Time Saving Social Media Tips
As a follow up to my earlier post on relationship building via social media, I have decided to add this little tidbit.
When explaining to someone the value that social media marketing and social networking can add to their business (and maybe even lives in general) I often hear "I just don't have the time to keep up with all of that stuff", or something to that effect. Well, maintaining a social networking presence and building relationships through social media outlets isn't as daunting of a task as it may seem.
Chris Brogan recently posted a blog outlining 19 Presence Management Chores You COULD Do Every Day. I would say that these are 19 things you should do everyday to develop and maintain quality relationships via the social-sphere. I have printed this list out and have also added it to my daily tasks list. I typically spend the last hour of the day making sure that I have checked off all of these items.
I am also a big proponent, for the sake of personal branding, of creating and updating profiles on every single social networking site that I can find. When I tell people this, they say, how do you keep up with all of that, that's impossible. Well, there are a few tools that I use that make it all more manageable.
I use Tweetdeck to keep track of all of my Twitter connections. It is a pretty robust tool that allows me to keep track of tweets, send and receive direct messages, and retweet/reply to tweets all on one screen. It also has a URL shortener built in for quick tweeting of blog posts, articles etc.
I use FriendFeed to aggregate the feeds of my friends on all the various networks that I am on so that I don't have to switch from site to site to keep track of what everyone is doing.
Finally, I use Ping.fm to send status updates (often from my Blackberry) to all of the social networks that I belong to.
Utilizing these three tools throughout the day and making sure to spend at least an hour a day checking off Chris' list is very manageable for me.
Is an hour a day too much time to spend building, developing and maintaining relationships with people that can enrich your life and bolster your business? You tell me...
When explaining to someone the value that social media marketing and social networking can add to their business (and maybe even lives in general) I often hear "I just don't have the time to keep up with all of that stuff", or something to that effect. Well, maintaining a social networking presence and building relationships through social media outlets isn't as daunting of a task as it may seem.
Chris Brogan recently posted a blog outlining 19 Presence Management Chores You COULD Do Every Day. I would say that these are 19 things you should do everyday to develop and maintain quality relationships via the social-sphere. I have printed this list out and have also added it to my daily tasks list. I typically spend the last hour of the day making sure that I have checked off all of these items.
I am also a big proponent, for the sake of personal branding, of creating and updating profiles on every single social networking site that I can find. When I tell people this, they say, how do you keep up with all of that, that's impossible. Well, there are a few tools that I use that make it all more manageable.
I use Tweetdeck to keep track of all of my Twitter connections. It is a pretty robust tool that allows me to keep track of tweets, send and receive direct messages, and retweet/reply to tweets all on one screen. It also has a URL shortener built in for quick tweeting of blog posts, articles etc.
I use FriendFeed to aggregate the feeds of my friends on all the various networks that I am on so that I don't have to switch from site to site to keep track of what everyone is doing.
Finally, I use Ping.fm to send status updates (often from my Blackberry) to all of the social networks that I belong to.
Utilizing these three tools throughout the day and making sure to spend at least an hour a day checking off Chris' list is very manageable for me.
Is an hour a day too much time to spend building, developing and maintaining relationships with people that can enrich your life and bolster your business? You tell me...
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