Being boring online

Posted: October 28th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Life | Tags: , | 3 Comments »

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  1. 1 Tweets that mention Being boring online | edustir -- Topsy.com said at 9:34 AM on October 28th, 2009:

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  2. 2 Andrew Careaga said at 10:23 AM on October 28th, 2009:

    I think Twitter has affected me in much the same way. But so has my decision, 2 1/2 years ago, to abandon my old “personal” blog (which I still haven’t managed to kill) and focus on my higher ed blog. By following other higher ed and marketing/PR bloggers, I was persuaded that a more focused and, um, professional online presence was appropriate. Not that my other blog was really all that interesting. But sometimes I miss the sense of freedom that I felt I had with that one. Maybe I’ll resurrect it one of these days. It’ll probably still be boring, though.

    By the way, you’re not nearly as boring as you claim. At least the online persona of you.

  3. 3 Ron Bronson said at 10:56 AM on October 28th, 2009:

    Thanks Andy.

    I think for your part, focusing on the higher ed blog was a smart decision and probably just a result of the economics of your time and an ability to manage to keep up with all of it effectively. Same here with me and this blog and if I hadn’t put the energy into it, it wouldn’t have flourished and I’d be a lot worse for it. I think going forward, I probably need to think less about “strategy” in relation to how I communicate and instead, think about some more esoteric things in the delivery of my own self-expression. Not because it has anything to do with people who read me online, but more because I feel like it’s negatively effected the way I communicate offline in some significant ways to people who don’t have a background on me already.

    Thanks for the kind words and being a supportive reader from the start of this little experiment. :) I’m not boring, that’s the thing. But when I start to feel like it…probably time to recalibrate.

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