Comments on: How to Stay Social in Social Media

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:01:58 +0000

@Blogger Den: thanks Jake – Blogger Den is a good concept – for people that want to be on Digg and want to be bloggers. Thanks for stopping in.

By: Blogger Den

Blogger Den — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:42:29 +0000

Very nice article! I’ll have to submit this to Blogger Den, I bet all of the members there would be very interested in reading this.

By: BWI

BWI — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:18:54 +0000

I used to be a big fan, and even developed the Twitter Toolbar for Firefox: http://www.bestwebimage.com/web-services-and-tools/twitter-toolbar-10/ That link is my main blog, and the toolbar download page.

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:16:27 +0000

@BWI: interesting perspective, considering your website is twittersuckseggs.wordpress.com

By: BWI

BWI — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:11:35 +0000

Just tweet…who actually reads the stuff?

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:00:47 +0000

@Amy: thanks for stopping in – your last line of your comment was especially poignant for me – if people lack the etiquette even to say hello, then I do don’t want to have much to do with them either. If people really think that I am nothing but their IM whore, perhaps their time would be better spent learning hot to build bots rather than talk to me

By: AmyV

AmyV — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:48:40 +0000

Brian – much like you, I tend to leave my IM open, but with a “busy” sign out. That way if it takes me a couple hours to respond to an IM, people understand. But if someone needs to get something in front of my eyes, it’s there. Problem is, there are so many people on my IM who I don’t even really know, and they’re the most likely to ask for favors.

I’ve been gradually removing them from my IM contacts, because I try to help my friends when they ask, but I can’t help everyone who asks, as much as I’d like to. If you haven’t ever even said “hello” to me and all you do is ask me to retweet something without my even having read it, I’m sorry, but I just don’t have the time for you.

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:19:25 +0000

@David: segmenting out time is a great method. When you look at doing social as a block of time, it can become a great deal more manageable.

@Richard: indeed that quality can be more important. I’ve seen people first withdraw from IM and then from Twitter. Personally, I try to still keep both options available.

@Tommy: it’s all about the timing and good to see you have your priorities straight by keeping client expectations up first.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:10:25 +0000

I’ve found that with many of the outlets available it can be very difficult to keep up with them. I find that I’ll update a client status before I’ll update my own, but when the time comes right I can pop in and out and more or less get the same response on my personal accounts… it’s a funny thing really

By: Richard Becker

Richard Becker — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:00:34 +0000

Hey Brian,

I avoid IM programs, with Twitter, etc. being enough for exactly the reasons you mentioned. Sometime we all have to work.

Perhaps its just a matter of changing our expectations. As for many of us, social networks create large audiences of friends, at least significantly more than when we nurtured 50 or so relationships. As a result, there is not enough time in the day, especially for those of us working on social media efforts for other companies as well.

While I know my personal presence would benefit more often by commenting on other posts and keeping Facebook and Twitter up all day, I decided several months ago that I would allow myself much more flexibility based upon the thinking that if they are my friends, they will be much more likely to forgive any absences.

After all, my closest friends are those who I might see once or twice a year and still feel as though we are picking up like it is yesterday. Anything less, well, maybe they are only acquaintances despite the “friend” monikers.

All my best,
Rich

By: David Jaeger

David Jaeger — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:13:31 +0000

I try to segment out social media time a bit, just do it on downtime, or when I take time out of my schedule. Otherwise, I would never get any work done.

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By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:39:00 +0000

@Regina – these days it’s necessary to keep up with the flow. Still, it’s nice to slow it down once in a while to think on what it’s all about. Thanks for dropping in!

By: Regina

Regina — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:34:32 +0000

I pretty much flow in and out as needed or at will. There was one point that I was following Twitter relentlessly and got crap all done. As you wrote, I just leave it when I’ve got things I must do.

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