Comments on: Personal branding

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Trade-Off, by Kevin Maney || April || 2010

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:27:45 +0000

[...] a step on your competition, and then find ways to maintain or extend that lead. The same applies to personal positioning, as Maney mentions in an epilogue. All in all, it was a quick read from the library, but I [...]

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Being a generalist || September || 2008

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:44:32 +0000

[...] a continuation of my reflections on my personal brand as a generalist, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a generalist in corporate America. What is the [...]

By: James Crossman

James Crossman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:13:00 +0000

I communicate. I get the right information to the right people at the right time in the right way.

For a while now, when I was asked to describe myself in only a few words, I would say that I was a technologist, a naturalist, and a generalist. But when i sat down trying to find a unified identity to wrap up all these aspects of my geralist soul – i found that they all involved communication.

While I can frame myself appropriately for any of these roles – the meta-frame of “communication” helps provide a common thread to my networking, security, writing and photography. They are all either messages or methods to either communicate the message or to protect it.

By: Wes Carroll

Wes Carroll — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:14:50 +0000

My best shot at a one sentence brand for myself:

“Wes Carroll, creative sooooper genius: I’m awesome, and so are you!”

I wonder whether that makes any sense at all outside my head. Please let me know.

By: Beemer

Beemer — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:13:00 +0000

I appear to have become Dr. Tectonic, jovial mad scientist.

Can I use a tag cloud instead of a sentence? Because then I would add gamer, geek, gentleman, social butterfly, bear, and would-be writer.

Yeah, that covers most of what I’m about.