…how each allows me to format and bring out thoughts and ideas differently. No two soc medial platforms are exactly alike in terms of tools…

Todd Jordan makes an excellent note here. What I do on Seesmic is far different than what I do on Utterz video. Each social media application has its particular uniqueness (with noted exceptions of some blatant copy cats) so they become another tool in your tool box. While a flat head screw driver may work on a Phillips head screw (the plus one), it is not the best tool for the job. I have not devoted much time to Facebook and LinkedIn but recognize that these are both important tools for me professionally so I check in on them occasion and have a “round tuit” set aside for working with them to better represent me.Maybe we should belong to every social application that comes out and change the question to “how frequently do you check your social media sites?” and “how frequently do you update your social media sites?” I would have to answer that one with Twitter (all the time), Utterz (most day), Seesmic (every day or two), all the rest (once in a blue moon or when they send me an email).

If you think a blog is the only thing you need, then good luck cutting your steak with a spork.

HOwever, I don’t make my living online just yet. Though perhaps one day not far off that could be the case. If so, maybe I’ll discover that more is better, or at least more than two or three is better.

The neat thing is how each allows me to format and bring out thoughts and ideas differently. No two soc medial platforms are exactly alike in terms of tools, and each has different strenghts as well.

Good post.

I try just about every new thing that comes our but very few or them stick for me and even if they do stick for me at least a few of my online community of friends have to be into them as well. For example, Pownce is a cool concept but not of my friends really got into it so I don’t spend any time with it.

So in terms of Microblogging Twitter is really the only thing that’s a part of my daily life, though I consider really active groups on Flickr to be a kind of Microblogging as well.

I really resisted twitter for a long time and I am starting to use it a bit more but adding more into the mix is a bit much. I think the people that follow me get to a point where they feel it is over exposure. Sure I can leverage this into new sources of traffic but I feel that it hurts the core people that follow me.

The line in the sand for me was when my wife commented, “you don’t blog anymore.” Microblogging services of Twitter, Utterz, and Seesmic completely changed my style of publication on Reality Me. My post frequency went down. The number of short posts (microblogging on the blog itself) lessened. My blogging fire seemed diminished simply because I was spreading myself thin.

Now I think that I have a better balance. Instead of looking at the services as competing for my time, I have learned how to integrate them to compliment one another.

There are so many of these tools that I have created a page on Reality Me specifically to list the services I use (it is horribly out of date).