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I have a single Twitter presence and that is both professional and personal. I've been interested to see how others use Twitter though as I signed up early when that blend was more standard. It's a tricky decision as a blended account needs to be real and personal but what you post does reflect on your organisation. I think generally that's not an issue - and even a personal only account reflects on your employer - but it can make the process of tweeting feel a bit different for some. I do actually have a second Twitter profile in case I ever needed to split my tweets but I have an established following and a clear blended work/personal voice which is why I've never used that second profile. One thing I do advise my colleagues is to keep their tweets quirky - part of what works on Twitter is the little details, personal moments, photos of dinner, etc. that turn the tweets from an information update to an engaging update. People are at the heart of any social media so even on an organisational account some degree of personality can be really useful for engaging your followers, for really building up dialogue. But then again Twitter can also be used like a succinct RSS feed of sorts and those tweets can certainly remain very functional and still be highly valued. I would be very interested to hear how many do have separate work and personal Twitter accounts too. - Nicola. On 28/03/2012 12:14, Helen Williams wrote: > Sorry for coming late to this - after no messages for over an hour I suddenly have all the e-forum emails come through at once! > > Thanks for all the locked/unlocked comments - very interesting and I'm going to have a re-think about what to do with my account. Like Celine I can see the balancing act being tricky. I had intended to use Twitter solely for work related stuff, and keep Facebook personal. I started locked while I got used to things with Twitter. But as friends outside work started following me, and as I started to get to know work-related people better and met them in real life I found that the personal/professional boundaries blurred a bit and I never got round to rethinking. > > How many people have separate work and personal Twitter accounts? > > Helen > > -----Original Message----- > From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of C.J. Carty > Sent: 28 March 2012 11:00 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Personal/professional separation > > This is an interesting question as I originally kept my Twitter/blog use solely professional and extremely limited. I still don't really follow any "friends" on there, pretty much everyone is library or cataloguing-related. > If I used Facebook I'd probably keep the personal stuff there. > > However, over time you get to know people and are quite friendly with some of the colleagues - particularly if you also know them in real life. So there is definitely a growing sense that my account has more of a personal/professional blend (I do now mention my children, or talk about knitting, or whatever) with the people I know quite well. It's an odd thing and not what I originally intended. However, partly it's a good thing as I have made some great friends through Twitter just as you might have good friends at work. It's a slightly uncomfortable balancing act I find though. > > Celine > > On Mar 28 2012, Claire Choong wrote: > >> I try to be relatively anonymous anywhere I'm on-line, mainly because >> all my accounts are personal rather than officially for work. If we >> used social media in the library I would definitely keep this separate > >from any personal accounts I have. >> Claire >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Taylor, Wendy [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >> Sent: 28 March 2012 10:35 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Welcome! >> >> Thanks for all your comments so far. I'm interested that Annie keeps her >> Facebook account for personal use - I imagine many people make this >> distinction. I have a separate twitter account which I use to just >> follow non-library people. Do others feel the need to keep separate work >> and personal accounts? >> Wendy -- Nicola Osborne Social Media Officer EDINA website: http://www.edina.ac.uk/ t: 0131 651 3873 e: [log in to unmask] a: EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 158-162 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PR The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.