Blogging and over-sharing

This is a thought provoking post, published on the Blog Herald. In it the author asks whether it is possible to "over share" on your Blog. The answer is a resounding yes as they link to a post which advises caution over how much personal information you share.

This is a difficult area as the Blog Herald suggests, people like personality, if we all wrote in the same style it would be a very boring world and blogging is about collaboration or including your readers, hence why comments are so valuable and should be encouraged, but there does need to be a balance between writing professionally and personally.

As an aside I'm currently thinking about changing the name of my blog to "The Running Librarian" one because I run and and two because I'm a Librarian, thats two pieces or personal information right there!

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    # by Dumpling - Wednesday, October 10, 2007

    I like the Running Librarian as a title, it's distinctive!

    I find it hard to be professional, vaguely interesting, and discrete at the same time. I tend to go for a very informal style of 'speech', which can make me look a bit immature...but I prefer that to overly formal, so I'm sticking with it!

    And as for's hard enough for me to share anything without knowing if I've gone to far (corporate cloak and dagger culture etc), so I don't think that's going to be a problem for me....

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    # by Anne Welsh - Friday, October 12, 2007

    "The Running Librarian" - brilliant! How much more action-based can you make a title sound than that?