If you work in the field of social media, I'd love your thoughts on something.
I'm doing what I should have done a long time ago, and building a page at my christiekeith.com domain, which I've owned and done nothing with for years now.
It's just going to be a simple CV site, and I want to pull all or some of my social profiles into it. And that's my question: How many is the right amount, and how many is just embarrassing?
Obviously my Facebook page, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and Pinterest (which wouldn't be obvious, but I do have a couple of boards there that are related to my work, so I'd like to include that profile).
But what about Foursquare, Yelp, YouTube, GetGlue, and Instagram? I almost exclusively use those for my personal life, but I do use them and I want my clients to know that I'm very familiar with them. And when something new looks interesting or like it might have potential to help my clients, be good for animal adoption, or take off, I always at least try it out. And at a certain point, I think it just starts to feel absurd to list all those profiles.
The question is, what is that point?
What do you think?
Well, you don't want to appear to be a social media addict, since people will be hiring you to get a job done.
Maybe just TELLING clients that you are familiar with those platforms.
Posted by: H. Houlahan | 09 April 2012 at 07:14 PM
I'd list what you mentioned listing and just add that you are proficient in the others. You could add Linked In, if you do that. You could cite some stats or successes for each, but I'd only link the ones you stated as the obvious ones to add.
Posted by: Amy | 09 April 2012 at 07:38 PM
As this is a CV and the idea is to mention breadth of experience as well as depth, I'd list the ones you mentioned plus YouTube, but also note proficiency with the others.
Posted by: Shalea | 10 April 2012 at 10:12 AM