Solution to Social Media as a Time Waster? Be Purposeful with Your Time
Some people think Facebook, is a waste of time. And it can be – IF you’re prone to time wasting. You don’t have to be if you learn how to use it properly. There are plenty of less vocal people who believe StumbleUpon is for amateur sharers. And of course there is the big camp [...]
Too Many Links, Too Little Time? Boost Your Signal by Having a Soft Site Limit
If you submit all the links you find, every day, to all the social news, bookmarking and sharing sites you know of, you will get into an endless loop of site sharing. This is far from what you want to accomplish. Instead, see how much sharing you usually get done in whatever time you have [...]
Social News Double Work? Try Bookend Voting and Submitting
As you finish with basic sharing of sites, you’ll likely want to move on to the subset of those sites that you want to vote for, or submit to a social news site. What you’ll run into at some point is that as you’re submitting stories, many of the links you’ve submitted are already present. [...]
Share at Optimal Times of the Day
Depending on what industry you’re in, or what country you’re from, you will find that a particular time of day drives more attention to the links that you have submitted to your favorite bookmarking site. There are also dead spots in the day, or certain days of the week where it’s harder to get noticed. [...]
Share the Smart Way by Noticing This
At some point, you’re going to figure out that there’s one place that you’ll want to store every single link you find useful, and another that’s just for promoting your very favorite links of that bunch. Or you’ll find that the atmosphere at one site is more suited to you than other, though they drive [...]
Share Better – Find Tools that Help In All Stages of the Process
There are bookmarklets, sidebar widgets, FB apps, desktop applications, browser extensions or toolbars, and other tools that will help you spread your sharing task over the day. The one hour or less you take to share links can be integrated as part of your regular surfing, blogging or browsing routine. It can reduce your time [...]
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