Sharing Resources With You

A longtime staple of many social media professionals is to share what they read, what they find and the resources they use every day.  I’m not different, and have been sharing this information for the better part of a decade.

Over the years, I’ve used Google Reader (still a staple), Tumblr, Posterous, Read It Later, InstaPaper, BlogLines, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Digg, and many others that I’ve since forgotten (sorry!).  In fact, earlier this year I wrote a similar post pointing out that I had More Resources To Share.

Since then the work involved to share to so many different sources, along with the changing landscape of browser experimentation (my fault for using Firefox and Chrome) with their different sharing plugins takes way too long.  To add to the complexity, I’ve added several dozen feeds to my daily reading list, even after cleaning out many non-essential feeds.

I’ve made it simple. Finally. At least for me it is and I hope it is for you as well.

Google Reader is still my mainstay for sharing – everything that I think may be of interest to others is found here.  By everything, I mean everything – social media, mobile technology, android stuff, apple stuff, microsoft stuff, and many other topics.  If you’re connected to me via Google you’ll see it in your “People You Follow” portion of your own Google Reader.  Otherwise, you can find it here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/rickmahn

Posterous is the main place I’ll take time and post social media related items that I think are very relevant for anyone in the field.  These articles and posts might be on business use, marketing, communications, tools, news and so on.  You can find this fee at: http://rickmahn.posterous.com/

Finally, I do still bookmark some items at Del.icio.us. There’s really no rime or reason to those, but it may be useful, so here it is: http://delicious.com/rickmahn

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Link posts – end of the line?

The End of the Line - by BlakJakDavy I’ve been thinking about the content I publish on my blog of late. Personally, I think I’ve let it get a bit messy, and have been working on cleaning it up a bit and thinking of new layouts and such. Currently, I’ve not planned an overhaul of the entire site, but that may happen in 2008 – we’ll see.

Recently though, I’ve started to dislike my “links” post that I try to keep updated every day. It’s hard to keep up, and be selective, sharing quality links in these posts. They’re partially automated, coming directly from my del.icio.us bookmarks. However, del.icio.us is fed by ClipMarks, after careful screening through my Google Reader’s Shared Items.

For the past year, I’ve maintained a Google Reader Shared Items blog. In early autumn 2007 I created a Lifestream that aggregated all my online postings of multiple types of media into one place. Two weeks ago, I discovered FriendFeed which does the same thing, but also brings social interaction to the shared content as well.

With these aggregated or interactive shared streams, I wonder if there is any real point of posting a “links” post every day (or trying to anyway). I’d love to have your thoughts. While it does take a bit of extra effort on my part, it may be of greater value to you… I don’t know, but I’d like to find out.

Share your thoughts in the comments. Do you find value in the “links” posts that I share, or do you find more and better links in things like FriendFeed, Plaxo Pulse, Google Reader Shared Items, or a Lifestream?

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