Comments on: Why Less is Not Always More With Social Media Productivity

By: Farnoosh

Farnoosh — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:21:47 +0000

Brilliant advice. I have heard the same standard “guidelines” on limiting your time with social media etc and yes, there is something to be said about focusing on one’s own productivity, but you are absolutely right in that it depends entirely on what you want to achieve. If your goal is to market a book or find clientele or promote your brand, how can 5 minutes a day be better than 1 hour? Thank you for the common sense here!

By: dava

dava — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:35:51 +0000

Those bits of advice have always confused me…only interact with “key” players? Isn’t that just a fancy way of saying “be a snob?” And automated Tweets are pretty annoying for those of us who are looking for real conversation.

Of course, email, Facebook, Twitter, blogging and all the other ways we interact can become overwhelming, but automating things is probably not the best way to approach SOCIAL media. How social are recorded messages?

As with all things, finding a comfortable, workable, individual way to handle social media must be the answer.
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By: Hulbert

Hulbert — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:55:00 +0000

Hi Chris, I agree that it would kind of be pointless to limit oneself to using social media for 5 minutes a day. I believe that as long as we are using social media for a good purpose that helps us accomplish a goal, then we shouldn’t worry about time too much. But if we’re just on social media to chat and waste time, then maybe we should just stick to 5 minutes of it.
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By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:50:54 +0000

Well, I just finished reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It book last night so some of what you have written about social media sounds very familiar. I would agree that it can get overwhelming sometimes and that there definitely should be limits placed on certain activities that are definite time sunks, but I would also agree that you have to ‘Do what works for YOU’. Asking why you are using social media is also an important question to answer. It should be the first question in your strategy, as you state.

It’s definitely something that I need to remember, so thanks for sharing.

Karen
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By: Vlad Dolezal

Vlad Dolezal — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:22:52 +0000

I like Tim Brownson’s approach:

Social media is for dicking around and having fun. Any extra business is a nice surprise.

(He gets about 25% of his clients from twitter, maybe 50% through his blog. Apparently people like dealing with “real people”. Go figure . )
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By: Reeta Luthra | Stress and Health

Reeta Luthra | Stress and Health — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:24:20 +0000

I’ve been amused with all the tools feeding one social media account into another. The ultimate goal of these seems to be to post in one place but have all your “outlets” populated immediately.

The convenience of this is obvious on the face of it. Yet, there are different audiences and needs on each network and the one size fits all surely can’t be that effective? At least I did not find them effective when I gave them a go.

I agree with Ching Ya about letting go… visibility is not enough, there needs to be an interaction that works for your objectives.
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By: ProductivePinoy

ProductivePinoy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:50:36 +0000

Thanks Crisg and Dragos. This is a great perspective. I agree that social media should be used to make real connections. And the truth is that develop real relationships, it will take some effort and inconvenience on our part.
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By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:00:19 +0000

Ever since Twitter and Facebook came into our lives it’s hard to talk about simplicity anymore (lol..). Not that it’s a bad thing but most bloggers will have to train themselves more to be a better communicator and smarter manager (of time/tasks).

I agree that not all strategies work for all people, even schedulers can be a pain in the neck if not used properly (agreed by most readers in previous post) Recently I have been testing out various ways to keep visibility alive in frequented networks, it becomes clearer to me no matter how much I dislike to let go I know I need to. Tough choices needed to be made until a better approach surfaces.

Thanks Chris and Dragos for the sharing.

@wchingya
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By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:11:14 +0000

Forgot to include – Obviously like you said in balance all those tips do make sense.
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By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:09:43 +0000

I am not very involved with social media (I have a new twitter account and that’s it).

I do find that the tips you mentioned like automate all your tweets etc to be a bit strange (I have heard that before). I am not saying there is not a place for automation (after all I am in the time management business!). But if everyone is automating everything with social media, doesn’t that make it an empty social scene…

(This all made sense in my head…hopefully it does to your too!)
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