Socialmedia. Mobile. Networks. How to: Build a social media dashboard. Keeping track of all the goings on in even your own social media world can be pretty daunting. Come on with just Facebook and Twitter most of us would be buried under information, now you add Digg, Reddit, Foursquare, blogs, news sources… Okay I need to stop, just thinking about all the sources I have to keep straight gives me a headache.
So before I have to lie down in a dark room, I want to let you in on a little secret. I don’t track everything. Nope. I only track the stuff that’s important to me, but the best part is that the rest of it is never far off. How do I do it? I’m going to show you four different ways to make a dashboard for yourself (and all are free), but before I do, let me give you the real secret to how all these tools work: Segment your information That’s what all these tools do, they let you put information into easily skimmable groups so you can glance and see if anything is new.
Let’s start with Twitter. 1. Twitter lists can be public or private. 1. 2. 3. 2. 3. CMO-SOCIAL LANDSCAPE-R5.pdf (application/pdf Object) How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education. Apophenia » Blog Archive » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) At SXSW, I decided to talk about privacy because I thought that it would be the most important issue of the year.
I was more accurate than my wildest dreams. For the last month, I’ve watched as conversations about privacy went from being the topic of the tech elite to a conversation that’s pervasive. The press coverage is overwhelming – filled with infographics and a concerted effort by journalists to make sense of and communicate what seems to be a moving target. I commend them for doing so. My SXSW used a bunch of different case studies but folks focused on two: Google and Facebook.
As most of you know, Facebook has been struggling to explain its privacy-related decisions for the last month while simultaneously dealing with frightening security issues. Amidst all of what’s going on, everyone is anxiously awaiting David Kirkpatrick’s soon-to-be-released “The Facebook Effect.” which basically outlines the early days of the company.