Last week on Twitter, @linkedinexpert, @marismith and myself hosted #lion: a tweet-in that asked the question: How open a networker are you on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter?. #lion came from LinkedIn Open Networker -- a person who grows their network as broadly as possible.
This week we thought we'd continue the #lion conversation with the question:
Are there limits of what you share about yourself on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn?
To get the conversation started, here's some food for thought:
- Lisa Nova poked fun at the over-tweeters among us in her YouTube satire Twitter Whore (viewed by over 730,000 to date.) None of us want to be that person, do we?
- Smart businesses know that a real person tweeting will win you more loyal followers. Just ask Scott Monty at Ford, @Zappos' CEO, or @TypeAMom, Kelby Carr who wrote a great post about this issue last summer.
- On a more serious note, Canadian child protection authorities were contacted by Twitter recently when a mother made comments about how she might get her children to go to sleep.
There are lots of things I might Tweet about, but choose not to. Does your tweeting have any limits? Do you save more personal information for FaceBook and keep LinkedIn strictly business?
Hope you'll join me the #lion discussion, Wednesday, January 22, 5:00 p.m. Pacific, 8:00 p.m. Eastern.
(here's the link to @linkedinexpert's blog on the same topic: http://twurl.nl/0wlfy0)
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Great topic. As you've probably noticed, I'm pretty open on Twitter, where I tweet as @Shaboom.
I've opened in the sense of "open to new conversations," as I frequently trace threads and look up the bios and web links to see what we may have in common. And it goes beyond common interest. If someone looks like they have a different point of view or knowledge base, or even if they're just a lot younger than I, I'll frequently follow to see what might happen.
I'm also open in the sense of "transparent." This is not news to people who have been in my online network over the years. I've written an e-zine for accidental entrepreneurs since 1998, or I use my life and work as a kind of lab. I share both what works and what doesn't.
One reason it's important to me to be quite open as I don't want to have to remember who I was pretending to be. Another reason is that it gets me out of the business of deciding who should like me or not. That way, new friends and acquaintances are most likely to get whatever attracted them in the first place.
I'm looking forward to more conversation about this. For one thing, I do feel there is a difference between the emotional striptease and transparency, especially when extended networks are involved. I'm intrigued by the distinction between privacy and secrecy, between discretion and hiding.
Another winner tonight, Peggy!!! Way to go, miss fellow lioness. hehee I'm so glad I was able to move mountains to be there again - it's really inspiring to see the connection and camaraderie!!
Cheers,
@marismith
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