Get to know Twitter: And then get to know AllTop. These two alone can catapult you into a Web 2.0 savvy very quickly. What’s that? You don’t have time? I hear you. I didn’t think I could squeeze anything else into my life either. Squeezing more into your life is not what this is about. This is a way to reformat and re-organize your life; more efficient, more connected, more productive, more Web 2.0. And if you don’t, you’ll soon have plenty of time as you get left behind, and I mean in a big way. Put it this way, staying in the Web 1.0 world will be like still using hand written letters instead of e-mail for all of your business communication.
You can use and shape twitter any way you like. It can be all social, all business or some of each. Jim’s Marketing Blog (link above) demonstrated to me in a couple of hours how whip smart and lightning quick of a tool twitter and twitter users are. Instant value add. Make sure you follow @NPR, @CNN and whatever news organizations you prefer on twitter when you get there as well.
Other folks who talk about Twitter used professionally: Wired PR Works, JuliaRoy; And by the way, women are totally rockin’ in the Social Media world. Get Twitterized.
AllTop is even simpler. Ahhh the beauty and elegance:
They call themselves “an online magazine rack” … but they are blogs arranged in a spacious, clean, intuitive format. Find a blog alphabetically and/or by topic. Research quickly, or browse for pleasure. This is the latest news, humor, entertainment and editorials on the web. And scanning is made even easier by offering a clip from the blog in a pop up window when you scroll over the title.
If you aren’t already subscribed to a handfull of your favorite business blogs and a handfull of your favorite personal/entertainment blogs go to AllTop and find some now. I’ll wait here…no really, go now, please. And yes, you can find me there as well. Or just subscribe at the RSS feed on the top right column of my blog here. I’ll do my best to keep you current, wine soaked and entertained.
“Squeezing more into your life is not what this is about. This is a way to reformat and re-organize your life; more efficient, more connected, more productive, more Web 2.0.”
So true and great way to overcome the first objection I always hear to being more active online: I don’t have enough time to do that.
Thanks for a wonderful post and a motivating call to action!
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[...] Social Media and its place in business is still in its infancy. But you are all early adopters and therefore building the structure, creating the atmosphere and guidelines and therefore the climate within which this space develops and thrives. Another relevant, interesting session was specifically dedicated to the sociology and metrics of “the conversation” called Beyond Buzz: On Measuring a Conversation. More on that in follow-up. [...]