Kick Your Social Productivity into High Gear Part 2

When you first log into Social Oomph it can be a bit overwhelming, even for me.  I want to direct your attention as I do in the video to the “Scheduled Updates” section. This is where you can.. well.. schedule your updates

Then I want to take you back to tip # 2 from the last post; 5 Tips on How to Kick Your Social Productivity into High Gear. That was the one on keeping a log in MS Excel. If you recall from that post, in this tip I showed you how I create a series of information around the post all leading up to a single tweet and a link to that post. In the right most column I run a check to make sure that tweet is under 140 characters which of course is the limit on twitter.

Now we are going to perform 9 steps which take about 30 seconds to complete and then twitter will be working for us around the clock.

1. Take the second to last column in Excel. The one with the tweets and highlight and copy the entire column.
2. Open a notepad document.
3. Paste the tweets into that document and save it right to your desktop.
4. Go to social oomph, scheduled updates.
5. Choose ‘Bulk Upload Updates’.
6. Click ‘Choose File’ and browse to your text document.
7. Check off ‘Load the updates into one of my status queue reservoirs’.
8. Choose the appropriate Queue from the drop down.
9. You can delete that txt document once the tweets are uploaded.

If you haven’t already created a queue then follow these steps (the video also walks you through this):

Once you have followed these instructions you now have your social media on autopilot. Remember that you have to check in a few times per day and see what people are saying so you can respond directly and promptly. As you create new content you can go back to tip 1 and once per week or even less, check your own feed in your RSS feed reader to see which posts need to be added to the Excel log and then add the new content to the queue in social oomph by creating a new text doc with just those new tweets and uploading them to Social Oomph.

You are also now well equipped to find your content easily when you want to send someone there to get their questions answered. I have saved myself 100′s of hours of re-typing the same answers by simply replying to people and saying “check this post here ___ it answers your question specifically.” Using the Evernote tip I can quickly search out my content, copy the links into an e-mail and hit send.

Over time you will build a library of content that has people wanting to come to you for the reference information on how to do anything that you may be teaching to your audience.