Start today you're going to think of yourself differently! You're not an employee, staffer, worker, or a manager. You don't belong to any company for life, and your chief affiliation isn't to any particular job function. You're not defined a job title and you're not confined by your job description.

Starting today you are a brand.

You're every bit as much a brand as Nike, Pepsi, Ford or the local Body Shop where you live. To start thinking like your own favorite brand manager, ask yourself the same question the brand managers at Nike, Coke, Ford, or the Body Shop ask themselves: What is it that my product or service does that makes it different? Give yourself the traditional 20 words or less challenge. Take the time to write down your answer. And then take the time to read it. Ten times, and really think about it. WHAT ARE YOU DIFFERENT?

If your answer wouldn't light up the eyes of a prospective client or command a vote of confidence from a satisfied past client, or worst of all, it doesn't grab your attention, then you've got a big problem. It's time to give some serious thought and even more serious effort to imagining and developing yourself as a brand.

Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors or your colleagues. What have you done lately, this week, to make yourself stand out in the crowd? What would your friends, colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most worthy personal trait or what do you think creates the buzz about you.

Now commit to yourself that you will re-write it. What makes you different, unique, from the rest. This is one of the most important parts of your brand.

Your comments and back links are appreciated. Thanks for your time and make sure to come back to continue this series of blog post on the “CEO of YOU”.

Thank you for your time,

Jim Cobb - Google Me

De vez em quando a gente se depara com uns caras que parecem ter muitas idéias e muito tempo livre. E muito de vez em quando, mas oportunamente, esses caras acabam produzindo coisas muito legais. É o caso do Jim Killeen, ou melhor, é o caso do Jim Killeen original, que resolvar googlar o próprio nome e descobriu vários outros Jim Killeens. Mais do isso, ele fez um filme sobre esses vários Jim Killeens e colocou no YouTube! É exatamente isso que é o documentário Google Me The Movie.

O filme pintou no ar oficialmente dia 24 de abril e tem 1 hora e meia (96 minutos) de duração. Pode ser todo visto no YouTube, porém ainda sem legendas em português. Pela própria duração, vai ser difícil pintar alguma legenda, então postei o filme em inglês mesmo:

Os comentários no YouTube vão desde "realmente entediante" até "uau, fantástico".

De fato, além dos 15 minutos de fama a que todo mundo tem direito, não sei bem o que esse cara pretende ganhar com o filme, mas a produção é muito bem feita para um filme dito "amador".

Por outro lado, o filme expõe muito bem a influência que os buscadores exercem - especialmente o Google nos últimos anos - na vida de qualquer pessoa que use a internet. Viajando pelo mundo e entrevistando os outros Jim Killeens, o Jim original vai revelando aspectos da vida de seus homônimos com um ponto de vista divertido e inusitado.

Entre várias outras perguntas, Jim quer saber: "Qual o propósito da humanidade ?"

Para ajudar a responder, um dos Jims entrevistados é um simpático padre escocês.

No mínimo, veja os 10 minutos iniciais e decida por si próprio se quer ver o resto.

Eu vi! Se você viu também, comente !

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Google Me!

When you hear it, depending on who said it – the connotations can be many.  But we all know what it means – to search and find.  To show how fast Google has become a piece of the collective mainstream consciousness, let’s do a little experiment->

Think back 5 years…to when Google was one of the fastest growing sites online, but was still not quite mainstream enough to be a verb in Webster’s.  Then think back just less than 10 years, to when you first heard about Google.  I know it seemed like another good search engine to me at the time.  Did I suspect what was coming?  Maybe the founders did – but I can’t recall anyone with the grand vision of today (even 5 years ago.)

Now, think about today – we have "Google Me" – as a song, a new movie, a radio show, and a battle cry for those wanting to be found.  According to Jim Killeen, producer of Google Me – the Movie, there’s even Google Me, Reality TV up and coming.  Host Jim Cobb produces Google Me Talk Radio, and artist Teyana sings “You betta google me baby!" The other day at a networking event, I heard more than 10 people say “Google Me” when someone asked for a business card.

Where will Google and the Google culture be in 5 years?

I can't agree with these folks.I’ll venture a bold guess – and please comment to tell what your thoughts are:

-         With the environmental push growing and expanding, and the old guard of Baby Boomers retiring, business cards will become a thing of novelty for sake of the planet and that of convenience.  We’ll all make the move to be found online.

-         With the surge in mobile technology, we’ll move from towers and laptops to laptops and handhelds (already happening) – and then to solo handhelds with flatscreens and keyboards that tote along.  People will be Googling in the airport, on the train platform and in the hotel lobby to find contact info.

-         As things move to a more and more local focus, your standing in your community will be effected both positively and negatively by Google searches.

-         Google will have it’s own tv channel – much like HGTV – instead of house makeovers, it will be personal web makeovers.

Don’t believe it?  Take a second and think about what you believed ten years ago….and then leave us a comment.

Andy “Google Me” Greider is a marketing consultant and new business director with Carroll/White and radio show host of business growth solutions show, Uniqueness is Power. Andy is also Brand Manager with qAlias, plus he is a serial entrepreneur, author, blogger, inventor of the Gorelephant and networther.

I like this movie. The film starts a new genre of film that documents our internet culture in the throws of social media...it gives a kind of rainbow at the end of the google search...a hope for enlightenment of sorts.

Be prepared for future films the likes of Facebook Me and Twitter Me. Jim Killeen was a man on a search for the meaning of life...but instead of going to church or becoming a Buddhist, he goes on an internet search. It is just not any search...a kind of narcissistic search where he looks for the meaning of life by searching his own name.

Most of us have done this. My own namesake has taken my dot.com name and achieved success as an artist who designs furniture with shows around the U.S. I have followed her from the time she had only one or two Google hits...now she is filling up the pages of Google with the odd reference to me. I have thought that someday I should purchase one of her designer chairs...there is one in particular that I like.

I remember about four or five years ago emailing her, but she didn't get back...so I let it go. What would we discuss anyway...we do have a common interest in art. We could compare what it was like growing up with a last name of "Beer", but the conversation would probably be short lived. The only connection that I feel to her is I am happy for her success and will continue to watch her progress. Let's face it, if we are going to have a namesake, we don't wish for them to diminish our name.

In the case of Jim, googling his name was a sort of real-time reincarnation experience where he could visit his other selves within his own lifetime and glean from them what they knew to make sense of his own purpose in life. Well Jim, one thing is for sure. You are a storyteller and a good one. You were able to weave together a group of people with virtually very little in common but sharing a similar name.

I love the editing in this movie. I am seeing from sites like Ustream.tv that I have new appreciation for an editor. You have helped to crystallize our internet culture in the midst of the social media movement. You tooks risks in your search....and as we can see, you are a good gambler...congratulations.

I just have one question...in the time of internet...is Google the new path to God?

สี่ปีที่แล้ว หนุ่มมะกันนาม Morgan Spurlock ได้ทำหนังสารคดีที่ดังกระฉ่อนไปทั่วโลกชื่อว่า

Supersize me โดยลงทุนเขียนบทเอง กำกับเอง และเล่นเอง เพื่อพิสูจน์ให้เห็นกันจะๆ ไป

เลยว่า หากคนเรารับประทาน Fast Food ทุกมื้อ ผลลัพธ์ที่ได้จะเป็นอย่างไร เพราะมันไม่ได้

แค่ทำให้อ้วนเท่านั้น แต่อาจถึงตายได้ทีเดียว...ว้าว...

ปกติวันหยุด ซีจะมองหาตัวอย่างหนังใหม่ๆ มาฝาก สัปดาห์นี้ขอหยิบหนังสารคดีที่ทำออกมา

ในรูปแบบของ DVD ซึ่งมีประเด็นน่าสนใจ ไม่แพ้ Supersize Me  โดยเป็นเรื่องราวของชีวิต

คนที่มีชื่อ และนามสกุลเหมือนกับเราเด๊ะๆ พวกเขาถูกค้นพบทาง Google แต่ละคนมีอาชีพ

และชีวิตที่แตกต่างกันไป และนั่นคือที่มาของ Google Me The Movie ค่ะ

Jim Killeen หนุ่มโสด และนักทำภาพยนต์ที่รักความอิสระ ดูทีวี ฟังเพลง เล่นวิดีโอเกม และ

ดื่มสุรา วันนึงขณะที่ใช้ Google เขาลองเสิร์ชชื่อตัวเอง ปรากฎว่า มีคนที่ชื่อ และนามสกุล

เหมือนเขากว่ายี่สิบคน ทันใดนั้น สมองของเขาก็เกิดปิ๊งไอเดียขึ้นมาว่า เขาอยากรู้จัก Jim

Killeen คนอื่นๆ ที่ไม่ใช่ตัวเขา โปรเจกต์หนังสารคดีเรื่อง Google Me ก็เลยเกิดขึ้น โดย

เขาพยายามติดต่อคนเหล่านั้น เพื่อขอพบ และสัมภาษณ์ ซึ่ง Jim Killeen ทีเขาพบมีตั้ง

แต่เป็น บาทหลวง วิศวกร คุณพ่อลูกแปด หรือแม้แต่นักพนัน ข้างล่างเป็นคลิปตัวอย่าง

หนังค่ะ สนใจสามารถสั่งซื้อได้ที่เว็บไซต์ googlemethemovie.com

Google Talk Radio Interview is now available for replay at: Google Me Talk Radio

"Google Me The Movie" Record Setting Event on BlogTalkRadio"

According to: http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=63844

"Computers are now a focus of our daily lives rather than an addition to the tasks we perform each day. Strictly checking our occasional emails has become a thing of the past. Bringing the computers out of the den and into the main living area of the home for researching information, watching videos and sometimes gathering advice on the many websites available through the world-wide web. GOOGLE has produced the greatest impression and has enabled web users to connect, seek, and ultimately locate each other.

GOOGLE Me The Movie, Jim Killeen, and Blog Talk Radio are merging together for a one night event on GOOGLE Me Talk Radio! Thursday night April 24th at 8pm ET. This will be an exciting evening with the host of GOOGLE Me Talk Radio, Jim Cobb host and The GOOGLE Me Man with the plan, Jim Killeen. Be sure to spend some time at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/googlemetalkradio for the entertaining evening."

Tonight at 8pm ET, Host of GOOGLE Me Talk Radio, Jim Cobb welcomes The GOOGLE Me Man with the plan, Jim Killeen, star of “Google Me The Movie” to be released this Friday.

According to Newport Beach Film Festival 2008 "Jim Killeen, an entrepreneur from Los Angeles, Googled his name one day and found other Jim Killeen's online. Jim took the next step by contacting the others by email. Then he gave them a call on the phone. Finally, he decided to go around the world meeting the Jim Killeen found this through his Google search. Each Jim adds his own individual contribution to the "first" Jim’s journey.

Jim Killeen’s adventure through the search engines of GOOGLE takes him to the far corners of the Earth and has given him a knowledge one can only obtain throughout a journey of this magnitude. Find out more tonight in this exclusive LIVE interview.

Jim Killeen made a movie... and what he did is is Google his own name and found several other people with the name Jim Killeen and decided to meet as many of them as he could.

I decided to do this myself... I Googled Scott OBrien and found out that there was a Scott OBrien in the World Trade Center when is fell and there is a Scott OBrien involved with the Denver Broncos. There's even a Scott OBrien Jazz singer and many more. One of these days I would like to meet others named Scott OBrien just like Jim Killeen did.

Then there is me... Scott OBrien the Healthy Coffee Guy in Holland NY!

Google Me... "Scott OBrien" - I am all over Google!

Watch the Movie! Google your name!

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Jim Killeens adventure through the search engines of GOOGLE to the far corners of the Earth have given him a knowledge one can only obtain throughout the journey.

Computers are now a focus of our daily lives rather than an addition to the tasks we perform each day. Strictly checking our occasional emails has become a thing of the past. Bringing the computers out of the den and into the main living area of the home for researching information, watching videos and sometimes gathering advice on the many websites available through the world-wide web. GOOGLE has produced the greatest impression and has enabled web users to connect, seek, and ultimately locate each other.

GOOGLE Me The Movie, Jim Killeen, and Blog Talk Radio are merging together for a one night event on GOOGLE Me Talk Radio! Thursday night April 24th at 8pm ET. This will be an exciting evening with the host of GOOGLE Me Talk Radio, Jim Cobb and The GOOGLE Me Man with the plan, Jim Killeen. Be sure to spend some time at http://www.GoogleMeTalkRadio.com for the entertaining evening.