http://www.cocomment.com/comments/montgorp Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-23T16:26:40.113+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=montgorp&conv=1496628&comment_id=28699093 russel Hi Graham (and others) Thanks for the compliment. its interesting that this should come up as I have spent the last few days (off and on) trying to streamline my own PLN. The biggest problem I have found is that I have is that there are just so many social networking sites out there to choose from now. This is a problem for me because I have subscribed to many of them and found myself overstretched. It would be a problem for a newbie because they would have to decide which one to subscribe to and then avoid subscribing to too many. I have solved (to my satisfaction anyway) my problem by using a combination of the Flock (a browser) people bar and igoogle ( a google app). This allows me to keep abreast of the happenings in the various networks. However, it is an ongoing problem. For example, I'd not heard of Plurk until reading these comments. And I am torn again. Do I subscribe or don't I? But anyway back to the point. I think that a blog and Twitter are still the central planks in my PLN. I use Thwirl to track my twitter network. I use Google reader to track a few friends blogs and I have trimmed my blogging down to one only blog. A word about Twitter: start small and grow slowly, keeping your network in balance. Keep roughly the same number of people you follow and your followers. If you follow many more than follow you , you look like a spammer. I block spammers and I think most people do. Start small and grow at a balanced pace. Let people follow you before you follow too many more. 2008-07-15T04:13:20.122+02:00 2008-07-15T04:13:20.122+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=montgorp&conv=1168400&comment_id=23447492 Russel Montgomery So... So... Here I am in the cocoment test blog making a test comment :) 2008-01-24T02:22:34.550+01:00 2008-01-24T02:22:34.550+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=montgorp&conv=1168400&comment_id=23398898 ressortdejour It didn't work the first time because I forgot to click track this. I am using Safari as my blog reader and want to continue to do so. So I have to learn to use the tracking button. Now I think I click the share button? No. Do I just submit the comment? 2008-01-22T10:16:53.434+01:00 2008-01-22T10:16:53.434+01:00