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Review: Retaggr.com
PROS: Easy to use, convenient, provides some excellent services, currently free.
CONS: Social Media Profile feature is simple and is more of a personal profile or supplimental site.
SUMMARY: A quick and easy way to track your social media involvements and make them easily accessible to people. Worth the free price, and actually worth the nominal yearly fee they may eventually charge for some services, depending on your needs.
I am all for using your hobbies professionally. Indeed, I think the ideal life is one where your hobby and job don't exist – what you'd call "hobbies" and "jobs" are so fused you just have a "life" where the things you like make you money and give you social involvement. To me the holy grail of professional geekdom is like that – a life with no outside (or inside).
A flaw that afflicts some progeeks, and that many don't speak to, is that it's too easy to slide into the idea that just because you're a fannish professional, just because what pays your bills also is the reason you have an extensive action figure collection, that you have to take everything seriously. In short, every "fun" thing has to be calculated to some financial benefit.
I'm here to say that's wrong on two counts.
I began working in video games well over a decade into my career. I was only capable of doing this after I stopped being a programmer and started being a project manager.
That sounds backwards to quite a few people, I'm sure. I went from a young and hip programmer to a manager and THEN went into one of the geeky industries par excellence. Actually, it's a great idea for your career – making the geeky leap later in life, at certain critical points in your career.