18 Ways To Increase Your Digital Presence

Getting or keeping a job in today’s unstable business climate takes coming up with new ideas and new ways to present yourself  – it takes digital presence.

Increasing your digital presence on social media is a lot more than just updating your status on Facebook or IBM Connections.

Here are 18 sure fire ways to help you get online and noticed. Read along as IBM’s Social Butterfly, Lorian Lipton, motivates you with her 18 Ways To Increase Your Digital Presence, from her blog The Digital Attitude: Becoming Eminent.

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Greater IBM, what would you add to these? Have you got any tips to share?

 

 

- Posted by Lorian Lipton

LinkedIn Status Updates: 7 Do’s and Don’ts

The LinkedIn status update feature can be a powerful tool to keep you connected with the many far-flung members of your professional network.

Careful when you’re about to hit that Post button….

But beware: it’s easy to make a mistake when it comes to the kind of information you should be sharing through your communities. Read some definite do’s and DON’Ts from social media expert Maggie Herbert at LinkedIn.com.

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Greater IBM, what would you add to these? Have you got any tips to share?

- Posted by Regan Kelly

Signs You’re Failing the Interview – and How to Turn It Around

You’re probably already aware that when you’re interviewing for a job, interviewers are picking up on your body language. Some might even base their hiring decisions on it, whether or not they realize it.

It’s not only about eye contact.

The good news? Nonverbal communication, of course, goes both ways. In an interview, hiring managers are also giving YOU signals that they’re interested — or that they’re losing interest.  In this career help from Monster.com, here are some subtle signs that you may be headed for the door, and the words and gestures you can use to turn things in your favor.

 

Lost in Translation: Best Practices for Working with Global Teams

By Radhika Emens, WITI.com

As today’s leaders strive to make the best use of technology and communication platforms to conduct business globally, working in global teams is increasingly prevalent. It’s easy to see the upside – as a U.S. team sleeps at night, for example, a global team can be working diligently elsewhere throughout their own normal business hours, maximizing ’round-the-clock productivity. But managing and working with global teams presents many challenges. You must have a strategy that builds:

• Awareness of cultural and other diversity
• Understanding and collaboration through team building
• Communication and listening skills to prevent confusion and conflict

Read the rest here – including the best practices you need to succeed!

Got a Tough Crowd? Presenting to Senior Executives

Time is short – are you ready?

In this article, by Nancy Duarte in the Harvard Business Review, learn how to quickly win over one of the toughest, most pressed-for-time audiences you’ll EVER face as a presenter: senior executives and other decision-makers. Click here to read.

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Nancy Duarte is the author of the all-new edition of the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations, as well as two award-winning books on the art of presenting, Slide:ology and Resonate. Follow Duarte on Twitter: @nancyduarte.