It’s was a difficult question, because you can’t easily divide my life into “work” and “non-work” related tweets. The apps I work with every day — Drupal, WordPress MU, iTune, etc. — also happen to power the stuff I use at home.

This is because my friends, both online and off, then to be intensely creative and productive people. They’re podcasters and writers, gamers and hobbyists, and they use all the self-same tools as at my day job. Cross-pollination between the two has been essential to my use of Twitter, and for that reason I’ve been hesitant to spin off a separate account.

And yet … when I go to conferences for work, I find a lot of people using some iteration of their real-world name for twitter … where as I use my gamer handle, @nukehavoc. Now that handle’s fine when I’m at Origins, GenCon, Balticon or some other big geek convention … but it feels a little less professional when I’m at a work conference.

There’s also the fact that while I’m sure some folks enjoy keeping up with my geekier side, I think there’s also some that would rather not have to read through my Star Wars tweets to get to my WordPress MU ones.

So to that end, I’ve created a new account on Twitter for my work and webapp related posts: @knewquist. I still have my @nukehavoc account, but that one’s full-on geeky — it has all my posts about web development, geek parenting, gaming, etc. You can expect some cross-posting between the two, especially when it comes to web development and online technologies, because as I said earlier, the cross-pollination between my different audiences is what makes Twitter work for me.

I’ll freely admit this is an experiment, and I don’t know how well it work out. I’m going to maintain the account for six months; if at the end of that time it proves to be more trouble than it’s worth, I’ll disable it.

Getting the Podcast

• Download the MP3 directly
• Subscribe to the Soapbox podcast rss feed using an aggregator (you only need to do this once; subsequent shows should download automatically)
• Subscribe to the Soapbox feed via iTunes

In any case, the semester is now under full steam, and most of my Moodle-related fixes are taken care of, the new library site is live, and I’ve got some room (and time) to breathe before diving into my next series of projects, which include:

• Experimenting with using Drupal to power web-based workflows.
• Continued behind-the-scenes development of the Library web site.
• The launch of a new shibboleth-powered Moodle for faculty collaboration.
• iTunes U/Moodle integration
• WordPress Mu setup and testing
• WYSIWYG editor testing in Drupal, MediaWiki and WordPress