It is fantastic to see the new improved myedna go to beta release this week. A great end of year/Christmas present from Kate, Nick, John, Ben and team - thanks to you all!

With the launch of myedna 2.0 (to be known ask me.edu.au) Kerrie asks 'How many personas do you have?'
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I have a more immediate issue, which is how are you coping with multiple edna Groups personas (not to mention edna Lists when they join the party)? For many years I have been registered with edna with both my work email address and my personal address. This enables me to separate my mail so that professional association traffic goes to personal email, and work related lists and groups get directed to the work server/folders. It has always seemed good information management practice, and means my professional association connections are independent of my employer.

With the integrated profile of me.edu.au which brings together my professional interests and communities irrespective of 'pigeonhole' I don't really want to maintain two edna personas and duplicate myself through communities. 

So, is it time to merge all my logins and only use the one email address for edna? This was certainly one of the key cases for myedna proof of concept projects: give me a space online that is independent of a sector/system/institution/employer. Perhaps a new identity system not based on email address?