Kevin Carroll is the author of ‘The Red Rubber Ball at Work’ and ‘Rules of the Red Rubber Ball’ powerful books on integrating play and work.
Does your corporation have a creative culture? Do you have a workforce that creatively produce higher quality work, despite lower headcount, and less financial incentives? Listen to the Tech MBA Minute (produced by Tech MBA Online) interview with Kevin has he takes us on a journey of integrating work and play in business.
Ask ten people what they think about branding and personal brand, and you are likely to get ten different opinions on the subject. It’s an ongoing discussion, and one that probably won’t have a definitive answer. Regardless of your position on the matter, one can not ignore that brand, personal or not, does exist. What we do with it and how we define it is up to us.
We reached out to our community and asked some of the local entrepreneurs and professionals their take.
Up first, Mr. Hubert Sawyers III. A local entrepreneur, Hubert shares how one’s personal brand stems from one’s authenticity. If those two elements are in sync, then it is very hard to deny one’s successful brand.
Hubert will be attending BrandCampU 2010, and can be found sharing his passion for music and business on Twitter. He is the founder of SorSaw Enterprises, co-founder of iDetroit, and blogs at Frying in Vein.
Brian Solis is one of my virtual mentors. I follow his work online in the new web and I think he is one of the smartest in the space. I had the pleasure of interviewing him and to talk briefly about his latest book, “Engage”
Brian Solis is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning New Media marketing and branding agency in Silicon Valley. Solis is globally recognized for his views and insights on the convergence of PR, Traditional Media and Social Media. Considered one of the original thought leaders who paved the way for Social Media and PR 2.0, Solis is co-founder of the Social Media Club and is an original member of the Media 2.0 Workgroup.
Nuggets from our Interview
Engage was written to help companies build, cultivate, and measure success in the new web.
Engage is a book designed to scale with you as you grow whether you are a small business, non-profit or being a part of an enterprise organization.”
Champions effect change.
Being an expert doesn’t engender change being a champion does
Quote
“Who I am today and who I want to be tomorrow are separated by the things I do today.” – Brian Solis
If you haven’t heard of PR Sarah Evans you probably live under a rock, have no Internet access or use a rotary dial phone. Nevertheless, I had the opportunity to interview her recently and we discussed the topic of women in social media.
She is the President of Chicago based public relations and new media consultancy Sevans Strategy and runs #journchat. She is an influencer in the new media/pr communities and is a great personal branding case study. She has emerged as a leader in the social space but she isn’t an overnight success she has earned her stripes and put in the time.
I really wanted to share Sarah Evans story to inspire other women who believe they have a message that the world needs to hear. One of the great things that I like about Sarah’s story is that she has turned her passion into a career/profit.
Earlier this year she was featured in Vanity Fair with a list of other influential women in social media, which obviously has tremendously impacted her business. The flip side of this story is that Sarah received some negative feedback from some of her peers about the article since it didn’t appropriately reflect women in tech or show a diverse perspective. After talking with Sarah it showed me her depth as a person as she tackled the situation head on when confronted with those facts and addressed the valid concerns with some of those same peers.
#journchat
Sarah Evans is the originator of Twitter Chats. She launched #journchat in December 2008 which has hosted CNN and will host NBC News later this year
How to Follow Sarah Evans
There are a million ways to follow Sarah online I have listed some of the main ways below.
