Separate Blogging Personas
Lisa Williams follows up on her imploration to blog in one place, saying that having a separate workplace weblog is fine. China Weblog is kind of a work-related weblog. More like a job-search-related one, it being a way to prove interest in and knowledge of its subject matter.
On blogging anonymously because of career concerns: “I wanted to keep my highly constructed "work persona" strictly separate from my "home persona" as represented here on my personal blog. This was both because I had a personal interest in advancing my career and because I was absolutely certain that if I started blogging about my work I would be fired and out of the building before the end of the day.” She doesn't go into what made her change her mind, and it would interest me to know why. It would take a competent web searcher 5 minutes to de-anonymize me, and I'm making it even easier by pimping linking to the more official weblogs. I write the same way on my other sites anyway, or at least it feels like it. Just different subject matter, that's all.
