“What do you do all day?” I see co-workers wondering as they walk by my pie-acle. They see me on Facebook, watching YouTube videos, and chatting on Twitter.
I was interested to visualize exactly what I do. I took to the whiteboard at work, writing all the different social networks (Facebook, Twitter, blog, etc.,) and on the next line all the media that I share (video, pictures, articles).
I take a video, upload it to blip.tv, which shares the video to iTunes, YouTube, and Facebook, then I take the YouTube URL and share it on Twitter, which automatically gets sent to MySpace. When I started to draw all the ways I share media, the whiteboard started looking like a spider web, and people at work started gathering. “Is this what you do all day?”
I looked at the whiteboard and couldn’t believe that my social media plan-of-attack looked so messy. It was time for a coffee-fueled cleaning session. I decided to make a distribution flow chart organized by what I was sharing, and branching every possible option using MindNode (generally used for mind maps).
I think this chart will help me manage my time better, and give my co-workers a better idea of some of the work I do. I sit on Facebook all day, sure, but it’s a little more complicated than that. What do you think?
