I am in the throws of my next seminal post on personal branding and the power of blogging to enhance both one’s personal and professional reputation and stereotypical good looks. I invite anyone who would like to preview my uncensored, uncut and unabridged work the chance to receive it via email for viewing behind locked doors. For this premium service I am charging an affordable $9.99.
To ensure that you get your moneys worth – recognizing you may not like or agree with what I have to say, and, given the PDF format, denied the chance to fire off an emotive comment or two – $9.99 will ensure that you are only referred to by some adorable nickname recognizable only among this clique we lovingly refer to as the Recruitosphere. Most people blog-surfing outside of this small circle of buddies will think you are a character from Barney. $19.99 will ensure you are not mentioned at all. For $29.99 I will mention you in favorable light regardless of what I might really think of you, personally, professionally or otherwise.
Due to supply chain limitations, this offer is only available for the first 15,000 readers. The santized version of my work will be posted on Monday, next. The content will be edited to fit your screen and world view.
In the meantime, consider what-his-name’s post about professional conduct. It won’t escape anyone’s attention from reading the comments that he-who-has-no-name (and no link you’ll notce) is already deriving value from my personal branding service. Yes, for a paltry $75.00 I can have your name removed from most any participating blog in the network.
Just letting everyone know that I have signed on to this service. And you should too. It will prevent Google from finding stuff about you on the blogs. One question: is there anyway I can get a group rate on this. I mean rather than pay $10 per month to twenty blogs can I pay $100 to a blogging association which will handle the issue for me?
No, but call what-his-name. He’ll hook you up with someone who can.
Who is what-his name? Or is what-his-name’s name better left unsaid?
Readers who are unfamiliar with this closeted space may not know that Maureen Sharib is the planet’s most expert names sourcer. For her not to know the persons being alluded to are the recruiting Animal and Dave Mendoza suggests: a) she hasn’t been following the blogs this week and the Blog Swap brouhaha; b) she’s just back from an extended vacation; or c) most likely, a rouse to get me to illustrate how expert she is in extracting what she needs to complete the toughest assignments. Maureen also has an impeccable online and real life persona – look here.
a) would be closer to the truth - “extended vacation” Huh? Who, me?
Not participating in the Blog Swap (was it a mistake in judgment?) I haven’t been following as closely as I should but I do recall some unpleasantness erupting a couple days back. As fascinating as watching a train wreck can be, these days I turn away from the back-and-forth-just-so-I-can-prove-my-point or the I’m so-smart-why-don’t-all-you-dummies-see-it? debates that rage on and on and sap the real life out of these discussions.
I went back to track the brouhaha. I see the above is not applicable here but I’m warming to a general subject I’ve been thinking about for a while - people fail to realize how transparent their written words can be. I am guilty of this - I am always surprised at how trite I can be when I read over some of my old posts. This space we inhabit is a glass house and I learned long ago what shattering effects thrown stones can have.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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In case you’re wondering Amitai, I am NOT talking about you. I find your posts always stimulating and insightful. The tongue-in-cheek that some people just don’t get is always wonderful.
Maureen, you say such nice things!
Unfortunately, you can hardly track the events of the week by looking at the comments on the post in question as they have been doctored, diluted down. The interrupted thread makes no sense if you read the comments closely. However, the purpose of the post was achieved in a) sparking a lively debate – to be continued (I’ll backtrack here); b) enabling new friends and associations; and c) driving some recruiting bloggers – me included – to re-examine their goals and potential. If it took a train wreck to make that happen, yes, that’s a shame, but it happened and to me that is sometimes the price we pay to learn some good lessons. Is it worth it? Who am I to say?
I will say this, just when I’m about to give up, disappointed at the revisionism among so-called blogging stalwarts, I get comments like this one that keep me going. Thanks for your support of my blog.
I’ve been pretty busy. What’s this week’s Blog Swap brouhaha? Wait. Maybe I don’t want to know.