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As you have read here in many articles, building and expressing your personal brand is a key to positioning you and your professional services firm as a leader in your field of expertise.

I am therefore thrilled to have the opportunity to announce a forthcoming event – the first of it’s kind – a global personal branding telesummit taking place on 8 November 2007.

I have had the priviledge of being the chair of the organising team who have all gifted their time to bring this event to life. We have attracted some amazing speakers who are authors on subjects related to personal branding including William Arruda, Dick Bolles, Anita Bruzzese, Kirsten Dixson, Stewart Emery,Neville Hobson, John Jantsch, Catherine Kaputa, Guy Kawasaki, David Meerman Scott and Debbie Weil.

All of these speakers are gifting their time to support us in our goals of reaching 100,000 people across the globe with this FREE event to educate people about personal branding.

Yes the event will cost you nothing to attend – just the cost of your phone call so make sure that you register. And if you are not able to attend the event due to your schedule, we will be making the recordings available after the event for you to access.

We also have a social cause partner in Kiva, who support entrepreneurs on developing countries by providing them with microfinance loans. Their goal is to elimate global poverty and we think their goals are so aligned to personal branding that we will be inviting attendees of the event to make a contribution if they felt the event provided them with great value.

The event is also made possible thanks to Zane Safrit and his wonderful team over at Conference Calls Unlimited who are one of our sponsors and have donated the two bridge lines that we will be using to deliver the 24 sessions.

Yes 24 hours of content about personal branding that you can access at NO COST from anywhere in the world.

The content has been developed so that we have three streams:

• Career Management Success
  The content of this stream will be relevant for career professionals who want to apply personal branding strategies to support their career success. This content stream is also relevant for professionals in the field of career coaching, resume writing and career counselling
• Talent Management
  The content of this stream will be relevant for HR professionals and business leaders who want to discover how to attract, develop and retain talent through the application of personal branding strategies
• Entrepreneurship
  This content stream will be applicable for business owners and solopreneurs who want to apply personal branding strategies to grow their business.

If you too are a blogger or podcaster or have a newsletter, I would be honoured if you could spread the word about the event. If you write an article about the event to share the news to your own community, be sure to let me know by posting a comment and sending me a trackback to this article, I’ll be sure to make a link back to you on a special post I will do about personal branding (sharing the link love!). For the pupose of tagging please use ‘personal branding summit’.

You will find badges for your blog and website at the personal branding summit website. Make sure that you subscribe to the feed as well as to attend the event as we will be adding articles about personal bradning to the website from our guest experts and the evetn organisers over the forthcoming weeks.

I have to say that while the event organising has taken a lot of time, the organising team have had great fun getting to know and work with each other – we too are from across the globe and all our meetings were virtual. So if anyone has a question about being in an organisation or a network trying to achieve big things in the world but feel they have to meet face to face, what I can tell you is that you do not need to be together. We have created this event without ever meeting each other and without real connections to the speakers. That for me is an incredible testament to the vision and personal values of everyone involved and a key to building a strong personal brand – the power of collaboration.

I do hope you will be able to join us on the 8 November and access some great advice from some of the foremost leaders in the world of personal branding and career success.