Social Media Housekeeping Tips for 2012

Social Media Housekeeping Tips for 2012 Social Media Housekeeping Tips for 2012 For a few short days, you will wear what you should wear, and bedrngnis what you should not wear. Youll swear off cable TV and hit the treadmill instead. Youll pick up heavy books and ruminate on weighty thoughts. Youll catch yurself before speaking ill of yur spouses sweater selection. And then, in a pattern too predictable for a Medium episode, we will all fail.We will become TV watching, non gym going, non reading, judgmental and over-eating people again. We will become ourselves once more. However, we have a saving grace that we did not have before. We have our alternate digital lives that can continue January Firsts bold plans for the future and grasp what we too often drop. Our social media selves may be our only hope to make our resolutions live on and forever suspend our temporarily thin faces in thoughtful and intellectual expression.So this New Year, show your digital identity some respect and it may return the favor. Here are a few housekeeping tips to tidy up your online identity. After all, your digital self may be the only one living up to its promises.Take a new picture. It matters. Are you using one from 2006? Do you have one of your kids half framed in the picture? Are you wearing a tuxedo? Tidy it up and make sure your image is current and engaging.Pare back. Run through your LinkedIn connections and take the time to de-connect with everyone that you dont know. Its a waste of time that you dont need in the new year. Prune back think about Swedish design principles while youre clicking away.Go old school. Did you use a set it and forget it approach to your Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook accounts? Are you auto DMing your new followers or pushing out RSS feeds through your social accounts? It might be time to just bag all of that stuff. Manually update the networks you care about. If you find yourself not updating certain networks, dont feel guilty about it. There s a reason you dont care about them they dont matter to you. Trust your gut.Drop out. Thats right. In the US, there are 3 social networks that matter LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter (maybe 4 with Google Plus). If youre getting emails from other ones, its time to quit. Ask yourself if there is true value and if you have the time to use it for some business purpose. If not, dont sign up. Youre probably not missing much.Clean it up. Run through your profiles and make sure that you look like you want to look to the world. Use this time to take out personal info that youre not comfortable sharing. Delete irrelevant positions, use concrete language that sells, and make your profile useful. What does that mean? If you sell widgets, give people a reason to buy widgets from you.Divide conquer. Use networks for clear and specific purposes. Separate business and recreation and your family and friends from your casual business acquaintances. Take some time to set up Google Plus circles, Faceb ook lists, LinkedIn tags but whatever you do, do something. Dont attempt to portray your whole self to everyone, because all of this social media stuff will never add up to all that you are.Were all trying to make 2012 the best year ever the year that we live up to our best selves. So while we try to keep our promises, lets be sure our social media selves arent weighing us down and even, perhaps, pulling us along.Master the art of closing deals and making placements. Take our Recruiter Certification Program today. Were SHRM certified. Learn at your own pace during this 12-week program. Access over 20 courses. Great for those who want to break into recruiting, or recruiters who want to further their career.