Although most social media is used to connect on a more personal level with others, it has also become a way to build an audience for your creative work.
This week revolved around different ways to use social media in your career, and how it goes beyond promoting – it facilitates conversations, ask questions/advice, discovering technologies or techniques, and getting insight into the practices of other people within the industries you’re interested in.
The best way to grow the community interested in what your making is having clear objectives about what you’re posting and why. So it becomes more structured like a business and separate from a ‘personal’ account.
But social media, even used to promote a creative professional or their work seems to be less strict and is good way to connect with an audience further than presenting content to be consumed.
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For my own accounts I think it will be easier for me to use an ‘alias.’
Not so much an fake name but operate under the name of a company.
I find it is easier to discuss and write about myself and my work if I am a bit removed from it.
I think separating personal and professional media makes online users less likely to associate the person with their thoughts/feelings and more likely to view the work as it is (or – a good way to avoid becoming ‘Phil Fish’).
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