I began this blog to share my thoughts and feelings; it’s a place for me to vent. That was years ago, before the “blog-olution” and the idea that a blog is a mandatory component of every good marketing campaign. This site was never part of marketing Brand Me. This is my personal blog, but for someone in my industry no part of the Internet is personal.
It’s a fact: if you do business with someone like me, you Google the person’s name before—and sometimes during—the professional relationship. Wherever a name like mine appears, in whatever context, clients, prospective clients, collaborators, and colleagues consider the source part of my resume and references.
As my name was Googled with ever increasing frequency, as more and more business associates commented on the content of IamPariah.com, I wrote less in this blog about the real me, my real thoughts and feelings.
Screw that.
If you want to hire me, work for me, partner with me, interview me, or whatever, don’t bother reading this blog. It’s not indicative of my business acumen or professional skills. If you want to know about the professional Pariah S. Burke, Google me, but ignore links that lead to IamPariah.com. Google will turn up pages and pages of other links where my name appears in a professional capacity; pages from Amazon.com, QuarkVSInDesign.com, Designorati.com, WorkflowCreative.com, REVDrink.com, IndesignSecrets.com, Creativepro.com, InDesignMag.com, and a few dozen other places. There are things I’ve written and things written about me. It’s all more than enough to get a clear picture of the professional me.
This is my personal blog; it’s not a professional reference. Here, I swear and express opinion on politics, religion, sociology, psychology, and morons from all walks of life. I don’t do any of that in my books, proposals, training classes, or pitch meetings. Nothing here has any bearing on how well I write books and articles, consult, train, design magazines or Websites, or work with you or your company.
However, if you’re here solely as a human being looking for a glimpse into the mind of another human being, read on. That’s what this blog is about, not selling Brand Me.
