When you work for an organization, an e-mail address is provided to you and you don’t have any choice in the matter. It doesn’t matter if that e-mail address dumps real e-mail in the spam folder and allows spam to sail into your inbox. You’re stuck with it. A personal e-mail address, or the e-mail address you use when you work for yourself, ...

  If you talk to me about the speaking arm of my career for more than five minutes, you’ll get an earful about my Powerpoint quandary.  What’s the most impactful way to deliver a speech?  Should I use slides or not?  If I don’t, should I use talking points?  How can I be entertaining while teaching, without giving in to ...

Says my colleague Dan Schawbel on his Personal Branding blog: “Over the past few days, I’ve put a lot of thought into online versus offline personal branding.  We all need to focus on building powerful offline brands, because who knows what will happen to the internet tomorrow?  What if the world loses power or the internet cord is ...

The HR Capitalist has a great post about the distrust of those working from home.  Are they really working, asks writer Kris Dunn, or are they simply squeezing 3 hours of work into an 8-hour day? More importantly, can a remote worker/telecommuter even go to lunch without having that ''gotcha'' feeling?  A recent Business Week online ...

I just received an e-mail from a reader about Razume, a new online community where users can anonymously post, rate and review resumes. The service provides a fast and easy way to collect valuable feedback from knowledgeable sources like recruiters, and it’s free for job seekers.  It’s discreet too: users are encouraged to hide contact ...

A lot of twenty-somethings and early thirty-somethings e-mail me asking for advice on how to publish a book written for their age group.  While I’m not one to discourage people from anything they have their hearts set on, if you like to write and want to offer proactive advice to people your age or a little younger, my honest advice is to ...

I’m very pleased to share this review of my friend and colleague Jason Alba’s new book, I’m on Linked In – Now What???  I have known Jason for over a year, and I can say with all seriousness that he is one of the best networkers I know.  He knows everyone, and if he doesn’t know someone, he wants to meet them.  He’s a big advocate ...

A lot of career experts have been buzzing lately about the necessity of having a blog.  Their rationale is that everyone who’s anyone is out there participating in the online conversation, and that if you don’t have something valuable to contribute, employers won’t be as impressed with you.   Personally, I don’t think it’s realistic – ...