Comments on: Do You Need to Keep Up With Social Media?

By: Gaurav Jha

Gaurav Jha — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:52:55 +0000

Intersting read. It’s important to know wheher the time you’re spending “socialising” is worth anything. Many businessess these days are leveraging on the overflow of content on these social networks.

I discuss more on this here: http://blog.insideview.com/2010/04/27/connecting-the-dots-how-sales-2-0-can-help-you-connect-with-prospects/

By: Santosh Shukla

Santosh Shukla — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:23:22 +0000

Excellent post. I use twitter lists to follow tweets on individual genres. However I liked the idea of dipping toes in the stream whenever you want :) Social Media is the most essential weapon of any sales or marketing guy.

However, people tend to spend too much (time) on social media and are not able to get the desired ROI. I think of Social Media as a toruk (Remember Avatar) that needs to be tamed to enjoy the ride... Here are some tips that I use to get the best of social media without spending too much time: http://blog.insideview.com/2010/05/02/investing-too-much-time-on-social-media-how-to-boost-your-roi

By: 6 tips tegen social media overload « Is het nu generatie X, Y of Einstein?

6 tips tegen social media overload « Is het nu generatie X, Y of Einstein? — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:44:20 +0000

[...] Designate time of plan. Plan gewoon de momenten waarop je email, twitter of facebook checkt, en onderdruk de tussentijdse drang. Ja, je zal vanalles missen, maar zie nummer 2. (check ook Dawn Foster’ “Do You Need to Keep Up With Social Media.” [...]

By: 6 Ways to Stop the Social Media Madness – WebWorkerDaily

6 Ways to Stop the Social Media Madness – WebWorkerDaily — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:01:52 +0000

[...] Designate time. If you are checking your emails, Twitter, Facebook and the rest of your networks more than several times daily, you are being controlled by your impulses to check, check, check to make sure you haven’t missed anything. Trust me, you’ve missed a lot of things, but you’ve also missed nothing at all. If it isn’t your job to monitor the social mediasphere for a client, you’re falling into the trap of “always more and never enough.” Remember that we all survived quite well before tweets and updates. Be discriminating and methodical. Dawn Foster covered this topic in “Do You Need to Keep Up With Social Media.” [...]

By: How To Keep Up With Social Media | Marketing Tips For Home Business People

How To Keep Up With Social Media | Marketing Tips For Home Business People — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:07:03 +0000

[...] Do You Need to Keep Up With Social Media? When I’m talking to people about social web sites, one of the questions I often get asked (usually just after the one about whether you actually need to join all the social networks, just because everyone else is) is “how do you keep up with everything?” [...]

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:53:24 +0000

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By: Viki

Viki — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:03:43 +0000

Great article! May I please reference it in my September newsletter?

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Blogging Elsewhere at Fast Wonder: Online Community Consulting — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:47:36 +0000

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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:17:06 +0000

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By: 99cents

99cents — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:54:48 +0000

ah twitter?of course i use it for my campaign my business and make money online

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links for 2009-08-11 | Hello (a blog from Stratepedia) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:30:15 +0000

[...] Do You Need to Keep Up With Social Media? A good response to a question I get a lot. The key is to allow yourself to ignore as necessary. (tags: social_media twitter) [...]

By: Anca

Anca — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:01:31 +0000

You do not have to keep up with social media. I agree that socializing is ok and generates some business ideas too, but, studies revealed that Facebook is a productivity killer. Furthermore, 87% of employees using Facebook at work couldn't define a business reason for doing it.

By: gwalter

gwalter — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:15:40 +0000

The thing that limits some in these endeavors, could be personality/temperament/strengths, etc. I naturally skim. I find it easy to browse a newspaper, magazine, or website and pick out the highlights. My wife can’t do that. I don’t know why (and it’s not my job to fix her.

She has other strengths – more related to the social connecting. I’m more of an info-maven. So, there ya go!

By: Information overload: the river analogy « Tranquil

Information overload: the river analogy « Tranquil — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:51:30 +0000

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By: Joe Bonner

Joe Bonner — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:26:20 +0000

I agree that once you realize you don’t have to read every tweet that floats by things become more manageable. In addition to your excellent suggestions above, I’d like to add Steve Rubel’s “How to become a super tweeter in just 15 minutes a day with iGoogle”: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009/04/become-a-super-tweeter-in-15-minutes-a-day-with-igoogle.html

By: Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:20:36 +0000

Regarding how people find time.
Here is brilliant speach on the topic from Clay Shirky.