Work / Life Balance in Social Networking

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Matt Call — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:02:18 GMT

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Work/Life Balance in Facebook: a conversation continued

Chatterbox — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:24:21 GMT

We had a couple great comments from Joe Meehan and Ayesha Dawson on Work / Life Balance in Social Networking

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Ayesha Dawson — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:25:41 GMT

On the same note, check out why Dave Carr decided to "defriend" his business associates on Facebook:

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Set Boundaries for Social Networking

Chatterbox — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:43:38 GMT

In my previous post on the work / life balance I talked more about the time management and which tool

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Lindsey Robbins — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:25:44 GMT

Oooh, a new *toy* to play with. I'll totally go check it out and report back. I'll see if I can follow your line of thinking. You might be on to something big but then again I'm sure you already knew that.

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Joe Meehan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:04:48 GMT

Since you're pondering stuff, what's your thought on Digsby - an application to handles all your emails, IM's, social networking updates, and twitter?

You can't do everything "facebook" related (i.e., you can't upload photos) from Digsby, but for a recepiant of "Push" information - it looks easier than having several windows open at the same time (i.e, facebook, twitter, gmail) and running an IM application.

Check out www.download.com/.../3000-2150_4-10822157.html for a review and a demo. I haven't used it - but I'm thinking about trying it out.

But follow me on this: How amazing would it be to get Digsby to brand their application for your company / non-profit (or maybe just advertised on it) and you give it away to donors/clients/customers?

That way they get this great application - and you have a new method of reaching them (assuming they have IM/email/twitter/facebook/myspace).

Just a thought.

Joe

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Lindsey Robbins — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:40:12 GMT

Hey Joe,

Thanks for the great response. I'm glad I'm not the only one trying to keep things separate.

I agree with everything you had to say but wanted to point out one thing, I do like the tools like slideshare and jumpcut and you have a great point about driving traffic. In that sense, I would recommend taking advantage of embedding these objects instead of sending them away. I'm currently looking into how to embed on these blogs so I don't have to send people away from Blackbaud.com. I guess I like the idea that there are free tools out there to facilitate your social media efforts.

I like what you said about emails. It's important to keep fine lines with that too especially if you can have one where you know it has a good spam filter and can use that one for all the junk you know you're going to get.

Oh and I can't wait to discuss more how building apps on some of these sites is a totally cool way to use one site but publish to many. Either way, great comment - you've got me thinking!

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Joe Meehan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:53:50 GMT

I've tried to limit myself to only a few social networking websites.

Here's how I rank them:

My LinkedIn is strictly professional - if I have worked with you in a professional capacity, I'll add you.

My facebook is semi-professional, where I have some friends, some family, and some business relationships. I don't really post anything too personal; it's the equivilant of a "work happy hour" level of information. I also join networking groups - but it's more along the lines of professional development than "singles meeting for cocktails."

It's the same for twitter - semi-professional. I communicate with a lot of Blackbaud employees and clients this way. Also, a few weeks ago, LA had an earthquake and the transit department was able to use twitter to let people know what bus/subway routes were operational. (Yes, LA has subways!)

My myspace is more personal - although these days it's mostly so I can keep up with various artists on tour, and activities in the LA area.

The same policy holds true for my emails: Work is for work only - no personal emails. I have a personal email (my own domain) for personal emails and I have a hotmail account for all the subscriptions (expedia, starbucks, united airlines, ticketmaster, news alerts with my name in it).

But back to social networking for a second. I'm always looking for ways to get involved with various causes - and facebook seems to be a great way to do that at the moment. Mypsace has 'jumped the shark' and is just so hard to work with. Plus - it's blocked at work. So that's a factor.

Slideshare.net and jumpcut are great tools, but from a marketing point of view, unless we were Apple or something equally as large, I don't know that I'd share our product on there for everyone - I'd rather drive traffic TO our website from those sites.