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Making Friends – Marketing Cartoon, originally uploaded by HubSpot.

So funny and so true *most* of the time. This is why I don’t auto-follow with Twitter. Take a minute to look at their profile, look at their posts and see if they add value to your time line or if they are just more noise. Unless of course you like loud and noisy. Follow me at @akbob

My apologies to Shakespeare for abusing one of the most quoted and quotable quotes of all time.  But it is so apropos to deciding who to follow online through a variety social media services.  If we aren’t careful we are bombarded with so much information that we can end up missing the best and most important nuggets of information. 

Those bits of information, links, photos, opinion, news are as valuable as gold nuggets in the currency of shared knowledge.  So we need a mechanism like the gold miners use to seperate the gold from the gravel, or in our case the gold from the noise.  That’s why it’s so important to choose who you follow carefully.  Choose those that provide a high yield of gold per post based on what our focus and intrests are.

In my own experience with setting up the multiple tweeter accounts for instance has improved my yield.  A number of people have chosen to follow me @mysticventures, for instance, that don’t fit my ideal of high yield contributers to that twitter account.  But looking at their twitter accounts I most often see that they have a high yield of gold that fit into one of my other twitter accounts. So I follow them from that account.  The net affect is that I have improved the experience for everyone by mantaining my focus. I get a high yield of gold from those that I follow and I’m able to provide a high yield to those that choose to follow me.

Ultimately isn’t that the essence of of networking? To recieve and provide the highest yield for your network as possible.

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