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Thursday
Mar042010

Social Media Tools Are Not The Boss Of Me

..... anymore.

A few weeks ago I embarked on a social media nip and tuck to frame up my social media efforts. My goals are to deepen and strengthen my connections, collaborate on a professional project and write beyond the blog

A work in progress, I am reevaluating how I am using the tools and checking out some new ones. Touching on the very basics, here is what I've done so far in no particular order other than the length of the bullet:

  • Test drove out Nutshell Mail 
  • Created my first Google doc
  • Set aside time to write each morning
  • Updated my contact form on the blog
  • Reduced my RSS feeds to just over 100
  • Set LinkedIn to weekly vs. daily updates 
  • Unsubscribed from many retail mailing lists
  • Test driving the Rypple sidebar feedback widget
  • Deleted memberships in 2 online HR communities
  • Routed some mail to a gmail account to check it out
  • Decreased the email notifications from Facebook - a lot. 
  • Reviewed current LinkedIn groups, added some and left others

Up next is setting aside time to actually read my Google Reader items and not scan them on the fly, reviewing professional email newsletter subscriptions with an eye on reduction, reviewing my Linked In profile, updating my blog roll, dusting off my Google Voice number and checking out Google calendar.

It's a start. It's part of the grand plan. And it's all good. 

How about you? Do you have basic strategies that work best for you? Tell me about them in the comments below or in the sidebar widget.

 

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Reader Comments (5)

Lisa, can you come over to my house and do those things for me? My Google Reader gets out of control but I find that reading it on my phone, while standing in line or in a drive-thru, helps a lot. I need to cut back on those LinkedIn notifications too, I feel like I get some three or four times a day.
Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Unregistered Commenteradowling
Isn't it funny how things that are intended to help us can start to become stressful? Personally I set aside an hour of my day to try and get through most things blog related. Although with the time difference between the UK and US and much of the daily content being from the US, this means that I am always a day behind......or ahead.....depeding on which way you look at it!
Monday, March 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTheHRD
Lisa,

Our chat this morning reminded me to come check out this post. You are doing a great job of re-focusing your social media efforts. Keep up the good work! As I find useful time-saving tools, I'll be sure to let you know.
Monday, March 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJennifer V. Miller
April, Jennifer and TheHRD, I think this will be a continuous improvement project for me and am planning to post an update next month what else I've done to clean up. After that . . .focus.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | Registered CommenterLisa Rosendahl
Well, this is funny. I get my LinkedIn updates weekly and never realized there was any other option! I must have set it up that way when it started, and it's been a while, so I just figured that's how it worked. Weekly updates work well for me, I actually look forward to them and save them to read over lunch or some other down time during the day. Daily would definitely be too much, espcially now that people are adding more 'personal' type status updates (saw lots of Happy St. Patrick's Day notices today).
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAndrea Ballard

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