The Facebook Professional Edition

If you are involved in social media (or if you want to be), then no doubt you have started to run into the situation where your PERSONAL and PROFESSIONAL lives overlap. You might have a personal blog but a LinkedIn profile. You may have a Flickr account and an OpenID. And, of course, you will have more than a few of your colleagues listed as Friends on your Facebook profile.

But is there a way to hive off part of your Facebook profile in a way that works for your professional life? Is it possible to manage Facebook in a way that ENHANCES your professional profile? It seems that there is!

Boris Epstein has a great post on using Facebook for Networking. It involves:

• Setting up separate Friends lists
• Identifying relevant professional groups
• Participating in group activities/discussions and events

Just make sure that you remember that with social media, you are always on the job!