StoneTosser's Blog: Coming Back to Me

StoneTosser's Blog
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Coming Back to Me

The last six months have been amazing. Among other things, I've started blogging at Owning Pink, and I think I'm on the brink of discovering my true voice there, a blend of business and heart. I've also started working with The Clearing, a management consultancy that helps government and corporate leaders through major change initiatives. So in addition to my own little platform, I now have other places to stand on to get my message and my energy out into the world.

But each time I align with someone else, I have to write a bio, and this causes me to rejigger how I frame myself and present myself to different audiences. Being a marketer, this seems totally appropriate and necessary. But it's still tiring.

I think I finally got bio fatigue when I went back to update my LinkedIn and look at my poor, neglected Twitter accounts. I've pretty much stopped tweeting as I morphed in rapid time over the last year from strategic marketing/social media expert to strategic planning/leadership support consultant, to now... what? All that and more.

Facing my twitter account - with a following of social media types and the name of my strategic planning business, but wanting to tweet for Owning Pink, I wondered what I could call myself that would encompass all that.

Duh. I finally figured it out. @DanaTheus . Me.

Why was that so hard?

I wasn't trying to hide, I was just trying to be appropriate to each audience as I discovered that part of myself. But what I also realized is that my self discovery was out of sync and that in some places I had a better bead on who I was than in others, which made me less confident in some places than others, and more willing to hide behind a company name until I figured things out.

I still don't have it all figured out. But I am figured out enough to consolidate me. So here are all the places you'll find me. Come through the door that's most comfortable for you.

PS-Still doing stones but they've taken a back seat while I contribute more on the volunteer front again. I've taken up postitions on the board of the Distict Alliance for Safe Housing and the Arlington Economic Development Commission. Hope to get back to StoneTossing this fall!

Posted by Dana at 8/5/2010 7:05 AM