When you’re an employee, you tend to think that all of your work colleagues do nothing other than work in that job. When you leave and setup on your own, however, you tend to find – via LinkedIn – that quite a few of them have their own work going on, which – especially for freelance writers – can lead to new work.

Some people seem to have a lot of success with it, but I always find it to be a little, I don’t know, over-personal (but that’s even when I’m using it on a personal level, so maybe that’s just me).

Re the private social media sites and saying “It never ends..”, when I was writing this post I jotted down a list of the major social media sites / tools and then narrowed them down to these 5. Then, when I was making sure I hadn’t missed any glaringly obvious ones, I started coming across more and more and more and more and more….

There are literally hundreds of social media sites, a substantial amount of which I didn’t even know existed – quarterlife, a social networking site for “creative people”, anyone?

This is a completely separate post in itself, but it’s worthwhile checking around for social media sites in your own niche. Whether it’s finance or Judaism, I found social media sites linked to both of these, as well as in a variety of other subjects.