For Day 2 of our Pixelated Conference Series (you can read more about what this is from Chris Brogan, Mitch Joel and Bryan Eisenberg), I thought we’d explore personal branding.  While yesterday’s focus on productivity was more of a full-day conference packed with tons of reading recommendations, I thought I’d make today’s sessions shorter…more like a breakfast seminar.  I don’t know about everyone else but Tuesdays are meeting day for me so therefore it’s hard for me to dedicate a full day to a conference but I do attend a lot of events/meetings at breakfast and lunch so I thought this might be appropriate.

Today we have 3 speakers lined up for you: Jim Kukral, Dan Schawbel and Gary Vaynerchuk as well as a few extras for you to take with you after breakfast.

Breakfast Seminar

We start today again with an interesting video to make sure you’re awake.  If you’ve never seen this series before, make sure you check out a few of them!

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First up is web marketing strategist, Jim Kukral who is going to speak about his thoughts on Tim Russert and personal branding.

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Next is personal branding expert, Dan Schawbel who is going to talk about developing your digital personal brand.

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For our keynote today, we have the always entertaining Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV who discusses building personal branding through social media as well as what it takes to be successful at developing your brand.

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Some of my favorite posts (the short list)

• 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media
• The Marketing Minute: Tim Russert
• Personal Branding Tips – Guylights
• Become the Chief People Officer of a Brand Called YOU
• Develop a Strong Personal Brand Online – Part 1 | Part 2
• Describe Your Personal Brand in One Word

Great Sites to Check Out (again, the short list)

• Personal Branding Blog
• Personal PR
• [chrisbrogan.com]
• The Engaging Brand
• Marketing & Branding

eBook:

• Personal Branding for the Business Professional

Ok folks, that wraps it up for our breakfast seminar on personal branding.  Be sure to tune in tomorrow for Day 3 of our 5 day Pixelated Conference Series.  I hope you enjoyed and I encourage you to share your thoughts on personal branding in the comments below.

Now it’s time for me to run to a few meetings but while I’m away from my laptop I’d love to hear how you develop your personal brands.

[Disclosure: I am a featured columnist for Dan Schawbel's Personal Branding Magazine]

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You’re probably wondering what the title of this post means.  Well, Chris Brogan extended an idea by Mitch Joel who created the Pixelated Conference based on an original idea by Future Now.  The idea is simple: take a theme, find a group of videos on the theme as if they were speakers at your conference, and post on your blog linking them together with the title “Pixelated” (a little more detail can be found here).

I think this idea is so great that I’ve decided that each day this week I will highlight a different theme as part of the Pixelated Conference Series.  To take the idea one step further, instead of just posting videos, I am also going to include all of the other stuff you would usually find at conferences: references to interesting blogs, books, applications, slide decks and just about anything else I find which I think may be of interest to you.  I enourage you to post other links related to the theme in the comments section or go out and create your own Pixelated Conference and let me know about it.  I think this is going to be fun as it’ll be a way to showcase some of the people I really look up to and admire for their thought leadership on certain topics.

Day 1 of my Pixelated Conference Series is on the theme of productivity.  A small warning ahead of time before anyone points it out to me…several of the videos come from talks at Google campuses.  Google is excellent at bringing in different authors and thought leaders to speak to their staff on their subjects of expertise.

I hope you enjoy and look forward to reading your comments.

Sessions

Since conferences always start so early, I think we need something to wake you up and ensure everyone is paying attention.

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We start our conference with the godfather of productivity and self-help, Dr. Stephen R. Covey.

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Merlin Mann continues our conference with his popular “Inbox Zero” discussion about email.

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Moving right along, our next session is brought to us by the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, The Four Hour Work Week, Timothy Ferriss.

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Next, during Day 1 of our Pixelated Conference Series, we have David Allen, who created the Getting Things Done (GTD) phenomenon

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Merlin Mann joins us again to extend on the thoughts of GTD and offers a session on “Time and Attention”.

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To finish off our sessions is a quick tip from Tim Ferriss on packing

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Books

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Dr. Stephen G. Covey
• The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Dr. Stephen G. Covey
• Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better by Gina Trapani
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen
• Never Check E-Mail In the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work by Julie Morgenstern

Some of my favorite posts (the short list)

• How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends
• Set office hours-even if you don’t have to
• Ten Tech Solutions to Improve Your Productivity
• 43 Folders Series
• The Holy Grail: How to Outsource the Inbox and Never Check Email Again
• Best of the Best: The Hive Five Winners
• How to Do More with Less Time
• How to Do the Impossible: Create a Paperless Life, Never Check Voicemail Again, Never Return Another Phone Call

Great Sites to Check Out (again, the short list)

• Lifehack.org
• Productivity 501
• Four Hour Workweek
• 43 Folders
• Lifehacker

Many of the links above will also bring you to slide decks of the presentations as well as recommendations on software and sites to help enhance your productivity.  Also, this is by far not an exhaustive list.  I have read thousands of posts on productivity, many of which interest me and I refer back to often.  However, the posts and sites above are some of my favorite.  In the future I will follow up on this discussion with an overview of the tools that I use on a daily basis to help me to be continually more productive.

So, that does it for Day 1 of the Pixelated Conference Series.  I hope you have found this to be helpful and look forward to everyone attending Day 2 tomorrow.

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