by Ralph
on September 2, 2013
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Digging Comedy
Getting comedy out of Digg turns out to be a non-trivial pursuit. There is a lot of news about Comedy Central and TV series but nothing exploring what is comedy or how to do it. Maybe I just have to dig deeper.
Well here is one that seems to match our definition of comedy as social commentary. This woman hires a stripper to impersonate her at her high school reunion. This hits close to home with me because the high school is the one my sons’ attended. This women is near the age of my older son so he probably knows who she is.
And a science breakthrough from UCLA – of course. Researchers identify the brain cells that are trggered by the Simpsons but don’t respond to Friends.
Now Digg tells me that it is just too busy to waste it’s time searching comedy for me so that’s all for this week.
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by Ralph
on September 2, 2013
Sharing my personal branding experience to encourage others.
I am continuing to audit my social marketing on the web following the suggestions from the Personal Branding Blog. I was pretty miserable at Twitter but have been working to improve my score over the past week. Today, I am taking on Facebook where I score a big 5. This means that I am not in the ‘pick yourself off the floor’ group but merely in the ‘needs improvement’ group. I have all the pieces in place. There is a picture and my profile is complete. I connect with Facebook when I post a new item on my blog and it updates my status. I have my name registered making it my Facebook URL and finally I have my privacy configured.
What I’m not doing is using the status updates strategically to develop my brand. I have joined some groups but the groups don’t build the brand either so I don’t get a point there. I don’t have my own page either personally or for my business. Finally I haven’t tapped my community for any reason anytime.
It’s basically the same situation as with Twitter. I understand the framework but not what it can do or how to make it do something that promotes my brand.
I’m not a master of Facebook for Personal Branding but I’m getting there and if I can do it, anybody can do it.
In fairness, I should note that commenter’s (about 50%) disagreed with using Facebook professionally. They preferred to let Linkedin provide all the brand building and keep Facebook personal. I’ll stay neutral on that point, mostly because I just don’t know. I do want to have Facebook contributing to my brand and my goal is to be making money on the web. You may be only interested in the social networking. I would really like to know some other opinions however. Have you found Facebook useful for more than just personal connections? How?
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