I deliberately included more light off-topic Twitters today (Saturday) because, well, it’s the weekend. That’s another possible separation line.

Adrian’s suggestion about filtering through Delicious to get just the annotated bookmarks without the chat sounds very much worth looking into. Embarrassingly, I’ve never learned how to use Delicious, but I can put that on my to-do list.

Worse, while I have a Twitter Grade of 92, I fear my off-topic esoteric tweets might even put off some of my blog readers. While some of my social networks do overlap, I let the individuals decide for themselves what input they want from me.

Another problem is that if, in the future, you decide to split the networks up and stop providing Twitter feeds on the blog, will there be a backlash from readers? You have hit upon a very interesting set of dynamics; I am looking forward to what others have to say on the subject.

I personally feel it’s okay to blend a little of the personal into a business blog – all of the facets of life are what make us individuals and may help people understand so much more about us. But there are certainly times when it will be too much (so I don’t usually post details about my lunch!!)

It’s something we hear a lot. At the heart of this latest online landscape: the best way to extend your brand, make your point, influence your constituents, whatever – is to be entirely transparent. Live your life (your lives) online – blend the personal and the professional. (Most recently heard from Rick Klau at the LMA event in SF, last week. He’s a classic example of such.) The point has also been made: it wouldn’t be very different from the way we conduct ourselves off line (business lunches, client entertainment, networking parties, golf, etc.)

But I still return to that very personally defined hurdle: whether or not my blog readers want to hear what I’m having for lunch, or which Grateful Dead video I’m watching on YouTube. (There are a bunch of great vids there, btw.):-)

Do people still conduct business over golf? And would it handicap the game to Twitter about it?

I love Twitter and post regularly, daily – but am reluctant to stream it onto our blog (scoop.jdsupra.com) because not everything I tweet is on topic.

If I used Twitter exclusively as a two-way social bookmarking device (“this reading interests me; what interests you?”) then, sure, I’d do it. But a personal hurdle seems to be: seeing the two – traditional blog & micro blog – as having a slightly different ambiance to them. One more serious than the other.

I suppose this is a personal bias – you Twitter stream integrates well, after all – and I’ll have to re-think it. In our next blog revamp, around the corner, I will stream in social bookmarks – many of the links to interesting reading that I share on Twitter – but by filtering them through another service (like Delicious, etc.) I’ll spare the blog readers from hearing about my kids, and how they like to make homemade potato chips with grandma.

A personal bias, I realize, and each blog (and its editorial context) calls for something different.

Short answer: yours looks good.

Adrian