Essentially, I tend to write with my true voice on my blog, because it’s my blog and if there is one place I feel I should have full expression, it is there. Doesn’t mean that it’s not in the back of my head that employers check there. And there are some things that I used to write about that I don’t anymore because I know friends are reading and I don’t really want them to know certain things about me.

It’s funny, i always start a blog anonymously but become really excited about it as I continue to add to it. I start to tell people about it and then I become self-conscious and I feel it’s not nearly as honest and raw. I tend to boil down the content to a PG rating.

So, if you’re in a meeting with senior, formal business people, don’t call them “dude.” (Happened today at a meeting I attended and I saw people visibly cringe.) Don’t swear if it would offend a particular audience, because if they shut down their receptivity because they’ve been put off, they’ll never hear a core great message. I’m not advocating self-censorship. I’m advocating bringing our own authentic selves to a mutual meeting place with our audience.