Do you shine? These last few years, the whole idea of what it takes to make you “shine” as a professional has been flipped upside down. The transparent, instant nature of social platforms has turned “polished” into “inauthentic,” and “polite” into something approaching “laughably out of touch.” This isn’t going to change; success in 2012 [...]
If a woman speaks, and her thoughts are picked up on only one web outlet, is she relevant? If not, then how many outlets must she reach before she becomes relevant? I’m at the IVOH conference, and this is my first experience in years at a conference as a participant (as opposed to a speaker). [...]
This is a hypothesis. I could be way off. But I don’t think so. Actually, let’s make it: Men think noun/verb, women think adjective/adverb. Now I’m probably a little less off. The idea of this struck me the other night while my wife was watching Real Housewives. I sometimes join her, until I can’t stand [...]
There is one question that comes up over and over again while I’m doing LinkedIn training, and it’s the same question I used to get all the time when I would coach execs. It goes like this: “Should I describe the me that is today, or the me that I’m developing for tomorrow?” This question [...]
During a presentation last night, I got this question: “How long can you wait before updating LinkedIn? Sometimes people go through changes they don’t want to broadcast—they get fired, divorced—how long can they wait before posting this while still being current?” Social media is catalyzing the way in which people deal with the truth. We’ve [...]
I just attended what might be my favorite conference of all time: People Report’s Summer Camp. (It’s awesome—see Twitter and YouTube.) Summer Camp is a networking event hosted by People Report, where 200+ people from HR and marketing come together to push the leading edge forward. It’s a remarkable event, run by remarkable people, run [...]
About seven months ago, I wrote a surprisingly provocative blog post about the risks of executives blogging. Let’s check back in on the topic of executives and social media, but from a different angle—let’s follow it up with a quick post on executives’ LinkedIn use. The risks executives tend to articulate to me with regards to [...]
I'm Jason. I make people shine. My mission is to help 1 million people tell their stories better. 