Release of Google+

Facebook Timeline

Steve Jobs Dies

Google Sites Overhaul

Rise of Social Gaming

I wrote the below post on my personal blog at www.NhatPham.com

I’m curious… Anyone use this method for Linkedin? Others? If so, how?

You remember the show Get Smart? Remember how Maxwell Smart and the Chief would get under a strange contraption called the “cone of silence?”

Cone of Silence from TV show Get Smart

It was to keep all the noise out as well as give them the privacy they needed to have a clandestine conversation.

In social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, we can use the same principle. It often gets too “noisy” to really hear anything. if you have more than 2-300 friends, you are probably missing conversations all the time.

If you put them into friend lists, now you are able to manage both conversations as well as privacy.

Suppose you have a dozen ‘A’ clients you want to check in on and make sure they’re doing well both personally and professionally. Put those folks into a list and now you only have to see their news feed.

Worried about co-workers seeing your pictures or your boss wondering what your activities are after hours? Now you can segment folks you work with into a list and hide that particular group only from posts, photo albums or even videos.

It’s like Paretto’s law aka the 80/20 rule. I recommend spending 80% of the time, managing the 20% of the “friends” that matter most and scanning the other 80%.

Otherwise, you might be relegated to only hi-tech conversations vs. meaningful hi-touch connections. There should be a balance.

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Vlingo application for iPhone, it is available fo Blackberry, Android & various other devices. Currently, it is only able to update Facebook and Titter for Social Networks via voice command. I expect Vlingo

While this video shows the to expand this to additional Social Networks but in the meantime its still a pretty nice app and will make it a little safer for folks updating on the road because we never text update while we drive . It will even do voice cammands for Google searches, map directions and much more. Best part, its FREE !