Gordon Haff crafted an interesting post this month on the Identity 2.0 conundrum, in which he notes that there is an increasing blurring of the line between personal and professional identities on the web.  I keep this “corporate” blog on Ingres, but include personal blog posts regarding music news and concerts since I am an avid music aficionado, with the intention that this mixes it up a bit by providing business and entertainment opinions. Regarding other identities, I keep all professional contacts in LinkedIn. I had intended to keep Facebook as my personal network, but find that colleagues ‘friend’ me such that I can’t consider all contacts there to be strictly personal any longer.

The topic reminded me of some consideration I have been giving as to how to weave social networking sites more into the fabric of the company. Part of what the IT team provisions to the company relate to communication and collaboration capabilities. (more…)