Comments on: Building Your Personal Brand Without A Blog – 1 of 3

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:15:05 +0000

Getting a blog HELPS….is it a necessity? Well, you have other alternatives considering all the social networks not to mention a basic one page static web site.

By: social media monitoring

social media monitoring — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:03:43 +0000

I think getting an article published on someone elses site adds more credibility to the article and in turn the branding image you wish to portray.

By: JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Write An Article. Published Or Not, It’s Still Valuable!

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:34:25 +0000

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By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:18:42 +0000

Mario, congrats on your new gig! Do a great job and don’t neglect your career management

You can probably sift through my blog, or some of your other sources of excellent information, to find stuff that is totally applicable to your audience. Try to keep it simple and basic, but still more than the average cliche advice. Put in your own personal experiences/stories to make it more meaningful.

Choose to focus on topics, perhaps networking, social networking, relationships, job search tactics, having target companies, or personal branding. Or, do one article for each of those. Keep them rather small (500 – 800 words) and consider using bullets.

Reach out to the popular Latin American or Mexican job boards and shoot them your article. Perhaps they’ll reprint them for you. Or, shoot them to some magazines or newspapers… people are always looking for good content.

What’s your angle? Highly qualified and motivated job seeker doesn’t get job right away? That was me… I’m not sure how many people that relates with, but I think a lot of my readers have though “ugh, I don’t want to end up like that!”

The very interesting dynamic of your articles would be the cultural issues… something that I can’t really speak to. So something you write for Mexico might not be appropriate for the US. But you can certainly turn some heads and say things that others aren’t ready to say yet, talking about some of the cultural injustices that you face that might be unique to Latin America or Mexico.

Good luck and shoot me your articles!

By: Mario P. Lopez

Mario P. Lopez — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:42:10 +0000

Jason,

After the recent positive events (you know about it… thanks again for your advice) that happened to me, writing an article, could be something that I could think of as a sort of “payback” for the people I know: thanks to Linkedin, MLPF and Jibber Jobber!!!, I can realize the importance of many underlying issues regarding not only a more careful job search but an equally careful career management.

I can tell you that there aren’t appropriate sources of information for the Latin American job seeker (particularly the Mexican job seeker); as you know, a new professional time is here for me so, even though this is an obvious priority, I wonder if you could offer me some additional advice as to how to handle the process of writing an article for the Mexican job seeker and let them know (among other tools) about Jibber Jobber???

Best regards.

By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:46:36 +0000

Writing articles is great, but I think even stronger is to have a regular column, even if its for an online publication. Just like “author”, there’s a lot of cred in being able to say “columnist”. I know that for my coauthor and me, the value of being able to say “FastCompany.com columnist” has far exceeded the few actual visitor referrals generated. A lot of major publications have now opened up more regular columns for their online editions — Entrepreneur, Fast Company, BusinessWeek, etc.

By: JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Building Your Personal Brand Without A Blog - 3 of 3

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:33:59 +0000

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Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:35:09 +0000

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By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:09:38 +0000

Darlene, that’s cool! I find it interesting how professors put a lot of weight in having something published… if you think about it, that’s the world they live in! Being a published realtor might not get you that next promotion, but being a published professor is critical for their career management. I think there is, however, a great opportunity for the average person to jump in and contribute to thought leadership… and that’s what this is all about.

By: Darlene

Darlene — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:45:23 +0000

Yes, I have written an article for a newspaper and I am published. I did it as a challenge when I went to college. The instructor said that if we got an article published before the end of the semester, we did not have to take the final exam. I took the challenge and I was the only one who had an article published in the Salt Lake Tribune before the end of the semester. I wrote an editorial concerning Michael Faye, I believe that is his name. He is the young man who was convicted and caned in Singapore. I had strong feelings about it so I wrote about it and it was published in the Sunday paper back in 1994.

I believe there is tremendous freedom when you write what you are passionate about. Whether people agree with you or not, and not everyone will agree, just taking the time to say something may spark tremendous creativity, change, and synergy in others.