Tanya Ferrell YOU GET IT!!!

Tanya Ferrell â€" YOU GET IT!!! I recently got an e-mail from Tanya Ferrell, sharing a Branding Periodic Table (if you are a branding geek youll really like it!). As usual, I Googled Tanyas name and was more than pleasantly surprised at what I found. Here was someone that practically owned the first page of Google for her name. Heres what I like: Her Google results are pretty darn good if Im a hiring manager or recruiter I dont have to go far. I can learn that shes a senior at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh majoring in Advertising (as of Sept 2007). Theres a Tanya Ferrell mentioned in a Milwaukee newspaper article from 2002 Im not sure if this is her but it does reinforce her position as someone who is quite tech/internet savvy, and if it is her, Im going to be impressed that she was mentioned in the article as an organizer of a leading edge website for the community. (a) shes been in this tech space for a while, and (b) I wasnt mentioned in the newspaper when I was 15! If nothing else it gives me something to talk with her about a starting point for our relationship (or something interesting to talk about in our interview). She also has a profile on Digg and Mashable, which help her claim two spots on her first page of Google results. Shows she is active in the social space and contributes as a voter, etc. to these types of forums. I wouldnt expect any less from someone from GenY but its nice to see it here. Her blog. Of course. Notice that only ONE person has won this award without having a blog? For me its huge, and Tanyas blog is excellent. Heres why: She owns her name TanyaFerrell.com. When you go there it goes straight to her blog, which means easy maintenance. Do you own your name? Its easy and inexpensive! Her title totally makes sense for her brand Common Sense: Internet Marketing Made Simple considering she is at an art school, and shes doing an internship in internet marketing, I think this is an excellent title/theme for her blog. Shes obviously passionate about the subject, can back it up with what she learns at work, and has a creative brain three major positives, as far as Im concerned. Her About section is concise and complete, and has her e-mail address right there. Easy to figure out who she is and how to get in touch with her, without having to go to another page to read a novel about how great she is. The topics she writes about solidifies what her passion and specialty are. She gives me a genY perspective on interstitial ads (I NEVER would have expected to read this from anyone, much less someone from GenY I wonder if its just because she is in advertising?). She talks about the frustration of all the social sites, and how to manage all the login/account information (I am social networked out, its good to hear her perspective on this simple issue). Her post on Applicable Web Analytics shows me that she thinks outside the normal boundaries, I love the end where she says shes going back to her professor to bring them relevant, current information for the course (as opposed to just accepting what they say as truth)! Theres a lot more similar to previous winners. I think her template is fine, she makes excellent use of images (graphs!) and video, her tone is very authentic and real its simple yet authoritative and knowledgeable and comfortable. I feel sorry for people that she is going to interview against, especially if the hiring managers do a Google search. Tanya has a big online footprint in a lot of places, her blog is relevant to her profession, and she is building a long history. This is a terrific complement to her statement I love marketing in all its forms. I love it so much, Im currently working at my 4th internship. Hello her fourth internship. Shes going to land an excellent gig after she graduates! So, something new, here are my critiques: I really like the custom picture instead of the standard heading, but I would make it smaller I think it takes up too much vertical space. Choose something that moves the other content in the first column up higher, above the fold. I would like to see a recent comments section in the first column it shows me which posts are creating buzz, and Im guessing it will help generate more comments/discussion. Im not really big on tag clouds, so if you want it, move it down. Just my opinion The Me on the Internet section is actually pretty interesting. I definitely wouldnt suggest it for everyone (for example, YGI winners Mike Schaffner and Kent Blumberg) only for those that have an active presence out there. My only beef with this section is that it is BIG it takes up a lot of space! I previously said the template is fine. I think that Tanya should spend some time looking for a different template (understanding that this isnt her first template as a blogger we all go through this :)). I do like the font, and colors of the links for each blog post, and the date format stuff like that Heres my biggest critique, non-blog related. This is a really controversial topic, so take it for what its worth. I do not like the image that she chose for her Digg and Mashable profiles. This is absolutely not a moral preaching, or anything like that. Ive seen this fester up on various blogs, and my position is to have a cleaner image. Since this is something that she might change, Im not even going to go there, you can click on her Digg and Mashable images to see what it is now (perhaps it will change), or you can read my abbreviated position on this Penelope Trunk post (in the comments), written by guest blogger (and now business partner) Jason Warner, aka the Google Guy. Congratulations Tanya! You join a special group of professionals and have earned a coveted link from my monthly winner’s blogroll area (on the left), six months of premium JibberJobber (you can transfer/award this to someone else ), and a cyber-high five! Feel free to post the You Get It award on your blog! Here are the past winners: September 2006 ClickDave my review October 2006 Kent Blumberg my review November 2006 Heather Henricks my review December 2006 Adelino de Almeida my review January 2007 Rob Humphrey my review January 2007 Ariel Meadow Stallings my review February 2007 Mike Schaffner my review March 2007 Susan Johnston my review April 2007 Thomas Clifford my review May 2007 Rob Frankel my review June 2007 Trent Hamm my review July 2007 Katie Konrath my review August 2007 Robb Hecht my review September 2007 OOPS! I took this month off and didnt realize it! Lucky me Tanya Ferrell â€" YOU GET IT!!! I recently got an e-mail from Tanya Ferrell, sharing a Branding Periodic Table (if you are a branding geek youll really like it!). As usual, I Googled Tanyas name and was more than pleasantly surprised at what I found. Here was someone that practically owned the first page of Google for her name. Heres what I like: Her Google results are pretty darn good if Im a hiring manager or recruiter I dont have to go far. I can learn that shes a senior at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh majoring in Advertising (as of Sept 2007). Theres a Tanya Ferrell mentioned in a Milwaukee newspaper article from 2002 Im not sure if this is her but it does reinforce her position as someone who is quite tech/internet savvy, and if it is her, Im going to be impressed that she was mentioned in the article as an organizer of a leading edge website for the community. (a) shes been in this tech space for a while, and (b) I wasnt mentioned in the newspaper when I was 15! If nothing else it gives me something to talk with her about a starting point for our relationship (or something interesting to talk about in our interview). She also has a profile on Digg and Mashable, which help her claim two spots on her first page of Google results. Shows she is active in the social space and contributes as a voter, etc. to these types of forums. I wouldnt expect any less from someone from GenY but its nice to see it here. Her blog. Of course. Notice that only ONE person has won this award without having a blog? For me its huge, and Tanyas blog is excellent. Heres why: She owns her name TanyaFerrell.com. When you go there it goes straight to her blog, which means easy maintenance. Do you own your name? Its easy and inexpensive! Her title totally makes sense for her brand Common Sense: Internet Marketing Made Simple considering she is at an art school, and shes doing an internship in internet marketing, I think this is an excellent title/theme for her blog. Shes obviously passionate about the subject, can back it up with what she learns at work, and has a creative brain three major positives, as far as Im concerned. Her About section is concise and complete, and has her e-mail address right there. Easy to figure out who she is and how to get in touch with her, without having to go to another page to read a novel about how great she is. The topics she writes about solidifies what her passion and specialty are. She gives me a genY perspective on interstitial ads (I NEVER would have expected to read this from anyone, much less someone from GenY I wonder if its just because she is in advertising?). She talks about the frustration of all the social sites, and how to manage all the login/account information (I am social networked out, its good to hear her perspective on this simple issue). Her post on Applicable Web Analytics shows me that she thinks outside the normal boundaries, I love the end where she says shes going back to her professor to bring them relevant, current information for the course (as opposed to just accepting what they say as truth)! Theres a lot more similar to previous winners. I think her template is fine, she makes excellent use of images (graphs!) and video, her tone is very authentic and real its simple yet authoritative and knowledgeable and comfortable. I feel sorry for people that she is going to interview against, especially if the hiring managers do a Google search. Tanya has a big online footprint in a lot of places, her blog is relevant to her profession, and she is building a long history. This is a terrific complement to her statement I love marketing in all its forms. I love it so much, Im currently working at my 4th internship. Hello her fourth internship. Shes going to land an excellent gig after she graduates! So, something new, here are my critiques: I really like the custom picture instead of the standard heading, but I would make it smaller I think it takes up too much vertical space. Choose something that moves the other content in the first column up higher, above the fold. I would like to see a recent comments section in the first column it shows me which posts are creating buzz, and Im guessing it will help generate more comments/discussion. Im not really big on tag clouds, so if you want it, move it down. Just my opinion The Me on the Internet section is actually pretty interesting. I definitely wouldnt suggest it for everyone (for example, YGI winners Mike Schaffner and Kent Blumberg) only for those that have an active presence out there. My only beef with this section is that it is BIG it takes up a lot of space! I previously said the template is fine. I think that Tanya should spend some time looking for a different template (understanding that this isnt her first template as a blogger we all go through this :)). I do like the font, and colors of the links for each blog post, and the date format stuff like that Heres my biggest critique, non-blog related. This is a really controversial topic, so take it for what its worth. I do not like the image that she chose for her Digg and Mashable profiles. This is absolutely not a moral preaching, or anything like that. Ive seen this fester up on various blogs, and my position is to have a cleaner image. Since this is something that she might change, Im not even going to go there, you can click on her Digg and Mashable images to see what it is now (perhaps it will change), or you can read my abbreviated position on this Penelope Trunk post (in the comments), written by guest blogger (and now business partner) Jason Warner, aka the Google Guy. Congratulations Tanya! You join a special group of professionals and have earned a coveted link from my monthly winner’s blogroll area (on the left), six months of premium JibberJobber (you can transfer/award this to someone else ), and a cyber-high five! Feel free to post the You Get It award on your blog! Here are the past winners: September 2006 ClickDave my review October 2006 Kent Blumberg my review November 2006 Heather Henricks my review December 2006 Adelino de Almeida my review January 2007 Rob Humphrey my review January 2007 Ariel Meadow Stallings my review February 2007 Mike Schaffner my review March 2007 Susan Johnston my review April 2007 Thomas Clifford my review May 2007 Rob Frankel my review June 2007 Trent Hamm my review July 2007 Katie Konrath my review August 2007 Robb Hecht my review September 2007 OOPS! I took this month off and didnt realize it! Lucky me Tanya Ferrell â€" YOU GET IT!!! I recently got an e-mail from Tanya Ferrell, sharing a Branding Periodic Table (if you are a branding geek youll really like it!). As usual, I Googled Tanyas name and was more than pleasantly surprised at what I found. Here was someone that practically owned the first page of Google for her name. Heres what I like: Her Google results are pretty darn good if Im a hiring manager or recruiter I dont have to go far. I can learn that shes a senior at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh majoring in Advertising (as of Sept 2007). Theres a Tanya Ferrell mentioned in a Milwaukee newspaper article from 2002 Im not sure if this is her but it does reinforce her position as someone who is quite tech/internet savvy, and if it is her, Im going to be impressed that she was mentioned in the article as an organizer of a leading edge website for the community. (a) shes been in this tech space for a while, and (b) I wasnt mentioned in the newspaper when I was 15! If nothing else it gives me something to talk with her about a starting point for our relationship (or something interesting to talk about in our interview). She also has a profile on Digg and Mashable, which help her claim two spots on her first page of Google results. Shows she is active in the social space and contributes as a voter, etc. to these types of forums. I wouldnt expect any less from someone from GenY but its nice to see it here. Her blog. Of course. Notice that only ONE person has won this award without having a blog? For me its huge, and Tanyas blog is excellent. Heres why: She owns her name TanyaFerrell.com. When you go there it goes straight to her blog, which means easy maintenance. Do you own your name? Its easy and inexpensive! Her title totally makes sense for her brand Common Sense: Internet Marketing Made Simple considering she is at an art school, and shes doing an internship in internet marketing, I think this is an excellent title/theme for her blog. Shes obviously passionate about the subject, can back it up with what she learns at work, and has a creative brain three major positives, as far as Im concerned. Her About section is concise and complete, and has her e-mail address right there. Easy to figure out who she is and how to get in touch with her, without having to go to another page to read a novel about how great she is. The topics she writes about solidifies what her passion and specialty are. She gives me a genY perspective on interstitial ads (I NEVER would have expected to read this from anyone, much less someone from GenY I wonder if its just because she is in advertising?). She talks about the frustration of all the social sites, and how to manage all the login/account information (I am social networked out, its good to hear her perspective on this simple issue). Her post on Applicable Web Analytics shows me that she thinks outside the normal boundaries, I love the end where she says shes going back to her professor to bring them relevant, current information for the course (as opposed to just accepting what they say as truth)! Theres a lot more similar to previous winners. I think her template is fine, she makes excellent use of images (graphs!) and video, her tone is very authentic and real its simple yet authoritative and knowledgeable and comfortable. I feel sorry for people that she is going to interview against, especially if the hiring managers do a Google search. Tanya has a big online footprint in a lot of places, her blog is relevant to her profession, and she is building a long history. This is a terrific complement to her statement I love marketing in all its forms. I love it so much, Im currently working at my 4th internship. Hello her fourth internship. Shes going to land an excellent gig after she graduates! So, something new, here are my critiques: I really like the custom picture instead of the standard heading, but I would make it smaller I think it takes up too much vertical space. Choose something that moves the other content in the first column up higher, above the fold. I would like to see a recent comments section in the first column it shows me which posts are creating buzz, and Im guessing it will help generate more comments/discussion. Im not really big on tag clouds, so if you want it, move it down. Just my opinion The Me on the Internet section is actually pretty interesting. I definitely wouldnt suggest it for everyone (for example, YGI winners Mike Schaffner and Kent Blumberg) only for those that have an active presence out there. My only beef with this section is that it is BIG it takes up a lot of space! I previously said the template is fine. I think that Tanya should spend some time looking for a different template (understanding that this isnt her first template as a blogger we all go through this :)). I do like the font, and colors of the links for each blog post, and the date format stuff like that Heres my biggest critique, non-blog related. This is a really controversial topic, so take it for what its worth. I do not like the image that she chose for her Digg and Mashable profiles. This is absolutely not a moral preaching, or anything like that. Ive seen this fester up on various blogs, and my position is to have a cleaner image. Since this is something that she might change, Im not even going to go there, you can click on her Digg and Mashable images to see what it is now (perhaps it will change), or you can read my abbreviated position on this Penelope Trunk post (in the comments), written by guest blogger (and now business partner) Jason Warner, aka the Google Guy. Congratulations Tanya! You join a special group of professionals and have earned a coveted link from my monthly winner’s blogroll area (on the left), six months of premium JibberJobber (you can transfer/award this to someone else ), and a cyber-high five! Feel free to post the You Get It award on your blog! Here are the past winners: September 2006 ClickDave my review October 2006 Kent Blumberg my review November 2006 Heather Henricks my review December 2006 Adelino de Almeida my review January 2007 Rob Humphrey my review January 2007 Ariel Meadow Stallings my review February 2007 Mike Schaffner my review March 2007 Susan Johnston my review April 2007 Thomas Clifford my review May 2007 Rob Frankel my review June 2007 Trent Hamm my review July 2007 Katie Konrath my review August 2007 Robb Hecht my review September 2007 OOPS! I took this month off and didnt realize it! Lucky me