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Today this page is changing from ME to YOU. (see the full post: How Do I? Moving from Getting Real to Getting it Done. A Social Media Resource Library I greet you here on the edge of the unknown. I know a bit about social media, but what I know might hurt you. It's what I don't know about social media that is interesting. And I will do my part to drop breadcrumbs along my journey. Do not follow me. Do not *follow* anyone but yourself.

If you meet the social media expert on the road, at least unfollow him, or put a comment on his blog when you see he is not living the truth he is trying to teach. (Or she of course!)

How-to Get Your Work Done (GTD and tools for the infostream):

• Tag Cloud Computing? – Categories, Keywords, SEO, Tags, Getting to Simplicity
• 11 Snow Leopard Essentials: iStat Menus, Caffeine, Growl, Little Snitch

How-to Get Your Social Media Participation Under Control:

• Facebook Groups for Flair or Networking? – Is There Anybody In There
• THE new Formula for Social Media Success – Available Now
• GWD – Getting Webwork Done – tools, taxonomies, hacks, reviews, best-of-breed
• Follow Who David @Armano Follows
• t-What is a Tweet? And Does it Matter from Wither I Twitter?
• Keep Your Twits About You – Taking Charge of the MicroWeb
• FriendFeed Ups the Bar for LifeStreaming (new features ≠ better experience)

How-to Do Better (leadership):

• 16 Ideas to Define Your Social Media "Thought Leadership"
• What Is Social Media Thought Leadership? And My Next Gig!
• Observe | Thought | Feeling | Desire
• Smartest Guy in the Room and Teamwork
• Education and Our Society of Hyper-connected Networks
• LinkedIN Q&A – Does your major in college matter? (maybe not like you imagine)
• GWD – Getting Webwork Done – tools, taxonomies, hacks, reviews, best-of-breed
• The 8 Laws of PowerPoint Success (PPT rules)
• Wikisocial.org – the open source directory of social media and online communities
• The View – A Deeper Exploration (seeking a social media killer app)

How-to See the Patterns in the Data:

• Visualize The World: Understanding and Explaining Many Things
• Visualizing the Web – Webpages as Graphs
• Visualization: The Tipping Point of Global Warming – You Want to Know This

Still being categorized: (please stand by)

• FFoFF – The Next Gen Open Social Platform
• JMacofearth is Forced to Lay Off Hundreds of Tweeters
• TWITTER RULES: BE REAL | BE LIVE | AUTO NOTHING | CONVERSE
• Battery Life: Does Anybody Really Care What Time It Is? – Until Their Laptop Goes Black?
• Uber.la's 1-2-3 Guide To Twitter: GETTING REAL with TWITTER
• Defining a Trusted Social Network
• Making a Mesh of it All – A Portable Profile for the Future?
• Google Chrome Shares No Love – Am I Scared, Nah!
• A Tale of Three Clouds – Microsoft's Cloud Computing Reveals Some Concerns
• Zen and the Tennisball Machine – Alone with Patience and Agility
• GTD by TXT (Getting Things Done as described by Merlin Mann)
• FFoFF (FriendFeed on FireFox) an Experiment in Open Social Application Development
• Niv Calderon and John McElhenney Start Up a Friendship
• What's for Dinner on RSS tonight? Pizza via RSS. Pizza via Twitter
• Spirit in the Machine – finding spiritual connection via the social web
• The Cloud the View and the App (a fable)
• The Social Mesh (part 1) – Refining my LinkedIN Connections
• Giles Turnbull Struggles with the Byline
• Getting to This Moment of Happiness and Lessons Learned Along the Way
• Top 5 SlideShare Groups – A Rich Learning Environment for Social Media
• I Got Blisters on my Fingers – From ACDC's RockBand Track Pack – ROOOCCCK!
• Deceptive, Confusing or Am I Just a Dork? – Buying a 17" Macbook Pro
• What is Your Imagination Immursed With? (The Artist's Way at Work)
• Keeping My IM Client in the OFF Position – Self-defining Social Media Networks
• FFoFF Friendfeed on Firefox – the Search to Define an Uber App
• Communicate unceasingly – Your passion, vision and strategy*
• 5 Things to Never Tell Your Manager
• Music as Fuel – My Power Pop Rock Band for Real – Buzzie
• Writing a Plan for Your Future – A Career Path Template from Boxes and Arrows
• What is Choking My Firefox? (Flash settings, GEARS, plugins)
• Milestones for Launching a New Wordpress Site In 30 Minutes
• Laptop Battery Maintenance and Good Habits – Scientific Studies Reveal
• The Taylor is Dusty – What Repells Us From Our Creative Passions?
• TOP 21 WordPress Plugins – Workin th'Press for All It's Worth
• It's Not ADD Mom, It's Attention Deficit Trait – I'm Learning To Be This Way
• What Do We Lead About? – What Makes Up Participation vs Lurking vs Flair?
• What's Wrong With: #FollowFriday, #AutoDM, #AutoTWEET, #TweetLater – Everything Is Wrong With Them!
• Where Do You Pay Attention – The Cost of Attention Deficit and Economic Recessions
• Re-Employment Resources
• Pay-to-Play Twitter – the Twitter Problem
• INFOSTREAM STRATEGY #1: The iGoogle Dashboard – Getting Your RSS Under Control
• ROI of Social Media – Risk of Ignoring – Interactive Austin 2009 Panel on Outside the Enterprise
• ReTweet Tweet Tweet – We Are What We Tweet: What Value Are You Giving Your Following?
• The "Value-Add" Consultant vs. The Smartest Guy In the Room
• Google is Not Your Daddy – 72% of Search but > 7% of Total Volume
• Twitter Global Diversity – Tweetdeck's Translation Powers – Your Babblefish is Here!
• INFOSTREAM STRATEGY #2: Tweetdeck – Putting a Dashboard Around Twitter
• Fire Everything! – Twitter Facebook LinkedIN Convergence – What's Okay What's Not
• When are Laptop Battery Specs Going to Get Real?
• Twitter's Global Influence Grows: Innovate, Communicate or Be Left Behind
• A Facebook UI Exploration – Simplify Simplify Simplify
• Social Media and the Enterprise Customer – Wired PR
• Doin Social Media – WIIFM – Whuffie – Creating Beauty Online and WIIFY
• Circles of Passion in Social Media and the Tools to Manage Them
• 5 Critical Search and Social Media Performance Tools
• This is NOT Social Media: This is SELF Media: Talk To Me Don't TXT Me
• Visualizing Twitter Part Deux: I Tweet Therefore I Am, Or Must've Been Awake!
• Review, Reset, Action: the BIG GOALS of 2009 (Being Accountable for Our Own Actions)
• Losing Patience & Trying to Find it Again : Repeat
• WHY TWITTER? My Client Doesn't Need to Be ON Twitter, Right?
• BLOG REALITIES: "I Stopped Reading You A While Back, I Can't Keep Up"
• State of the Twittersphere by HubSpot: 80% no URL in bio, 76% no bio!
• Twitter Fatigue: Hype Ends and Work Begins: Maintaining Your Twitter Account
• A Father's Day Loss Is A Win for the Gipper
• The Social Media ROI Acid Bath – Harmful If Swallowed (response to Tim Walker's post)
• A Tweeting Fool or a Tweeting Genius? How Do YOU Add Value to the Tweetstream?
• Creative Process Has Many Interruptions: My Songwriting Self-Examination – Buzzie
• Internal Brand Confusion Study : Notebooks – Can Branding Actually Hurt Your Brand?
• Music Discovery and Community – a Sub-Semantic Connective Network
• TimeShifting: Sleep Less, Rock More, Fire Everything and Be Everywhere
• The F-Bomb and F-Book: The F-Book Manifesto! [Facebook = F-Book]
• Facebook "Friends" Fail – Somewhere Someone Is Working On Facebook's UX
• Good 2 Great Content – How Do You Cross Post and Promote Your Best Writing?
• myTwitter Runneth Over – How Do You Manage To Filter 1000+ Friends?
• Friends, Tweeps, Links and Groups: Placing Value On Community and Friendship
• Social Media Strategies: Calculating the ROI on a Social Networking Saturday
• Agile Leadership: Steve Ballmer on Old Meetings vs New Meetings
• The Art and Science of the ReTweet Or ReTweeting with a Twist
• Oh My IRAN! Another Meaning for GREEN ACTIVISM #iranelection #iran
• Twitter is NOT an RSS Feed: Don't Auto Post Stuff to Twitter
• FriendFeed, Delicious, Feedburner: Hunting for the "links for date" Preference
• Blocking and Tackling On Twitter: I Guess It Could Be Worse
• Checking My Tone: Positive, Negative, Neutral (48% Bubbly)
• Online Activism, Going Green About IRAN
• Who Needs a Social Media Strategist In This Economy? What's The Value Proposition?
• Personal Branding, What's In It For You?
• Guy Kawasaki Phone Home Your Integrity Is Calling < Ghost Tweeting Anyone?
• Sooo, You're the Leader of a Social Media Team…
• Creating Passionate Teams – Encouraging Smart People to Want to Contribute or NOT.
• You've Been TweeSpamed: How To Recognize the Scammers on Twitter
• Two Top Web Performance Tools You Need
• Signs You Might Be Working Twitter Too Hard: Or Not *Workin* It At All
• Twitter Lists: New Social Reputation Monitor (SRM) and Filter – 500 Tweep Limit?
• Culling the Spammers from My Twitter Followers: TwitBlock.org Rocks!
• How Do We Measure Social Media Success: Business Metrics & Business Matters
• "Who Asked You to Do This?" and the Critical Path to Work Success
• Bored Tweetless: When Twitter Is Not About Conversations
• The Social Collider and Twitter Venn: TwitterTools for Visual Fools
• Going TRIBAL: The Foundations of an Active Community Site
• What's Your Social Media STACK? Application Framework? Social Media Workflow?
• Are You Delicious? How Can You Tell? A Del.icio.us Primer
• Why Everyone Wants to be Your Social Media Strategist
• Laptop Battery Maintenance and Optimization Laws: How To Get More From Lithium Ion Batteries
• Giving Back Time: When the 50-minute Meeting is Too Long
• Creating Passionate Teams – Managers Hold the Spark
• Capture and Share Your Experience to Become a Leader: the Blogging Path

[Getting Real is about getting your work done, having fun and doing it with as little extraneous effort as possible. A tip of the hat to Scott Berkun, David Seah, David Allen and GTD, 37 Signals, and 43 Folders. Without your pathfinding, where would I be?]

Getting Real with Twitter is my writing project on Twitter for Business and Twitter Etiquette and Keeping It Real on Twitter. Here is the 1-2-3 Guide to Getting Real with Twitter. Also check out The Twitter Way section for the unrefined blog posts about Twitter.

Getting Webwork Done is a process I am documenting about finding tools and techniques to get the internet done more efficiently.
See also the Getting Things Done Primer

Speed-the-Web and Get Webwork Done processes called INFOSTREAM STRATEGIES can be found below.

INFOSTREAM STRATEGY #1: The iGoogle Dashboard – Getting Your RSS Under Control
INFOSTREAM STRATEGY #2: Tweetdeck – Putting a Dashboard Around Twitter

Seeking the Uber App was the initial quest into efficiency and getting things done with an ultra SocialMedia-eCommerce-Browser app.

Getting Real with Delicious is a post I was writing for Mashable, but I got tired of the editing process and put it up here.

The Alive Tribe is a small circle of individuals who's actions speak as loud as their words.

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/getting-real

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Twitter Lists: New Social Reputation Monitor (SRM) and Filter – 500 Tweep Limit?