Channel Management

This is an initial attempt to think about and manage my personal Collab:Channel Overload.

Underlying philosophy:

• Getting Things Done
• Collab:Dynamic Knowledge Repository

First-pass taxonomy:

• Where to file
• Where to check
• Where to publish (being social)
• Priorities
  • Priority
  • Periodic
  • Ambient. Okay to miss stuff (e.g. Twitter).

Evaluation criteria:

• Number of channels
  • Incoming
  • Outgoing. (Am I contributing to Collab:Channel Overload?)
  • Per priority. Okay to have lots of ambient channels.
• Overlap in channels. If I can file and publish in one fell swoop, that's a good thing.
  • Personal / Work boundaries?
• Access? More credentials needed, more work.

Action Plan

Migrate private wiki to Evernote. Personal inventory items can be replaced by photographs... assuming Evernote ever fixes its "No snapshot found to upload" bug.

• Eliminate one channel, and streamline workflow for personal inventory and account management.

Digital Channels

Email

• eekim.com
  • gmail.com (forwarded)
  • burdenslanding.org (forwarded)
  • hcs.harvard.edu (forwarded)
  • ddj.com (forwarded)
• blueoxen.com
  • blueoxen.org (need to forward)
  • blueoxen.net (need to forward)

Wikis

I follow all of my low-traffic, MediaWiki wikis via RSS (Google Reader). WiserEarth, PBWiki, Socialtext, and Wikispaces wiki have email notification.

• Blue Oxen
  • Blue Oxen corporate
  • Collab Collaboratory
  • Forge
  • Kitchen
  • Working Wikily
• Blue Oxen projects
  • LLC
  • WiserEarth
  • Smart Money Award
  • Socialtext wikis
• Personal
  • private (behind firewall running on PurpleWiki. Needs migration.)
  • eekim.com
  • burdenslanding.org
• Wikimedia
  • Wikipedia
  • strategy
  • Meta
  • West Coast Wikiconference

Filing

Notes, interesting articles, etc.

• Wikis (see above)
• tumblr
• Google Reader tags
• Twitter favorites
• Slideshare favorites
• Evernote
• File system
• Batchbook, Google contacts for business cards.

Photos

• F-spot for private. (Will migrate to Shotwell soon. Maybe Picasa?)
• iPhoto on MacBook Pro. Mostly migrated to F-spot, but not totally synced.
• eekim Flickr for public.
• blueoxen Flickr for Blue Oxen public.
• Evernote for whiteboard photos.
• Haven't found good private, work-related photo sharing. MediaWiki uploads. Perhaps Picasa for Google Apps?

Social Networks

• RSS feeds (Google Reader)
• Twitter
• Identi.ca
• Facebook
• Flickr

Paper Management

• Many notebooks. Been using Moleskines consistently for the past five years.
• ScanSnap for scanning
• Paper file cabinet
• Shoeboxes for mail, receipts, biz cards.
  • Investigating Shoeboxed.com for receipt / business card scanning.

Workflows

Blog Post

When I publish a blog post, I also tweet/dent it, sometimes from both eekim and blueoxen. Blog posts are automatically published via RSS and consumed by my Facebook account (both personal and Blue Oxen page).

Comments are on blog, Twitter (which can be integrated with blog), Facebook (which in theory could be integrated into blog, but probably shouldn't), and private email.

"Liking" on the Web

I like something on the web. I want to show that I like it. In some cases, I want to file it away.

• Browser tab. Sometimes for like, sometimes for to read. Sometimes DMZ my tabs by saving them as browser bookmarks.
• If there's a native favorite/like feature, click on that. Sometimes those are trackable, sometimes they're not.
• Possibly comment.
• Possibly (re)tweet/dent/share on Facebook (which happens mostly automatically).
• Possibly Tumblr. Tweets are automatically archived on delicious.
• Possibly integrate into wiki / Evernote / filesystem.
• Possibly blog.