Tag: syndicated

I gave the Modern Resume: Building Your Brand presentation last week at the SQL Saturday #22 – Pensacola event and had about 30-40 people come see it. I got some good responses, but there was one interesting thing that came up.

I have talked about how it helps to prove value to your manager when you attend training or a conference. You tie back something you learned/used to your job. You specifically show your boss where something matters.

I’d say that you ought to do the same thing for your brand. When you learn something at an event, from a book, from a blog, make a note of it. Give the person/event credit that helped you, and give your interpretation. Do that enough, and all of a sudden you look like a real go-getter that is worth hiring.

I saw a post from Seth Phelabaum on SQLServerCentral reviewing his goals as of Q2. About 20 days premature, but it’s a good reminder that you ought to review your goals periodically. Take a few minutes today to see where you are and if you can make some progress towards getting halfway through by the end of the month.

I know I have some work to do. Definitely need to spend some time over the next two weeks on a couple things.

I got this flyer in the mail recently.

It was for a seminar by Edward Tufte, and it caught my eye with the various books at the top. I read through it, and was noticed that there was a date in Denver. I called my boss, and he said it was worth going to. He’d read a couple of these books, so I got permission to attend.

I’m glad I got the flyer, because it just looks better than the site I visited to complete my registration. 

The seminar is today, and I’ll be spending the day in a local hotel, listening to this presentation, and then I’ll have four new books to read, all of which are likely going to give me some great ideas to write about and possibly help me learn how to better present information to the community. I’ll blog next week on what I thought of this.

I’ve done a good amount to raise my profile over the years. Not with that intention, but as I’ve tried to be more active in the SQL community, writing more about SQL Server, my profile has raised.

Today I saw Dave Winer posting on Twitter about the Google home page change (there’s an image there) and then said that when he searched for “Dave” he was on the first page still.

So I tried it and typed “Steve Jones” into Google and hit enter. My first result page is long, longer than I remember and I had to scroll, but I actually had two results on page 1.

You can see the second one above, with another right above this for my SQLServerCentral blog.

That’s amazing to me. It’s kind of cool, but I think I’d prefer to be buried on page 10. Where do you show up?