The terminology may not be precisely right, but you get the idea: your image, bio and other details of your professional life are out there in cyberspace.

For example, you change your LinkedIn profile in any way and your whole network (”connections”) gets a notification. Read More...

While you can put a dollar value on just about anything in today’s world, the value of your reputation and your brand is one thing that can’t be bought or sold without you having something to say about it. Or at least it shouldn’t.

You control who you are are and work hard at how you are perceived by those around you–or within your network. In today’s instant social media world, we can do little to control our brand and reputation, but we can certainly manage it. And we should do all that we can to do just that. Read More...

With all of the talk about networking and connecting and whatever, we must not lose sight of what our motives and direction are.

While most networking situations are for business purposes, we find ourselves in a grey area sometimes since we are taking this on from a social direction. The bleed between the spheres does have us sometimes forgetting what the aim is and that we must exercise courtesy and comportment. Read More...