I agree and you bring up an excellent point. I think it’s difficult to successfully maintain more than one Twitter account, and the longer I do this the more I realize that there are not many people doing it well at all.

In fact, I’m contemplating shutting down @JobSnob because I’m just not keeping up with it. My heart’s not in it anymore and I think that is my cue to turn it off and move on. It actually feels like it’s weighing me down because when I remember that I haven’t updated it lately and I’m frustrated that I don’t have any new material it makes me feel bad and like I’m falling down on the job.

Just like with blogs it’s not good when someone checks a Twitter account and it hasn’t been updated recently and the updates that ARE there are few and far between. Kind of like a run-down house with weeds three feet tall and a car with no tires in the yard. Better to have nothing at all than to portray that image.

Thank you for reading and for your input!

Stephanie

Great post – I too struggled with whether I should create ‘public’ or ‘business’ personas, both on my blog and on Twitter. Eventually, I came to the same conclusion you did, and frankly, I think a lot of professionals could stand to think about this before they bifurcate (oh, how I love that word) their personalities on these social sites.

Now, there are some exceptions – I do Tweet occasionally as @ForgeMil, or as @CollabNet, but those are cooperative efforts with work colleagues. I try to maintain a different ‘voice’ for those tweets, but when it comes to @guyma, I try to mix in personal with some tech/business stuff. I blog for CollabNet & also maintain a personal tech blog to discuss things not directly related to my employer – but I do mix some personal with biz on that one.

At the end of the day, people are going to be interested in what you have to say if you have something interesting to offer – a balance of personal and business is (IMHO) a critical component to achieving that. Neither my personal nor business life are interesting enough on their own to hold the interest of the average twitter or blog reader.

Nancy,

Part II is coming shortly…I promise. I’ll do my best to get it out tonight or tomorrow, and I’ll be happy to help you get yours up if you’d like.

Ben,

Thank you – as always! I love blogging too, and I am really enjoying your blog as well. We’re going to have to do more collaborative work.

Thanks so much again to you both.

Stephanie

So, the first thing I learned is that I should not set up my blog in Blogger (which I had started to do), but you didn’t tell me why.

Maybe the next trick – why I should write a blog too – will enlighten me further.

Thanks for the great post.