Social Media Inbox Presentation

Below are the slides from my Social Inbox Zero presentation at Podcamp Boston 6. It’s a short demonstration of the roadmap for all social inbox zero posts which will be released soon. If you have questions about how to organize your social data, please get in touch! Social inbox zero View more presentations from Michelle Wolverton.

Social Inbox Zero

Inbox Zero.  We’ve dabbled in it, read about it, tried to make it work for us, sometimes we succeeded.  The system is like any system.  It works if you are loyal to it. If you practice it consistently. If you aren’t familiar with Inbox Zero, it’s a system designed to help you tame your inbox.  The goal is to have a inbox with zero messages in it. Everything filed, saved to a list for later or otherwise archived.  The actions of Inbox Zero are Do/Defer/Delete/Delegate/Archive. We’re always looking for a ways to be more productive.  We want more time to focus on the projects and people that matter. Managing Information from the Firehose If you[.....]

You Control the Social Firehose

After following this discussion on Google+ about the evolution of social network adoption and a number of other posts regarding excitement for a chance to cut down on the noise/shares/etc,  I find I must point out something fairly obvious. Filtering social networks is YOUR responsibility. In 2007, FriendFeed was the shiny new tool at the moment.  A lot of folks went to great lengths to add every other social network they were a part of.  Including Twitter.  The redundancy was incredibly annoying.  I decided it wasn’t the best use of my time to read the same content twice (especially breakfast updates!) and promptly stopped listening to FriendFeed. If you find that are feeling overwhelmed with[.....]

Podcamp Boston 5

It’s been a crazy 5 years, well, 4 for me, but 5 for Podcamp Boston. For those of you who do not know the history of Podcamp: A PodCamp is a usually free BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media enthusiasts and professionals including bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, social networkers, and anyone curious about new media. The first PodCamp was held September 8-10, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. PodCamps are now being held worldwide. Podcamp Boston was co-founded by Christopher Penn and Chris Brogan in 2006.  These two guys wanted to learn more and share what they knew about podcasting without traveling over to the west coast to do it, so they came up with the idea to[.....]

6 small business marketing tips to do right now

There’s a lot to say for practice, but at some point we have to jump out of the plane or into the deep end.  We cling to the safety blanket of what it is, instead of doing the things that would get us to the place we envision in our minds.  This applies to all areas of life: saying no, learning martial arts, taking downtime, working on our own content, taking a leap from our day job, jumping on the speaking bandwagon, or writing a book. There is one major goal that applies to small businesses marketing online: make more delighted customers.  Reputation and word of mouth are kings. If you’re a business owner, you[.....]