Very soon we’ll be revamping the design of our entire site, including our homepage, our upgrade page, our blog design, sign-up buttons, and other fun stuff.

We’re looking for talented graphic designers who are up to the task. Specifically, designers with expertise in user experience, usability best practices and web 2.0-style designs.

If you or someone you know is interested in working with a fun team to create graphics, contact me (Pete) at pkistler@brand-yourself.com with a link to your portfolio or attachments of samples of your work. I can’t wait to hear from you!

As always, if you haven’t signed up for our platform that makes it easy to manage your online reputation and build a visible personal brand across the web…

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We’re happy to announce that we’re up and running again after a traffic spike thanks to our launch efforts this week!

Have you created an account yet and started managing your online reputation?

If not, start now!

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Social media lets you easily join conversations related to you, your business, your passions and your interests. To ignore social media is to ignore the passionate people of the world who can help you get where you want to be. The first step to tap social media is understanding who is already talking about you online.

To do this, sign up for a Brand-Yourself.com account. After inputting some basic information about yourself, we find and aggregate conversations about you online. We then input them into your personal brand dashboard, which measures the extent of your personal branding efforts.

The Dashboard tracks blog posts that mention you, social bookmarks that mention you, blog comments that mention you, and Tweets that mention you. As new mentions appear, you can confirm them as about your or not about you. Confirmed items about you improve your Hireability Grade,  measuring the strength of your personal brand online.

Find blog posts that mention you:

Brand-Yourself.com searches the web for blog posts that mention your name.

Find social bookmarks that mention you:

Brand-Yourself.com searches the web for social bookmarks (Digg, Delicious, Reddit, etc.) that mention your name.

Find blog comments that mention you:

Brand-Yourself.com searches the web for blog comments that mention your name.

Find Tweets that mention you:

Brand-Yourself.com aggregates Twitter replies that mention you, as well as recent tweets and recent direct messages.

To get started, simply create your Brand-Yourself.com account and start uncovering conversations about you on the web. Once you discover who is talking about you (or your business or your content), start engaging with them. Reply to them on Twitter, comment on their blogs, comment on their blog comments, ask them what they’re passionate about and send links to articles you think they’d enjoy. It’s never too early to start generating career karma and goodwill among the people who have already taken the time to mention you using social media.

Good luck, and have fun!

1. Sign up for Brand-Yourself.com
2. Confirm items as About You or Not About You
3. Engage thoughtfully with the people whose mentions are About You
4. Log in regularly to discover new mentions
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to connect to people who can advance your career and life

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To build your personal brand, you should proactively comment on blogs related to your field and interact with bloggers in your industry.

To help you get started, we developed a Blog Recommendation Engine that suggests what blogs you should be reading based on your field. It taps into a variety of authoritative blog sources including Technorati, AllTop, and user generated and expert-reviewed suggestions.

Leaving thoughtful comments on blogs posts establishes yourself as contributing member of your industry. Besides demonstrating your insight, it also connects you to top bloggers in your field and other blog commenters in your niche who can potentially advance your career. Follow our guidelines for leaving effective blog comments to maximize your time spent commenting.

The Blog Recommendation Engine is one part of our Hireability Dashboard, which breaks down the components of your personal brand online and grades the strength of each. It is part of the Niche Involvement section, which tracks your blog comments, blog comments mentioning you, recommended blogs and Twitter. The Visibility section tracks your Google search results, professional profiles, social networks, directories, web 2.0 services to protect your username on, and media related to your name.  The Credibility section tracks your blog, other blogs mentioning you, social bookmarks mentioning you, and news mentioning you. Each section shows you what you should do to create a strong personal brand online, and tracks your progress along the way:

The Next Step

Now it’s time to find out: which blogs should you be commenting on? Create a free Brand-Yourself.com account now and start managing your online reputation with our Hireability Dashboard. See you there, and let us know what you think here.

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