Comments on: Does My Reputation Precede Me? http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/ The adventures of Joshua M. Neff, dreaming at full volume Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:17:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jessica http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-54501 Jessica Thu, 22 May 2008 23:53:16 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-54501 At the interview for the job I just got (wow that's lousy grammar), one of the people on the panel remarked that she had seen "your website." I froze for a moment, because that could mean one of about a dozen different sites, blogs, and social sites that I maintain. And while most are OK for public consumption, I couldn't help but pray that she had stumbled upon my personal blog, with its graphic descriptions of my sometimes crazy life. Thankfully she was referring to my Cool Librarian blog, which for the most part is pretty benign. For the most part.... As for my personal blog, I took some steps about a year ago to disassociate it from my last name and my "Cool Librarian" web presence. Surely, a savvy searcher or librarian could come up with the site in short order, but my main objective was to keep it off the first two pages of a Google search of my name or Cool Librarian (which I just found out didn't EXACTLY work, but it's good enough for jazz). So, yeah, I gave it some thought, I cleaned up what I needed to, tried to hide what I couldn't clean up (um, my LIFE), and let the rest go from there. And they hired mr anyway! At the interview for the job I just got (wow that’s lousy grammar), one of the people on the panel remarked that she had seen “your website.” I froze for a moment, because that could mean one of about a dozen different sites, blogs, and social sites that I maintain. And while most are OK for public consumption, I couldn’t help but pray that she had stumbled upon my personal blog, with its graphic descriptions of my sometimes crazy life.

Thankfully she was referring to my Cool Librarian blog, which for the most part is pretty benign. For the most part….

As for my personal blog, I took some steps about a year ago to disassociate it from my last name and my “Cool Librarian” web presence. Surely, a savvy searcher or librarian could come up with the site in short order, but my main objective was to keep it off the first two pages of a Google search of my name or Cool Librarian (which I just found out didn’t EXACTLY work, but it’s good enough for jazz).

So, yeah, I gave it some thought, I cleaned up what I needed to, tried to hide what I couldn’t clean up (um, my LIFE), and let the rest go from there. And they hired mr anyway!

]]> By: Bobbi Newman http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-48711 Bobbi Newman Fri, 02 May 2008 18:25:11 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-48711 Fortunately I've met in you in person so I know all that hookers and blow stuff is true, not just some plow by your enemies to bring you down :) I have to agree with you, I wouldn't want to work for someone who wouldnt' bother with some deeper investigation. I do think pretty hard about what i connect to my blog, etc, I"m not sure what the right level is either. Must think more on this, in fact I've got a post saved about managing your identity. Off to dust it off, hopefully it will be up next week! Fortunately I’ve met in you in person so I know all that hookers and blow stuff is true, not just some plow by your enemies to bring you down :)

I have to agree with you, I wouldn’t want to work for someone who wouldnt’ bother with some deeper investigation.

I do think pretty hard about what i connect to my blog, etc, I”m not sure what the right level is either. Must think more on this, in fact I’ve got a post saved about managing your identity. Off to dust it off, hopefully it will be up next week!

]]> By: effing http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-47038 effing Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:05:30 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-47038 I want to say, Oh, I would never link my bloghood with my real life, like anyone cares... but I'm not coming out of the closet until I have, I don't know, a book or 1000 subscribers or, I don't know, but something that makes me bullet-proof. A conference is fun, everyone on a level field, but when my job is at stake, I'm keeping my blogging to myself. It's too bad though, that I can't put my pic on my blog because, baby, I'm gorgeous. :) I want to say, Oh, I would never link my bloghood with my real life, like anyone cares… but I’m not coming out of the closet until I have, I don’t know, a book or 1000 subscribers or, I don’t know, but something that makes me bullet-proof. A conference is fun, everyone on a level field, but when my job is at stake, I’m keeping my blogging to myself. It’s too bad though, that I can’t put my pic on my blog because, baby, I’m gorgeous. :)

]]> By: josh http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-45759 josh Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:35:57 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-45759 Libraries have a reputation involving hookers and blow? Libraries have a reputation involving hookers and blow?

]]> By: Jeff http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-45758 Jeff Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:21:55 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-45758 Well you have gone very far in breaking the stereotype. If someone can shout that out at a conference and everyone's ok with it, that's a good thing. Of course, there is that other reputation of libraries that this plays into.... Well you have gone very far in breaking the stereotype. If someone can shout that out at a conference and everyone’s ok with it, that’s a good thing.

Of course, there is that other reputation of libraries that this plays into….

]]> By: Greg http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-45751 Greg Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:20:35 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-45751 *nods vigorously in agreement* *nods vigorously in agreement*

]]> By: josh http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-45750 josh Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:57:58 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-45750 It's better to burn out than fade away, Steve. It’s better to burn out than fade away, Steve.

]]> By: Steve Lawson http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-45749 Steve Lawson Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:53:36 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-45749 Josh, you make career suicide look <em>good</em>. Josh, you make career suicide look good.

]]> By: josh http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-45710 josh Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:52:49 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-45710 For a minute there, I thought you were rickrolling my blog post! Phew! Thanks for the endorsement and the link. For a minute there, I thought you were rickrolling my blog post! Phew!

Thanks for the endorsement and the link.

]]> By: eudaimonkey http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/comment-page-1/#comment-45682 eudaimonkey Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:50:39 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/04/21/does-my-reputation-precede-me/#comment-45682 Ah, there's worse company to be sharing a muse with than that old Kentucky farmer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urxx1QnFa2M Heartening and necessary work you done there, Goblin. Ah, there’s worse company to be sharing a muse with than that old Kentucky farmer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urxx1QnFa2M

Heartening and necessary work you done there, Goblin.

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