Collaboration Tools for Project Managers: How to choose, get started and collaborate with technology

CHAPTER 13

Building Personal Online Credibility

Collaboration tools at work give you the opportunity to build credibility with your team and stakeholders. You can extend this more widely to your industry peers, professional bodies, and potential employers when you use publicly available collaboration tools and social networks.

Credibility is part of your personal brand. In an increasingly competitive marketplace having a solid personal brand is something that can set you apart from other project managers.

There are plenty of opportunities to create and foster your personal brand online. Social media tools give you a lot of outlets to put forward your best professional self online for recruiters and colleagues to see. This chapter takes the idea ...