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Ope Bukola

Ope Bukola is the Founder and Editor of Zora&Alice. When she's a "grown up," she hopes to be an entrepreneur, journalist, screenwriter, college professor, coffee shop owner, among other things. She enjoys reading magazines, watching documentaries, and finding new sites to add to her RSS feeds. Ope is a graduate of New York University and lives in New York City.

Website: http://zora-alice.com

Personal Branding – what your communication style says about your brand

by Ope Bukola October 27, 2010
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Week 1 of the 30 Days to Personal Branding is really focused on understand what a personal brand is and why you need one. In yesterday’s video post, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk argues that, in today’s social media driven world, we’re always selling. That idea got me thinking the ways we, sometimes unknowingly, create a brand [...]

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Must-reads: best blogs for personal branding

by Ope Bukola October 27, 2010

Back with another edition of Power Pumps, this time focusing on best blogs for career tips and advice. I asked some smart girls what they read for career advice and got the following. Add these great blogs to your RSS feed now: Work her way Personal branding is in vogue at Zora&Alice. Read more in [...]

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Personal Branding – why you’re always selling [VIDEO]

by Ope Bukola October 26, 2010

It’s Day 2 of our 30 Days to a Personal Brand series. Don’t think you need a personal brand? You’re wrong! But you shouldn’t take my word for it – watch this short video clip by entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk. Vaynerchuk turned his Wine Library TV into a huge empire and one of the effective brands [...]

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Personal Branding – Why you need a personal brand

by Ope Bukola October 25, 2010
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One of our goals at Z&A is to give young, black women practical advice as we build our careers. We’re excited to bring you 30 Days to a Personal Brand – a 30 day blog series on personal branding for young professionals. Personal branding has become a popular buzzword in the past decade. With the [...]

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Running to change the world

by Ope Bukola October 11, 2010
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“For you will find, as women have found through the ages, that changing the world requires a lot of free time. Requires a lot of mobility. Requires money, and, as Virginia Woolf put it so well, “a room of one’s own,” preferably one with a key and a lock.” – Alice Walker, In Search of [...]

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Violence in the arms of a sister: brutal hazing at black sorority leads to lawsuits

by Ope Bukola October 4, 2010
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I was pretty horrified when I saw the link to this story (hat tip Change.Org) about allegations of brutal hazing by a San Jose State University student who was pledging the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. I have great fascination with black sororities. I’m not/have never been in one but, as someone who grapples with sisterhood [...]

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