Self-promotion (Björn Dufwenberg!)
To follow up on an interesting article about self-branding over on Lifehacker, I just want to let everyone know that you can find me at my LinkedIn profile here: Björn Dufwenberg. The article discusses how to make yourself more visible to people looking for you on the internet. Some of the things include:
- Signing up your own domain, like yourname.com, with associated email addresses. Preferrably firstname@lastname.com, but anything else than free hosts is good. (Done! Right here: Dufwenberg.com, although the frontpage is currently nothing but a fresh Wordpress installation)
- Put up a “nameplate” page with your full name in the heading. (Almost done, I realize I need to feature my name a bit more in the page and its templates. Changes are coming.)
- Finally, make sure to get your name linked to your site. This can be done through aggregation sites such as 43names.com or others, or simply by commenting on frequently-crawled sites with your full, real name. (Need some work here too.)
Anyway, I’m already doing pretty well, since my LinkedIn profile comes up on top in a google search for my name. But, I have a fairly well-known relative (publishing academic articles in the field of game theory) whose name I won’t mention (since that will move his name up the rankings ;-), who shows up first on a search for my pretty uncommon last name. So, like I said, some more work is needed.
October 5th, 2007 at 20:33
I see you update even less that I do… Interesting post though. Alos I read the older post on Jap food, and I went to a tea salon in Paris not long ago and had a japaneese noodle salad. It was yuckie. Blä! I don’t eat suchi anymoor either after getting sick from a “chinese” shushi place (very common in paris). Only cooked japanese food for me from now on.
If you come visit there is a couple of good real japaneses restorants near the Opéra Garnier where you can show me howto slurp like a real man.