Developments
Creating an online presence is not as easy as it seems. I’m not always good at frequenting Facebook, and always struggle with who to be friends with, and what groups to join. I’m loving Twitter though, and am happy to give my thoughts to the world (or whoever wants to listen in) 140 characters at a time. What I can’t seem to figure out though…Is where to balance personal life and business life on the web. I do want FB friends, but I don’t want all of them necessarily to know about the details of my life… or to comment on them in a semipublic forum whenever they want. Creating a group for this site might be a good idea, but I’m hoping enough of my ‘friends’ will join so that it doesn’t look like a ghost town to any potential clients.
This venture is new. It’s not 100% developed yet. I see it’s need and am happy to work on it, but I want to build it for the longterm, not just throw up a myspace profile and link to bunch of youth group bands.
If you happen to read this, let me know how you deal with being exposed on the web. Do you mix your person and business lives? Business… oh yeah. I’m off to create a linkedin.com profile!
April 7th, 2009 on 5:12 pm
and also http://twitter.com/churchsoundguy and
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000202772.
Hi Phil,
I love your site. I’m following your twitter now, and expect to post a link or two over the next week. You have good perspective!
You asked about how we deal with being exposed on the web. I’ve created a public persona (the one I’ve outlined above) and a private one, which I use for friends & family. I have different user names on Facebook and other places (I don’t have a private Twitter), and a private blog. I try to keep people from linking to both, and I don’t cross-reference from either one to the other.
So far, it’s working.
I work as a consultant for an AV company (www.ccisolutions.com) that serves and sells to churches, particularly in the “do it yourself and save” category; my Twitter and Facebook are intended to build competence in church technical volunteers. (Please feel free to use any of my Twits or any of the blog posts I write if it helps your blog/facebook/twitter.)
Hope that helps.
Blessings!
David McLain
You don’t do any installation work, do you?