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If we don’t like your Facebook profile you wont get into college and we won’t hire you! - Social Networking for your Personal Life Versus your Professional Life.

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Facebook Increasingly there have been reports such as this about social networking websites, in particular Facebook. So by setting up an account with Facebook are you significantly decreasing your chances of getting that next job or inadvertently black-listing yourself from a college course? Not exactly… (more…)

Twittering, Flickring, Linking in, Facebooking…

Friday, January 18th, 2008

connected Continuing on from my last post and in an attempt to start putting some of my New Year resolutions into action, I have salvaged, updated or setup accounts for all of the below. Check them out and connect with me to say hello if you’re on them too! If I don’t know you, am not linked to you in some way or don’t know of you, I may not add you (”cheek!” says you). However, I will appreciate the thought and effort that you went to in saying hi!

I’m planning to keep all of these for professional/ industry related purposes (within reason!). In other words, you won’t find embarrasing photos of me getting drunk or on holiday (you wouldn’t find them anywhere though!). I’m using LinkedIn and Facebook for career and industry networking, I’m using Twitter for less formal networking (and as an outlet to add my two cents worth, to sometimes vent and to ‘twitter’) and Im using Flickr to display my photography. 

I think that that makes me sufficiently connected! :)