Comments on: Personal, or professional… or both? http://cops2point0.com/2009/06/15/personal-or-professional-or-both/ Branding police work via social media Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:06:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Christa Miller http://cops2point0.com/2009/06/15/personal-or-professional-or-both/comment-page-1/#comment-565 Christa Miller Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:59:32 +0000 http://cops2point0.com/?p=316#comment-565 Hey Ari. I think the real problem is a fundamental lack of perspective when it comes to Internet stuff. Administrators and CEOs who hear "conversation" or "get personal" automatically think back to the news stories about MySpace/Facebook pictures of weekend drunk-fests (with or without Tasers), tweets about kids, spousal fights, and vacation plans, and so forth. Maybe it's more accurate to say it's not about "getting personal," it's about "having a personality." Hey Ari. I think the real problem is a fundamental lack of perspective when it comes to Internet stuff. Administrators and CEOs who hear “conversation” or “get personal” automatically think back to the news stories about MySpace/Facebook pictures of weekend drunk-fests (with or without Tasers), tweets about kids, spousal fights, and vacation plans, and so forth. Maybe it’s more accurate to say it’s not about “getting personal,” it’s about “having a personality.”

]]> By: Ari Herzog http://cops2point0.com/2009/06/15/personal-or-professional-or-both/comment-page-1/#comment-564 Ari Herzog Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:53:59 +0000 http://cops2point0.com/?p=316#comment-564 Whenever I hear people worry about mixing personal and professional, I raise the stereotypical holiday party when staff are encouraged--and many commit--to bring their significant others or spouses to the party. Which begs the question: Is the party a gathering among professional colleagues or a social hour with personal friends? If you take that concept to its social media conclusion, that's Facebook and anything else you want to use but are concerned about mixing the two. Whenever I hear people worry about mixing personal and professional, I raise the stereotypical holiday party when staff are encouraged–and many commit–to bring their significant others or spouses to the party. Which begs the question: Is the party a gathering among professional colleagues or a social hour with personal friends?

If you take that concept to its social media conclusion, that’s Facebook and anything else you want to use but are concerned about mixing the two.

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