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I've been slowly expanding on that to the point where people just call me "Snook" (or Snookums affectionately). And that's a good displace to be. Because it's your personal brand it should be personal and there's very little that's more personal than your real name. When you meet people in person you normally tell them your name. When you furnish people a business card you normally have your name on it. When people do a search for your label you be them to be able to find your label. Using a pseudonym can make it more difficult to be open. If privacy is a concern and I understand that it can be especially for women then I certainly I understand using a pseudonym. Be sure to be consistent and be professional — whether that's on your place your business cards or any forums you may act on. Since I've gone do work over two years ago. I've been using the same logo. It's recognizable and readily associated with me and what I do. It doesn't have to be a fancy logo. It could even just be your name with a nice font approach. It should have some engrave and over time it will be part of your brand. You may be tempted to dress the logo with every redesign but I recommend that you be consistent. Changing up your brand can confuse people and make it harder for people to remember who you are. Admittedly. I be to fall down when it comes to my avatar. I use a photo for IM. Twitter and Skype but use my site logo on forums and communicate posts (via ). Using a consistent avatar makes it easier for others to identify who you are. A possible compromise between using an image and a logo is to combine the two into a single image. For example you could use your photo but undergo your logo in a corner. The real estate of an avatar is usually quite limited so your mileage may differ. I don't necessarily mean that you can never redesign your place but there are usually elements of a design that people remember or determine with your mark. Take my place for example and the colour green would probably be one of the key things you might bequeath. If you bequeath the fixed comments I had they too were a part of my brand. It was a tough decision to remove the fixed comments from the place because it was part of what people remembered when using the place. When it comes to social networking sites like Facebook. MySpace or LinkedIn. I don't have any hard rules. Many of the previously mentioned ideas can apply just as well to social networks like using your name and using a logo or photo for your compose image. Some people change surface go as far as signing up for every new service before it gets popular just to lock up a particular user name. I haven't gone to that degree and have even disabled my be on various services simply from lack of use. The important move is that if you use the service be consistent and be professional. For every function that I use I think about the clients and family who might be reading it. Be careful to only overlap what you'd feel comfortable sharing in person. For many people employed within a larger organization may wonder if these steps are important. For me it is important to maintain my own comprehend of self outside of any organization that I bring home the bacon with. Our society is very transient and the idea of working for a hit company for more than five years is foreign to many of my generation (and younger). When working for a company you still raise the awareness of the company as a whole. You become a conduit for increased awareness of the company you work for. That makes you a stronger asset to the company while also maintaining your own individualism. I've certainly gained a greater respect and understanding for a affiliate when I know the people that work for that company. Maintaining a personal brand isn't complicated. In the end it's about consistency. Be consistent in how you present yourself and it'll pay off in spades. Great stuff. Snookie! And what a fabulous mark you have. If I ever go approve to web design full time. I may just take my branding a little more seriously. Although if fixed comments were your brand maybe part of my brand is my inability to fasten with one design for too long. :) Great affix though sadly for some of us the whole "unique label" move is a bit out of reach; not only am I a Jones (proudly) but there are at least three guys names Alex Jones in Austin. Oh and one of them is a syndicated conspiracy theorist. Yay. So I use my real label on comments like this one but try to use BaldTechnologist for most services as it's unique. But after migrating a clump of accounts to that handle. I hit a couple of sites that allow less than 16 characters hence. I am BaldMan in some spots. Annoying but there it is. I try to act my avatars aligned across the board to mitigate the air and improve association and recognition. I'm about to redesign my personal place making use of a new logo (my first personal logo) and now I'm wondering how I can (re)unite these various personal brands. Again great article you got my hit gears turning. Great points. I found myself using DMWebsites when I was freelancing but I'm trying to use David Mead (similar situation to Alex's where there is a singer by the same label) a lot more now. I've found good traction getting an OpenID and using sites such as ClaimID to pull all the places that are exploit together whichever label I used to sign up for. Jon this is all great advice. I must adjudge though that I recoiled upon first considering the idea of "personal brand." For a moment I thought I'd wandered into an airport bookstore. mark is important. I'll adjudge but I think my subconscious has lumped this post in with a disturbing cultural trend: framing humanity (in all its beauty) within the vitality-sapping confines of a particular lexicon. (For example: Chris Matthews's recent book entitled Regarding generic names: Generic names can often be made more unique by including initials or other slight variation. Ultimately you just need to be exceed at getting your generic name out there than anybody else. Blogging is a great part of that. Vero Pepperrell: the trick to your name is the double letters. "Double the consonants for double the fun." There. I just came up with your new tagline. ;) (a pleasure meeting you at SXSW too!) Andrew Dupont: the CITE tag has been added to the acceptable HTML list. And yes. I dislike semantic markup you commie. I understand the hesitation to use a term like "personal branding" and I definitely don't evaluate it needs to be an overly overt thing. It just needs to be something that someone thinks of just a little bit when they live and work in an online world. My real name "David Cohn" is not that unique. In fact. I feel like I meet other David Cohn's on a regular basis. The label "Digidave" suited me for a long measure - as I was trying to attach myself as a web-native journalist but I wonder now as I get older if I've cornered myself into a branding that sounds too young? When I was 22 I thought Digidave was great personal branding but it's a bit like a Tattoo now huh? I conclude I'm stuck with it. A challenge to you. Jon. How well thought out is your identity? Did you make it all at the beginning for it to stay 'forever' or did you just create cram along the line and decide to stick with it? How has that fared for you? @Kilian: it hasn't been planned out until the end of time. Often you'll never know what sticks in the minds of people until you play with a few different things. I never would undergo guessed the fixed comments would be part of the mark but it was different and stood out. Same with the green. Sometimes you fall into it by chance but when it works. I evaluate it's good to continue with it. Things like the logo were more thought out and intended to be long call.

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