The tech-friendly magazine 'Fast Company' just posted a great short guide to managing your social media input.



Here is the text from the link:

"First, make social network activity come to you. Pick your primary channel of communication and route all your notifications from various services to come through it. I call this funneling. For example, you

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The current issue of the Economist has a feature on social networking that might be useful both for the novice and the individual looking to strategically leverage their work more effectively. It's a great collection of very readable articles. Check them out online here.

A recent post from the social media news site Mashable reported usage statistics collected by Nielson Media Research that shows Twitter and Facebook continue to lead the way in the overall traffic patterns for social media. Some sites like LinkedIn have remained constant (and small relative to the other two), while MySpace has shown a decline in traffic.…



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On the recent CCO / PTCC Webinar on Social Media someone asked about social media guides or books. I've posted here before about Mashable, the best online starting place to learn about social media. But what about books?



There actually are some very good ones for the novice to get a sense less about how to use the technologies in a very specific manner, but rather how they generally can be combined in a strategy and how the basics… Continue

With the New Year it seems inevitatable that the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 should be filled with lists. It seems to me that there are more lists than usual this year because it is the end of one decade and the beginning of a new one.



With that in mind, I found another 'top 10' designed around social media that I thought might be worth sharing. This one is from the up-and-coming technology commentary site: http://gigaom.com.



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