Comments on: 5 solutions for coping with social media

By: Lloyd Burrell

Lloyd Burrell — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:54:58 +0000

Twitter lists are nice as you can keep them private and relevant only to yourself. This is very useful exactly for the reason you've described above: you can keep a small corner of personal stuff right in the middle of social media.

Lloyd Burrell
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By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:46:22 +0000

Lisa, great instincts: I suspect you’ll find filters life-transforming. If the key problem for you is press releases, try filtering on a phrase (or set of phrases) that appear in press releases: “For immediate release”, “For more information contact”, etc.

Once you’ve got your filters in place you’ll be able to decide how often to check them. I thought it would be a pain to have multiple boxes to look in for unread mail; what I’ve found is that anything that doesn’t land in my inbox is so marginal that I hardly need to look in the other inboxes at all.

Yes, I kept an eye on “all mail” for the first couple of months, just to ensure I didn’t miss anything; and from time to time I wonder why I haven’t heard back from someone, and when I search on their name, discover a message that got filtered — but that’s pretty rare. Mostly it’s just very liberating to have an inbox that focuses on what really matters.

By: Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:37:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing this – I think email filters is the tip I should implement right away.

For me, it’s not emails from beta signups — it’s press releases that I may or may not be interested in. I’m thinking about filters that would put those in one place, where I can check, but where they won’t interfere with my seeing/replying to messages sent directly to me.

So, I’m imagining filtering CC’d items, or BCC’d items, or both if they’re not from my employer, or something. Though I still worry that folder would become another nagging thing to check (or it would become the black hole with 1024 unread messages).

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