Read an article on Traces Of Inspiration, that talked about how the blog is serving as a potential hiring tool. This is kind of an extension of the Online Persona that i have been talking about, but instead of doing it in multiple places like I am, the author seems to think that the blog should contain it all.
The other thing readers of both my blogs will notice is that I am pretty light on specifics of what i actually do. Maybe my postition is somewhat unique to many people working in technology, but disclosing too much of what I am working on is not a great idea.
That is not to say that I am disagreeing with the post’s author. I think we both are saying the same thing, the implementation is just a bit different. I guess that the big take away from all this though, is that regardless of how you decide to do it, a technology worker needs to have some sort of online presence.
The flip side of this is that you need to maintain some sort of control over over how you present yourself online. While I don’t feel the need to completely segregate my personal life and professional life in this blog, I could see where it might come back to bite you. So while there is nothing really too embarrassing or employment blocking on something like my Myspace page, it is not something that i am going to actively promote (say in the blogroll) or would want a potential employer to see as a first impression. So I sort of try and promote which face I want to put forward and to actively manage it.
