I’ll admit which i was late towards the whole “social networking” factor (you can imagine me using air quotes), however that I am aboard, I really like it. I love writing about this blog, delivering out tweets on Twitter, and finding old buddies on Facebook…I am even discovering that LinkedIn is much more vibrant which i was brought to think. But because coaches, our reputations are a huge part of who we’re and why institutions hire us and we have should be careful of the items we released there on the web. So let us make a list of a couple of questions that will eliminate some mistakes I have seen folks make and provide you with a obvious vision of using social networking to your benefit.

3 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Clicking The “Friend” Button

Must I friend players, player parents, or former players? This will depend about how you utilize your Facebook page. Are you currently twenty-two, just from college, and taking mobile phone images of yourself smooching random people in a bar? Well, I believe you know the solution to that certain! But when you are making use of your page for networking and may ensure that it stays professional, then friend away. I believe it’s really a fantastic way to connect and reconnect with former players and colleagues. If required, you could produce a Page on your own you can use as the professional entity and keep your individual page legitimate buddies and never “buddies”.

What’s kosher in my Facebook page? You most likely know the overall items that should not continue your page, and so i will not get into that. What regarding your buddies? Could they be knuckleheads? You believe you have it altogether, you are not putting anything inappropriate in your page, you are friending other people inside your profession…you are doing the work up! But must you set your privacy settings so the pics your buddies have individuals acting an idiot don’t finish up visiting all your Facebook buddies? I found that lesson after my loved ones began setting up all kinds personal pictures from way in older days. They were not inappropriate or anything, although not precisely what I needed my “Coach Beginning” Facebook page to mirror.

Long does not disappear, right? Delete is not really delete, that’s all I am saying. That which you say inside your Facebook status update or that you simply tweet out every single day is saved for some reason that technical people understand and that i don’t. You may also attempt to deny that you simply authored whatever awful stuff you stated within the heat from the moment (such as this soccer coach did), but nobody will believe you…particularly if they have printed the web pages and handed these to your manager such as the parents within the formerly pointed out soccer coach story did.

Hopefully this may serve as a guiding publish for you personally inside your future social networking ventures. Best of luck and become smart!

Beginning Redd may be the Mind Volleyball Coach at Beloit College. Visit Coach Dawn’s community of education nerds and team leaders at her blog, http://world wide web.coachdawnwrites.com, where she teaches how to be a great coach, motivate individuals, and make effective teams.