Social Media Breakfast - Wwhat a Technical Evangelist can tell you about personal branding

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As an evangelist your own branding is critical for your role. Interesting enough, it’s not just about this job type: you as a freelancer, as a community manager, as a ... you need to think about your branding. It’s about you as a person, you as an employee, and what people will associate you with. It’s one of the most important weapons you have. Taken from my own experience, I’ll give you some advices about your branding in-person, but also online by using social media. We’ll talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly...

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Personal brandingSocial Media Breakfast

Frédéric Harper@fharper | outofcomfortzone.net

• Technical Evangelist & Open guy

at MS

• Professional speaker & blogger

• Always wear jeans with cool t-

shirts

• HTML5 & social media enthusiast

• Geek & French guy

Me, myself, and I

It’s critical for mostly everybody

Personal branding is, for some

people, a description of the process

whereby people and their careers are

marked as brands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_branding

Personal branding

Personal Branding is YOU

Personal Branding is YOU

Personal Branding is WHO YOU ARE

What you know

What you do/did

Who you know

What you look like

Who you are

1. Who

2. What

3. How

Build your Personal brand

1. Who: Be authentic

2. What: Define your brand

3. How: Create & do stuff

4. The secret ingredient: Expose

what you are doing, who you are

Build your Personal brand

Be authentic

1. Who am I?

2. Who I want to be?

3. Whichever your brand, be

yourself

4. Passion…

Be authentic

Define your brand

1. Who am I?

2. Who I want to be?

3. How I want people to define me?

4. What are my goals?

Define your brand

Create & do stuff

1. Do what you love!

2. Start a blog.

3. Speak about your passion at

conferences

4. Create a user group, association…

5. Network

Create & do stuff

Expose what you are doing, who you are

1. Start a blog!

2. Update your LinkedIn profile

3. Create a Facebook page

4. Tweets, tweets, and tweets… *

Expose what you are doing, who you are

Personal branding is how people see perceive you…

Books

The FlinchJulien Smith

Questions

Frédéric Harperhttp://outofcomfortzone.net