It’s Good To Share
As many of you will know I Tweet a lot, but am I Tweeting too much?
I’m a fan of Content Curation, and actively share on my favoured platform, Twitter. Naturally reading a lot, I am always eager to keep up with the latest trends in my sector.
And there is no faster moving space than online. The by-product of my media consumption is the Tweet.
So Many Ways To Share
I have tried many ways to make sharing easier:
1. Automated RSS Feeds
In the early days using RSS fed automatically into my Twitter stream. Avoid this one, it can produce truly awful results, however careful you are to select the source web sites.
2. Scheduling through Hootsuite
This isn’t so bad, but still a bit manual. HootSuite is a fantastic Twitter application that is simplistic enough for an individual to use for free, but with enough flexibility to support the most complex of Corporate Social Media Management requirements. I currently manage around 20 Social Media accounts through HootSuite, collaborating with around 12 other staff members. Scheduling through HootSuite has proved beneficial from a personal and business perspective, but it still lacks the speed of deployment I was searching for.
3. Triberr Tribes
You either love it or hate it. Triberr allows like minded individuals to join together to Tweet each others on-topic blog posts. There is a quality issue here, and as the tribes I am in have grown I have had to exclude certain members for posting non-related content. Other than this I would gladly share the content that others in my tribes write anyway, so this has proven beneficial. Certainly I have received no negative feedback from followers.
4. Enter the iPad
Probably the thing that has effected much of the way I share content has been the iPad and more specifically the news based applications. Although none of these allow scheduling I can Tweet directly from Reeder, Flipboard and Zite very easily. They offer a great way to access a massive volume of content and re-share it.
5. Put it in the Buffer
My latest favourite is the BufferApp. This fantastic web application allows me to email the title and link directly from my iPad Apps, buffer a Tweet directly from my browsers, and even add to BufferApp from the Twitter web site itself. These will then get sent throughout the day according to my predetermined schedule. Easy for me, and saving those following me from being bombarded by the output from my speed reading stints through the day.
Back To My Question, Is It Too Much?
I find myself eagerly trying to fill the BufferApp, like some game of “keep the kettle boiling”. I don’t feel the engagement either on Twitter or on my blog as much as I used to. This could just be a shift in the market or my followers. With Facebook improvements and the migration of many to Google+ it may just be that many have moved on and I need to build new relationships. Those that followed me to learn the latest stuff may have had their fill.
Certainly my RT stats and click through data show that much of what I post is of interest, in that case it may just be perception.
Whatever the cause, my gut is telling me I need to engage more, and that is what I plan to do.
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