Social Media Baking Time (Day 23)

This is day 23 of the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. Yesterday Chris Garrett showed you how to bridge professional networks and social media networks. Today, we’ll look at the strategy of pausing your social streams.

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  • http://www.doitmyselfblog.com GlendaWH

    Interesting idea, particularly with Twitter. Thanks John!

    • http://www.johnhaydon.com John Haydon

      Thanks, Glenda. I've actually done a few informal measurements (with bit.ly)
      and have found that the posts I let “bake” generally receive more
      click-throughs.

      • http://www.doitmyselfblog.com GlendaWH

        Interesting, John. It's way too easy to tweet too fast. A few times I've started a tweet and then I've asked myself, “Do others really need to know this?” I likely should censor myself more often! While I'm typing this, I'm realizing that tweeting less frequently but tweeting something of value likely has greater impact than a constant flow of noisy tweets.

      • http://www.johnhaydon.com John Haydon

        And quality has a longer tail. :-)

  • http://www.ivanwalsh.com Ivan Walsh

    Hi John,

    The more I use twitter, the more I discriminate on the quality of material I pass downstream.

    Now that I have some real followers (not the automated ones) I try to slow down and remember they have expectations + some element of trust in my judgment.

    Before I pass something along, I ask myself “would I REALLY read this?”

    If it does, I push it down or schedule it for later in the week, ie give me some time to re-consider and possibly pull it.

    Ivan

    • http://www.johnhaydon.com John Haydon

      Ivan – I'm completely with you. I'm finding that my retweets are more
      carefully chosen for that precise reason.

    • frankdickinson

      Love this -> “would I REALLY read this?”

      • http://www.johnhaydon.com John Haydon

        And answering that question is a whole lot easier if you know and
        trust the person who shared it with you.