Comments on: Blending Personal and Professional Brands

By: Alsingh3000

Alsingh3000 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:59:33 +0000

A excellent and thought post. Me and you have had this discussion before and it seems to be ever growing as more information is passed in our daily and busy lives. I love the book you put me called The Laws of Simplicity—Great read for anyone struggling with this phenomenon. I always take the late Bruce Lee advice on this topic “Absorb what is useful and discard what is useless”

By: ivsyd

ivsyd — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:40:19 +0000

Each person using social media sooner or later faces this problem. The trick here is to make a clear distinction between personal and non-personal information. The most important thing to remember is that your personal brand at some point could hurt your professional one.

I personally try to use FB for connecting with my friends and avoid using it for any business purpose. The reason is simple: if there is any chance of information you don’t want to become public to leak, FB is definitely the place it is most likely to happen at.

I use LinkedIn and Biznik to build my professional brand and have two separate twitter accounts

By: Roni Ayalla

Roni Ayalla — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:32:08 +0000

I’ve been struggling with the same questions. At first, my take on what I say on certain social media sites was simple: “know your audience.” I focused on social media/technology/MCDM issues on Twitter and my blog; Facebook was for my “real friends” back home.

That mantra doesn’t work anymore, however, as the audiences on each site are becoming more diverse.

By: rita rogers

rita rogers — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:05:53 +0000

glad you brought this up, as I often contemplate about the negotiations between personal/school/professional arenas in regards to internet identity. personally, I find fbook to be the most complicated in terms of the privacy settings and co-mingling of good friends vs basic acquaintances.