All the platforms!

Shall I list the ways - that I keep my presence active online? Honestly, it feels like it'd be simpler to tell you what I don't do. But for clarity's sake, I'd like to go into more detail. For the last few years, it's gone as follows:

• a personal email and a business email
• a personal webpage that I run through Weebly, domain through Namecheap
• a personal FB (and a business FB page that I do nothing with)
• a personal Instagram account (and a few "business" accounts that I don't use)
• a normally-dormant Pinterest account that sees bursts of activity
• a solidly average LinkedIn account
• a decent Twitter account that documents my time teaching art
• a TeachersPayTeachers store

In the last few months I have added:

• an Etsy shop
• a Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) author account
• a Barnes & Nobles Press author account 

The purposes for being on all of these platforms is for the furthering of my teaching career and, now, for side gigs. As an international school teacher, I find obtaining the next high-quality post to be an extremely competitive situation. Running a website and teacher twitter account seem to be the new "having a masters degree," as in something that used to be considered extra and now feels expected. Fortunately, I find keeping a portfolio and teaching account very rewarding and am grateful for the documentation of the projects I've completed over the years. As for some of these other platforms, they're either experiments or necessary means to ends. But more on that in future blog posts...

Please let me know if you have questions about getting started on any of these platforms. Cheers!