Daniel Hoang

Yet again I've added another social media site to my portfolio: Posterous. I also maintain Facebook, LinkedIN, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, FriendFeed, Blogger, and my websites: danielhoang.com, danielhoang.net, and danielhoang.org. Then there's a list of other sites that I've signed up and have totally forgotten about.

Penelope Trunk, founder of the Brazen Careerist network, wrote a piece a while back about unmashing the social sites. As I've opened and attempted to maintain these sites, I've built a brand around myself. However, as these posts are simply replicated among different networks, what value does it provide? As a reader, if there are any, they all appear the same. As a writer, it's too much work and too much time needed to maintain all these sites. Perhaps the method would be to reduce the sites, use mobile posting - such as posterous and iPhone to update - to better manage the portfolio.