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You and I LOVE social networks!
They capture our imagination!
Some of the new social networks are endlessly intriguing - some, just downright exciting - some, even useful, too!
A new one comes along, we JOIN!
And then a wee bit of reality shows up knocking on our doors: managing the inbox of the newest site we just joined.
One of the greatest strokes of genius I noticed in Gmail a few years ago was that I could port all my messages from Yahoo, Hotmail, Comcast, and myriad other places directly into one account. It helped my productivity.
However, most of the social media sites, while they provide an inbox, the messages in that inbox are not easily portable - if at all. You must go to the site to respond to each message - then return to your primary email client. Now, for the owners of these social media sites this is great because you get traffic to your site. But, as an end user, it's flat-out counterproductive. If, like me, you belong to Linkedin and Facebook and Twitter and Xing and Ning and CollectiveX and Ecademy and more, you start to notice the number of trips you have to make to these sites each day.
So, no matter how intriguing these sites may at first appear, the question becomes: if they don't allow your messages to import directly into your primary inbox, how many siloed inboxes can you effectively manage each day - and is there a negative impact on your productivity?
Thanks!! Vincent Wright Entrepreneurial Recruiter/Social Media Consultant MyLinkingPowerForum.com | MyVirtualPowerForum.com | MyLinkedinPowerForum.com | http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/MyRecruiters/ http://Twitter.com/MyRecruters http://friendfeed.com/rooms/myrecruiters http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyRecruiters/ http://myrecruiters.plaxogroups.com +1-860-967-0563
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