Following the pied piper of social media, you can now find me at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jcshepard
RT @BrickandClick Retweet @cheeky_geeky LinkedIn is my Rolodex. Facebook is my scrapbook. Twitter is my lifestream idea generator (hmmm)
I’m looking at my claim on my professional name @ LinkedIn as more of a defensive mechanism than an offensive move into new public policy career space. I am more and more convinced of the old saw: It’s who you know as much as what you know. So for those in the know, John Shepard be there on the Rolodex of Web 2.0. All 3 dozen of us.
Mostly it’s another bee in my bonnet on the topic of work-life integration. There’s some buzz going on there.
As for Facebook, yeah. Scrapbook. that’s good. I’m leaving lots of scraps on there. Not keeping track of my Friend-count to see if I’m scaring ’em away.
Twitter, tho, that is becoming my idea drug of choice, in multiple flavors @johnshepard, @jcshepard, @johncshepard. Watching The Matrix In Code. Good ideas. Bad ideas. Data, data, data….
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Hey JC, would love to hear the reasoning behind having numerous twitter accounts. I have two identities, journalist and singer-songwriter, so I was thinking of doing that. But then, sometimes it’s nice to cross-pollinate….
Have added multiple personalities to meet multiple Twitter needs. I’ve been trying to figure out how to blog this, but in summary:
1. @JohnShepard was 1st, in response to a political community. As politics & music topics mostly mutually exclusive…
2. @JCShepard added. Also used to follow non-political topics that get lost in larger tweetstream.
3. @JohnCShepard added recently, potential to use Specifically to paid work-related projects. Stuff I would post to LinkedIn.
I justify it on thinking about what my followers would be interested–I don’t care to see left-wing politics on music blogs, so they probably don’t want to see my Barry Goldwater love-fest on mine.
However, there is a care-and-feeding requirement to staying relevant and keeping it real. The net opens doors, sometimes those doors get really difficult to swing.