I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now. I hadn’t largely because it takes time, and time is something I haven’t had in quite some time! But I have renewed my commitment to blog early and often. Believe me, I love to write and this blog is perfect for that.
So I thought I’d take you through my typical social-networking workflow. To be honest, there are plenty of people out there who do much more than I do. I am however active in quite a few social networking sites and communities, I think the difference between me and some of the ‘rockstars’ out there is that I do as much as possible in as short a time as possible. And I don’t just mean working harder, no I like to think of it as smarter.
Here’s my strategy:
- Subscribe to as many RSS feeds from ‘friends’ lists as possible, this includes mostly blogs, but also Facebook and Twitter. I currently wake up to around 300 RSS entries each morning, and gain another couple hundred through the day.
- I only login to Facebook when absolutely necessary, I get a limited number of messages and friend requests weekly, so I take advantage of text messaging to approve people, and email to read messages. If you send me ‘zombie bites’ or whatever other crazy application you’ve got running in your profile, I’ll probably ignore it. (This is one workflow that I wish there was a solution for, ignoring all the bacn and spam that Facebook apps send).
- Twitter, wow Twitter can get overwhelming really quickly, but it’s largely worth it. I’ve got a fair amount of followers, and I’ve had the Twitter folk set up my account with ‘auto-follow’ so anyone who follows me, I automatically follow them back… Not to be confused with auto-notification, there’s no way I could keep up if I got text messages every time someone I follow updated.
- Trick 3, I generously use Twitter Mobile and Twitter txt to keep tabs on Twitter, when I’m at my computer I usually have Adium open and get my tweets that way.
- Other social-networking sites I only visit when I absolutely have to, but I do make generous use of MoodBlast to allow me to update multiple services with status messages and information at once, it’s always a keystroke away.
So there you have it, that’s my daily social media workflow, wasn’t very exciting was it? But most of the time it works just fine for me!
Have a wonderful day and be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed to keep up to date!
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