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Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

howardshippin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:35:55 -0000

Firefox users can use two different profiles (simultaneously), with the extension "ProfileSwitcher". I have done that, and themed the profiles separately in order not to be confused between them.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Josh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:39:13 -0000

I thought I was the only one who did the two-browser strategy! In fact, I'm using Safari for personal and Firefox for work, too.... Good work!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Paul Hassing — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:46:48 -0000

Very useful and well written. Many thanks! P. :)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Louis Gray — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:12:00 -0000

This is the first time I've seen the FFCheck bookmarklet, Ken. I'll "check" that out. A search string for the article is here: http://friendfeed.com/searc... It had strong distribution and I've seen it on Twitter search constantly since Sunday.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Jesse Stay — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:10:00 -0000

That said, this is the first time I've ever seen anyone complain about it.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Ken Sheppardson — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:09:00 -0000

Louis: I'm glad to hear it was a one-off. ;-) I noticed because I hit http://ffcheck.com on the post page and saw that every mention had a single like.

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Jesse Stay — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:08:00 -0000

I used to do this, and I've stopped, because I'm now sending my likes to Twitter. I figure it has to be really worth it now to like it, because my Twitter followers will be forced to read it as well.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Meryn Stol — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:07:00 -0000

"so I wanted to "like" that others shared it." ok... weird "test". I would not test in ways that spam my feed... Then maybe I'm one of the few who has FoF turned on.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Louis Gray — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:06:00 -0000

Ken, it was a test. The post was popular, so I wanted to "like" that others shared it. It's a one-off. I was wondering if anybody would notice. And you did!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Meryn Stol — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:05:00 -0000

Louis, I just unsubscribed from your feed. Just so you know. :)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Ken Sheppardson — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:02:00 -0000

Yeah, seeing "78 related entries from Jesse Stay, LouCypher and 67 other people" doesn't really help ye olde signal:noise ratio

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Meryn Stol — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:59:00 -0000

Ken, either way, I think it's very annoying. See http://friendfeed.com/e/13b...

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Ken Sheppardson — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:53:00 -0000

Louis: Are you using some tool to automatically Like every item generated from your posts or are you walking through them manually?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Chris Hall — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:15:24 -0000

Awesome post, Louis. I find the line between personal and commercial to be very thin at the moment, and liked what you said about being replaceable. It will be interesting to see what kind of ground rules evolve for this dynamic as time marches on.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

George Snell — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:52:44 -0000

Hi Louis:
This is a great tactical approach to keeping all of your accounts in line. Thanks for the tips. I certainly need them. The real question these days is not only how to manage them, but how to actually keep them separate and distinct -- and if that's even possible. And more importantly is it possible to keep them separate and private. Can a person have Facebook page for their personal life and interests and a work account with LinkedIn - and never the two shall meet?

That's one of the societal issues we'll be grappling with as social media platforms become more ubiquitous. I've tried to explore this concept in relation to Facebook here: http://tinyurl.com/cgq778. You might be interested in it and I'd certainly love to get your perspective on it.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

careersherpa — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:48:39 -0000

Thanks for this post. I am not really using social media for work, even more complicated. I am using it to create a personal brand so I can hopefully run my own business. I want to start using tweet deck. What do you know about www.ping.fm? It is supposed to sync all the tweets, posts and updates at the same time...right?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Bill Sodeman — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:39:47 -0000

I'll be reading this article closely... good information to pass along to my graduate students!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Dorothy Beach — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:00:58 -0000

Great post and comments worth your time too. I added to my own blog on frontendrecruiting.ning.com for those who do this for recruiting. Thanks!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Greg Santos — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:26:02 -0000

Sharp post and great ideas Louis. I use Twhirl's multiple accounts feature in a similar way and utilize Firefox and Safari to split the browser duties.

http://TacticalDiversion.com

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

mike ashworth — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:24:21 -0000

this is interesting. agree that when operating ion "company mode" must be spot-on with what you do then again shouldn't that be the same for "personal mode" too? the way this reads is that the person acts in such a ways when in "personal mode" that they wouldn't dream of acting like that in "work mode".

the thing is, it doesn't matter, if someone posts for their company all cool and pleasant and then like a fool in "personal mode" i'll still think of them as the latter.

i have just one rule "be yourself" trying to be more than one will lead to psychological issues and medication ;-)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

dj — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:30:24 -0000

so typical of people with 2 faces, I think you are missing the boat, social media is awesome because you CAN learn more about the people you do business with, if you are not prepared to show your personal face, then you should change your business, so typical of management being placed on a pedestal, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE???

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

stu — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:51:53 -0000

Louis - great post - everyone is struggling with all of the new technology and the various hats/roles that we all have. It is also great to see the nuts and bolts of what tools you use (I had my own attempt at this earlier in the year http://nohype.tumblr.com/po.... As more people get on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, I think it's harder to draw lines between the various roles for those of us who aren't using social media in an "official" capacity; you covered this in http://www.louisgray.com/li.... Thanks from the "garish" world ;-)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Mark Ivey — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:12:23 -0000

Louis: great tips, and you've hit on a big issue. I've struggled with many of these, in particular Facebook. FB has privacy controls and you can tweak it to separate your personal and business friends and interests, but as a previous commenter mentioned, it's limited (I wrote about this recently (http://budurl.com/p3x7) and I've had a couple of incidents where the controls didn't work. I'm continuing to explore this area, and after reading your post I'll give Disqus another try. Thanks for sharing.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Hal — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:28:48 -0000

Love the article. I think the most important thing you touch upon is the idea of being replaceable. Unless your own your business, the company's presence must have the portability to be assumed by what will likely be a number of people assuming you have not yet hired a Social Media person. I always stress that when I work with companies on their social media strategies.

ahr19: as far as I know, you can only have one tweetdeck window going at a time; however, you can open multiple accounts if you use twhirl (which is a far second to tweetdeck as far as desktop twitter apps go IMO).

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/how-to-cleanly-separate-personal-and.html

Will — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:02:40 -0000

Great information so keep it coming. Let me share what the CEO of Twitter had to say about the outlook of www.twitter.com. See him here >>>>

http://www.ted.com/index.ph...
ams_on_listening_to_twitter_users.html

Will