Securing views Berg

Must admit I have an acquaintance who does not always understand me and when I confronted this weekend, I was not really up my point in a sensible whole. The argument is in principle based on "If you have over 500 contacts on LinkedIn - do nothing? Tweet you too? "

Let me quickly go through my own arrangement of social networking, what time they take and why the time is well worth what I invested:

Mailing lists (A group of people given the opportunity to send an email to all the others by sending a single email to the list)

This is the SUPERIOR biggest time thief all the categories in my life. I'm in a handful of lists that actually two is a bit more demanding. It has been described as a Rotary for the digital age, and there are two classic 'revelations' about them that power.

Mustafa Can wrote this in the DN, and newspaper Guru (guru.nu) had a scoop in the same district. The latter is no longer available online in its original form with Google's Wayback Machine is your friend if you want to read it - see here - where I also first saw me published in a scandal list - exciting.

I'm sold on this. There are few things as an interdisciplinary exchange between people in different disciplines who really knows his stuff and it's a forum where 1 +1 be 9.5 AT LEAST! There are dozens of ears to the ground, which explains what is about to embark upon us from their horizon. In discussions about Spotify, Skype, IPv6, Internet marketing, search engine optimization, telephony, ENUM, ICANN, E.164, GIX, FRA, Peering, Software Defined Radio, Peerialism, Google Wave, IPRED, Voddler, Tesla, Headhunters in LA, outsourcing In Bangalore, correspondents in Beijing, BSA, jailbreaking the iPhone, 24HBP, Mindpark so are people there - it is the horse's mouth that speaks and not a means gifted reporter who will summarize some complex two weeks after it happened. As all the compounds it is required that you give to get. Gratisätare is easy to come by and therefore not very desirable. Nothing has taught me so much as the membership of mailing lists, nothing has made me have expertise available to question if necessary. This is all kind of workshops you can go on Steroids!

Time consumption: Large, typically not for people who can not easily chew 2-300 mail in one night. It controls not the volume - what comes in, of course, but that one can control. No one is forcing you to read the all writing.

Blogs (It is posts like this. A type article in the Journal of the little man himself can produce)

Let's be honest and admit that an incredibly large majority of blogs produced by teenagers in a crowd. In line with the "everyone wants to be on TV," this is a blog where you write about what clothes you are wearing, what friends we met and that they clapped their guinea pigs. Like all publications, it is up to the editor to choose what should be in the publication and if the editor does not have anything interesting to convey is the result of no interest. It is theoretically very little difference in the content management system (CMS) that runs a newspaper web (say DN.se), the wordpress blog where Malin, 16, writes a diary, the blog where one of the leading security experts, Per Hellqvist share their knowledge or for that matter, where Mary X Jensen writes about politics and using the web to shape public opinion in order to get into parliament 2010th However, try to find a common denominator in addition to writing messages in a system that will be published on the web.

Talking Blog as a collective in which we can generalize, is that to generalize over the newspapers. The category includes everything from the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Phantom and crossword Annex Allers magazine. Also difficult to generalize.

I blog on Bergatrollet.se / blog and here at berg.to / blog .. On berg.to / blog is the most to write me off and bergatrollet.se / blog mostly to document "Technical stuff" I'm trying to remember for another time. Instead of having a nagging thought that keeps me awake so I turnover on a text so I can drop it and move on. Entrepreneurs have ideas for things they want to invent that does not give them no rest - I have the same relation to the social phenomenon. Can I write by myself, I can let it go and if I can publish what I wrote, and perhaps some time to persuade anyone that I have a point, it's a side benefit.

Tidskomsumtion: As much as you like. Ranging from none to lots. Newspapers need to come out close to be relevant and many bloggers write several times daily to keep readers. I write when something gnawing away I gotta get me out. Hopefully, the grains of sand in my head that occasionally fall out as a gem, but I demand not of myself that I will produce pearls on an assembly line or take a pride in having hundreds who here read what I write. In my case I take it therefore quite some time, but basically none of it is "extra hours". If I had not written, I had slept less and spent the writing hours to spin on the bed, which is a considerably lower employment.

LinkedIn (A network of business contacts)

Everyone has an address book. Some write in the address books, others collect cards, but a more modern and more efficient way to have a service for this. My name is LinkedIn. It is a service where I add people I have a professional relationship and some friends (often the borders liquid). Prior to a meeting I check people on LinkedIn (what they've done before, what is the kind of people) and after a meeting with someone do I typically seen them as a contact.

It's not me who was the first to realize the value of a Rolodex - in many industries, I have a well-stocked Rolodex been much of some people's market value, and to transmit it in a digital age is that you have many contacts in LinkedIn.Tänk you a journalist Mats Knutsson (political reporter on TV) with tentacles inside the politicians Sweden to provide inside information on the assembly line. Imagine him to look at sap.se to find someone who can say anything about the Social Democrat Congress - it is ABSOLUTELY impossible. Half Mats market value - at least - is his network of contacts.

Currently I'm working just as Mats Knutsson course in an industry where contacts are everything, although I am not a journalist. Imagine my employer organizations to sign contracts with or those where the process become bogged down. A quick check of the list gives a handful of contacts in many companies we have reason to interact with. What are they doing these days - can be a contact with a relevant person may untie the knot, adjust priority or explain the underlying principle, which means that it takes time. Have I maybe helped them in similar situations in the past, and I like that is "one up"? Do we have swept a beer together or we might have even played golf. The cases where I had the advantage of this is counted in hundreds of my good 15 year career!

I received consulting on several occasions because I had a profile that matched what the clients urgent needs, and I was able to ask the network for staff when I urgently needed to strengthen the basis of a very specific requirement. After two days I had at least a dozen proposals that fit right into the role in exchange for a half hour invested, instead of mixing into a recruiter for the cost it would come, the time it had taken and the amount of gravel I got the gold grains.

I have met all of my contacts in LinkedIn, or at least close enough digital connector that I can add them in good conscience. My only exception is the headhunters - they do I add but that I know them, if they work with interesting companies.

LinkedIn is not Facebook. I do not write what I had for supper, who I had lunch with and what shirt I bought. I'm not chatting with someone via LinkedIn and plays especially Mafia Wars via LinkedIn. It is a completely pure digital Rolodex Turbo Delux dual carburetors, 8GB internal memory all the way into the tile. How do you know, with a drive business cards in a pile, a former business associate is now director of a company that could help your business. You probably have an excellent personal input to begin with? You do not know and you can actually blame yourself because you still believe in your pile of playing cards as a good solution!

Time consumption: In its basic form is a pure time-saving. Keeping track of drifts of business cards is hopelessly and completely pointless when you can do so much more efficient, faster and better. It takes a few minutes each time but the savings on the other end can not be measured. It is a prerequisite to execute "happen" on a conveyor belt. I think I can, after all, recognize that there is a touch of collecting in what I do and that there are features that go further than having a list of a pure benefit approach. One feature of the bird dog who wants the herd overall. As long as the principle is that you do not add Tom, Dick and Harry to get many, I consider that it basically is not unhealthy.

Twitter (micro-Blog)

Like regular blogs written the horrible amounts of trivia and pure nonsense, but to dismiss it as a carrier which is to dismiss the Internet because it only consists of porn or rejecting papers for the existence of the tabloid press, which only exaggerates, distorts and corrupts. As a producer, I use it to communicate the things I find and which I believe is relevant to others; with TwitterBar in Firefox, it takes maximum 30 seconds to pull off a one comment and a URL to an article on the web. By following the relevant people and services I have a staff of experts who scan their areas of expertise and pass it to me. I use it the same way as others use a "ticker" to see the market price or to see the news that TT conveys (the've all journalists in the press constantly on).

Time: By optimizing the process to use my twittering basically just "excess capacity". Sending takes like 5 minutes during the day - as much as you used to go out and have a cigarette or insert new moist snuff, and then takes you probably not only a smoke / pouch for a day.

In summary, it's probably the case that many consider the value of social media from Facebook and the time it takes to get involved by Facebook. Facebook has definitely its place and one must not always be effective. Facebook is like "Idol 2009" - vulgovarianten of race, rigged so you get completely depressed but it is pretty nice to ever let go of the demands of efficiency and just to indulge in junk culture. Just do not do for too long, too often, because then it risks becoming seriously brutalizing and do not judge social networks from Facebook - it's like judging restaurant food for McDonald's.