As my blog grows, I realise that not all content is easily accessible. The tag cloud helps for single terms, but some topics are connected. One topic I have been interested a lot over the years has been (my personal) branding for software developers and other career related topics.Series on Personal Branding (2014)
- Personal Branding for Developers explains the idea of a brand and how to start branding your accounts.
- Gain Reputation by Sharing is the second step in the "branding process".
- Maintaining a technical blog is a great way to develop your brand.
- Advanced Personal Branding is about talking at user groups and conferences.
- Be careful which services to use, e.g. blogging platform, for your branding activities.
- "Podcasting is the new blogging" says Seth Godin, so let's record a podcast episode.
- The Coderetreat Facilitation Podcast is my own podcast where I answer questions about Coderetreat hosting, facilitation and participation.
- I like T-shirts and created several of them to support my brand. It was easy, you can do so, too.
- I got some very special hand embroidered book marks.
- Or a hard carved name plate - unfortunately I have no desk where people visit me.
- A colleague gifted me an amazing Code Cop knit doll.
- Another colleague created some prototypes of Code Cop embroidery.
- Even when I sort-of subordinated myself to the brand of my employer, I kept my own style.
- Eclipse DemoCamp in Vienna.
- I ran the Hackergarten in Vienna for some time.
- Some Open Source I contributed to in 2012.
- Do not trust Headhunters!
- Years ago I used the Joel Test to check out companies.
- But there is no guarantee that the job will be great, so be careful!
- Some jobs made me very unhappy, see my combined blog-rants from 2008, 2009 and 2012.
- Recently I look for companies which take some social responsibility.
- And here are some ideas to get into ethical coding.
- Wherever you want to work, it is important to get to know your future colleagues.
- Advice on Creating Space.
- Work Harder!.
- Put your focus on ONE Thing!.
- I end this list with some thoughts on mastery.
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