Quote Originally Posted by NbyNW View Post
My professional association decided to start communicating with our membership on FB, and as part of the executive committee I had to sign up for the updates and then my professional world started to leak into my FB network. Being "friends" with professional colleagues can present some awkwardness, but I deal with that with privacy settings and being thoughtful about my posts.
For work/professional related purposes, I might later. It's just enough to belong to listservs and staying current in terms of the latest developments through published sources with substantive articles. I'm also getting pulled into doing more formalized work related to cycling. I have reviewed some of the tweet links that some blogs and websites have posted, related to my profession and so far, it doesn't have powerful value just for professional updating. It might be different for meeting a client need with an urgent deadline or planning a workshop for a professional group.

Just for cycling, since my dearie runs a biz related to cycling, it's a bit freaky to see all his daily emails he gets being on multiple listservs. Because of his work he does need to respond to various folks, etc. I can't imagine FB added on top of all this.

Blogs can have value provided it is used as another technology platform instead of designing a website from scratch. Same rules apply: purpose, desired target audience, content regeneration frequency, etc.