As I was going through my mail yesterday after returning from a week away, I was skimming through the Worcester Business Journal and saw an article by Christina Davis called "An Editor Gets Hooked On LinkedIn." It was pretty much a primer, a business persons course in Online Social Networking 101. And as I read it I can't say I learned anything new but it was intriguing none the less. I've had a LinkedIn account for about 5 years now, and it laid dormant for about 4 of them, but in the last year I've been slowly building a network.

But the thing that's frustrating about the suggestions in the article were that one of the people interviewed talked about how important it is to keep your status up to date; to tell everyone what you're doing every day. Sounds great, but I also have fledgling profiles on Facebook and Twitter as well, so who's micro-blog is best? I don't want to, and really can't practically update all three together. I can't seem to get them to read off each other's RSS feeds and I've only downloaded one of their plug-ins for my Blackberry. So do I have to choose one network?

I think I'll post a message to my LinkedIn network and see if anyone has any suggestions...

-- Mike