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By: How Writers Handle Personal and Professional Lives in Social Media | Meryl.net

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:36:56 +0000

[...] Can You Be Personal and Professional in Social Media? discusses how to balance the personal with the professional. Mixing the two makes sense for most freelance writers because we’re in business for ourselves. Who we are is what makes us unique. No one can copy our formula that makes up our human brand. And that brand includes our personality that comes from both parts of our lives. [...]

By: 8 Guides For Becoming a Power Business Social Networker – GigaOM

8 Guides For Becoming a Power Business Social Networker – GigaOM — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:25:15 +0000

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By: Is anyone listening? | The Purple Lounge

Is anyone listening? | The Purple Lounge — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:58:19 +0000

[...] recent blog post from Web Worker Daily helps to put it into perspective and I’ve come up with a few tips of my own: • Think before you [...]

By: 3 ways to inject personality into your marketing « FCEdge Powerful Marketing Communications

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:58:35 +0000

[...] 3 ways to inject personality into your marketing It’s essential to find a way to inject personality into your social messaging to keep your audience engaged, writes Dawn Foster. “Social media is about conversations, and people have conversations with other people, not faceless corporations,” she notes. Sharing information about yourself and varying your topics and your tone can help humanize your message, Foster adds. Web Worker Daily [...]

By: mbmbrown

mbmbrown — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:42:58 +0000

enjoyed reading this post I’m trying to start ‘a’conversation with public servants (UK) about balancing the personal and professional in Twitter etc

By: Private or Personal in Social Media? – webworkerdaily

Private or Personal in Social Media? – webworkerdaily — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:30:55 +0000

[...] week, I discussed how you can be both personal and professional in social media: You can actually be professional and personal at the same time in social media without too much [...]

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Private or Personal in Social Media? – WebWorkerDaily (gigaompreprod) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:28:36 +0000

[...] week, I discussed how you can be both personal and professional in social media: You can actually be professional and personal at the same time in social media without too much [...]

By: How Much Time Should You Spend On Social Media? | Dawson Barber | Internet Marketing Solutions

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:21:33 +0000

[...] Do you use social media for personal uses, business uses or both? [...]

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By: Maribel Lackey

Maribel Lackey — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:18:15 +0000

Great post! I especially love your comment about treating the personal as what you’d chat about at the beginning of a conference call. Great analogy! I think this is typically a tricky area for people. Some share a little too much and some just have no personality.

By: Curtis Copeland

Curtis Copeland — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:27:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing this insightful article about social media. It has been a burden to process the personal and professional sides of Social media. Thanks for the article! Curtis Wedding Photography Miami

By: How Much Time Should You Spend On Social Media?

How Much Time Should You Spend On Social Media? — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:01:04 +0000

[...] Do you use social media for personal uses, business uses or both? [...]

By: rick

rick — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:59:08 +0000

Yes… but what that does is to force people to repress anything that goes beyond that definition of appropriate *all the time*. Again, that’s not what we do in real life. In real life, we might act silly, talk about personal (but not really private) stuff with friends in a bar, get drunk, etc. But we don’t have ways to so that online – we can’t be the silly, sometimes outrageous people we are to friends and be the appropriate, correct people we are in our professional lives. The issue right now with SM is that we continually are reminded that we need to be appropriate and if we aren’t there can be bad professional consequences… but then we’re asked to be ‘authentic.’Um…

By: Private or Personal in Social Media?

Private or Personal in Social Media? — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:02:14 +0000

[...] week, I discussed how you can be both personal and professional in social media: You can actually be professional and personal at the same time in social media without too much [...]

By: Jennifer Abernethy

Jennifer Abernethy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:38:48 +0000

Great Article! This is often discussed but not written about. Great Stuff. In my programs I usually tell folks 80%bus. 20% personal or 70/30. It’s good not to be a robot online and not just be all about work. On the flip side..keep private stuff..private.

I raise my glass to you!

Jennifer Abernethy
Author of the forthcoming book “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Social Media Marketing” (Alpha/Penguin) April 2010

By: Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:58:44 +0000

Joe, that is one of my favorite guidelines to use with people (mother, boss, major shareholder). If only Andrews had thought of that before he bashed Memphis right before a presentation at FedEx: http://shankman.com/be-careful-what-you-post/