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I’ve recently received a few inquiries from friends. They’ve noticed that I haven’t been as conversational on Twitter lately. I still highly value the conversations on Twitter I just don’t actively participate as much as I used to.
If you’ve read any of my previous posts you know that I’ve been busy. (That statement was made as yet another entry to the understatement of the year award).I have several mechanisms set up to allow me to continue to post *to* Twitter but you can’t automate conversation (nor should you try).
FriendFeed allows me to cross post items I share in Google Reader or songs I bookmark in Pandora from FriendFeed to Twitter. Posterous allows me to automagically post my short thoughts, pics, screen grabs and collections of ods and ends from Posterous to Twitter (and Flickr and YouTube and Facebook) which all end up in FriendFeed (BTW Mark Z, I know you’re reading this and give a rat’s ass what I think, but please don’t shut down FriendFeed, ever. kthnxby).
With my ever-shrinking, finite time I have to prioritize where and how I participate. I love Twitter. It is my social network of choice. But, for me, blogging is too valuable to ever give up. It’s become an integral part of my thinking process. It’s so bad that half the strategy docs I write for clients sound like blog posts. It’s an easy style for me. Even when I have something that’s not appropriate for the blog I have to send a a blog style email to someone to get it out of my head.
My hierarchy of social media goes something like this:
- Google Reader
- Blog/Posterous
- FriendFeed
- Yammer
There’s a very real long tail effect here. I start my day with Google Reader at 5:00 a.m. and check it constantly through the day, sharing the posts I find most interesting. Between my blog and my Posterous account I average 10-15 (or more) posts a week. Tweetdeck is running constantly at work and I check it frequently, I just don’t jump into many conversations. FriendFeed usually gets checked a few times a day and Facebook about once a day. LinkedIn and Yammer get maybe one or two visits a month.
What about you. Where are your social media priorities?
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