Comments on: Making Connections

By: Jenny Reiswig

Jenny Reiswig — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:05:54 +0000

It’s interesting which social networking services catch on in which fields. Last night I was at a workshop on social media for scientists put on by our regional biotech network and for them, LinkedIn is the one with critical mass. 370,000 LinkedIn members in biotech alone. I don’t really find a lot of my library peers on LinkedIn – more senior management and consultants. Not sure why.

By: Making Connections - the Institutional Version | David Lee King

Making Connections - the Institutional Version | David Lee King — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:33:00 +0000

[...] Last post, I covered things I think about when making personal friend connections in a bunch of social networks I use. I also said “for MPOW, it’s slightly different – I might cover that in another post.” Here’s that other post. [...]

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:23:07 +0000

I should say! I’ll look into it, too. Thanks.

By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:01:12 +0000

Kate – it’s called http://www.planningcenteronline.com/ and seems pretty cool. It does musician scheduling, sends “accept/decline” emails to musicians, lets you upload PDFs and MP3s attached to a service order of events, etc. Pretty nifty for a church!

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:30:58 +0000

So, what’s the “2.0-ish tool for worship team scheduling” you referred to? Maybe my worship team should be using it, too.

By: phil shapiro

phil shapiro — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:27:11 +0000

I also like using YouTube as a social network. I subscribe to any individual whose videos show a modicum of creativity. If I adore a person’s video, I’ll browse thru the videos of the people who have subscribed to that person’s videos. Creativity attracts creativity.

Some folks have links in their YouTube profiles that will tell you more about their work and interests, too.

By: Or-Tal Kiriati

Or-Tal Kiriati — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:34:24 +0000

Hi David
I usually use different email accounts for social networks than I use for business or private connections.
I also developed a filtering method, much needed since I am working through so many social networks.
Personally I prefer to connect on LinkedIn or Facebook only with people who I know personally or have done business with. Exceptions are introductions by mutual and trusted connections.
On Twitter I rarely screen my followers. I choose to follow those of offer interesting content, mainly relevant reading material.
Still haven’t figured out FriendFeed. It almost feels like Plaxo – another layer on existing networks.
But there are many more like the meetup groups and various ning networks – each with its relevant set of rules.
Still looking for a tool to help me go through all the relevant reading already screened by others, though…

By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:15:28 +0000

Brad – good suggestions. You’re right, I really do need to at least filter twitter and facebook stuff. That would clean up my inbox a bit. Thanks!

By: Two Amazing Musical Finds on YouTube Thanks to blip.fm » Just Giblets

Two Amazing Musical Finds on YouTube Thanks to blip.fm » Just Giblets — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:38:37 +0000

[...] it’s a long convoluted path. It started this morning, reading my RSS feeds. David Lee King posted about how he keeps track of all his social networking connections. That inspired me to check out blip.fm (among other things) and that has occupied much of my [...]

By: Brad Czerniak

Brad Czerniak — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:37:31 +0000

David,

I don’t know if your gmail is your ‘primary’ personal email or not, but nevertheless I’d recommend using filters. If you visit all of those social tools often enough, you’re wasting a lot of time archiving emails.

You could set up a filter that skips the inbox and applies a label. Then, if you’re particularly inclined to look at the redundant communications they’re there, and organized by the service that sent them.

There are also follower management tools for Twitter that you might consider. Since you have a large proportion of followers to number of people you really want to read about, it makes sense to follow everyone who follows you, but filter your homepage stream to your personal friends.