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Sometimes social media feels like the thing we’re trying to cope with, and sometimes it feels like the thing that can help us cope. This page offers resources to make social media work for you instead of against you.

The posts here focus on project management, contact management and time management tools and strategies. You’ll find that most of the posts in this category combine established web tools with my own recommended workflow or practices.

6 social web sites where you want multiple accounts

If you’re trying to develop a consistent voice, brand or set of relationships across the social web, it’s very useful to choose a username that is available on all the major social networks and use that as your consistent handle online. (I’m awsamuel, everywhere.) But as much as I believe in using one username across [...]

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How to stop waiting by the inbox

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I recently sent one of those e-mails that leaves you feeling like a shmuck. Not because of anything I wrote, but because I knew I would be obsessively checking my inbox every five minutes until I got a response. There are all kinds of reasons you might find yourself checking your e-mail for an eagerly [...]

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Popplet brings mind mapping to the iPad

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“It’s only for content consumers, not content creators.” That charge was leveled at the iPad even before it hit the stores. Now that it’s in all our grubby little hands, there seems to be some truth to the argument. My husband has gotten great mileage out of his iPad as a content creation tool, using [...]

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5 solutions to hyperthinking and hypertasking

While working my way through the consultation paper on Canada’s Digital Advantage, I found myself: investigating the best way to copy and paste text from a PDF to Evernote, leading to an open browser window with a series of tabs about various options for Mac/Evernote integration considering the best way to annotate the PDF on [...]

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5 solutions for coping with social media

Read Gillian Shaw’s story about my social media methodology in the Vancouver Sun. Is social media something you have to cope with? Or is social media something that can help you cope? In my talk today at the Northern Voice blogging conference, I made my best case for social media as a coping mechanism. Yes, [...]

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At Oprah.com

From Oprah.com: Twitter 101

Twitter is a social network that lets you post short messages to share with just your friends or the world. A Twitter message—a “tweet”—is the equivalent of a Facebook status update. But you only have 140 characters to get your point across! Even if you hate the idea of sharing your own ideas or news [...]

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Gist shows the future of social media profiling

One of the best side effects of my recent contact management overhaul was the discovery of Gist. Gist is essentially the mutant offspring of CRM (customer relationship management) and RSS aggregation/social media monitoring. It’s one of those tools you never thought to look for, but once you discover, can’t live without. Essentially, Gist rounds up [...]

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5 solutions that clean up your address book

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Don’t limit your spring cleaning to tidying your linen cupboard and sweeping the dust bunnies out from under your bed. You computer needs cleaning too! Why clean, you ask? With hard drive space getting cheaper every day, the time it takes you to clean will be worth far more than the space you free up by [...]

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At Harvard Business Review

Syncing Contacts: The Impossible Dream

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Of all the problems that plague the plugged-in, social worker, one of the simplest remains the hardest to solve: Syncing…

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At Harvard Business Review

The Tantalizing Promise of Social Search

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Of all the sessions I missed at this year’s SXSW, the one that I regretted the most was the Social…

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Kill your tech truths

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I recently read a profile of the performance artist Marina Abramovic, whose work is currently featured in a career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Abramovic’s signature works include Rhythm 0, in which she lay passively in a gallery next to a series of objects that audience members could use on her body, including to injure her; [...]

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