it’s inevitable you’re going to annoy someone. And that all those Facebook user type lists are all written with a bias , depending on the type of Facebook user writing them (and mostly by the crusty old media stereotype writer).

So to me, I say “be yourself”. If you annoy one person, who cares. After all, Facebook wouldn’t be one great melting pot if we didn’t have all kinds. If you annoy tons of people, okay….maybe there’s something there you should really fix.

Now that we got that out of the way, here’s my biased list examining the type of people that sign up for Facebook:

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Personal branding: The hows


2009
09.25

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In my previous post, I talked about the whys of personal branding. In this post, I’m going to detail the hows. I’m my own little personal experiment and case study, and this is how I’m going to define and record this whole exercise.

This is what I’ve done so far, as well as what I intend to do:

1. Be clear about what I want my personal brand to be about

This blog is still a work in progress, as I’m still feeling my way around it and trying to figure it out myself.

But what I am clear of at this moment is this: Careerwise, I’m decently happy where I am at the moment. The company I’m working for and the work that I do with it currently allows me to utilise my public relations and journalism training. More importantly, it allows me to integrate all my other unquantifiable skills and experiences into the work I do. It can be quite a challenging job at times, but I’m learning tons, and that’s what matters at this point in my career.

On the other hand, me starting up this blog was also to help establish myself as a writer-for-hire.  This also ties back into the following points of me finding my niche and developing it, as well as me updating regularly so that I get to polish my writing here. After all, if you don’t use it you lose it, right? And practice makes perfect!

Plus, looking at how long winded my sentences have been of late, I so do need that practice.

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Personal branding


2009
09.23

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Old self portrait

Old self portrait

That’s one of the whole points of me starting up this blog.

I’ve read many cases for personal branding using all that new media has to offer. It’s a way to put yourself out there, and can act as an online resume and as a showcase of what you’re capable of. It can both display your achievements, as well as highlight the skills and personality traits that you can’t quantify in a standard resume. In today’s competitive job markets, having an easily accessible online profile will give you an extra edge. Plus, it is becoming more and more common for employers to Google potential employees, just to check up on the kind of person they are.

Reputation is become a massive commodity, and the whole practice of Personal Branding is an attempt to control that commodity.

These are among all the many reasons and many ways new media and career coaches will give for a person to start a blog, join Facebook and Twitter, as well as one of the many social networking services. And I’m sure that in your online travels, you have heard about the need for personal branding at least once.

But what are my own reasons for personal branding?

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