What I Didn’t Learn At School

Since this is a marketing blog I will try to answer this question from a marketing perspective. Today you need to be all over the social medias to get seen online. You need to promote yourself, your blog and your business to get some revenue at all.  A blog by itself is not enough.

But when you have 5000 friends on Facebook, 40.000 followers on Twitter and even a bunch of followers on MySpace, LinkedIn and many more it’s hard to be productive and get down to a personal level

First Things First
Facebook newly got a nice “hide”- function on the main feed. It’s really easy to use. If you don’t want to hear any more from the people that update their status every minute or those guys that always take those quiz’s to find out who their real parents are or who they are in the show “How I Met Your Mother”, you can easily click the hide function and remove them from the feed. (They will not even notice) Then…

This Is What I Do With Twitter
I use various twitter applications for productivity but the one I use to filter and monitorize is the TweetDeck. With more then 1000 followers I found that there is a lot of spammers and some people that doesn’t always have something good to say. But within all the craziness I find someone worth following every now and then. I put them in a special group where I can follow them extra close. It helps me to RT and Replay them more easily. Right now I monitorize my Direct Messages, Replies and my Favorite Group.

This Is What I Do With All The Rest
In one simple word: RSS Feeds. Hmm, I guess that was two words and neither of them is very simple. But here is how it works. I’m not using any time to login to my Facebook or Myspace account if I don’t have to. I am bringing the action to my social start page with the help of the websites RSS Feeds. That way I can decide if the update is important or not.

You can find the feeds for Facebook under inbox and Notifications. The feeds for Twitter you find when you scroll down to the bottom on your right-hand bar.

If you want to make your own social start page you can use one of the following sites and bring your feeds there.

That way you have only one site to hold you updated on all your online social life. And you only need to login to the main site if you find something interesting. Combine this with rss feeds from your most visited blogs and you will have a killer start page for your online needs.

This is how I do it, now tell me how you manage your online social life.