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Facebook’s new personal profile timeline puts your personal brand in a new light, and gives you a lot more control over how your appear to your peers, customers and potential customers.

3 Personal Branding Tips For Your Facebook Timeline | Fiona McEachran

http://www.fionamceachran.com/2012/01/personal-branding-tips-facebook-timeline/
Personal branding is the process of developing a "mark" that is created around your personal name or your career.

What is Personal Branding?

http://marketing.about.com/b/2012/04/22/what-is-personal-branding.htm
http://jorgensundberg.net/how-write-your-personal-brand-statement/ Before you write blog posts for the masses, before you apply for those positions, before you even set up your LinkedIn profile there is one thing you should do – craft your very own personal brand statement.

How To Write Your Personal Brand Statement | jorgensundberg.net

How to Craft Your Personal Brand Statement

There is an ongoing debate about the need for a business brand versus a personal brand. After reviewing current literature and crowdsourcing colleagues, the consensus seems to be that you need both – a clearly defined business brand and a compelling personal brand. A personal brand is essential from the start, but what is the process for crafting a personal brand statement when you are in the introductory stages or even the launch stage of a new business? http://smallbiztrends.com/2011/08/personal-brand-statement.html
After polling several well-educated young professionals about their personal brand statement , I realized that there are still many individuals who don’t understand how to use personal branding. Your statement is not a mission statement or job title, but rather your “catchphrase” if you will about your specific expertise. If you don’t have much experience at something, then it can be about an area that you want to become an expert in so long as you don’t exaggerate. http://blog.brandyourself.com/personal-brand/how-to-personal-brand/personal-brand-statement-7-winning-steps-to-creating-one/

Personal Brand Statement: 7 Winning Steps to Creating One | Brand-Yourself.com Blog

http://www.compukol.com/blog/how-to-write-an-extraordinary-personal-brand-statement/

How to Write an Extraordinary Personal Brand Statement

Your personal brand statement is as unique as you are and having a compelling and exciting statement will open business doors for you like nothing else will. Your statement should connect you with whoever reads it.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-your-image-is-everything-12-2011

9 Reasons Why Your Image Is Everything

Branding matters, and that rings true for both companies and individuals. 
http://mashable.com/2009/01/13/social-media-resume/

HOW TO: Build the Ultimate Social Media Resume

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success , and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog . Social media resumes are important for attracting hiring managers directly to you, without you having to submit your resume, blindly, to them. The problem with submitting your resume online to job postings is that most job postings aren’t even vacant, might not exist, and 80% of jobs offers are received through networking. With a social media resume, you’re able to paint a completely different portrait of yourself for hiring managers and customize it to reflect your personal brand.
http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/50-tips-to-brand-yourself-online/

50+ Tips to Brand Yourself Online | Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel

Once you’ve designed your personal brand and have a personal brand name , use this handy list of suggestions to implement your personal branding strategy. Keep in mind that where you interact online also conveys messages about you, and then stick to the websites and communities that will help most in reaching your goals. Register your own name as a domain name. If not available, use your personal brand name or some variation that won’t confuse people and will still reinforce your brand.

A Guide On How To Build A Proper Brand On Facebook

Most brands out there spend their time trying to acquire a ton of fans, hoping to convert them to paying customers. But at the DLD conference in Munich today, BuddyMedia and ComScore released a study that has a different approach: focus on the friends of your fans. http://www.businessinsider.com/a-guide-on-how-to-build-a-proper-brand-on-facebook-2012-1

Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success , and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog . In the past few years personal branding has been discussed exhaustively throughout the Net. The difference between today and over ten years ago when it was first mentioned by Tom Peters, is the rise of social technologies that have made branding not only more personal, but within reach. From the corporate brand (BMW), to the product brand (BMW M3 Coupe) and down to the personal brand (car salesman), branding is a critical component to a customer’s purchasing decision.