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17 July 2020

The links effect*

Busy week, will spare you the blurb.

A few things quickly:

Fancy being the new head of the analytical unit at 10 Downing Street (or rather 10ds)? Not sure how much has changed since January, really. Some great analysis from Lewis hopefully appearing here soon.

If you enjoyed the Hamilton links last week, well... you'd be a muppet not to enjoy this.

This week marked a year since IfG and Full Fact convened a number of civil society organisations in writing a letter to DCMS about the National Data Strategy. Hopefully we'll see the Strategy itself before too long.

Data is singular. Data are not plural. Proof. (In terms of accessibility and meaning, at least.)

Have a good weekend

Gavin

*yes, I have used that one before, thank you for asking

Today's links:

Tips, tech, etc

Holding on to working less (Meg Douglas Howie)

The future of offices will be decided by bosses, not workers* (New Statesman)

MIDDLE MANAGERS AND OFFICES ARE GOOD FOR YOU (Higher Education Strategy Associates)

Graphic content

Viral content

Is Your State Doing Enough Coronavirus Testing?* (New York Times, via Alice)

Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries (The Economist)

Florida's coronavirus outbreak is getting worse (Axios)

It's not the flu (Helen Branswell, via Marcus)

California squanders early lead in fight against coronavirus* (FT)

Why are we not wearing masks in the UK?* (FT)

How Coronavirus Cases Have Risen Since States Reopened* (New York Times - and in print)

Did the government meet its Covid-19 test targets? (Full Fact)

In Africa, a lack of data raises fears of ‘silent epidemic’ (Reuters)

Which parts of Africa will be hit hardest by covid-19?* (The Economist)

Where The Latest COVID-19 Models Think We're Headed — And Why They Disagree (FiveThirtyEight)

Emerging COVID-19 success story: South Korea learned the lessons of MERS (Our World in Data)

Emerging COVID-19 success story: Vietnam’s commitment to containment (Our World in Data)

Britons are still staying home because they don't trust the government over Covid-19* (New Statesman)

Coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases by Middle Super Output Area (MSOA) in England (Public Health England)

It's the economy, covid

UK housebuyers look to swap cities for suburbs* (FT)

How quickly will the economy recover and how much ‘scarring’ will there be in the medium term? (OBR)

Coronavirus analysis (OBR)

OBR scenarios suggest that Rishi Sunak’s ‘Plan for Jobs’ may not be enough (Tom for IfG)

UK economic recovery tracker: what the latest data on activity are signalling* (FT)

Payroll jobs worked by people under 20 continue to show the fastest recovery since a mid-April low (Australian Bureau of Statistics, via Bill Wells)

#BlackLivesMatter

The race gap (Reuters)

Protests Continue Daily in Louisville. Here’s a Look at 45 Days of Marches.* (New York Times)

Black British history: the row over the school curriculum in England (The Guardian)

How racist is Britain?* (Prospect)

Nature and the environment

The world’s wealth is looking increasingly unnatural* (The Economist)

Locusts: A close-up look at the swarms devouring the world's crops (BBC News)

Climate change: what Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ means for the planet* (FT)

US politics

In a Term Full of Major Cases, the Supreme Court Tacked to the Center* (New York Times)

Roberts Is The New Swing Justice. That Doesn’t Mean He’s Becoming More Liberal. (FiveThirtyEight)

Why Trump — Not Biden — Might Have An Enthusiasm Problem (FiveThirtyEight)

UK government and politics

Changes of allegiance (me for IfG)

The civil service in York (me for IfG)

Permanent secretaries (me for IfG)

Competent, likeable, decisive: Keir Starmer beating Boris Johnson on all counts (The Guardian)

Sunak is most popular Chancellor in 15 years (YouGov)

Everything else

A Brazen Online Attack Targets V.I.P. Twitter Users in a Bitcoin Scam* (New York Times)

These Are the Worst Corporate Hacks of All Time* (Bloomberg - old but relevant)

‘Wow’: Tesla’s share price rise stuns Musk and his fans* (FT)

Creating choropleth maps in Google Data Studio (ONS Data Science Campus)

Europe’s stabilising power (Reuters)

Mapping changes in news-related employment and businesses in the UK (Nesta)

The mobilizing power of the BTS ARMY (Reuters)

Meta data

Viral content: contact details

8 million people, 14 alerts: why some covid-19 apps are staying silent (MIT Technology Review)

Using apps for contact tracing in response to COVID-19: the controversies (LSE Business Review)

Coronavirus: Contact tracers in England 'locked out of accounts' (Sky News)

ODI’s Covid-19 research identifies symptom tracking as a key area for attention (ODI)

Rapid review: NHS Test and Trace statistics (England) (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Viral content: everything else

Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England – a statistical anomaly (CEBM, University of Oxford)

The pandemic has made UK government rethink its relationship with data (Oliver Dowden for Computer Weekly)

Sewage monitoring is the UK’s next defence against covid-19 (BMJ)

Bottleneck for U.S. Coronavirus Response: The Fax Machine* (The Upshot, via Graham)

Search results are helping tackle COVID-19 – now we should use them to develop policies* (Apolitical)

New risk prediction model could help improve guidance for people shielding from COVID-19 (NIHR)

Explainer: Social distancing wearables for the workplace (CDEI)

Exclusive: Covid Test Data Held Back From Publication Over Community Cohesion Concerns (Huffington Post)

Communicating statistics, risk and uncertainty in the age of Covid - Prof. David Spiegelhalter (University of Edinburgh)

Vast sums spent, no one knows why: COVID reveals why UK transparency law must change (openDemocracy)

When secret coronavirus contracts are awarded without competition, it's deadly serious (The Guardian)

COVID-19 Response Report (Good Things Foundation)

Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power (Nature)

Face and Emotion Recognition Technologies How can regulation protect citizens and their privacy? (APPG AI/Big Innovation Centre)

EUROPEAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POLICY: MAPPING THE INSTITUTIONAL LANDSCAPE (Data Justice Lab)

Prepare for Artificial Intelligence to Produce Less Wizardry* (Wired)

DeepMind researchers propose rebuilding the AI industry on a base of anticolonialism (VentureBeat)

Statistics for the public good (UK Statistics Authority)

Police and CPS scrap digital data extraction forms for rape cases (The Guardian)

Fast economic data is like fast food — tempting but bad for you* (FT)

How to view faster economic indicators and new data sources? (Jonathan Athow, ONS)

EXCL: Whitehall departments reported 500 personal data breaches to ICO in FY20 (Public Technology)

Open Government Playbook (DCMS)

Devon will use Strava to prioritise popular cycling roads for repairs (road.cc)

Data gaps holding back DIT's export strategy despite 'good start', NAO says (Civil Service World)

Problems with MP voting data (Alex Blandford/Peter Wells)

Social Missions and innovation (Rachel Coldicutt)

A different future for telecoms in the UK (NCSC)

Everything else

EU-US Privacy Shield for data struck down by court (BBC News)

5 Questions on Data and Feminicide with Silvana Fumega (Data Feminism)

Summer of Open Data: Accelerating Data Collaboration (Open Data Policy Lab)

What are the best words to use when talking about data? (Understanding Patient Data)

Scientists put forward plan to create universal species list (The Guardian)

The Rights and Responsibilities of Internet Platforms (The American Interest)

Check your privacy privilege. (Heather Burns)

Anti-Corruption Data Collective

The Data Delusion: Protecting Individual Data Isn't Enough When The Harm is Collective (Stanford Cyber Policy Centre)

Reimagining the Company Directory (Slack)

Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media* (The New Yorker)

UN E-Government Survey 2020 (UN)

Data and the Task of the Humanities (The Hedgehog Review)

A Plan to Make Police Data Open Source Started on Reddit (Wired, via The Week in Data)

Opportunities

JOB: Head of No10 Analytical Unit (Cabinet Office)

JOB: Policy Director (Data & Society)

JOB: Senior Research Portfolio Manager (ADR UK)

FELLOWSHIP: Join us as an ODI research fellow (ODI)

EVENT: Virtual Gikii programme

And finally...

Sport and leisure

With three rounds of fixtures to go, there still isn't a single Championship club mathematically guaranteed to be in the division next season (Ben Mayhew)

Pop music is getting faster (and happier) (BBC News)

The physical traits that define men & women in literature (The Pudding)

It's your move (ODI Summit 2020)

Charts

Lighthouses in England and Wales in 1911 (Duncan Geere)

The Kyoto Aquarium has a flowchart illustrating the complicated romantic relationships and breakups between their penguins. (Oliver Jia)

We've come a long way (Alex Selby-Boothroyd)

Plural vs singular (Jon Mellon)

COVID Risk Chart (xkcd)

Florence on the move - Looking at the Nightingale chart from different perspectives (@VizzuHQ)

Everything else

Big, er... (Abeba Birhane)

Consumers Prefer Round Numbers Even When the Specific Number Is Better News (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Typefaces of Protest: A Short Survey (Tom Sutcliffe, via Tim)

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How To Brand Yourself: Tips And Best Practices

Do you know how to brand yourself online and offline?

What is really similar to product labeling is creating a personal brand.

The general goal would be to differentiate the product in the market in order to achieve your goals, either becoming a pop star or getting your dream job.

Branding yourself is including defining your brand attributes or putting your brand in a distinctive path that your rivals and afterwards achieving all the aspects of your brand.

When it comes to branding yourself, the biggest problem is the lack of good researches and strategies. As to avoid miss-steps and get to excite before even do your homework, find yourself some time to go through following steps first.

How to brand yourself

Define your general aspirations. Be precise and precisely determine your aims and goals. Do you want to become known as the greatest project director in a particular industry? Get the job of Creative Manager at a big broadcasting agency? Be a Vice President of Marketing?

Organization analysis. What should you do as to be precisely where you really want to be managing your own branding purposes? Can you learn from someone else’s experiences, either that be good efforts or bad efforts? Do you know who really your greatest rivals are and what things they are doing as to brand themselves?

Define your label qualities. What do you desire your own brand to achieve? What attributes do you want somebody to connect with your product and why? In what field of the market you desire to become recognized?

Evaluate your contemporary state. How do individuals as of now recognize you? How big are the holes within the contemporary you and the personality you want people to recognize you to be? What must change and how?

Build your game system. Your game system needs to incorporate more than simply branding in social media. It should incorporate all features of yourself, as a product. Building your system should incorporate the physical and immaterial characteristics of individual branding incorporating hair, attire, makeup, spoken and non-spoken information, behaviour etc.

Your game system also requires to incorporate the particular social media features you’ll practice to achieve your new own brand (like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest etc.) and whereby you will utilize each of the features to develop your brand.

Maintain your brand. Proactively maintain all features of your label, assuring these features are in sync and they remain to strengthen your label qualities and market field.

For instance, your LinkedIn photo should seem comparable to the real you, your Tweets and any other social media blog posts should remain inside your market field and your real behaviour needs to be illustrative of how you require others to recognize you.

And in case that you’ve marked yourself in social media as an artistic fashion diva, be sure that stretches to how you proceed across in person.

Don’t build an inconsistent brand by achieving diverse or competing qualities in different social media fields, like tweeting denying feelings about fashion at the Oscars and commenting on LinkedIn for your holiday when you’re attempting to brand your product and yourself as a sharp cross-functional plan team manager.

Performing so will build readers uncertainty about who you really are and what you really do.

Become a specialist on anything that compares to your industry.

Managers looking to earn media awareness, draw new customers and increase their companies should concentrate on growing an specialist in their area.

Bypass building an expertise that’s unrelated to your mission, aims, and idea since you’ll be spending your time. If you have a record mark, it’s apparently not smart to brand yourself as a diet expert.

Build a blog or website below your full name.

The social media and your clients both practice research engines to find you, connect and maybe either do contracts with you or question you. That’s why you should buy your name as a domain name.

By producing either a latent site or a blog below your domain name, you will have the first effect for your website name in Google search and different research engines. This needs to be a divide site than your organization’s website.

After buying a domain name, attach your photo, a biography, info about the rest of your online appearance and your e-mail address (i.e. LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter).

In this way, customers can easily get in touch with you in their means of choosing. Buy a domain on your name before somebody else buys it.

Discover how to be a great source.

Research which media fields your visitors are reading, listening or watching, examine the samples of content they present and find the specific guard to pitch. Your publicist or you can likewise e-mail reporters and columnists in reply to one of theirs columns, with a sign that you are free to discuss in upcoming articles.

When a reporter e-mails or requests you for a meeting, answer with speed since they always have deadlines for their columns. Answer to their questions fully, whilst being sure that they have understood your message.

When you’re questioned by the social media, you will constantly be capable of upgrading your business by your by-line that will assist you in building both your company’s and your brand.

When the interview is over, send an e-mail questioning if they maybe have more questions they want to ask, and be sure to insert your biography and your photo as well.

Create label awareness by networking

You need to connect with other managers in your business utilizing social networks and discussing on the blogs. Networking is the best way to become recognized in your business. By building relationships with your audience you can improve your brand and business on a long-term basis.

The 4 laws of networking that you need to keep in mind are giving, mutualism, reconnecting and targeting.

Giving: Help somebody out, before demanding something in return. This causes people to want to assist you.

Mutualism: You must create double-win relations in business, being certain that you won’t benefit extra than the opposite party.

Reconnecting: You should never lose connections. In that way, networking communications will remember you when different opportunities comes outside.

Targeting: You need to be very particular with the kinds of people you interface with, as to preserve time and to draw the right audience to your brand.

Concentrate on everything you do. It’s essential to be transparent about what the heart of your own brand is. Are you a consultant? A speaker? An author? Is your centre marketing? Technology? Healthy eating? Back pain? Leadership? A powerful individual brand is established when you allow people to restrict their focus of everything you do.

Create a society. As you attempt to create your own brand, don’t concentrate on creating sales. First, concentrate on growing your community, or developing your society. I’m not speaking you shouldn’t create sales. Still, creating your society should be of developing a fellowship of followers who recognize, love and trust you. To create this society, inspire people to follow your email list, such as you on Facebook, Twitter and differently join with you to stay in touch.

Video leads your brand to growth. A video is an important way to draw growth to your own brand. Remember, the greatest number of your society cannot become close and intimate with you. Nevertheless, through the influence of charming videos, you can become closer and more intimate with your society.

Speak on and design your events. Events are a really great way to join with your society in real life.

Absolutely, we can see our beloved celebrities in live streaming and different multimedia options. Nevertheless, when they are having events and live performances we nevertheless want to see them, right?

Holding a live event for your society is no distinct. Speaking at different people’s events is an excellent way to show off your understanding leadership, also. Planning your personal event is a great way to put your label on a stand.

Publish work. Being author is a method to add reliability and increase your own brand. Consider this: You need to pick specialist A or specialist B.

Both are nearly the same specialist and one owns a book. The one having a book will most likely be picked up since they seem smarter, more reliable, and also more prestigious. A book is a great way to thicken your own brand.

Take media coverage. When the regional TV branch, radio channel, magazine or different media require from you to talk like an expert, it provides you reliability and increases your brand.

This needs active exceed to get their recognition, yet it is well deserving the time and energy.

Build a Communication System

Luckily, there are hundreds of social accounts and online programs where you can develop your individual brand. In the past years, social media has leveled the playing area and releases “everyday Joes” to strike their fans, at various touch-points, utilizing numbers of online platforms.

This number of platforms can grow devastating if you’re brand-new to the method of labeling yourself.

Understanding which platforms are best for you can be challenging and time-wasting, particularly regarding the countless methods and tools that are at your control for drawing your targeted audience.

We made BrandYourself.com, to lead you through every step of the method, covering installing the most important social media accounts and optimizing them as to be certain they show up great when somebody Goggles your brand.

Manage Your Results on Google

When your brand is explored online, your brand should arrive in search results. Not having an online presence, or more serious, a presence that is not desirable, individuals you know and also don’t know will probably have a wrong first opinion of your individual brand.

If prospective bosses, co-workers, customers, and clients are seeking for your brand while online, and you’re not popping up in the search results, your brand is already delayed the eight ball… not even knowing it!

If everything you find on Google is inappropriate or not your brand, then it’s maybe the time for you to discover how to label yourself by increasing your online presence.

Your aim is to fulfill the first page of Google results with as many accurate results as attainable. Contingent on your web account, here are the different treatment choices and proper prescriptions.

Discover proper communication methods

How you relate your brand with possible customers is important. Getting into calls, appointments, meetings, etc is not complete. Take as much time as you need to relate with the people you are communicating with. This will require a lot of communicating.

Accordingly, write your messages in the most accurate and adept way. Decent communication will produce a higher impact on the possible client, and therefore, you will stand out in the pack.

Customize and personalize your messaging

Clients always require an organization they can immediately identify with, and a good logo will do the job. Plus, every time you write emails, postcards, letters, make them personal.

Always utilize your real name, in order to show your clients that they are not only ordinary clients but possible ones. Be patient enough to send holiday and birthday cards. This will make people feel valued and that they are not only a little dollar sign!

Keep your honesty both offline and online

Keep high criteria of fairness with people. Dodge the use of false lines and methods to get audience aboard. Brand yourself in the best possible way you can and make them comprehend what you can actually do for them.

In case that you find that you cannot satisfy their demands, there is a solution, show them to somebody who has the required skills. You will score high for staying interested in assisting, and they will get back when you can satisfy their needs.

Watch out your body language

Your body language can leave a genuine impact on people attitude towards you. Be sure that you stand straight and keep eye contact. Your eyes need to show friendlessness and care. Your eyebrows need to bring out a symbol of understanding and openness.

Moreover, hold your eyebrows comfortable and don’t use them in a disapproving way, this may confirm a lack of spirit which is not great in the labeling process. Hold your arms opened. You can always put some movements for emphasizes but be careful not to do that very often.

Sit in a comfortable way with a normal posture. Dodge playing with your fingers at any cost. The beauty of practicing body language will serve magic in receiving possible clients for you to sell the deal.

Don’t forget the three Cs of labeling

Consistency, clarity, and constancy. Be open about who you are and who you are not. Don’t lie about your qualifications. Display your brand over all communications tools. Decide where you desire to fit in and then stay noticeable to your targeted audience.

Get feedback from people that know you completely — at home, at work, and anywhere.

The real measure of your label is the respect others have for you in their souls and minds. See how they are introducing you to other people. Ask them what your best brand qualities and focus powers are. If they tell you easily, then you’ve achieved branding yourself.

Conclusion on how to brand yourself

Well, labeling yourself benefits a lot in growing your business. Moreover, it assists you to form a lasting and beneficial relationship with other people in a professional way.

You will discover more of yourself and others and what is most important, you will understand how extraordinary and different you truly are.

As you can notice, there is plenty of work included in learning how to label yourself but still actively maintaining your individual branding plan.

If you liked this article with info on how to brand yourself, you should check out these as well:

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