What is your personal brand?

I have been working hard at my job of creating and maintaining a brand at Orchid Ceramics. I have seen many articles about a personal brand recently but really have not paid that much attention to them. Why? Maybe because like many others my "brand" started as simply a profile on Twitter, Facebook, or some other site. Secondly, what is a personal brand anyways and why do I need one.

Well, finally I started realizing that with these many sites I have, I may be portraying a different message on each of them, strictly by the branding that I create. This may be what I want in some cases, but usually I like to think of myself as the same person, no matter what the content, situation, or audience.

In order to streamline my brand a bit, I started with streamlining my profile pictures, colors, and graphics that I use across all sites so that there is some consistency. My next step is to decide on content. This blog for instance, does not really seem to point at one particular audience. I write mostly about technical, geeky things, but tend to confuse the readers with some personal, off-topic posts. I really should have two blogs in this case.

So as I embark on personal branding, what have you done to keep your image consistent, real, and true, while separating relevant content where it belongs? Would love to hear!

Bible Wednesday on Twitter

Do you feel like you are struggling to have time to read the Bible? I have work, school, sports, groups, facebook to keep up with. Isn't this how we all feel? I had this idea a while back about spending just a short amount of time each day on a book (see Time to Read). While waiting for my laptop to boot each morning I spend a short amount of time in a book. I figure I will eventually get through it and otherwise would not have read it.

This idea got me thinking a bit deeper. I need to spend more time in God's Word and really have no excuse. We all make time for other things. In fact, what did we all do with the time we now spend twittering?

So here it is: I challenge everyone to set aside next Wednesday, May 13th as Bible Wednesday. The challenge is that every time you get the urge to twitter or even read tweets, read something in the Bible instead. There is especially no excuse with the availability of the Bible online via YouVersion.com. If you do tweet, then do it after you read a verse and share that as your tweet. Then use the tag #biblewed.

Who's with me?!

Video is back

Another sweet video from Mutemath. Just when I though the art of video was dead, Mutemath brings another creative video to the scene. Not sure it's as cool as the Typical video, but awesome nonetheless.


MUTEMATH - Spotlight

He Is Risen!

Let's all take some time today to remember what Easter is all about.  Sure the egg hunts and chocolate bunnies are nice, but we would be nothing without Jesus Christ!  He gave His life for us, died on the cross, was burried, and rose from the grave!  

Go to church online this morning and celebrate the life!  http://live.lifechurch.tv/

What time is it?

Ever make the comment that every single appliance in your home has a clock on it?  Why do we need so many clocks?  The coffee maker, the stove, the microwave.  Well, the strangest thing has happened.  We just switched from cable to satellite and we now have NO clocks in the living room!  The dvd player has no clock and the new satellite box has no clock.  Now I realize how much I relied on that cable box clock!  

Of course, I stopped wearing a watch years ago because I can always use my BlackBerry to see the time.  But that would be too inconvenient to pull the phone out of my pocket while sitting in the living room.  When I go to the kitchen I have four clocks to look at.  Now I feel silly - I am trying to think of what clock I can buy for the living room.

In John Mayer's Musical Brain

http://johnmayer.com/battlestudies/

Time to Read

It seems that there are those that really love to read books and can blow through them in a matter of hours. Then there are those that don't like to read at all and their list of books they have read in the past five years is fewer than three. Then there are those like me. I actually like to read and learn, but do not seem to have the time I need to devote toward reading so much. I have purchased three books in the past two months, but have barely cracked open the first one.

Now, during this same time frame I have read countless articles on the Internet, blogs, reviews, how-to's, etc - right online and in short amounts of time. This makes me wonder if I have it all wrong on how to tackle a book. It seems that I compare myself to the first group of people a mentioned above - to knock out those three books this weekend. But maybe it is just about reading a bit of each every day, with no particular pressure on time frames. Perhaps I will give that a try - or maybe those books will just collect some more dust for awhile.