Thing Three - my personal brand

I have now committed my first blog lie. After promising to return to Thing Two, I have gone straight to Thing Three. Highly duplicitous. I can only blame my becoming incredibly behind with the Things again (which in a way is just blaming myself for being lazy, disorganised OR very, very busy at work. - Please believe option three).

Now, my 'personal brand'... You may be able to tell from the way I have put it single quotes, that I am mildly disgusted by the very phrase. I know from reading some other CPD23 blogs, that I am certainly not alone in this. However, any Thing which flatters my ego by making me google myself can't be all bad.

I've logged out of my google account, for neutrality's sake, but possibly (hopefully?) google still seems to know I am me, as the first website on the list is my Twitter account, and the fourth  is my linkedin account.

This, mind you, is NOT me.

I don't even like Rhydian.

I currently keep my twitter account private, as I do my facebook -which should not even appear in google searches. I do this with facebook as I use it strictly as a personal network. I was more uncertain about twitter, as it's more of a mixture. But in the end, I made it private, to be on the safe side. I usually only accept followers if I've met them (though this has not been the case so much of late; after the New Professionals' Conference in June, I received a little rush of followers, not all of whom I recall talking to). I think this is a fairly good compromise. It means I don't have to worry too much about what I tweet, because it's not open viewing, but I can't also make links with other professionals. I think if you use twitter regularly, then you'll be used to the mix of tweets which people outpour. Certainly everyone that I follow tweet a mishmash of personal and library (or other field) related content, so I assume they will not mind that I do the same.
Saying this, as my twitter network expands, I think I will have to think more about my tweets.

My linkedin account could probably do wit a brush and polish, but I'll probably leave this till I'm next looking for a job. Which I like to think is an efficient use of my time.

So, to conclude: I do not have a personal brand, as such. Efforts that I have made on the web tend to relate solely to damage control. I hope that if a potential employer looked me up online, they would not be instantly repelled. For a start, they would not be able to view most of my online content. This does not make me memorable, but perhaps my CV will. It's to be hoped anyway.

Of course, none of this applies to this new blog of mine. I shall have to have a think about how I am portraying myself here!