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How to Deal With Email Overload Ari Meisel is co-founder at Less Doing, where he works on making every task in life and business more efficient. You can follow him on Twitter @liontex and read his blog at arimeisel.com. People spend a lot of time on email — way too much for their own good and productivity. Email is a disruptive technology that can take you on a tangent you never intended, and eat up time faster than most other voluntary activities. Email has addictive qualities. Most of us receive email that is unimportant, and yet we continue to check our inboxes incessantly. To free you from email burden, try these simple techniques. 1. To optimize email, you need less of it. Try aggregating. Next comes organization. Become a filtering ninja. Answer questions ahead of time. Finally, use WiseStamp to generate nice little icons that link to your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blog. Now that you’ve optimized your emails, you’ll need to get better at "processing" them. 2. Gmail plugin Canned Responses is indispensable.
4 Winning Strategies for Social Media Optimization Jim Tobin is president of Ignite Social Media, a leading social media agency, where he works with clients including Microsoft, Intel, Nike, Nature Made, The Body Shop, Disney and more implementing social media marketing strategies. He is also author of the book Social Media is a Cocktail Party. Follow him on Twitter @jtobin. Social media optimization (SMO) is the process by which you make your content easily shareable across the social web. You'll still want most people to see your content on your site — and if you're doing it right they will — but helping people view content through widgets, apps and other social media entry points will accrue positive benefits for your brand. If you're ready to get started with a social media optimization plan for your organization, read on for an overview. Why Social Media Optimization Matters Before we get to the practical, let's start with the "Why," as in "Why you should care about SMO?" 1. Image credit: Gigya 1. 2. First, offer options. 3. 4.
WriteThat.Name How Predictive Analytics Can Make Money for Social Networks Dr. Rado Kotorov is chief innovation officer at Information Builders, and is responsible for emerging reporting, analytic and visualization technologies. He has developed analytic models and applications for the pharmaceutical, retail, CPG, financial and automotive industries. You’ve likely been experiencing a deluge of online information coming at you in recent years — an overwhelming number of status updates, e-mails, tagged images and so forth. You’ve probably also seen, and potentially been alarmed by, the growing accuracy of targeted advertisements — “People You May Know,” and other “offers” online. As the quantity of irrelevant information has exploded online, so too has the market for the delivery of targeted offers and information. With increased value comes the potential for social networks to make money as well. Recruiting When a recruiter posts a job description, a predictive algorithm runs through candidates and calculates compatibility. Sentiment Analysis Market Fluctuation
If you don't want to get email ...don't send email. If you send a note to 100 or 1000 customers/clients/prospects/shippers/parents (whatever), be sure to give people a way to reply! I think this is especially important for small organizations or small subsets of lists... If it's important enough for you to send to me, it may be important enough for me to write back. I know it's horribly expensive and inconvenient to work your way through the replies, but aren't the replies exactly what you need to see? Email is medium all onto itself. Here's what you do: 1. 2. 3. 4.