December 8, 2008 at 10:09 pm | Posted in Personal Brand, Social Media, Time Management, Twitter | 2 Comments
Tags: BrightKit, Networking, Produc, Social Media, SocialToo, Twitter, TwitterCounter
This post is designed around the concept that you are using Twitter as a tool/strategy in building or marketing your brand and engaging your market. So in keeping that in mind – Here are 3 great tools that you can use to increase your productivity and get more out of using Twitter:
SocialToo
This site will automatically allow you to follow anyone who follows you and also send them a personal message to thank them for doing so. Why would you want to do that? Well, beyond the courtesy of following someone who is interested enough to follow you – Twitter is great as you can “try before you buy”. By “buy”, I mean “buy into”. You can simply unfollow anyone you like at anytime. Once you are following more than 20 or 30 people – the information begins to pile up pretty quick anyways and it becomes (nearly) impossible to track all those tweets. In this way, though, you are building up your base of followers, and also allowing them the opportunity to engage you as well.
TwitterCounter
So maybe you’d like to see who the real movers and shakers are on Twitter – well here they are. Why would you want to follow these people? It’s valuable to see what these people are tweeting about – why do they have 70K+ followers? What can you learn from them? Twitter counter gives a high level view of who (or what) people are most plugged into on any given day. You’ll find interesting people as well as brands that are active here…
BrightKit
If you’re really hardcore and manage multiple Twitter accounts, you can do all that in one central place with BrightKit. It can also send Tweets at a pre-determined time - so your followers will think you work really late and really hard… “Wow, I can’t believe Carson sent that at 3:21 in the morning, he’s on it!”
Twitter is a constantly evolving communication platform. I hope these sites give you a little more action if that’s what you’re looking for. And if you are simply wondering what Twitter is all about – just sign up and give it a look. All this stuff will be ready for you.
Lastly – Here I am on Twitter
July 5, 2008 at 5:57 pm | Posted in Productivity, Time Management, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: Organization, Process, Productivity, Time Management
How many times do you have the mandate to drop everything and focus on a single task? Something burning so badly that everything else has to slip in order to get it done?
That is management by crisis.
Trouble is, when you do that – you end up laying the ground work for the next management by crisis situation. It happens at work (“Get this done by 5PM or else…”) and at home (“Family is coming over – we need to clean the whole house!”) and nobody likes it.
So how do you get out of this loop? Here’s 6 steps to help:
- Recognize It: Many people don’t even see the reality of their own situation… they’re stressed out and feeling behind the curve – those are usually signs of disorganization and lack or prioritization
- Externalize It: Get it all down on paper or a document – by writing down a list of what’s outstanding, backlogged or even completely non-existent, you are taking the first step to bringing clarity to the situation.
- Organize and Prioritize It: Take that list and rank the items – now you’re identifying the required actions to deal with this mess.
- Identify It: Make a check beside all the items you have control over and can handle yourself. Identify the one’s you’re waiting from others on, mark off the ones that are completely out of your control.
- Do It: Initiate the action and get some things done, or some progress made.
- Repeat It: Customize this system and use it. When new stuff comes down the pipe, have it fit into your work flow.
It’s an internal decision to let things happend to you, or make things happen. You and the people around you want results and not reasons, so take the first step.
