Brads reaction: Being a Digital Ministry is a great way to build your personal brand, we are always looking for people to contribute great opinion and articles.

Managing and growing any personal brand online can be a difficult task. For those of us looking to curate a respectable following, we simply can't afford to miss any stops as nowadays, our online reputation means almost everything. Luckily, there are several tools we can use online that make this process easy and, in some cases, fun. In some case studies, personal brands that founded their online presence through small, community-based sites were then able to use the connections formed from those services in conjunction with several tools to further promote themselves on the web.
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Johns reaction: I saw this coming, he was bound to be compared to Jobs

David Einhorn, the poker-playing hedge fund tycoon who made a fortune short-selling Lehman Brothers, has turned his fire on Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer, accusing one of the toughest executives in corporate America of being "stuck in the past" and calling for him to go. Einhorn's breathtaking public attack comes shortly after his Greenlight Capital fund raised its stake in Microsoft to 9m shares, or about 0.11%. However, while he considers the stock undervalued, the hedge fund boss said the software firm had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer's "Charlie Brown management", referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
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They're smart, they're young, they're tech savvy - and they're not afraid of the downturn. Meet SmartCompany's Hot 30 under 30 - a group of 30 entrepreneurs aged 30 years and under who are on their way to becoming Australia's next generation of business leaders.
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This post is spurred by my recent tweet and by a desire to help qualify what makes a great digital professional .This list is in no real order of importance it was just as they flowed out.
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BoardroomRadio Entrepreneur Series - Geoffrey Handley, Co-founder - The Hyperfactory
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Ending months of mounting speculation about his tenure, Mr Trujillo has bows out after less than four years as Telstra's chief executive, a period which saw some of the most controversial bust ups with governments and regulators in Australia's corporate history.
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Brads reaction: Congratulations Ian. All the best from Digital Ministry.

Mumbrella can reveal that Amnesia, part of the global Avenue A|Razorfish network, has become Australia's first major digital agency to hire a social media director - and true to the medium, it announced it in a Twitter message, followed up with a link to a wiki page with details of what he will be working on. Ian Lyons, currently the Communications Director of online research firm Pure Profile, will join the Microsoft-owned company in about a fortnight s time.
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Liam Walsh writes: This really is a media industry blog when it covers something as seemingly dry as outsourcing sales. Even worse is that I find it a really interesting area! It was something I was ruminating on and then I saw the post today in mumbrella about Tempest and Carsales. It typified the nature of the problem for re-sellers. Tempest has grown the revenues to such a point that it makes more sense to take it in-house. The better Tempest got at selling carsales, the greater the pressure to take it back.
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Former IT engineer Steven Barnes has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to computer intrusion charges. But wait till you hear how it happened.
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