AGREE: Fame is very different from success. Seek success, by Kiersten Mitchell
AGREE: Start-ups are spiky, @Richard_Florida
AGREE: Reactive people are often affected by the weather, proactive people carry their own weather with them, @JessConstable
AGREE: Women need to be listened to, not fixed, @mckinneyos
DISAGREE: Preach the intangibles of social media, @mattChevy
AGREE: We’ve lived our lives in nicely packaged semesters for 22 years knowing the exact formula… Unfortunately, we all know that life is anything but formulaic, @leadingassoc
RELUCTANTLY AGREE: Studies indicate that people who are high in openness to new experiences and high in neuroticism are likely to be bloggers, @Richard_Florida
AGREE: Being “included” is not all that it’s cracked up to be, @velveteenmind
AGREE: There is a difference between spending time around your spouse and spending time with your spouse, @mckinneyos
AGREE: Failure leads to the next reinvention—as long as you understand what’s happening to you, @psychtoday
AGREE: The position of social media specialist… has become the hottest new corporate job, @nytimes
AGREE: Clearly, resumes aren’t the sole factor in the recruitment process anymore. The new way to look at a job search is a “people search,” @danschawbel
AGREE: It is very notable that the majority of these top female entrepreneurs are bloggers and in fact some of the top bloggers in the world, @michaeldunlop
AGREE: I sometimes think that HR people are the least qualified to give career advice, via @lruettimann (see comments)
Catching up…
AGREE: The world needs more female bosses, @financialpost
AGREE: You have a good thing. Then it turns into a rut. Then you go through a transition. Then you find another good thing. Lifehacker was a great thing. Then it turned into a bit of a rut, @ginatrapani
AGREE: We learned that a product doesn’t sell just because you’re trying to do good in the world, @IncMagazine
AGREE: Conservatives lack a sense of humor, @psychtoday
AGREE: There is a growing conversation about whether or not Design can replace Liberal Arts as the intellectual foundation, Business Week via @rubyku
DISAGREE: We don’t think that the Kindle DX will be a major game-changer, @rww
AGREE: Cultural references are one of the strongest things you can bring to the table
DISAGREE: If you want people to know you, no matter what you write about or what your career is, you should be blogging at yourname.com, @monicaobrien
All of the blogs Monica mentions that are both popular and based off a name.com domain instead of a brand.com domain are from men (see comment). I think, because women change their names through marriage and divorce. While I have rebeccathorman.com forwarding to modite.com, I wouldn’t build my brand around it because I except my name to change when I get married .
Monica is already married so this is probably less of an issue for her, but I think you’ll notice that a lot of women-based blogs aren’t based on a name.com domain, and I’m guessing this is part of the reason.