Productiever worden door sociale media

29 juli 2010

Je leest dagelijks tientallen berichten over de kracht van sociale media. Meestal zijn dat holle herhalingen. How Social Media Can Make Us More Productive is misschien ook een herhaling, maar zeker geen holle. Het artikel legt kort en helder uit waarom kenniswerkers zoveel baat kunnen hebben bij al die hulpmiddelen.

Information overload isn’t a new problem, and some folks would argue that Twitter and other tools have only made information overload more of a problem. But the truth is that if you carefully use tools like Twitter, Yahoo Pipes, RSS readers, Google Alerts and bookmarking to discover content that’s pertinent to your job, you can become extraordinarily efficient in finding, consuming and cataloging an enormous amount of information in a very short period of time. The key to staying productive is to distinguish your personal time spent with social media from your professional use of it.

Think about financial advisers reviewing stock information, market trends and news on important companies. Imagine their advantage if they were to systematize their information discovery through social media and better leverage communities like StockTwits. They would find content that is recommended by trusted friends and professionals in real-time, rather than relying solely on proprietary finance software and what surfaces on Google.

Jawel.

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