On FreelanceSwitch Muhammad Saleem is giving some great tips on how to use social media tools, but not get overwhelmed in the process.
I’ve been meaning to write this post since part 1, but then came part 2, and today part 3:

Social Media and Simplicity, Part 1: Reduce
Social Media and Simplicity, Part 2: Organize
Social Media and Simplicity, Part 3: Time

Here is the essential part thus far: don’t stress out that you have to use everything pick the tools that work for you, then work them.
Take RSS, Muhammad uses Yahoo Pipes to filter RSS feeds to weed out duplicate entries.  I use …read more

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of discussion about FriendFeed vs SocialThing!.  My own take, which isn’t all that awe inspiring, but I do fall into the “FriendFeed makes my info overload worse” camp.
In a guest post on Read/Write Web, Muhammad Saleem interviews SocialThing! CEO Matt Galligan and we get some interesting insights into the differences, as Matt sees it, between FriendFeed and SocialThing!:
Recently people have been comparing lifestreaming services FriendFeed and Socialthing!, trying to determine which one will win or whether they even compete. For example, see ReadWriteWeb’s post FriendFeed vs SocialThing!. I signed …read more