Posts On Thursday I am doing a guest lecture for students in Web Publishing 206. I am talking about the different identities I have online and why I do my digital presence that way .
I started it as a regular post, ran out of time, so have just added some links at the bottom that I want to use during the session.
POTTED HISTORY
I began using the Internet in 1989 but apart from personal contributions to newsgroups I did not create an online presence until 1996 when I published a raw HTML document on Murdoch University’s servers called: Authoring web pages using skills you already have as a librarian after I gave a presentation at an Internet Fair held by our professional organisation.
In 1997, our son’s birth announcement in the newspaper included a link to a webpage that we created to show pictures of his progress in hospital as a premature baby. I was also very active on a web based forum for mothers who were expecting babies in February 1998 at parentsplace.com. At the time, I couldn’t mention to other people the friendship, support and network that we built because there would be just to much to explain – like what the internet was and how relationships could be rich or real.
SIREXKAT
I posted to Parentsplace as sirex . My cat, Nougat , is a Cornish Rex with Siamese markings, which is called a Sirex . (See A post about my cat if you must 
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I forgot my login one day, and had to create a new one – Sirexkat .
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And that’s as far as I got with prose, so here are the links that I will be using today:
IDENTITIES
Blogging:
My personal/professional blog: Librarians Matter. I blog to be a node in a conversation and to contribute my bit so that others keep contributing their bits that I so love to interact with.
My professional “CV” that uses a blog” KathrynGreenhill.com
My professional group blog: Libraries Interact
I use the blogging platform, WordPress, as a tool to create many different web presences for many different purposes.
Twitter accounts:
My *nonpublic* Twitter account for my informal Personal Learning Network: sirexkat.
My public Twitter account that is associated with my blog, rather than me as a person – for feeds from Librarians Matter, conference and event blogging and links that would otherwise go on my blog, libsmatter .
An explanation of the difference between the two accounts: Twitter identities @libsmatter and @sirexkathryn
My “working for Curtin University” Twitter account: infoventurer
My “here’s where you will find me” Twitter account from when I worked at Murdoch University. It was featured in a widget on the sidebar of my work blog: whereskathryn
My “output from group blog” shared Twitter account: libsinteract
I use the Tweetdeck Twitter client to manage these.
It is not difficult for me. Just like you wear different clothes at work and talk to your boss in a different way to how you talk to your kids, I find it easy to slip into the appropriate “channel” – in fact I would feel uncomfortable mixing them up.
Elsewhere online
Flickr
FriendFeed
Delicious
Slideshare
YouTube – sirexkat and infoventurer
HOW I GET THINGS FOR MY BLOG.
It took me 6 months of blogging before I knew what the tagline should say.
I am very aware of how people are getting to my blog and who is being part of the conversation. I use Sitemeter and check it daily.
About sharing limits on my blog: Drawing the veil …
A workshop I did at Podcamp Australia in 2007 Blog fodder – what do I put in? . A movie showing me describing Ellyssa Kroski’s categorization of different types of blog posts , Lego trainset 111 – Happy Halloween
I was at the lecture today, and I thought it was great!
I particularly liked how you identified your main purpose for blogging as to be a node in a community, rather than just promoting yourself or whatever. I like the more casual approach you take towards blogging (as in not forcing yourself to post x times a day) – it’s a less intimidating approach to maintaining a web presence.