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Career Activist
Posted: June 18, 2010 | 15:57 ET
BY MARK SWARTZ, THE CAREER ACTIVIST® Repairing The Damage And Restoring Your Reputation
Sooner or later everyone does something dumb at work. Missing a crucial deadline. Accidentally sending confidential data to the wrong e-mail address. Or, if you happen to work for Apple, inadvertently leaving a prototype of your super-secret new phone in a very public bar.The point is that when you do screw up, it’s up to you to try and fix things quickly...
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Posted: April 29, 2010 | 10:57 ET
BY MARK SWARTZ, THE CAREER ACTIVIST® Save The Planet One Double-Sided Photocopy At A Time
Earth Day 2010 has come and gone. In case you blinked, it was celebrated on Thursday April 22nd. Why does planet Earth deserve only a single day of commemoration when something as mundane as procrastination merits a full seven days during National Procrastination Week? That’s for the folks who create these memorials to ponder.
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Posted: April 5, 2010 | 14:36 ET
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Getting Followers and Linking To Other Social Media
Getting Followers and Linking To Other Social Media
BY MARK SWARTZ, THE CAREER ACTIVIST®
Promoting yourself as a specialist in your field – be you a media, branding or product management maven – is one of the main uses of Twitter.com.
In Part 1 of this series we looked at the basics of setting yourself up on Twitter: signing up for free, claiming your own Twitter URL, sending out initial Tweets, and injecting your expertise into your maximum of 140 characters per Tweet.
Now we’ll move on to the next stages of Twittering. This includes getting followers to read your precious Tweets, and disseminating these Tweets to other forms of social media, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, so that you quickly broaden your base of readers.
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Posted: March 17, 2010 | 15:33 ET
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Getting Started On Positioning Yourself As A Subject Matter Expert
Getting Started On Positioning Yourself As A Subject Matter Expert
BY MARK SWARTZ, THE CAREER ACTIVIST®
So you want to make a name for yourself as a respected specialist in your field, but you don’t have time to write detailed articles and get them published by credible sources, nor can you afford time away from the office to speak at all sorts of distant conferences on your area of expertise.
What might you do easily then to widely distribute your knowledge and set yourself up as a guru?
The answer may lie in that latest of social media phenomena, Twitter.com.
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