Comments on: Personal Branding Checklist http://jessewarden.com/2006/10/personal-branding-checklist.html A blog on software development, technology, games & movies. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:36:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: JesterXL http://jessewarden.com/2006/10/personal-branding-checklist.html#comment-3830 JesterXL Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:28:13 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=1066#comment-3830 More great information here about making sure your <a href="http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2007/03/02/if-an-elevator-pitch-falls-in-the-woods/" rel="nofollow">Elevator Pitch</a> is repeatable. More great information here about making sure your Elevator Pitch is repeatable.

]]> By: Chris http://jessewarden.com/2006/10/personal-branding-checklist.html#comment-3829 Chris Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:07:02 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=1066#comment-3829 No problem with giving credit where credit is due. As for the quality of the article, I think it is well thought out and presented. So much so, that I came online looking for it. As for disagreements or changes, they would be differences of opinion on small pieces, or adjustments made to fit our audience. Nothing blatant. We'll probably do the show at the beginning of March, right after we air an interview that we just did with Mitch Joel from http://twistimage.com/ . He's a huge proponent of personal branding, and this would make a great follow-up. Thanks again, Chris http://www.answers-for-freelancers.com/ No problem with giving credit where credit is due. As for the quality of the article, I think it is well thought out and presented. So much so, that I came online looking for it.

As for disagreements or changes, they would be differences of opinion on small pieces, or adjustments made to fit our audience. Nothing blatant.

We’ll probably do the show at the beginning of March, right after we air an interview that we just did with Mitch Joel from http://twistimage.com/ . He’s a huge proponent of personal branding, and this would make a great follow-up.

Thanks again,
Chris
http://www.answers-for-freelancers.com/

]]> By: JesterXL http://jessewarden.com/2006/10/personal-branding-checklist.html#comment-3828 JesterXL Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:06:57 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=1066#comment-3828 Absolutely. As long as you respect the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/" rel="nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution license</a> by citing my name & website address with the article you can do as you wish. I would ask you do take issue verbally with things that are unclear, or make no sense. I didn't really get a lot of negative, or disagreeable feedback on this which makes me think that people are unclear about certain sections for if they were clear, they'd most certainly disagree, or that I just got lucky, and most people really do think most of the points are valuable. Furthermore, under Creative Commons Attribution you are welcome to modify n' ravage to your hearts content. I understand things need to be modified to fit into different contexts, so please take whatever liberties you think necessary. Absolutely. As long as you respect the Creative Commons Attribution license by citing my name & website address with the article you can do as you wish. I would ask you do take issue verbally with things that are unclear, or make no sense. I didn’t really get a lot of negative, or disagreeable feedback on this which makes me think that people are unclear about certain sections for if they were clear, they’d most certainly disagree, or that I just got lucky, and most people really do think most of the points are valuable.

Furthermore, under Creative Commons Attribution you are welcome to modify n’ ravage to your hearts content. I understand things need to be modified to fit into different contexts, so please take whatever liberties you think necessary.

]]> By: Chris http://jessewarden.com/2006/10/personal-branding-checklist.html#comment-3827 Chris Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:07:23 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=1066#comment-3827 Jesse, Read this article as a reprint in Website Designer & Developer magazine. (Did I get that right? Used to be called MX Developers Journal) Anyway, I liked a lot of the information in it, and wanted to know if we could use it as a basis for conversation on one of our upcoming podcast episodes at Answers for Freelancers!, our podcast that provides, umm... answers, to... freelancers. Ok. that was obvious. Still, love to use it. Please let me know. We'll try not to tear it up too much. Thanks, Chris Jesse,

Read this article as a reprint in Website Designer & Developer magazine. (Did I get that right? Used to be called MX Developers Journal)

Anyway, I liked a lot of the information in it, and wanted to know if we could use it as a basis for conversation on one of our upcoming podcast episodes at Answers for Freelancers!, our podcast that provides, umm… answers, to… freelancers. Ok. that was obvious. Still, love to use it. Please let me know. We’ll try not to tear it up too much.

Thanks,

Chris

]]> By: Bill Napier http://jessewarden.com/2006/10/personal-branding-checklist.html#comment-3826 Bill Napier Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:52:50 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=1066#comment-3826 Great post. Personal branding isn't about your visual image. Instead its about being able to articulate who you are ... and more importantly what you do. The tricky part is you have to specialize. But too much specialization can knock you out of certain things. And its tough to change focus. It seems as though you were able to shift what you do from Flash Developer to Flex Developer simply because of the projects you were offered. But if you hadn't been offered Flex projects how would you have been able to shift? Personally, I'm striving to move out of the designer role and more into the developer role. Is that possible? Yes. Is it freakin hard? You better believe it. But I think you touched on something really important in your post. The role of a mentor. If you want to do something else, you need to find someone else who is extremely successful at what they do ... and yeah, basically copy them. In other words, if I want to be a developer I need to adopt a developers mindset. I need a total clean slate ... projects can't be filtered by design focus. Great post.

Personal branding isn’t about your visual image. Instead its about being able to articulate who you are … and more importantly what you do.

The tricky part is you have to specialize. But too much specialization can knock you out of certain things. And its tough to change focus.

It seems as though you were able to shift what you do from Flash Developer to Flex Developer simply because of the projects you were offered. But if you hadn’t been offered Flex projects how would you have been able to shift?

Personally, I’m striving to move out of the designer role and more into the developer role.

Is that possible?
Yes.

Is it freakin hard?
You better believe it.

But I think you touched on something really important in your post. The role of a mentor. If you want to do something else, you need to find someone else who is extremely successful at what they do … and yeah, basically copy them. In other words, if I want to be a developer I need to adopt a developers mindset. I need a total clean slate … projects can’t be filtered by design focus.

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