Time Management

Use PostPost to Get the Best News and Information from Facebook

February 8, 2011

I get asked a lot how I keep up or “do it all” so I thought I’d start sharing some of my favorite tools. I cant’ remember how I discovered PostPost, but I do know this it has made it insanely easy to get the good stuff from Facebook. It’s easy to set up and use, first go to postpost.com allow access to your Facebook account, after that when you visit postpost.com it gives you a custom view of the links your contacts have posted to Facebook in a newspaper style view. You can choose to just see video, photos or links so no matter what you’re looking for its right there. My contacts share a lot of great information on Facebook but I can’t be logged in every minute to see what’s happening and so I love PostPost because it makes it easy to see at a glance what my contacts are sharing on Facebook. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

Top Ten Links Week 40 – Broadband, Time Management and Productivity

October 11, 2010

By Bobbi Newman

Top Ten Links Week 40 – Broadband, Time Management and Productivity

My personal select top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 10/1/2010 through 10/7/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week 1. broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of the early 21st century #broadband – a broadband.gov post from Phoebe Yang – Senior Advisor to the Chairman on Broadband. It’s no great secret how I feel about broadband and the digital divide. 2. Three more folks on the Bloggers@IL2010 list and now WordPress.com and WordPress Self Hosted are tied again.- Going to be at Internet Librarian and blogging your sessions? Let ITI know so you will be on the resource list for those who can’t attend 3. 8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity And Stifle Your Success via @copyblogger @DanielPink Creating and evaluating at the same time The Expert Syndrome Fear of failure Fear of ambiguity Lack of confidence Discouragement from other people Being overwhelmed by information Being trapped by false limits 4. E-rate in a Broadband World - This week, the Commission released the text of an order that modernizes and upgrades the E-rate program to bring fast, affordable Internet access to schools and libraries across the country. … the

Be the Master of Your Domain, How to Conquer Your Feed Reader

September 28, 2010

By Bobbi Newman

I’ve heard many of my friends comment that they are overwhelmed by their Google Reader, so much so that not only are they regularly declaring Reader bankruptcy but that they are avoiding it all together. My information professional friends, Google Reader is a TOOL, do not allow it to inspire fear and loathing, it’s there to meet your needs. Here are some suggestions for mastering it. Don’t be afraid to declare bankruptcy For me this means in the weeks leading up to and during and after conferences I will likely declare bankruptcy once a week. I don’t wait until the end, it’s too overwhelming, I just go in once a week, fully knowing I’m going to mark all as read and do it. If you’re declaring bankruptcy too often you are subscribed to more than you can keep up with, if that is 20, 200, or 2,000 it doesn’t matter. You put those feeds in there because you thought they were important. You need to figure out what the most important ones are, so you can keep up with those. It’s ok to let the others go. Better that than feeling bad. You need to figure out what you’re looking for in feeds, what information

How to Decide Who to Follow on Twitter

June 9, 2010

By Bobbi Newman

I have had several conversations lately about how to use Twitter and how to decide who to follow. I know everyone has a different methodology and goal when using Twitter. Here is mine. I have gmail filter, label and auto archive emails from Twitter and I go through them every week or so. Any of the following disqualifies the account for a follow: the default avatar 10,000 followers or more businesses social media experts marketing experts no bio no real name private account Of course as these are my rules I have broken them all at least once I’m sure. :-) Other than that I look at the bio, the link if there is one and recent tweets. I try to keep the number of people I follow around 250 and absolutely wont go over 300. I can’t keep up with more, some people can, I can’t. I spend most of my time on Twitter using Tweetdeck, without the columns I think I’d have to follow less than 250. How do you decide who to follow? Other strategies and tips: Deciding Who to Follow on Twitter The Secret to Twitter How To Decide Who To Follow On Twitter – 9 Tips How

Top Ten Links Week 21

May 31, 2010

By Bobbi Newman

My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 5/21/2010 thru 5/27/2010. Ok I’ll confess right off the bat, I cheated, there are 12 links this week. I just couldn’t cut them down. A couple of these deserve their own blog post so shame on me for not giving them the attention they deserve. 1. How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking - great article from Peter Bregman with some clear reasons why you should stop multi-tasking A study showed that people distracted by incoming email and phone calls saw a 10-point fall in their IQs. What’s the impact of a 10-point drop? The same as losing a night of sleep. More than twice the effect of smoking marijuana. Doing several things at once is a trick we play on ourselves, thinking we’re getting more done. In reality, our productivity goes down by as much as 40%. We don’t actually multitask. We switch-task, rapidly shifting from one thing to another, interrupting ourselves unproductively, and losing time in the process. Even better are the six things he learned the week he stopped trying to multi-task. I really need to do this First, it was delightful. Second, I made significant

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