Judges for the 2010 Personal Brand Awards
Notice:
The Personal Brand
Awards are shutting down.
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Head Judge - Dan
Schawbel Dan, recognized as a “personal
branding guru” by The New York Times, is the Managing
Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, and the leading
authority on personal branding. He is the author of the
#1 international bestselling book,
Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success,
which was the #1 career book of 2009 by The New York
Post, is the #1 Amazon bestseller in Japan, and also
being translated into French. Dan is the founder of the
Personal Branding Blog® and the publisher of
Personal Branding Magazine® and the
Student Branding Blog, head judge for the
Personal Brand Awards®, director of
Personal Branding TV®, and holds live
Personal Branding Events. He is a syndicated
columnist for Metro US (New York, Boston &
Philadelphia), reaching over 1.2 million readers
bi-weekly, and is
BusinessWeek’s youngest columnist.
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Nance Rosen
Nance is the author of
Speak Up! & Succeed, and an expert on
business communication who teaches at UCLA Extension,
and speaks all around the world to audiences on social
media and career trends. Nance is a former marketing
executive at The Coca-Cola Company and currently is CEO
of
NanceSpeaks and executive publisher at
PegasusMediaWorld. She has appeared on CNBC and
regularly contributes to media outlets including the New
York Times, ABC, CBS radio, Investors Business Daily,
MediaPost and the San Francisco Chronicle. |
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Pete Kistler
Pete is a leading
Online Reputation Management expert for Generation
Y, a top 5 finalist for Entrepreneur Magazine’s College
Entrepreneur of 2009, one of the Top 30 Definitive
Personal Branding Experts on Twitter, a widely read
career development blogger, and a Judge for the 2009
Personal Brand Awards. Pete manages strategic vision for
Brand-Yourself.com, the first online reputation
management platform for job applicants, named one of the
Top 100 Most Innovative College Startups in the U.S. He
has won a number of top honors for his writing,
presentations and business plans. Pete is a member of
the Brazen Careerist blogger network, a featured
presenter on SlideShare and a member of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. |
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Kyle Lacy
Kyle has developed a sharp eye for how businesses can
use social media and new media marketing to better grow
their businesses — and how they can retool for the new
age of customer communication. As an entrepreneur who
quickly built his own social media marketing and design
firm, he also empathetically helps other business owners
with understanding the value of combining social media
with traditional marketing. Kyle writes a regular blog
at
KyleLacy.com and is a regular contributor to Smaller
Indiana. His blog has been featured on Wall Street
Journal’s website and Read Write Web’s daily blog
journal. Recently, Kyle was voted as one of the top 150
social media blogs in the world (on two websites), and
produces regular keynote speeches across the Midwest. He
also just finished writing
Twitter Marketing for Dummies by Wiley
Publishing. |
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Jacob Share
Jacob is the founder and SVP of Share Select Media, a
company focused on empowering quality bloggers and blogs
such as Group Writing Projects, The Original Home of
Group Writing Projects. His
JobMob blog has attracted over a million page views
last year alone. He grew up between Canada, France and
Israel where he had his first Internet experience in
1994 and was hooked. Since then he’s enjoyed playing a
part in growing the Web as a manager-developer and
project manager at Amazon.com and other e-commerce
companies before starting up his own venture.
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Chad
Levitt
Chad is the author of the New Sales Economy blog that
focuses on how sales 2.0, social media, and inbound
marketing can be used as a
sales strategy for the Web 2.0 world. Chad is the
featured
Sales 2.0 blogger at
SalesGravy.com, the number one website for sales
pros the professional athletes of the business world,
and a contributing author for
Sales2.com, the top ranked site on Google for Sales
2.0. Chad has been named one of the top twenty sales
industry social media users by InsideView, an industry
leading sales 2.0 company. Chad began his selling career
with
EMC in their award winning sales development program
where he won Sales Associate of the Year in 2009. Chad
is now an Account Executive with
HubSpot, the leader in inbound marketing software
that is changing the way the world does marketing. Chad
attended the University of Central Florida for his
undergraduate degree and Nova Southeastern University
for his MBA with a concentration in finance.
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Emily
Bennington
Emily is the author of
Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and
Move Up at Your First Real Job. She is a
frequent speaker on the topic of career success and is
particularly passionate about volunteerism as a means of
leadership development and advancing the skills of young
women in the workplace. Emily also teaches a
graduate-level course on social media, hosts a popular
career blog at
ProfessionalStudio365.com, and is a member of the
CAREEREALISM team of experts.
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Heather Huhman
Heather, founder & president of the exclusive online
community connecting the best internship and entry-level
job candidates with the best employers,
Come Recommended, is as an experienced hiring
manager who knows and understands the needs of today’s
employers and internship and entry-level job seekers.
Her expertise in this area led to her selection as
Examiner.com’s
entry-level careers columnist in mid-2008. The
daily, national column educates high school students
through recent college graduates about how to find, land
and succeed at internships and entry-level jobs.
Additionally, Heather is a career expert for the
CAREEREALISM Twitter Advice Project, the job search
expert for Campus Calm, a contributor to both One Day,
One Job and One Day, One Internship, and author of the
e-book “Gen
Y Meets the Workforce: Launching Your Career During
Economic Uncertainty.”
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Roger
Parker
Roger is a “32 Million Dollar Author,” book coach, and
online writing resource. His 38 books have sold 1.9
million copies in 35 languages around the world. The NY
Times called his Looking Good in Print “…the one to buy
when you’re buying only one!” Roger has interviewed
hundreds of successfully branded authors and shares what
he’s learned at
Published & Profitable and in his
daily writing tips blog. He has presented hundreds
of keynote speeches, seminars and workshops, with
clients such as Apple Computer, Kyocera, University of
Washington, and Yamaha Audio. |
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David
Trahan
David is an Associate Account Executive at Mr. Youth in
New York City. Previously, he has held part-time and
internship positions with many prestigious organizations
including The Advertising Council, Goldman Sachs and The
Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He recently graduated
with Latin Honors in 2009 with a degree in marketing and
a concentration in advertising and promotion from the
Pforzheimer Honors College and Lubin School of Business
at Pace University. At Pace he was a member of Omicron
Delta Epsilon International Honor Society and Alpha Chi
National Honor Society. David received several
scholarships, honors and awards from Pace University
including an Academic Excellence Award, the 2009 Co-op &
Career Services Experiential Award, the 2009 Lubin
School of Business Advertising Award and an Honors
College Research Grant. Connect with him on
LinkedIn,
Twitter, and on his
website. |
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Maria
Elena Duron
Maria Elena is CEO (chief engagement officer) of
buzz2bucks -a word of mouth firm. Skilled at making
networks “work” and harnessing the power online and
offline buzz, she facilitates communities for companies
and professionals along with word-of-mouth coaching and
seminars. She is author of Mouth To Mouth
Marketing, the ebook Social Capital I.R.A.
and a contributing author of
Launchpad. Duron is a published expert on
branding and marketing in Entrepreneur Magazine.
She is featured weekly as the marketing coach on CBS
television and is the
co-founder of #brandchat -a weekly chat on Twitter
all about branding. |
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