Actively managing multiple social media accounts for my own personal business efforts as well as managing multiple social media identities for a handful of clients, the biggest issues that have arisen are not with updating these accounts, as there are an array of desktop software applications such as EchoFon (EchoFon For Twitter Mozilla Firefox Addon), TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop, but instead with the numerous open authorization (OAuth) conflicts between one site and another that I frequently encounter. It has proven a complete mess of my daily operations.

I have long touted the principle of self-sufficiency and regularly integrate it into my work ethic as well as the work itself. From an editorial standpoint, this translated into articles that identified the lifestyle of self-reliance. This played well, as most of my life after newspapers has existed in the outdoors or automotive world, specifically the off-road and powersports industries. Therein, my passion was for the real life application and core lifestyle aspect of the industry and not the overplayed editorial advertising puff pieces orchestrated through the overzealous marketing department. I loved the down home how-to articles on the techniques and methods that would make one effectively self-sufficient when embarking upon adventure.