Astute observers will have noticed inconspicuous buttons in the left-hand column, pointing to my profiles on LinkedIn & Facebook. Feel free to add me as a contact or friend on either, if you happen to use them.
A lot of folks approach the co mingling of blogging and “work” with some trepidation. There is a small history of bloggers being fired based on what they write when not at work. For some, the approach has been to either throw caution to the wind, or to simply blog anonymously.
Myself, I just figured this blog was so low traffic, it really didn’t matter. Plus, I don’t write anything about work. However, at the same time, I was reluctant to put links to this site onto my other social networking profiles… as if anyone googling my name wouldn’t find this blog anyways.
I finally decided there’s nothing I could possibly write that is going to get me fired, or that would really bother me if someone at work, somehow, stumbled across it. That’s the internet, plain and simple; it’s all out there. Short of ending this blog and re-emerging elsewhere with an assumed name, that’s just the way it is. That being said, I don’t plan to change the way I do things, though I would like to start posting more regularly (and something more thoughtful than links to random ephemera).
Hence, the addition of the social networking links on the left, and the addition of links back to this site from those sites. There is no myspace link (although I do have one), as I like to pretend that myspace does not exist.
As a result of this drastic step, I expect everything will continue on pretty much as it was before. Enjoy your weekend!
