Words for Living - The Beginning of My Personal Branding

Shortly after I signed up to be an Uppercase Living Demonstrator in late 2006, I started the process of picking a username for a new email account and other uses.  At that time, I knew absolutely nothing about "personal branding".  It was really important to me to pick a name that would adequately describe me in my Uppercase Living business.  So, after quite a bit of thinking, I finally decided on Words for Living [Wordsforliving].

The main reason why I chose that one was because I desperately needed words that would encourage me and give me hope.  It was a point in my life where things had gone horribly wrong.  My purpose as far as work had been destroyed and I had recently suffered through significant trauma from losing my job, plus a number of other very unfortunate events.

Becoming an Uppercase Living Demonstrator gave me a glimmer of hope that one day our family would have a better life and hopes and dreams be revived.  The concept of putting encouraging sayings on my walls as a way to refocus and a constant reminder was exactly what I needed - it's what everyone in the family needed. 

My Blogging Experiment

A few weeks ago I got it in my head that I wanted a bunch of blogs.  One for every niche thing I wanted to blog about.  The problem is, I'm a perfectionist.  That's a problem in general and as usual it surfaced as I was trying to decide on a blog platform, layout, etc...

FriendFeed - My Personal Favorite for Sharing

Absolutely nothing is better than FriendFeed for sharing all the cool stuff you find on the internet. It's the ultimate in "microblogging" and so much better than Twitter.

Although I love Twitter too, with the FriendFeed bookmarklet, you can share excerpts and even images right from the page you're visiting. Simply click the images you want to be included in your post to FriendFeed. Type your comments or excerpts you want to include, click post and almost instantly your post shows up on your FriendFeed page.  After your post shows up on FriendFeed, people can "like" or comment in real-time threaded conversations! 

Nothing really compares to the awesomeness of FriendFeed. But unfortunately, since Facebook bought out FriendFeed, the much inferior Facebook will either change it into something unacceptable or get rid of it altogether. Hopefully that won't happen. But I'm not holding my breath.

in reference to: Jannifer @wordsforliving - FriendFeed (view on Google Sidewiki)