Comments on: How Much Personality Should My Blog Have?

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:27:13 +0000

Beth,
Thanks for the comment, and the push in the right direction. I have changed my title from “Marketing Tips” to Roundpeg Blog. I have to learn, sometimes you need to be more obvious.

By: Beth Robinson

Beth Robinson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:23:44 +0000

Hi Lorraine, I’m visiting from the Problogger challenge. I almost clicked away because I couldn’t find your blog on your business page. Maybe when you comment you could point directly here?

I’ve been struggling a bit with the same issue. I reader focused my blog (instead of personal focused) in Jan and then felt I’d wiped myself to far from it. So now I’m swinging back around a bit here and there trying to find a good balance.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:39:00 +0000

Chris,
http://splitweet.com/ is supposed to allow you to manage multiple Twitter accounts. I haven’t tried it yet, so I don’t know how well it works.

By: Chris Fyvie

Chris Fyvie — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:17:07 +0000

Thinking about it a little more, I guess I do stay very straight on my business blog and LinkedIn profiles… but I use Twitter and Facebook for the fun stuff. I bet that anyone using Twitter for business will soon have two profiles. One for your friends/family or close personal network and the other for business. That’s exactly why I started snapping up Twitter User names. I wasn’t able to get @sex or @beer but there were a few that will work very well for my business. Now to find the best program to manage all the names at once (any recommendations?)… hopefully it will include a feature to update Facebook, LinkedIn and Digsby all at the same time.

By: Chuck Gose

Chuck Gose — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:43:28 +0000

I find that I just can’t seem to balance the commitment between a business blog and a personal one. I update the blog for my business on a daily basis (for the most part) and just find it to be a bit daunting to them manage a blog for my personal thoughts and opinions.

Taking off of what the previous commenter said, I suppose my Facebook account activity could be perceived as a personal blog. And yes the data may be controlled by Facebook, but at least it’s only being seen by the right people.

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:36:55 +0000

I’m currently just writing one blog, a ‘professional’ one. When I spent a month in Japan recently I created a separate personal blog site just for that; it was better for me than entrusting all that personal data to Facebook and I could upload higher resolution images and video. I installed a WordPress plugin to announce new posts on my Facebook account for me too so that worked out great and my family and friends loved using it as a way of keeping up with what I was doing over there. Most of them have no interest whatsoever in my marketing oriented blog so I think a personal ‘extension of Facebook’ blog works pretty well, you can password protect it if you want, and keeps that stuff away from the work stuff – you have two audiences, some might cross over but very few will.