Today’s post is going to be short and sweet, but I’d thought I’d share this little tip. A lot of people wonder how I keep up writing on Twitter, facebook, Linkedin and sometimes myspace (just in case anyone is still on there). To be completely honest, I’m never really on any social networks, except maybe once a day. If you’re not careful, those networks can eat up a bunch of your time.
Twitter Rules EverythingAlthough 140 characters can seem limiting, it’s usually enough to get my point across. I use Twitter as a “middle-ground” to update all my social networks at once. After today, it will also automatically update my LinkedIn profile.
I use Tweetdeck to update my Twitter (it’s just one big long train from here). I also have my facebook and myspace accounts hooked to Tweetdeck, in case I want to post something on facebook, without posting it anywhere else (I tend to be more personal and less business like on facebook). I also use Tweetdeck to pull my full facebook feed, so I never have to actually visit the site to see people’s wall posts or make comments.
It seems some people prefer to connect with me on Twitter, some prefer facebook and others – LinkedIn. You’re really limiting yourself if you’re not on and active on all 3 medias. Although digg, Stumbleupon, Myspace, flickr and other social medias are popular as well; most potential clients and fellow freelancers are going to be on one of those top 3.
You need to be updating often, and connecting them all to one account makes that easy, as you no longer have to swim through the internet to update a million different networks. It’s important to stay connected – I’ve found plenty of clients this way and it’s also helped to keep me on top of web trends and new developments.
How do you manage your own social mediums?
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This is nice I just set up the sync between my twitter and face book account.
According to bnet.com “LinkedIn users can sync their site status updates, which are also limited to 140 characters, to a selected Twitter account, allowing messages to also appear as tweets.”
I currently use the wordpress app to automatically add my blog posts to Linkedin.
Talk about a time saver whenever I publish a post these three social media sites well be automatically be updated .