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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:46:09 +0000

Hello All,

Fairly new to web 2.0 and reading your comments helps me understand that I am not the only one in transition. Mike

By: Amitai Givertz

Amitai Givertz — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:59:51 +0000

There have been a number of trends emerging along the 2.0 track enabled by the social web. Business 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are two that immediately come to mind.

Another trend to have emerged out of the social web is the attention to personal brand, reputation and digital identities.

A third element in all this is the reemergence of values like trust, transparency and authenticity, again enabled by the web.

So, I’m not sure if the question is how to keep public and personal personas separate but how to present a multifaceted and authentic “you” that transcends the once distinct roles we play.

If our personas have traditionally been compartmentalized in functions of work, family, play, community and so on, then doesn’t the social web flatten those barriers to also enable an accurate representation of who we are as “whole” people, evidenced in the content we generate, consume, and share?

By: Laurie/Halo Secretarial

Laurie/Halo Secretarial — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:41:00 +0000

Great post! I have definite concerns and wonderings about combining aspects of my “online life” with my “real life”. I have a business site and blog and I use Twitter and LinkedIn to promote them. But I also have a mom blog which uses the same Twitter account for connections. And separately I use Facebook which is so far limited to my in real life family and friends.

It’s confusing deciding which applications to use for which relationships and how much co-mingling there should be. It would definitely be nice to be able to post things and tag them to just personal connections or just business connections or both, depending on the topic.

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:42:58 +0000

Thanks superk. I’ll check out your fiction blog.

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Dave, despite living in the Bay Area and working in high tech, only a minority of my family, friends, and co-workers use social networking or web 2.0 sites with regularity.

To me, geography has less to do with it than mindset: You clearly have set out to be public blogger and have a public persona, which is reflected in not just your blog (which have I told you lately how much I enjoy reading?) but also your Twitters and your FriendFeed stream.

By: superk

superk — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:12:31 +0000

Hey there,

Great post. I’m also split between having two profiles, one public and on private, to manage the stuff I share with others. On my blog, I stress that it’s all about “fiction” as in creation, so nothing, or almost, is about myself.

Like French poet Rimbaud said, Je est un autre (“I” is another, or something like that), so for the creative side of myself that works fine. But when I want to share trivial stuff like my kids’ baseball highlights or what I ate for breakfast… I hesitate since some people follow me for the fiction part…

I’ll keep reading you, see if anything new comes up

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:05:32 +0000

Living outside the Bay, I wonder if I feel it more – most of my “real” friends aren’t on Flickr or FriendFeed. I call them on the phone, meet them for dinner, play with their kids, etc. Nearly everything I do online, I would call “professional” (tech-related) though of course some of the “personal” is exposed as well along the way. But you’d probably have to dig hard to find my personal travel photo albums – I see no need to share them “publicly” on Flickr. And I agree there’s a learning curve issue on many “Web 2.0″ sites… my mom gets ‘albums’ but tags or sets don’t mean much to her. (Another reason why Yahoo made a bone-headed move in shutting down their original, highly trafficked photo site for the “Web 1.0″ crowd.)