Archive for January, 2007

Josh Kaufman has a very interesting concept called The Personal MBA. It is available as a PDF-file over at ChangeThis. The introduction goes like this:
Business schools don’t have a monopoly on worldly wisdom. If you care more about increasing your effectiveness at work than a diploma and a few lines on your resume, the Personal [...]

Penelope Trunk has a great post titled 4 Tips for being your own career coach. These are her four tips:
1. Talk to an imaginary coach.
2. Ask yourself better questions.
3. Pretend to give advice to someone else.
4. Believe in your ability to make positive change in your life.
I think the last one is the key to [...]

Penelope Trunk has a post titled Blogging essential for a good career. She writes that a well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. Penelope lists eight reasons why, after deciding about topic, blogging helps your career.
1. Blogging creates a network.
2. Blogging can get you a job.
3. Blogging is great training.
4. Blogging [...]

While reading posts over at Brazen Careerist I came across this text:
Requesting a specific action and providing a specific benefit are very important – Tell people what you want from them so they can give it to you.
This is line with the method for introductions we used at our XING Oeresund BC After Work [...]

Brazen Careerist is an interesting and useful blog written by Penelope Trunk.
She also writes an expert advice column at Yahoo. There is for instance an article about Ten Ways to Improve Your Job Hunt.

Penelope Trunk has posted The easiest instructions for how to start a blog. It is a great post with six simple steps but also links to additional information once the blog is rolling.
Her list goes like this (read more at her site):
1. Ignore buzzwords.
2. Pick a topic — you can change it when you know [...]

Guy Kawasaki has a very interesting post about his LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover. There is an image of his profile before with great comments on what ought to be changed and added. Many of us (me included) can learn from this and make our networking profiles much better.
The comments Guy makes are valid in all [...]

Larry Winget has written a manifesto called You are Being Lied To and Other Truths over at ChangeThis. It is time well spent to read the dozen pages. Larry writes this about himself:
All I am really an expert at is being stupid and learning from it….I have become an expert at not making the same [...]

Snap Preview Anywhere is a cool function. It is now installed as default on all blogs at WordPress.com. Snap Preview lets the reader see a small image of the linked site which makes it a lot easier to decide whether to go there or not. Snap also has a blog.
Snap preview is easy to install. [...]

I have joined LinkedInnovators, LinkedinEurope and MyLinkedinPowerForum. With LinkedIn Bloggers it is a nice set of groups.

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