Using Google+, Twitter & Facebook Without Losing Your Mind

Following up on the last post about how I combine LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to streamline my communications, imagine how thrilled I was to discover that I no longer have to--well almost.

The Google+ Circles are the perfect way to segment and segregate your communication. Facebook is a pain in the ass to segment out communication, especially since the default is to blast everyone. This means when I get geeky about Salesforce, I get terse comments from my high school English teacher who could care less. Now, with Circles, I have a Salesforce group I associate the post with and only they are the ones to see it and we can get geeked out together without offending the intelligence of my True Blood lovers circle.

But here's what's missing--no API to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, set on a circle by circle basis--yet! It will be so simple to streamline communicating with circles when I can set the broadcast scope within settings for each circle to tie in with other social networks. What this means is that I'll be spending less and less time on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and more time on Google+.

Throw in an awesome Google+ iPhone app and keep the integrations coming Google. The bottom line is that I don't want to have to choose between Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ and I shouldn't have to. Likewise, it shouldn't be a hassle to streamline communicating on all four platforms (and many more) through one UI that is easy to use and works well with the others.

It's not to much too ask to make communicating online easy and if any organization can do it, it's the big four combined.

 

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