Comments on: The time it takes to network socially… http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/ The stuff in the head of Scott Johnson Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:36:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: geld verdienen http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-266 geld verdienen Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:04:12 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-266 Umzubrechen Neues Testament saugen daheim Geld verdienen schreiten Zugzwang eingebuchtet limnisch Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold, durch nahen werden nackt Gockel schwer achtzehn neben aufzubewahren derjenige nie mehr vernadern ihnen einschlaegig Urbar ungleich unter werden neunzig lohnenswert nueffeln. Umzubrechen Neues Testament saugen daheim Geld verdienen schreiten Zugzwang eingebuchtet limnisch Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold, durch nahen werden nackt Gockel schwer achtzehn neben aufzubewahren derjenige nie mehr vernadern ihnen einschlaegig Urbar ungleich unter werden neunzig lohnenswert nueffeln.

]]> By: tony kelts http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-226 tony kelts Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:47:12 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-226 I combine my facebook time with my sports watching time so I can truly get absolutely get nothing done. It's all good though, I have a lot of free time to waste. :-) I combine my facebook time with my sports watching time so I can truly get absolutely get nothing done. It’s all good though, I have a lot of free time to waste. :-)

]]> By: Fave http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Fave Wed, 19 May 2010 18:13:00 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-204 I've recently made a lifestyle change to be less social, more media. It's much more fulfilling (to me) to create more content than I consume -- which I think will also allow me to lose weight, but I digress. I was an early adopter of Twitter (joined in mid-2007) and Facebook, and I've seen how they have helped and hindered my professional, personal and creative process. Moderation is key, but I know myself. That's why I deactivated my Facebook and restrict my Twitter blurbs to a few per day in between work tasks. I’ve recently made a lifestyle change to be less social, more media. It’s much more fulfilling (to me) to create more content than I consume — which I think will also allow me to lose weight, but I digress.

I was an early adopter of Twitter (joined in mid-2007) and Facebook, and I’ve seen how they have helped and hindered my professional, personal and creative process. Moderation is key, but I know myself. That’s why I deactivated my Facebook and restrict my Twitter blurbs to a few per day in between work tasks.

]]> By: Joel Duggan http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-185 Joel Duggan Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:04:55 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-185 Like a few others have posted, compared to you Scott, my social network is considerably smaller. However, I've found that the time I spend using Twitter has dramatically increased since I launched my comic, both in following people and topics that interest me, and surprisingly, in people following me who are interested in what I'm doing. Twitter feels more like a community to me now than it ever did. I'm excited about it and am guilty of putting more time than I probably should into it. Still, I try to keep my Twitter breaks to a somewhat loose schedule when I have a lot on my plate. Morning, around the time people are having their coffee, lunch time, and later in the evening for me since I'm on the east coast. Facebook on the other hand I use out of necessity. In a lot of ways I dislike it and do whatever I can to avoid it. A great Facebook app called Selective Twitter Status allows me to post to Facebook, both personal and fan page accounts, right from Twitter. It has cut down immensely on my Facebook time. Most of my traffic actually originates from Facebook, so maintaining things there with as little time input from me is essential. Despite doing my best to just skim Twitter when I've been away for a bit, I still find I have that internal "need" to not miss anything. I really only follow people that I'm interested in hearing from. So, I don't want to miss out on something cool or interesting they've had to say. I've tried TweetDeck and don't really find it as useful as others do. Tweetie is great but Echofon seems to be the best of both worlds and has helped with my Twitter time efficiency. I can justify my time in Twitter by saying that I will eventually get out of it what I put into it, if not more. That it is a free venue to market myself and my artwork to those who are actually interested. Though, I really have no idea how busy people like those in say the tech news industry keep up on everything. Sure, I'm an entrepreneur and self employed artist. I'm busy, but I work from home and write my own schedule and I don't have a wife or a family to balance. That said, does anyone have a patent on the 28 hour day yet? ;) Like a few others have posted, compared to you Scott, my social network is considerably smaller. However, I’ve found that the time I spend using Twitter has dramatically increased since I launched my comic, both in following people and topics that interest me, and surprisingly, in people following me who are interested in what I’m doing. Twitter feels more like a community to me now than it ever did. I’m excited about it and am guilty of putting more time than I probably should into it. Still, I try to keep my Twitter breaks to a somewhat loose schedule when I have a lot on my plate. Morning, around the time people are having their coffee, lunch time, and later in the evening for me since I’m on the east coast.

Facebook on the other hand I use out of necessity. In a lot of ways I dislike it and do whatever I can to avoid it. A great Facebook app called Selective Twitter Status allows me to post to Facebook, both personal and fan page accounts, right from Twitter. It has cut down immensely on my Facebook time. Most of my traffic actually originates from Facebook, so maintaining things there with as little time input from me is essential.

Despite doing my best to just skim Twitter when I’ve been away for a bit, I still find I have that internal “need” to not miss anything. I really only follow people that I’m interested in hearing from. So, I don’t want to miss out on something cool or interesting they’ve had to say. I’ve tried TweetDeck and don’t really find it as useful as others do. Tweetie is great but Echofon seems to be the best of both worlds and has helped with my Twitter time efficiency.

I can justify my time in Twitter by saying that I will eventually get out of it what I put into it, if not more. That it is a free venue to market myself and my artwork to those who are actually interested. Though, I really have no idea how busy people like those in say the tech news industry keep up on everything. Sure, I’m an entrepreneur and self employed artist. I’m busy, but I work from home and write my own schedule and I don’t have a wife or a family to balance.

That said, does anyone have a patent on the 28 hour day yet?

;)

]]> By: Overstimulated? Probably. « Zac's Blog http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Overstimulated? Probably. « Zac's Blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:24:58 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-184 [...] Scott Johnson’s blog today got me thinking about this topic, and if I myself have become overstimulated. I have so many cool things going on in my life that I want to do and be involved in that I don’t know if I can do them all. There just aren’t enough hours in a day. If I could do it, I would be going to school full time, studying enough to get straight A’s, drawing a daily (or weekly at the very least) comic, writing a killer video game blog, hosting a podcast or three, playing some video games in the downtime, starting up my own research project about mental illness and how the brain works around all that, and doing all sorts of crazy fun stuff with my family and friends. [...] [...] Scott Johnson’s blog today got me thinking about this topic, and if I myself have become overstimulated. I have so many cool things going on in my life that I want to do and be involved in that I don’t know if I can do them all. There just aren’t enough hours in a day. If I could do it, I would be going to school full time, studying enough to get straight A’s, drawing a daily (or weekly at the very least) comic, writing a killer video game blog, hosting a podcast or three, playing some video games in the downtime, starting up my own research project about mental illness and how the brain works around all that, and doing all sorts of crazy fun stuff with my family and friends. [...]

]]> By: CrookedBeard http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-183 CrookedBeard Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:42:55 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-183 Nothing wrong with taking more time for yourself and what you need to do and time for your family. On the flip side I'm not sure how much of the social aspect is responsible for your business since you've gone out on your own! So there may need to be that medium and maybe this is that rebalance! Nothing wrong with taking more time for yourself and what you need to do and time for your family. On the flip side I’m not sure how much of the social aspect is responsible for your business since you’ve gone out on your own! So there may need to be that medium and maybe this is that rebalance!

]]> By: Jake Williams http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Jake Williams Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:21:23 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-182 I wholeheartedly agree with this post, thank you for this. About a month ago I was still a heavy Twitter user (do they have help groups for this)?! I would check it everyday during work, when I got home, right before bed; it just became a part of my daily routine. Since then I've had to deal with some heavy personal things that have pulled me away from Twitter and subsequently the Internet for a few weeks. Now that I've begun getting back into the swing of work, both professional and freelance, I've stopped checking Twitter as much and, who guessed it, getting more done. I've gotten to the point lately where I forgot to check it, but don't get upset at the mountain of scrolling anymore. I see the benefit, as you mention well in this post, but I see the distraction as well. I'm down to just a few posts a day, if that, and I've found much more interesting things around the 'net/news. Sure I'll catch something here and there on Twitter, but for productivities' sake, I've sort of lost touch with it. Best, Jake I wholeheartedly agree with this post, thank you for this.

About a month ago I was still a heavy Twitter user (do they have help groups for this)?! I would check it everyday during work, when I got home, right before bed; it just became a part of my daily routine.

Since then I’ve had to deal with some heavy personal things that have pulled me away from Twitter and subsequently the Internet for a few weeks. Now that I’ve begun getting back into the swing of work, both professional and freelance, I’ve stopped checking Twitter as much and, who guessed it, getting more done. I’ve gotten to the point lately where I forgot to check it, but don’t get upset at the mountain of scrolling anymore.

I see the benefit, as you mention well in this post, but I see the distraction as well. I’m down to just a few posts a day, if that, and I’ve found much more interesting things around the ‘net/news. Sure I’ll catch something here and there on Twitter, but for productivities’ sake, I’ve sort of lost touch with it.

Best,
Jake

]]> By: Akshay http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Akshay Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:32:41 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-181 I have a couple of suggestions ... culled from how I manage my social networking. I'd like to say upfront that my social networking circle & volume of activity is probably 1% of what Scott has to ... er, put up with, but hopefully my suggestions can scale well :-) 1. I use a Mac, and I have Echofon & Facebook Notifier running at all times. Combine that with Growl, and you'll see updates popping up in a little window on screen, and then fading away. If there's something that grabs your attention, you can click on it, and do whatever you have to do. Else, let it all fade away! 2. I have an internal sliding scale of what I consider "response worthy". On a slow day, a video of a dog on a surfboard might cross that bar. On a busy day, I'd say to myself "OK this is what I need to accomplish. This is what will pull me away from that". It seems to work for me! I have a couple of suggestions … culled from how I manage my social networking.

I’d like to say upfront that my social networking circle & volume of activity is probably 1% of what Scott has to … er, put up with, but hopefully my suggestions can scale well :-)

1. I use a Mac, and I have Echofon & Facebook Notifier running at all times. Combine that with Growl, and you’ll see updates popping up in a little window on screen, and then fading away. If there’s something that grabs your attention, you can click on it, and do whatever you have to do. Else, let it all fade away!

2. I have an internal sliding scale of what I consider “response worthy”. On a slow day, a video of a dog on a surfboard might cross that bar. On a busy day, I’d say to myself “OK this is what I need to accomplish. This is what will pull me away from that”. It seems to work for me!

]]> By: Lord Craigly http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Lord Craigly Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:13:15 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-180 TweetDeck makes life easy for the tweet lover. TweetDeck makes life easy for the tweet lover.

]]> By: Zacko http://thescottjohnson.com/2010/03/the-time-it-takes-to-network-socially/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Zacko Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:38:33 +0000 http://thescottjohnson.com/?p=147#comment-179 To me, Twitter and Facebook are another Skinner box (reference to a previous Instance episode). You randomly find yourself finding awesome gems, and keep coming back in hopes that the next one might show up. If you don't keep yourself in check, you'll end up dumping all of your time into it. At times I've checked Twitter upwards of 30 times a day, and updated Twitter about 15-20 times. It can really get out of control. I, like you Scott, have tried to hold back. To me, Twitter and Facebook are another Skinner box (reference to a previous Instance episode). You randomly find yourself finding awesome gems, and keep coming back in hopes that the next one might show up. If you don’t keep yourself in check, you’ll end up dumping all of your time into it. At times I’ve checked Twitter upwards of 30 times a day, and updated Twitter about 15-20 times. It can really get out of control. I, like you Scott, have tried to hold back.

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