Some bloggers argue that you only become effective by putting more skin in the game, but is there such a thing as being too naked? Can you open your kimono in one blog post, and wear a button-down shirt in another? This panel showcases bloggers who opted to bring their personal lives onto their professional blogs, with varying degrees of success
panel notes:
– where to draw borders, boundaries between professional and personal life? that is the question for most of us, hybrid bloggers
– there’s a lot of talk about authenticity, being true and transparent — this is obviously the future
– some bloggers experienced being laid of, not being renew a contract and they suspect it has to do with their blogs
– a few have experience negative feedback from blogging personal stuff
– hybrid personal and professional blogs are difficult to handle, many questions are rising up
– blogging can be a significant improvement to your career and push you in a direction where your talents are of use
– professional bloggers blog for their own ‘platform’, not for a corporation they are working for
– m-c: people will tend to stop separating professional and personal life, meaning being the same person at work and in their out of work life
– googling someone to get information and get a pre-convince idea of who the person is is more and more popular
– is it healthy to combine your pro and personal blog together?
– by blogging thoughts you must realize that your thoughts are being exposed- would you send them to someone by email or on a bulletin board?
– many bloggers ‘blog because they have to’ — it is a need to express feelings and communicate ideas and thoughts to maintain sanity
– should we now, we when get hire by a company, mention that we have a blog?
– employers will have to adapt with the fact that employees are publishing personal and professional life information on the web.
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