How to create a blog and use a Web site for your personal brand

How to create your blog and personal

Web siteBy David Strom

david@strom.com

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Agenda The web site becomes your resume What about blogs What about Twitter?

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Become master of your domain

No, not that kind of domain!

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The Internet domain! You need your own dot com! Remember my business card?

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Why a domain?It is all about

branding!

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Hosting your Web site You need a Web server A hosting provider (different from

domain provider), also called a registrar

Web browser to control and configure And content!

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Cheap hosting providers

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Why blogs are a better Web site

No programming required Easy to make frequent updates Easy to quickly change the

appearance of your pages Automatic posting of your content to

Google’s search index

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The blog IS your Web site Make it your first and in some cases

your only Web presence It is very simple to setup!

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Use blog hosting providers

Wordpress.com

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Google juice!

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Ties into LinkedIn External Web sites Wordpress blogs Twitter feed

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List your Web sites Use the “other” choice Also can put a 4th in “Interests”

This is what it will look like on screen:

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Twitter connection

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Good luck with your blog!

David Strom(310) 857-6867david@strom.comhttp://strominator.comhttp://webinformant.tvSlides available:http://slideshare.net/

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