Ryan Wofford

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I was just going through my morning tweets, when I followed a link to what I thought was going to be a humorous picture or some comedic added value, but all I found was… MORE WORDS!

Yes, I unfortunately by clicking that link I stumbled across a service called Twitlonger, “For when you talk too much for twitter”. This web service offers registered users a place to spew beyond the oh-so-restrictive 140 characters of Twitter… Just what we needed.

The site admits that they’re kind of going against everything Twitter is about (but they’re doing it anyway), and encourage you to still keep it under the 140 mark, but they are there just in case you need to really wax poetic on a topic.

I’m sure this will be used as directed (especially considering the post I was exposed to it on was about coffee cups).

So, I’m in a bit of a conundrum… as most of you, I have a number of online social media accounts. Friendster,MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter… the list goes on. While it may seem the last thing I need to do is start with another one, the issue is that I have “multiple online personality disorder”. This makes consolidation risky, as I may alienate some of my followers with irrelevant content. Does this sound familiar?

The issue is when I started most of my online accounts, it was often for the multi-faceted purpose of 1) exploring new media outlets, and 2) to build my personal online brand around my dj moniker (dj.inc.) and my events/mix shows (@tempoatl) within the music community. Fast forward 10 or so years down the road and the situation I find myself in now is that my lifestyle has changed a good bit (getting too old for those raucous late-nights) and while I still maintain a LOT of the same interests and motivations around music and dj culture, I have picked up several new passions along the way.

For one, I’ve recently gotten engaged to a beautiful Ballerina and so we’ve launched a wedding blog over here at www.woffordchuhaywedding.com. And, while we don’t do as many dj gigs as we used to, Chris & I still have a successful monthly mix show on Proton Radio, and our website www.tempoatl.com still houses all of our downloads, pics, etc. Over the years, my love for food and wine has grown and I’d love to have a place to share recipes, pics and interact with other foodies, but I don’t think I will initially be posting enough content to warrant my own food blog. Additionally, as my role has grown with my day job, and technology evolves, so has my interest in marketing and business development strategies involving social media, which is apparent in a lot of my tweets (you can follow me on Twitter @djinc).

SO… how do I aggregate all of this information into some easy-to-find, easy-to-follow, and most of all (for me) easy-to-maintain platform. I think for now the short answer is, “I don’t”. I think for now I will still maintain these different properties, and keep a more strict eye towards policing the type of content I post on each to make sure it’s fresh and relevant for those who care and easy-to-ignore for those who don’t.

As for this blog, I think I will try to focus on social media, online strategy, and general ramblings / findings while I figure out how to incorporate a food blog on here as well and allow followers to choose if they want to subscribe to the social media marketeer “me”, or the culinary-wannabe “me”. For the music ramblings, free downloads, and event info… follow @TempoATL on Twitter and we’ll keep you posted with what’s hot in our world there.

Thanks for your patience & I’d love to hear more about how you other “multiple online personality disorder” folks manage your many web brands and properties.