The concept of defining one’s identity online has been discussed endlessly. I’ve worked to develop my professional persona through Twitter and lately, my website. However, as I enter a new stage in my personal life, I feel the need to document and ultimately share these experiences with friends, family and anyone who is interested.
However, I fully acknowledge that my professional contacts and readers of my website (all seven of you, hello!) may not want to read about my struggles with wedding vendors, stresses of budgeting and ideas for cheap dates for poor newlyweds. So I decided I would be one of the many to venture into the world of multiple blogs. Yikes.
This blog will continue to allow me the freedom of posting about a variety of topics – ranging from first date etiquette (thank you Twitter!) and book reviews to PR tactics and mishandled crises. Everything directly related to my personal life, and my transition from single to engaged, and later to becoming a wife (gulp) will be housed on my new site.
As I work to build up content and adjust to maintaining two separate sites, I will be a contributing columnist on Just Judy Judy Judy. Thanks, in part, to a chat with Judy, I feel comfortable and am ready to be the owner of two separate identities online. Eventually, I will be moving to a brand spankin’ new website, but until then check me out at Little Miss Bride to Be.
Here’s the question: How do you balance your personal life with your professional image online? Do you use two separate identities? Or, do you take the opportunity to showcase you as a completely balanced person?
