Management: Social Networking Can Lead to Social Notworking

Jade didn’t understand why it was so hard for her to finish projects on time. She worked crazy hours but was always trying to catch up. I suggested that she maintain a time log for at least a week to track how she was spending her time.

Guess what? Jade was spending more time twittering, flickring, facebooking, and myspacing than she was working. She’d landed inside the latest craze of all the popular social networking tools, but she became so addicted it led to social notworking.

If this sounds familiar and you think the same thing has happened to you, keep the time log for a few days. Make a visual of how you’re spending your time and let me know what you discover.

I hope you’ll start to balance all this. Social networking is good for business if you do it right, but it can’t get done to the detriment of everything else.

-Peggy Duncan, SCORE Atlanta
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2 Comments October 30, 2008

Productivity: Google News Alerts Can Help You Manage Information Overload

Anytime an article hits the Web on email overload, an alert shows up in my Inbox. I signed up for Google Alerts, which are email updates of the latest, relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

As stated on their site, some handy uses of Google Alerts include:

• Monitoring a developing news story.
• Keeping current on a competitor or industry.
• Getting the latest on a celebrity or event. (more…)

13 Comments July 10, 2008