The CX Blog

Clash of worlds? Well, sorta.

Many of us jumped into blogging, facebook, and other apps some time ago and joined up with friends–it was a social thing.  Slowly, the use of these apps started to include professional acquaintances and connections as well.  It was easy in the moment to just connect up through your most used channels–your blog(s), your facebook account, what have you.  Twitter came along and the same thing happened–started out social and took on more professional connections as you went along.

This is troubling for a lot of people and companies–they simply don’t have the control they might want.  There have been firings of employees that were not quite as–mmm–circumspect as they should have perhaps been.  Also, many of us share parts of our days, time off, weekends, after hours activities that are now out there in the ether for all the world to see.

I expect we’ll continue to coalesce and figure this collision of worlds out, as well as continue to grow a certain level of tolerance that will follow the now-accepted office wear that has absorbed jeans and a button down top as standard attire (does anyone still do Casual Fridays?)

Not only will we grow increasingly comfortable with the “clash of worlds” that used to have a wall between them, I suspect we’ll learn to appreciate and even levarage it, as Intel has recently indicated its willingness to do.(thanks: Social Path blog)

Personally, I’m just there.  It’s a mash-up of info.  And recently, when I had new cards made, I redid the communication info which now contains my phone, email, twitter, blog, and skype access info and now I wish I’d put Facebook in as well.  The reason: there’s just no way for me to undo the info that’s already out there about me.  I’m not sayin’ there’s a huge amount, like a google search returns thousands of pages on me–it doesn’t.  But there is a trail of information about me, some personal, some professional, and anyone I might be consulting with or working with has access to that information quickly and easily.  I figured I might as well go with the flow, rather than trying to sideline things.

I was at the first meeting of the SMC meeting here in Seattle last night–such a great, smart group of people, I look forward to learning and contributing to the info sharing.  One of the topics of interest that came up was the “clash of worlds” that’s described above and I look forward to hearing how people are handling that.

If any of you out there have thoughts on this topic, I’d love to hear from you!