Offline | Online
I blame it on being ill.
I spend most of my time online. I’m lucky enough to work in a company where I’m more or less obligated to spend all day everyday keeping in touch with the latest trends online. I’d do it anyway of course. In fact I’ve spent a substantially larger part of today fiddling with one such development that I couldn’t even strictly justify to myself. Why? It’s all about Flock & social media.
So sure, Flock’s nothing new. It’s not even unique, or first.
It’s damn pretty though.
GTD for Social Media?
OK, so it’s not in the spirit of GTD* to rely on a fancy tool, but if you are trying to Inbox Zero your social sphere and you’re more than a little active online, then anything you can use to make the complex simple should be welcomed.
Flock’s ‘People’ function allows me to share broadly in my multiple social spheres without having to wade through logins or get tangled up in MMFFT (Massively Multiplied FireFox Tabs). When I’m testing web code I run things through multiple user agent versions and types - and I piggybacked my social presence into these different browsers: Opera for a formal profile; IE for work; FF for play; and so on.
I’m still fiddling (and will be for hours), so I’m not going to bang on too much about some of the other cool features. I do recommend you take it for a whirl though, especially if you happen to be bed-bound by winter flu.
Yeah, yeah - very interesting. But did you…you know?
Did I blog with it? Well you’re reading this aren’t you?
*For those of you unfortunate enough not to have come across this mind-bendingly simple life hack: GTD = Getting Things Done.