Will streaming every moment of my online day negatively impact my personal brand?
My experiment into the effects of live footage on personal branding.
This all started as a joke. Then the joke got serious. Folks on Brazen Careerist were talking about 'showing the best possible' personal brand on social media. I postulated that too much deviation from ones' real self would have negative effects somewhere down the line.
The questions is: How real is too real? Since a personal brand is about your professional self, I can automatically assume that a look into personal parts of my life is too much. What I cooked for dinner and what movie I'm watching are not professional activities...so, what is?
Since I do a lot of consulting work online from my home office, that would be the best place to be transparent about my professional self. The most transparent medium I can think of is live video. So, with the help of Twitcam, I will be broadcasting every moment of my professional day. Note: My feed is video only. Some of the conversations I have while working are privileged information, and I don't want to violate any NDA's.
Every time I start the feed, my Twitter followers will be notified. My Twitcam feed can also be viewed through my blog homepage. I'll be putting up a poll to see what viewers think about the feeds' effect on my personal brand.
So, leave me a comment. What do you think? Does my live-stream detract or add to my personal brand? Would you be more or less likely to hire me after viewing my feed?