Comments on: It Is Not Who You Know, But How You Make Yourself Look http://www.wisdump.com/personal/it-is-not-who-you-know-but-how-you-make-yourself-look/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-is-not-who-you-know-but-how-you-make-yourself-look Dumping wisdom on the masses Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:19:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Montoya http://www.wisdump.com/personal/it-is-not-who-you-know-but-how-you-make-yourself-look/comment-page-1/#comment-8074 Montoya Thu, 17 May 2007 16:24:20 +0000 http://wisdump.com/?p=340#comment-8074 Yeah, in a year and a half I managed to convice people that I was a web design professional and talented too... now I really am one butr it's cool having the reputation before even proving myself. People attribute a lot to just good speaking & writing. Yeah, in a year and a half I managed to convice people that I was a web design professional and talented too… now I really am one butr it’s cool having the reputation before even proving myself. People attribute a lot to just good speaking & writing.

]]> By: Long http://www.wisdump.com/personal/it-is-not-who-you-know-but-how-you-make-yourself-look/comment-page-1/#comment-8073 Long Wed, 16 May 2007 21:02:32 +0000 http://wisdump.com/?p=340#comment-8073 Someone told me once, "it's not who you know, but who knows you". Someone told me once, “it’s not who you know, but who knows you”.

]]> By: Internet Famous » Links for 17-05-2007 http://www.wisdump.com/personal/it-is-not-who-you-know-but-how-you-make-yourself-look/comment-page-1/#comment-8072 Internet Famous » Links for 17-05-2007 Wed, 16 May 2007 18:32:29 +0000 http://wisdump.com/?p=340#comment-8072 [...] It Is Not Who You Know, But How You Make Yourself Look - We all know the old adage about success being defined by who you know, know what you know, but in the online world I think it is completely different. [...] [...] It Is Not Who You Know, But How You Make Yourself Look – We all know the old adage about success being defined by who you know, know what you know, but in the online world I think it is completely different. [...]

]]> By: 01010 http://www.wisdump.com/personal/it-is-not-who-you-know-but-how-you-make-yourself-look/comment-page-1/#comment-8070 01010 Wed, 16 May 2007 18:10:58 +0000 http://wisdump.com/?p=340#comment-8070 Don't believe the hype! But people do... Unfortunately that doesn't help people like me who don't care much about image management. I've never cared much about my image or being super-popular because the people I have met more than occasionally know what I am like and accept me. I get enough respect to feel I am an OK guy. But on the web, it is all image. These words, which are my way of expressing the real me, are simply image on the web because they are all that others have to go on. If I write enough and people read them all then they start to see what I am like but people do not read them all and if this message does not grab them, and it probably won't, then they are unlikely to explore any further to find the real me. I think you're dead right that it's about how you make yourself look, but it is very difficult to develop a more positive online persona just to be as popular online as you are offline. And to develop it so you look even better online is, for me and perhaps for many others, very artificial and uncomfortable. But at least I can see through the fakers, I think. Don’t believe the hype! But people do… Unfortunately that doesn’t help people like me who don’t care much about image management. I’ve never cared much about my image or being super-popular because the people I have met more than occasionally know what I am like and accept me. I get enough respect to feel I am an OK guy.

But on the web, it is all image. These words, which are my way of expressing the real me, are simply image on the web because they are all that others have to go on. If I write enough and people read them all then they start to see what I am like but people do not read them all and if this message does not grab them, and it probably won’t, then they are unlikely to explore any further to find the real me.

I think you’re dead right that it’s about how you make yourself look, but it is very difficult to develop a more positive online persona just to be as popular online as you are offline. And to develop it so you look even better online is, for me and perhaps for many others, very artificial and uncomfortable. But at least I can see through the fakers, I think.

]]> By: shallway http://www.wisdump.com/personal/it-is-not-who-you-know-but-how-you-make-yourself-look/comment-page-1/#comment-8071 shallway Wed, 16 May 2007 06:14:36 +0000 http://wisdump.com/?p=340#comment-8071 Maybe it's just another living strategy people used everyday, to pretend to be somebody else and make people believe that. They do benifit from being the other guy through all the pretending. Those who believe him go blind, since they cant figure things out themselves, they turned to him. It's just a process people looking for a YES, it comes more important than if or not he really what he needs at the beginning, they ask sometimes just for comfort. Maybe it’s just another living strategy people used everyday, to pretend to be somebody else and make people believe that. They do benifit from being the other guy through all the pretending. Those who believe him go blind, since they cant figure things out themselves, they turned to him. It’s just a process people looking for a YES, it comes more important than if or not he really what he needs at the beginning, they ask sometimes just for comfort.

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