Just read the latest from Penelope Trunk. Do you know who is using social media? Gen X. The average Twitter user is in their 30s. The median age of LinkedIn is 40. The majority of people who are joining Facebook right now are over 35. This is because Gen X wants to meet new people [...]
Tags: Facebook·Linkedin·Penelope Trunk·social networking·tools·Twitter
Welcome to the new home of my blog. This will be my first post using WordPress. Just got done reading a great post from Penelope at Brazen Careerist that is really resonating with me. Penelope refers to a Time magazine article by Kurt Andersen. Penelope says: The American Dream is no longer about money and [...]
Tags: career·career management·change·Penelope Trunk
Another great post from Penelope Trunk, How to Sell Anything to Anyone. I like that she cuts the fat off of everything. She is stripped down. And if you read her regularly, she really pares things down to get to the simple purity of it all. I enjoy following her on her quest. Stripped down [...]
Tags: Penelope Trunk·sales
Lifehacker beat me to it. Over the last week or so there have been two very interesting posts by Seth Godin and Penelope Trunk around personal branding and resumes. Lifehacker posts an article that ties the two together. Seth, always a practitioner of tough love says that if you are TRULY a rockstar then you [...]
Tags: career·career management·marketing·Penelope Trunk·personal branding·Seth Godin·skills
