#personalvsprofessional

[monteage-official]

📱✨ Which profile suits your vibe?

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Personal vs Professional Facebook Accounts: Differences

Understanding the differences between Personal vs Professional Facebook Accounts (Differences) is crucial for optimizing your online presenc

[whatisprojectmanagement-blog]

Is the title of “PMP” worth it?

Do you think all the steps to apply, learn the material, test, and maintain a PMP certification are worth the outcome? The answer will inevitably depend on personal circumstances and goals. Some considerations I am using to evaluate this question include thinking about how my current prospects compare to those I might have with the certification, as well as personal commitments and goals which could conflict with pursuit of a career in project management.

[nicolelee]

Personal vs. Public Identity

(Thinking of proposing a panel at SxSW around this topic, so mostly just trying to gather preliminary thoughts on the subject. Mind the construction, as it were). danah boyd's opening remarks at SxSW Interactive this year was absolutely one of the best I've ever heard. It was about online privacy and the intersection between that and what we choose to put out there in public. It's clear that big companies like Google and Facebook still don't know how to handle it -- not everyone wants to be searchable, and not everyone shares their ideal of a completely open door to our lives. But it's one thing to put stuff about yourself behind a private wall and not wanting to have that wall be breached. It's another thing to purposefully put stuff about yourself in public, on a blog or on Twitter, let's say, and expect it to never be found. danah gave an example of how a teenage girl doesn't want her Mom reading her blog, even though her blog is out there in public. Another example is how we used to greet each other with "A/S/L?" in chat rooms, but now all we have to do is Google your profile and we can know that stuff without asking you. Later, when we say "Hey, I notice you're from XX Location because I took the time to Google you", you might find it a tad creepy. But why? You placed that location of yourself in a public space. Did you not expect that people would find it? Perhaps you didn't. This corresponds nicely with one of my biggest concerns with social media; the intersection of personal and professional identity. I work for a large media corporation, and for better or worse, my employer had decided to tie my public @nicole Twitter account to my public image. My public tweets are actually piped into CNET.com and displayed there for all of CNET readers to see. Whenever I host podcasts on CNET, they will post my Twitter handle at the same time they promote the podcast. In essence, my @nicole Twitter handle has become my professional and public image. But, of course, it didn't start out that way. When I first started my Twitter account, I had very few followers, and most of them were people I knew in real life. It was just a fun space where I could talk about whatever I wanted. That was it -- no marketing agenda, nothing to promote, it was just me doing this new microblogging thing purely for fun. As my popularity grew, and as people at work began to notice it, I've had to tone down my tweets a little bit, and not be as personal as I used to be. The same goes for my blog, where I used to write insanely personal things about my family, my life, my thoughts, and now I don't do that so much. The problem is, I really miss the freedom of saying whatever I want to say online. It's part of the reason I moved to Tumblr. Even though this tumblelog is still public, it feels a little more personal, and I feel like not as many people know about it. Is it a false sense of security? Perhaps. But it's what I have right now, and a part of me hopes it never gets all that popular. Back to Twitter for a second. In order to counteract my public and professional Twitter image, I created a secondary private Twitter account, where only 20 or so people follow me, and all of them are friends I know in real life. I don't necessarily write about intensely personal stuff there, sometimes I just write about the things I'm eating or how I'm hurting after a night at the gym; the kind of personal stuff that might not suit the public Twitter account. Is the distinction arbitrary? Absolutely. Sometimes I'm really not sure which account I should post a particular tweet, making up the rules as I go along. Most recently, I created a third Twitter account. This one is public, but I want this to not be tied to my professional image at all. This third Twitter account is just for me to experiment with the art of telling jokes; the kind of jokes that my employer might not want on CNET.com. Again, however, the distinction is arbitrary. There are perfectly clean jokes that I think would be fine on either public account, for example. As you can imagine, this makes things a little confusing. If you wanted to @reply me, or follow me, which account should you choose? I have to juggle with three different Twitter personalities, each one different and yet the same. I don't really mind it -- I'm a little ADD that way -- but it does frustrate me somewhat that I can't be true to myself in a single space. Worse, it probably confuses my friends as well. From a few conversations I've had with friends, it seems like the personal vs. professional identity conundrum is a valid one. At least five of my friends have two Twitter accounts; one public and one private (I'm the only crazy bitch that has three). And this isn't just about Twitter -- Facebook and many other social services are being used for both professional and personal contacts, blurring the lines between friend and client, pal and customer. And that is simply the start of the conversation. PS. If there have been previous SxSW panels about this, I would love to know about them. Also, panelist ideas? I know the deadline is like four months away, but I wanted to get this stuff out of my head while it's still fresh.