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This is my weekly round up of social media links that I’ve bookmarked in Diigo over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also follow me on Twitter or join the Facebook Fan Page to get some of these links throughout the week.

• The 39 Social Media Tools I’ll Use Today
• 10 Things to Avoid In Social Media – WebWorkerDaily
• 7 Superb Social Plugins for WordPress

This is my weekly round up of social media links that I’ve bookmarked in Diigo over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also follow me on Twitter or join the Facebook Fan Page to get some of these links throughout the week.

• 10 Ways to Show Your Community Love « Social Media Monitoring and Engagement – Radian6
• 5 Ways To Sync Facebook And Twitter
• 4 Ways To Check Your Twitter Statistics
• The Albert Einstein Guide to Social Media | Brand Elevation Through Social Media and Social Business | Altitude Branding
• 10 Tips for Non-Profits on Facebook
• HOW TO: Integrate Facebook, Twitter, and Buzz into Your Gmail

This is my weekly round up of social media links that I’ve bookmarked in Diigo over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also follow me on Twitter or join the Facebook Fan Page to get some of these links throughout the week.

• 8 Simple Steps to Growing a Quality Twitter Following | Social Media Examiner
• 6 Ways To Get Organized And Centralized With Social Media
• 5 Simple Twitter Listening Tips Every Marketer Should Know
• 4 Essential Traits for Social Media Success in Your Career
• Top 3 Twitter Apps To Manage Your Twitter Contacts | PCs Place
• 7 Tips for Local SEO and PPC Success | Search Engine Journal

This is my weekly round up of social media links that I’ve bookmarked in Diigo over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also follow me on Twitter or join the Facebook Fan Page to get some of these links throughout the week.

• 8 Most Useful Firefox Plugins For Facebook Users
• Should a Blog be Your Social Media Hub? | Blogging and Content Creation | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert
• The Five C’s To Social Media
• 7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

This is my weekly round up of social media links that I’ve bookmarked in Diigo over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also follow me on Twitter or join the Facebook Fan Page to get some of these links throughout the week.

• 7 Lessons for Better Networking with Social Media
• Social Media Strategy: First have a Plan. Then Execute the Plan. | Branding and Marketing
• Logic+Emotion: The 5 Reasons You’re Failing In Social Media
• How to Build Conversations in Social Media Using the 3 P’s
• Get Started With Twitter in 6 Easy Steps | Digitizd

This is my weekly round up of social media links that I’ve bookmarked in Diigo over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also follow me on Twitter or join the Facebook Fan Page to get some of these links throughout the week.

• 10 Musts for Marketing to Women on Facebook
• 10 social links you need to bookmark « Direct Marketing Observations
• A New Age for Social Media Marketing | Brian Solis
• Using Search To Prove Social Media’s Value | Social Media Explorer
• Coca-Cola’s New Social Media Policy
• 5 Tips for Creating a Successful Social Media Contest

When I wrote Cleaning My Social House, I just wanted to focus on how clearing out some clutter in your social networks can make them much more efficient in the short term.  A comment from Lauren Fisher brought another great point to light.

She said,

I think this helps us to remember that social networks are a constantly evolving process. It’s not just a case of setting up a profile once and hoping it will manage itself.

You change the people you want to converse with, start using it in different ways and want to get more out of them, the more you use them. We’re so constrained for time now and need to optimise our consumption of content.

This is such a great point about the long term view of social networks.  Everybody that uses social networks uses them in the way they want and need.  Those wants and needs are going to change over time as things in their lives change.

In the Beginning

When I first logged onto Facebook in college, it was used to connect with classmates and find a great party on the weekend.  Now, I use it to stay connected with my family and closest friends and to promote my blogs on my fan pages.  If I hadn’t kept a tidy profile, it would have been harder and more time consuming to move to this new way of using Facebook.

The same can be said for Twitter.  Originally, I used Twitter to find some new links about social media and marketing.  Now, I send out my blog updates and use it as a networking tool.  If I had gotten too caught up in mass followings or other Twitter strategies, it would have taken much longer to change my ways.

Change is Hard

You can still switch directions and change how you use your tools no matter how clean or messy your social house is.  I just think it is easier to see when it is time to make those transitions, because there is less change that needs to take place when you have a clean social house.

Change is hard, and I can get set in my ways.  Anything to help me stay flexible is something I value in an industry that is constantly changing.  How clean do you keep your social house, and how have your social strategies changed over time?