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Blog Exercises: Who Do Others Think You Are?

August 26, 2013 – 4:59 am

Today’s blog exercise was inspired by Kathy Holmes in her post, “Who are you today?” Lorelle’s “What Makes You Special?” blog exercise links to “Who the Hell Are You?” and both got me to thinking, not only about who I am, but who I am today and who people perceive me to be. Some people […]

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Blog Exercises: What’s the View Through Your Binoculars

July 30, 2013 – 4:07 am

One of my favorite things is a framed picture by Matt Mullenweg of an old set of mounted binoculars. The eye pieces are worn and the blue paint on the metal binoculars looks like it’s not the first coat of paint it has seen. It’s wonderful, and I find new meaning in it every time […]

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Blog Exercises: What Makes You Special?

July 24, 2013 – 8:00 pm

A client greeted me with an over-enthusiastic hug yesterday. “I’m so glad to be working with you! You made me find myself again.” “Were you lost?” “You have no idea how lost I was.” I was confused. He lives in my neighborhood, walking distance from my front door. “Here.” He handed me a huge stack […]

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Blog Exercises: Update Your Author Description

February 22, 2013 – 4:30 am

Who are you? What do you do? How do you let the world know who you are on your blog? We’ll dig into your About Page later. For now, this blog exercise is dedicated to updating your profile on your site. In my popular series, “Managing Multiple Bloggers in WordPress,” I covered more than you […]

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Blog Exercises: What Do You Do?

January 11, 2013 – 4:38 am

What do you do? These are the first questions you usually hear upon meeting someone after the words, “How are you?” What do you do? In this Blog Exercise let’s change this to “What do you do on your blog?” On your blog, with your blog, whichever works for you. Do you know? What do […]

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Prove it! Kym Huynh Bio Reloaded

April 17, 2012 – 10:24 am

In my Prove It! campaign article series recently, by request I ripped apart the personal and professional site of Kym Huynh in “Prove It: Kym Huynh Exposed.” Using my advice, he’s updated the two key pages I attacked on his site, the front page and about page, and the results are spectacular. The goals of […]

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Prove It: What Makes You Trust a Website?

February 6, 2012 – 9:48 pm

What makes you trust this site? What makes you trust me? What makes you trust any website you visit? What is it about the site that earns your trust? I’ve asked this question at most of the conferences and keynotes I’ve given over the past seven years: What makes you not trust a website? The […]

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Prove It: Kym Huynh Exposed

January 16, 2012 – 1:08 pm

After reading Prove It: It’s Starts With Defining Who You Are as part of my Prove It Campaign, one of my best friends volunteered himself for a bio tearing and ripping as he is now involved in several startups that are gaining the attention of investors, which means everything he does online is now subject […]

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Prove It: It’s Starts With Defining Who You Are

January 2, 2012 – 3:07 pm

Who are you on the web? How do you describe yourself? What words do you use to tell the world who you are, what you stand for or represent, what you do, how you do it, and why they should want to get to know you and work with you? Preparing to teach my WordPress […]