empowering a new generation of leaders
In my last post, I talked about how to set-up your blog using WordPress or Blogger as part of a series to share a few basic steps to get you on the path to blogging so that you can become more visible in the nonprofit field. In today’s post, I’ll cover some of the design [...]
Blogging was the best thing that ever happened to my nonprofit career. True story: A year into my role as a development director at my previous nonprofit job, I still had people mistaking me for an intern. I was tasked with raising $1M a year for the organization, yet my youth prevented my older colleagues [...]
Jullien Gordon from Career Change Challenge presents a fantastic one-minute video lesson on why personal business cards are essential for personal branding. The video is part of Brazen Careerist’s Rock Your Career project on YouTube where you can get concise tidbits of career advice from young leaders. Click here if you can’t see the video below. Jullien emphasizes [...]
Unless you’ve found some way to completely avoid stupid celebrity gossip, you’ve probably heard about how world-renowned actor Laurence Fishburne’s daughter is breaking into Hollywood…via sex tape. 19-year-old Montana Fishburne is going to star in a porn film and it’s interesting to hear her reason why. “I’ve watched how successful Kim Kardashian became and I think a [...]
Young people are known for being more proficient with social media than our older colleagues, and it definitely shows up in the blogosphere. Recent research shows that 53% of the total blogging population is 21-35 years old. Cool, right? What I wonder about that statistic though, is whether we are blogging simply for personal reasons [...]
HR Examiner has just published a ranked list of the Top 25 Online Influencers in Leadership. The list ranks the Top 25 voices in leadership based on their online footprint. They used a tool called Traackr to discover which 25 people are the most influential on the subject of leadership. And lo and behold, yours truly [...]
One of my mentors gave me this advice a few years back, “Never believe your own hype.” At the time, I didn’t have any hype, so I just tucked that little tidbit away for future use. Now, after achieving some level of professional reputation through my blog, I understand exactly what she was getting at [...]
The men in the blogosphere have been quite brilliant lately. Here’s some really great stuff I’ve read in the past week. Tim Ferriss outlines seven ways to deal with hateration in your career. I like this one the best: “Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.” (Colin Powell) “If you [...]
