Exploring new platforms

I woke up this Friday and did what I always do: checked LinkedIn (it's a bad habit).

Problem was, I was logged out. And despite trying to log in, I got kicked out as soon as I got in - and sometimes I didn't even do that. I just couldn't access my LinkedIn account 😰

I panicked, of course. Changed password, tried again, it didn't work.

Turns out LinkedIn had thrown me out due to suspicious account behaviors. My guess: I had been sourcing on startups and cool people pretty extensively the day before, and gotten multiple (in my opinion) vague and very strange warnings from LinkedIn that I had been searching too much, too fast. I thought then it was an error, and continued, until I closed down my computer for the day.

Or, the o-lagom version: I was being too good at my job, so that LinkedIn thought I was a bot 🙃

It was a healthy reminder, indeed.

If you're Swedish, it was recently covered that the podcaster and DEI educator, Fanny Widman, was thrown out of her account on Facebook & Instagram due to a hacker attack, and her accounts had been taken down. She said that with this, she had lost one of her very important ways of communicating about her business, and hence lost business opportunities.

For some of us, our social media accounts brings our voices out to the world. We don't work in large coorporations with the exposure that comes with, we're sometimes not conforming to the norm, we rely on a platform that we haven't built ourselves - and with that comes uncertainty.

I've therefore decided to (ish) own my platforms instead 🥳

I'm now trying Ghost as a platform (thanks to my friend Aron who recommended it). This will be my primary posting ground, where LinkedIn, Instagram or Threads will just be a paraphrase of this content.

I am a bit scared, to say the least. It's been more than a year now, posting on LinkedIn and building some kind of brand (whatever that is) there, which has been amazing. I have due to that met so many amazing people, both in business & private. It has also been messy sometimes, where work and private life blends into one, where some content just don't fit, and where length comes second to short, easily digested phrases.

But it also feels amazing to build something of my own. I loved to have a platform when I was young (a blog, which this won't be), and it was actually what brought me into the tech scene in the first place. Here, likes and reach is kind of secondary.

I want to dig deeper. Into my thoughts, but also the state of the tech scene, my learnings, and share & raise others.

I hope to write about the same stuff I always have, but with a golden rim. Women in tech, leadership thoughts, non profit stuff. But also, and this might be where a newsletter comes in handy, more about the "true stuff" behind my work days. What my work actually is about, to those more interested, and wanting to pursue a techy-ish career.

If you want to join - welcome! Otherwise, keep following me where you followed me first 😇

Hi 👋, I'm Amalia. A Swedish young woman in tech, working within client relations at a tech consultancy in Stockholm. Here I share my thoughts about the tech scene, leadership as well as how I manage a busy life.

Here you can follow me on LinkedIn, if you found your way here first 😊