These two posts, by Chris Brogan, got met thinking about my social media routine, or lack-there-of.
- http://www.chrisbrogan.com/five-tasks-in-the-morning/
- http://www.chrisbrogan.com/19-presence-management-chores-you-could-do-every-day/
I’ve got a very ambitious set of daily and weekly tasks that I almost never get to, so I usually live in a state of feeling guilty, behind, and overwhelmed when it comes to ‘keeping up’ with all my socail media chanells.
Here are Chris’s first tasks of the morning.
- Open tabs in Firefox
- Google Reader – for my news, my searches, my “ego feed” of who’s talking about my stuff.
- Google Calendar – how I live.
- Facebook – I’m not good at Facebook, but I try to stay connected.
- Facebook : Trust Agents Community – this is the online community for my book with Julien.
- Friendfeed – I’m no Scobleizer, but I do dip in and look.
- And then usually tabs of stories I want to think more about for later.
- Email – I try to answer 50-100 mails right out of the gate. (I get about 490 a day right now).
- Twitter – I respond to any questions from overnight, and any DMs.
- Google Reader – I find good stories, promoting the best of them on Twitter, commenting on some.
- LinkedIn – I review my connection requests, and/or any other tasks they’ve given me to do (like introduce people).
- Communities – I drop into 2 or 3 communities where I participate, like the Trust Agents group, and some Ning communities, and the like. I leave a few comments, or post some ideas, to keep the sharing going.
What are yours?
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Chris lays out 20 things to do throughout the day. What else do you do?
- Find seven things worth retweeting in your general feed and share.
- Reply to at least five things with full responses (not just “thanks”).
- Point out a few people that you admire. It shows your mindset, too.
- Follow back at least 10 folks. (I use an automated tool, but this is a personal preference. If you want such, I use SocialToo.)
- 10 minutes of just polite two-way chit chat goes far.
- Check in on birthdays on the home page. (Want a secret? Send the birthday wish via Twitter or email. Feels even more deliberate.)
- Respond to any comments on your wall.
- Post a status message daily, something engaging or interesting.
- Comment on at least seven people’s status messages or updates.
- Share at least 3 interesting updates that you find.
- If you belong to groups or fan pages, leave a new comment or two.
- Accept any invitations that make sense for you to accept.
- Enter any recent business cards to invite them to LinkedIn (if you’re growing your network).
- Drop into Q&A and see if you can volunteer 2-3 answers.
- Provide 1 recommendation every few days for people you can honestly and fully recommend.
- Add any relevant slide decks to the Slideshare app there, or books to the Amazon bookshelf.
Blogs
- Visit your blog’s comments section and comment back on at least 5 replies.
- If you have a few extra minutes, click through to the blogs of the commenters, and read a post or two and comment back.
- While on those sites, use a tool like StumbleUpon and promote their good work.
- Write the occasional post promoting the good work of a blog in your community.
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1 how to market your business // Sep 30, 2009 at 5:18 am
This makes a lot of sense…you can also relate this same advice to other activities.
I’ve really been trying to work on this.
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