Comments on: David McWilliams deflates our wealth bubble http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/07/13/david-mcwilliams-deflates-our-wealth-bubble/ Ace King, Check it Out! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:01:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Technology in plain English » Blog Archive » You , Paris Hilton and the value of your Personal Brand http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/07/13/david-mcwilliams-deflates-our-wealth-bubble/#comment-13774 Technology in plain English » Blog Archive » You , Paris Hilton and the value of your Personal Brand Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:26:05 +0000 http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/07/13/david-mcwilliams-deflates-our-wealth-bubble/#comment-13774 [...] What’s a personal brand got to do with me? I’m (thankfully) not about to release a fitness video. That’s only for A, B or C list celebrities. Down here in the Z-List of Technology Blogging , you get draft Web 2.0 books , and you will enjoy them! Maybe instead of brand , I said ‘reputation’ or ‘recommendations’ you would understand better - the notion that people know of your work , and are happy to employ you on that basis. Previously , this was by word of mouth. Now , with blogging , everybody can be a minor celebrity in their own niche. We’ve written about this before (’are blogs the new CV‘), but with tools like LinkedIn, the trend is really taking off. Two Irish people who understand the value of a ‘personal brand’ very well are David McWilliams and Sheila o’Flanagan. Both have taken what could be mundane jobs (Economist, Writing) and turned themselves into Stars. OK , Enterprise Technology is never going to have same mass market appeal, but just as David and Sheila are well known in our own little Irish pond, perhaps someday I could be the Jade Goody of the technology world. Update:To show the power of blogging , when I did a search  for David McWilliams site, despite his massive RTE exposure , it was Joe Drumgooles blog that came up first. [...] [...] What’s a personal brand got to do with me? I’m (thankfully) not about to release a fitness video. That’s only for A, B or C list celebrities. Down here in the Z-List of Technology Blogging , you get draft Web 2.0 books , and you will enjoy them! Maybe instead of brand , I said ‘reputation’ or ‘recommendations’ you would understand better - the notion that people know of your work , and are happy to employ you on that basis. Previously , this was by word of mouth. Now , with blogging , everybody can be a minor celebrity in their own niche. We’ve written about this before (’are blogs the new CV‘), but with tools like LinkedIn, the trend is really taking off. Two Irish people who understand the value of a ‘personal brand’ very well are David McWilliams and Sheila o’Flanagan. Both have taken what could be mundane jobs (Economist, Writing) and turned themselves into Stars. OK , Enterprise Technology is never going to have same mass market appeal, but just as David and Sheila are well known in our own little Irish pond, perhaps someday I could be the Jade Goody of the technology world. Update:To show the power of blogging , when I did a search  for David McWilliams site, despite his massive RTE exposure , it was Joe Drumgooles blog that came up first. [...]

]]> By: Joe http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/07/13/david-mcwilliams-deflates-our-wealth-bubble/#comment-2664 Joe Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:50:07 +0000 http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/07/13/david-mcwilliams-deflates-our-wealth-bubble/#comment-2664 Paul, Buying a new house is not the problem, thats just debt exchange, the real danger for irish people is those people who get a mortgage, wait for the value to go up, then leverage that mortgage via an interest only mortgage to purchase a second property. Then repeat that two or three more times. They are now heavily leveraged against a rising property market. If (when?) the bubble bursts, they will dump their property faster that a rose of tralee escort drops a loosing partner. Unfortunately so will everybody else in the same situation, and as it takes at least two months to sell a property they will never catch up with a falling market and will watch close after close fail to happen as the market drops. Paul,

Buying a new house is not the problem, thats just debt exchange, the real danger for irish people is those people who get a mortgage, wait for the value to go up, then leverage that mortgage via an interest only mortgage to purchase a second property. Then repeat that two or three more times. They are now heavily leveraged against a rising property market. If (when?) the bubble bursts, they will dump their property faster that a rose of tralee escort drops a loosing partner. Unfortunately so will everybody else in the same situation, and as it takes at least two months to sell a property they will never catch up with a falling market and will watch close after close fail to happen as the market drops.

]]> By: pth http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/07/13/david-mcwilliams-deflates-our-wealth-bubble/#comment-2655 pth Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:34:40 +0000 http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/07/13/david-mcwilliams-deflates-our-wealth-bubble/#comment-2655 So what are you doing buying a new house then? You better hope that software business takes off! ;-) So what are you doing buying a new house then? You better hope that software business takes off! ;-)

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