First everyone should understand that personal branding is just not a buzz word or a way for self-promotion today. It is process by which we can market ourselves to other and this can be done not only by famous celebrities, but also by every individual online. In other words, your personal brand is who you are, what you do, and your leading quality in the eyes of your ideal target market. Through social networks or social media you can get in touch with tons of people and this network will help you build your brand. Today there are ton of social media tools available to help you achieve incredible heights in no time and each one should understand the process to master it. With that in mind, honeytechblog today shares Top 10 Things To Do To Master Personal Branding to achieve your desirable success.

1. Select Niche

Personal brand in nutshell, is nothing but who you are and so it becomes important for you to select a niche for your persona. To separate yourself from the rest of the crowd, create your own niche that increases your visibility and preserve your reputation. Your selected niche should involve the application of one’s name to various products. For example, celebrity real-estate mogul Donald Trump uses his last name extensively on his buildings and on the products he endorses (e.g., Trump Steaks). When branding yourself bear in mind that you must create a strong and reliable brand.

2. Identify Your Positives

Never be weak at your mission, you need to build up goals that can be achieved in a particular time. And for that you need to identify your positives and forget what is negative. Set up you goals and write down your mission statement along with a development plan on how to go about. Your statement must tell everyone what you do and who you serve. Note down some inborn skills that match up to your personal mission. Perfect, cultivate and grow these talents to move ahead.

3. Be Precise and Clear

It is obvious that you want all the business you can possibly get your hands on but that is not how to grow a strong and reliable for long time. You need to specialize. You cannot certainly be all things to all people. You must be precise and clear about that one particular niche that will serve your audience neatly. Don’t run behind ten different things and lose your precious clients. Accept the fact, if you might be good at one particular thing and perform that well, so that you never miss any opportunity to grab your audience. It is ok to be narrowed down than to be dumped.

4. Establish Yourself In Chosen Niche

The key to productively branding yourself and doing it successfully is to first establish yourself as an expert in your chosen field. Once you have done that concentrate on who you are and what you stand for within your selected niche. Your next step will be getting the word out through a variety of social media channels that are viewed by the people most likely to be interested in your message.

5. Let People Locate You Easily

Now that you established in your niche, you should allow people to locate you easily. Create social profiles at Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs and more, so that you are spread all over, so audience can locate you easily. But make sure you maintain your social profiles, otherwise your whole brand can go for a toss. Use business cards and email letters to strength your brand identity. Highlight your personal brand message with professional marketing communications tools. Every email message gives you a direct chance to connect your personal brand with a new company or individual.

6. Build Your Reputation

Building strong reputation is the most important thing you could do to maintain your brand. Create your own personal branding website with your domain name, so that when web surfers and other employers search your name, they get information about your career history, personal information and educations qualifications. Build a solid personal brand with online activities which will further promote your personal mission and emphasize your career success optimistically.

7. Explore Your Audience

Audience is what we need the most to build up personal brands, they are the people that would pay attention to your work and also spread the good work around. So if you trying yourself to wrong hands, and then certainly it will be a waste of time. You must locate what consumers and companies will be interested in what you have to offer. Your audience should be your niche group of people and you must try by all means to give them as much value as you can sooner or later.

8. Locate Your Competitor

This field today is too competitive to rest on your laurels. You should make sure that your name remains in consumers mind when they need you, may be in next six month or later. You cannot assume that they would remain your loyal buyers if you fail to keep your relationship current with them and your competitors will grab your buyer. So locate who is your competitor and stay ahead of them without trying to break their status.

9. Monitor Your Brand

A personal brand is just like an exotic sports car, where you cannot afford to let it run at top speed without any maintenance. If you do so, it would burn itself up. Likewise, in personal branding you got to regularly monitor your brand to keep it relevant, alert, emotionally connected with audience and to be different from the competitor. It is all about seizing every opportunity to meet someone new and maintain the pace with it.

10. Content Is Still The King

People enjoy reading fresh and relevant content, which is unique or in some way special to them. So to do this, you should customize your pitch to fit their preferences. Using social media – Twitter, Facebook or Social bookmarking sites, you can spread your information online and make connection with like-minded people. Write articles and blogs that can augment audience’s knowledge about your brand in the industry.

Of course the most important factor here is trust! You must build trust with your audience, just think about service provider in your own life – be it your manager, your hair stylist or your account – all get your business because they carry good relationship with you, and that counts in so far as the service they provide. Try building personal rapport with the things you and your audience have in common. Bottom line is trust; your consumer/buyer must trust you emphatically!
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that its groundbreaking iWork® productivity apps, Keynote®, Pages® and Numbers®, are now available for iPhone® and iPod touch®, as well as iPad®. Created for the Mac® and then completely redesigned for iOS and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ interface, Keynote, Pages and Numbers allow you to create and share stunning presentations, beautifully formatted documents and powerful spreadsheets on the go. iWork apps are available on the App Store™ for $9.99 each to new users and as a free update for existing iWork for iPad customers’

That said, the announcement did not reveal most of the interesting details of the application itself and what the latest version will have different and the kind of features it will bring to the table. Since the Apple announcement, a lot of speculation has been doing the rounds about the features.

Reports suggest that Twitter’s photo-sharing service announcement is a huge part of the Apple feature. This means that as you have been able to share videos on YouTube, you will be able to share images to Twitter as well. This needless to say will be a big hit for Twitter users, cause they will be finally able to share pictures on Twitter. Additionally, it seems like Apple will aim to make this transition as easy as possible for its users.

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01. TinySong

This is the simplest tool that allows you to share music on Twitter without any sign-up process. All you have to do is to enter song name and search it. After getting your favorite song you get a unique URL that you can share it on Twitter or with any of your friends.

02. Twt.fm

Twt.fm is a free tool which helps you to share music for free. To get started, you have to authenticate your Twitter account and after authenticating your Twitter account you are allowed to search song. One thing i like about this website is that you can check out the preview of the song and you will get the URL of the song which you can tweet and share with your friends. By using this website you can also add direct links to MP3, YouTube videos and in addition to this you can tweet your song directly using Twt.fm URL shortner.

03. Twiturm

This website allows you to share music created by you. All you have to do is to upload the music in MP3 format and after it you can share it with your friends using Twiturm. Besides Twitter you can also share the music to Facebook, MySpace, Google Buzz and some other social networks or you can embed the music on your website.

04. Song.ly

Song.ly is easy-to-use service which offers you to search songs by artists. The homepage consists of search box which allows you to enter a link to audio file. In addition to this you can also listen song for free with the feature that you can post it to Twitter. Song.ly allows you to reply or retweet the latest shared songs via Songs.ly.

05. Blip.fm

Blip is no doubt one of the good service that allows you to share music. To get started with Blip you have to sign up and after it you are allowed to share song on Twitter. You can also send your favorite music on Facebook, Friendfeed, Tumblr, LiveJournal, Audioscrobbler and Ping.fm.

06. The Hype Machine

You have to sign-up for new account and after it you can share songs on Twitter and last.fm directly. By using this you can also sync your favorite music with last.fm.

07. TheSixtyOne

You have to create a new TheSixtyOne account or you can log-in using your Facebook account. After it you are allowed to listen music by genres, such as top, hot, moods, etc. One thing i like about this is that you can also search the music by songs, artists or listeners.

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1. Twuffer

It is an easy to use tool that allows you to compose a list of future posts. It also ensures that your twitter account is never asleep and keeps track of appointments and reminders; and provides updates on upcoming podcasts. Twitter credentials are sufficient to use Twuffer, as it does not require a separate login, which in itself is an interesting and good-to-have feature.

2. Buffer

Buffer is also a very useful and convenient scheduler that gives you a lot of flexibility. It gives you the option to provide a few tweet that the tool will automatically schedule the tweets that you have provided through the day. It also provides you a browser extension that gives you the flexibility to post tweets from any page that you are reading.

3. Garious

This tool is a social media scheduling tool that is not only for Twitter. It helps to control your activities and schedule all tasks related to SM. The tool helps you organise your social media giving you more time and space to handle your customers and focus on their satisfaction.

4. HootSuite

This tool helps you syndicate your social networking experience by allowing you to schedule both your tweets on Twitter, your updates on Facebook, and adding your blogs on Twitter. It has been around for a while and offers a host of features that make your entire social network effectively and efficiently.

5. Social Oomph

If you want to be very active on Twitter then this is the product for you. This tool helps you break your schedule down to the minute. This tool provides a free and a professional version. The professional version provides extra features like Facebook features, blog scheduling and posting, identifying followers with most clout, and so on.

6. Timely

The tool helps you schedule your tweets to a point where they are posted based on viewership and time slot. The tool identifies the best time slot by analysing the impact of your last 199 tweets, and how much traffic it gets and posts your tweets during that time. However, this works only for Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, and does not work on Internet Explorer.

7. 14Blocks

This is a Twitter scheduling tool that helps you schedule your tweets based on your follower’s availability. For instance, if your followers are mostly from the US and you are based in India, it helps you schedule your tweets to be updated during US working hours and vice versa. It also provides analysis of recent tweets and monitors the follower inflow.

8. Twaitter

Twaitter helps you schedule your Twitter messages with easy. It helps you regulate the Twitter messages, manage your calendar, translate your tweets to different languages and update your blogs and RSS feed to your Twitter account.

9. SocialFlow

This can be used to broaden your viewership in the Twitter world. It is a tool that helps you post tweets that are relevant to your followers. It uses your tweets to publish them in real time depending on the kind of information your followers are interested in at that point in time.

10. FutureTweets

FutureTweets is a new scheduling tool that was created by a firm called SolidFlux in Amsterdam. It is a tool that is still in the beta version. Therefore, it is a tool that is still looking for feedback and is enthusiastic about making a final release version.

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One thing I do not like about this website, is that it is a invitation only applications. As soon as you get invitation, all you have to do is to sign-in using your Twitter account and get started with uploading files. This website offers you 1GB storage space for storing files.

TwileShare is a great app for Twitter which combines power of social networking with Filesharing and easly share files with your friends.

Link for TwileShare

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Twitpic to Flickr synchronize all your photos automatically and upload it automatically from Twitpic to Flickr.

How To Use Twitpic to Flickr

Step1: First click on Twitpictoflickr and simply enter your email address in it as shown below:

Step2: As soon as you enter you email address, it will ask your Twitpic user-name or Twitter user-name.

Step3: After providing user-name, you just need to authenticate your Flickr account as shown below:

Step4: As soon as you connect your Flickr account you see a confirmation window as shown below:

Step5: Now all your previously uploaded photos on twitpic will starts syncing on flickr (you can create separate sets for all your Twitpic images on Flickr).

Note: This service will transfer images from Twitpic to Flickr (images on Flickr will be intact unless and until you manually delete them). If you find this service useful, then why not share it with your friends via tweets and Facebook.

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Snap Bird is an app for Twitter which offer user to perform advanced search in Twitter because it offer search results older than 10 days. It is simple to use and you can easily started with by authenticating your Twitter account with this app, once you have authenticated your account, this app access your Twitter account and you can easily search Twitter in no time.

By using this app, you can search someone’s timeline, someone’s favorite, your friend’s tweets, tweets mentioning you, sent and received direct messages in addition to this you can also specify person for which you want to perform the search.

Snap Bird is a great tool only if you want to get better search result on Twitter and it also display results which can also be permalinked just as you perform search in Google.

Check out Snap Bird for Twitter and share your feedback with us in comment section!

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One of the feature I like about SharedMinds is that when you click on any link, it open website within preview pane itself, means there is no need of browser. SharedMinds offer you to tweet easily, reply to tweet in no time and many other features.

ShareMinds is a great tool and if you have not try it yet, give it a try and share your feedback with us in comment section.

Download Link for SharedMinds

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If you are the kind that follows many people and want to read different group of people at different times, the Tweetbot helps you switch between different timelines based on the lists you have created. It helps you easily follow up and read conversations and responses to a certain subject. It provides you many customizable options depending on your usage.

Another very interesting feature that the Tweetbot offers is Smart Gestures according to the Tapbot’s website. It helps you use three core gestures:

1.    You can double-tap a tweet, link, or ‘Avatar’ in your timeline to go directly to the respective details.

2.    You can tap and hold elements to view options.

3.    You can configure triple-tap to reply-to, fave, retweet, or even translate a tweet.

Though this app needs to be tested extensively, as for now the app is definitely generating a lot of positive responses.

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To use the Chitter.im,

1. Visit the Chitter.im web service.
2. Connect its service with both Google and Twitter by allowing access.After the connection is established Chitter.im will send you a Gtalk contact request.
3. Add Chitter.im to your Gtalk list contacts.
4. Open the private message window.

From here on you can control your Twitter account through Gtalk.

In the private message window, you can use commands to control your Twitter account. Enter /h to view all the commands that you can use to control Twitter. This includes obtaining Twitter timeline update, sending direct message, following/unfollowing Twitter users and so on.

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Before you actually use the different cause badges, you must first enable them. Some of the important causes include Environment, Health, Causes, Status, Brands, Sports, World, Music, Animals, Beliefs, Funny, People, and Entertainment.

To enable the badge option, and add it to your profile picture, navigate to the PicBadges. From that site you can select a badge. Once the badge is selected you have to allow PicBadges to access your account. Once this is done, the badge is automatically enabled on your profile picture.

If you want to create badges for different sites, then the process could be a little different. To create a badge on Facebook, go to the Facebook Badges. If you want to add a badge on your Twitter profile you need to get a badge for your site through the widget.

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I was curious to know about Profile Spy so i used one fake account of twitter and try to use this app for measuring the results of the infection. {Yes, i have created one fake account for testing }

Infected tweet from espncricinfo

Catch: Only 53 people visited the @espncricinfo profile having 87,560 followers? Move into the next screenshot of fake account.

Infected tweet from a dummy account @jessy_spurs

Catch: 32 people visited the profile having 14 followers?

Conclusion

So 53 people visited @espncricinfo having 87,560 followers and 32 people visited @jessy_spurs having 14+ followers, its completely a Spam! Move on Guys!

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In our last post we warn you about Facebook chat infection and Facebook video infection but its seems that Twitter is gaining the lead.

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Be aware of twitter spam stating “You should probably do this: click verify: http://bit.ly/gg7UGh”
(Please do not click on the link)

Infected Tweets from New Twitter Infection

Infection source and reach

Updated infection rate after 3 hours! More than .19 million tweets?

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Some of the features of trill are as follows

• Posting Tweets
• In Line replies, Re-Tweeting .
• Monitoring Twitter Time Line, replies & mention user gets on Twitter.
• Inline Photo Viewing .
• Monitoring Trends.
• Browsing links posted in tweets.
• Searching the TAGS posted in Tweets
• Search and Saved Search Agent
• Profile view.
• O Auth Support
• Intuitive User Interface.

Screenshot of Trill on Nokia Devices

Trill twitter client for Noika N8

On Noika N95

On Noika E63

How to download Trill

You can download the trill from nokia ovi store

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The vuvuzela, the horn instrument which became the sound of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has won an entry in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The credit crunch has also contributed a number of words, including “overleveraged”, meaning having too much debt, and “quantitative easing”, meaning when the central bank introduces new money into the financial system.

The rise of “social media” has also been duly charted by the dictionary, with the term itself making an appearance, along with “defriend”, meaning to remove a contact on a social networking site. On the fun part it also included terms such as “chillax” – to chill or calm down and relax – and “bromance”, a close but non-sexual relationship between two men.

Other words include:

Buzzkill: a person or thing that has a depressing or dispiriting effect
Cheeseball: lacking taste, style or originality
Frenemy: a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry
Interweb: the internet
Wardrobe malfunction: an instance of a person accidentally exposing an intimate part of their body as a result of an article of clothing slipping out of position.

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