The New Year always seems to lend itself to casting your mind back over the past 12 months and thinking about what you’ve achieved and what you need to do better.
What I’ve been thinking about is how my online life has changed, how much more time I’m making for it, and reflecting on what perhaps I’ve been neglecting or even sacrificed to accommodate my new commitments.
In the last 12 months I have
- created a persona in Second Life (Smik Chevalier)
- created an account at Blogger
- now you can find me at Smik’s Learning Space and Mysteries in Paradise - created a page in Facebook
- re-invented myself at me.edu.au
- contributed 165 reviews to LibraryThing
- set up a social networking space at CrimeSpace
- maintained a high profile at oz_mystery_readers
In some my postings here in December I wrote about the multiple personas that I have been developing. One of the things that you really become aware of in the social networking sites is that there are at least 2 distinct bits to the “virtual you” - in my case my professional personality, and then my recreational/leisure personality. Some conetnt is appropriate only to particular sites. I suspect ultimately this fragmentation will mean that some of the places I contribute to now will simply drop by the wayside.
Quite often in the work environment, you have little idea of what other things your colleagues are involved in. One of the things that me.edu.au does quite nicely is allow you to add external RSS feeds about your activity on the web. These display in your public profile under What I’ve been doing. Similarly you can then track the activities of your colleagues in My View. This also means that when you join a community you can find out quite a bit about its members, not just from what they post, but also from the bits of their profile they have made public.
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