As a fairly compulsive user of Twitter and Facebook, I’m very aware that these distractions are eroding my productivity. I also know that there are solutions to this problem, ranging from the obvious to the draconian. But none of these hacks addresses the real issue: It doesn’t matter which distractions I’m indulging in; what matters [...]
Awhile back, I pointed out what Mashable wasn’t telling you about Facebook. Now Compete is getting in on the action with a comprehensive data analysis of the qualitative differences between Twitter and Facebook. Which would be great… except it makes broad statements without explaining why it came to those conclusions. Here are the study’s four [...]
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I’ll admit it: sometimes, I tweet multiple links to the same blog post. So do you. So does everyone (who wants to be read). But I’ve stopped doing something that seemed like a good idea at the time but which, in retrospect, really pissed me off even as I was doing it: I stopped prefacing [...]
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Since I’ve been blogging a lot lately about the power of professional networks, I’ve decided to do something drastic: I’m changing the way I’ve traditionally used my own social networks, so I can better understand how they work. Until now, I’ve tried to curate my Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn networks according to the following criteria: [...]
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Twitter is not Facebook. By and large, Facebook is the people you know, or used to know, or forgot about until they found you (again). Twitter is a more vague, more surprising, less personal and ultimately arbitrary collection of people you may or may not know, but who still add value to your day — [...]
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