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How do you manage your online identity?
I'm curious how all the 20SBs manage their personal identities online.
I have a personal website, complete with its own domain name. I blog under my real name, and use my real name when commenting around the blogosphere. And I'm on LinkedIn.
What do you folks do to manage your online identities?
I have a personal website, complete with its own domain name. I blog under my real name, and use my real name when commenting around the blogosphere. And I'm on LinkedIn.
What do you folks do to manage your online identities?
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Permalink Reply by nicopolitan on -
I work in Social Media so this question can get me talking for long enough to bore you to tears - but I have a basic understanding of my names thus far:
nicopolitan - my ubiquitous username, all cards on the table
my real name - just as ubiquitous, but used for often professional purposes, some stuff not revealed by default
Though it's easy for a lot of people to put two and two together, distinguishing activities associated with these identities establishes that I have two lives online. I don't try to hide my work from my play, though, those are inextricably linked no matter what I do. I just don't make it a point to put that out there up front. Also, I don't do anything on the internet I wouldn't do in real life, and that's helped me out a lot.
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Permalink Reply by Pleasedonteatjo on -
I blog under the name Jo, or the name of my blog (please don't eat with your mouth open, a mouthful in itself but quite distinctive) and have separate email addresses for blog and personal stuff.
Twitter is blog people only, facebook is for the personal stuff...
I have recently started another blog which I'm hoping to be able to put my real name to once it gets off the ground, but that will be completely separate from my anonymous blog.
Not that it would really matter if some randoms were to find out my real name, but I suppose it just gives me more freedom to write if no one knows who I actually am. Particularly when it comes to writing about work.
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Permalink Reply by Greg Rollett on -
My name is my business, so branding myself and my business is one and the same! I do monitor my name (not just a big ego, I promise) through tools like Google Alerts, Twitter Search (Summize).
I do try and eat up all the social networking names as I can, although most of the profiles are inactive. I use the same picture on most sites to keep a consistent message out there and same with the URLs.
I think its all about consistency in what you want your online brand to be. You can't be a professional in one place and a beer bong drinker in another because it's just a few clicks away.
http://www.creatinggenymagic.com
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Permalink Reply by nicopolitan on
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hear hear, dude. i'm going to pick up your feed by pure virtue of this ethos.
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Permalink Reply by Jennie Roth on -
I used my full name for a while until I was newly dating this guy who googled me one night while I was at his place. I was the first 10 entries and that kind of freaked me out.
I made my tweets, facebook, and myspace private. I also took my last name off of my blog. I don't mind if other social media types find me because we have a common bond. But, I really don't like the idea of my old school co-worker stumbling upon my tracks on teh internets and asking me all about it.
I'm not at all ashamed of my internet presence, I just have a hard time explaining it to people I have just met who can roll up a whole ball of judgement and juggle it in front of my face, if not throwing it.
It's especially weird if you meet someone you're interested in who isn't "in."
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Permalink Reply by NoOrdinaryBen on
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Now that I officially work in social media and don't have to hide my online identity, I can continue to blog under my own name but with substantially less paranoia. It's all connected - the blog, facebook, linkedin, mybloglog, flickr, twitter, blah blah blah. Easier to do when you're not anonymous.
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Permalink Reply by Erin on -
I have multiple online identities. One for school/business and one that's personal. On both I use my real first name and photo, but I only use my last name on my school/business sites. Since I'm a teacher, I do not want my district, fellow employees, or the families I work with reading my personal blog. I know that my district googles employees, so I google myself often enough just to be sure you can't reach my personal blog by searching for my first and last name. Sometimes it's a pain to manage multiple e-mail accounts and websites, but for the most part it helps me to keep my personal and professional lives separate.
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Permalink Reply by Princess Pointful on -
I have the two separate realms... my real name, which is linked to my professional work, as well as my Facebook, and my blogger identity, which is separate from my real identity (different email, no names or photos, no pictures on my blog). The only real blending is that some of the bloggers who I have met or am in contact with on a more regular basis (e.g., via email) are on my Facebook-- but they are under strict instructions to never mention my blog on FB.
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Permalink Reply by Melissa on -
I'm pretty much the exact same! (minus the photo rule; I've found that bloggers are sometimes the best help when it comes to haircuts and potential outfits!)
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Permalink Reply by Mindy on -
When it comes to my blog, I'm using it mostly as a "columnist" template, so I have little boundaries when it comes to my name, who I am, where I work.
However, I tend to stray away from personal tales as much as possible. Yes, some make for good entries, but I prefer my blog to sway toward the commentary rather than the personal. I guess, at times, I straddle that line a little bit by critiquing things I have personal experiences with.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Robinson on -
I have my blog at Wordpress, and my full name is part of the link because I don't give a shit. I have a Facebook profile which I use sometimes, and a MySpace that I barely read anymore. When I speak, I usually go by Mike. My dad's name is Mike also, so to avoid confusion, I've started writing and having things addressed to M. Edward Robinson. Has a nice ring to it.
Either way, I only have a couple of aliases, and they're just characters that pop up from time to time when needed.
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Permalink Reply by Ben on -
I blog under my first name and I am happy to post photos of myself here and there.
My Facebook only gets shared with friends and I recently culled that list down to people I am more comfortable with having that access.
I do write news for a technology site, which my full name is linked to.
You could link through to my blog with a bit of effort from there.
Basically I try and keep my full name associated with more professional stuff, but a small amount of overlap is acceptable.
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