Recently Amy and I revealed stuff about ourselves on our personal blogs. I caught some flak for it where I cross posted it (a group blog) and Amy just plain caught flak. Which got Amy and I to talking about all this. When is it okay to post personal information on your business blog. Or is it okay at all? Amy and I talked about stuff that was once only whispered or just not talked about. I think we both feel good about what we wrote, I know I do. But how do you feel about it?
Well, Amy wants to find out! She wrote a great survey and talked about the details on her blog—Contentious » Survey- Online Professional-Personal. So, take a gander.
Why now? Why should we care? The problem is, I think, that blogs started off as very personal efforts. We knew about peoples' struggles. We knew about their lives. Then as business blogging 
grew people started setting up rules for themselves, and others. Is that limiting? Are there rules. What about when something great happens in your life? Or bad? It's obvious from this blog and my others that I have rules. Sometimes I break or bend them. Some rules aren't ever broken. Amy, and I, really want to know ... please fill out the survey. Hey it's only 10 questions. Go on, it's easy.
This is another one of the transition points in blogging and business blogging. We're looking at tough questions. This goes beyond getting fired. It goes beyond posting frequencies. It gets to social and business norms. It gets down to, how many blogs do I need to write about all that I want to write about. Do I have one blog with a category called personal stuff? Do I have six personal blogs to cover ranges of topics (the answer to your question is, yes I do)? This kind of questioning is good and really helps all of us be better bloggers, IMHO. I can't wait to see the results.
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