New media is intertwined throughout my everyday life. I use email throughout the day six days a week, I am constantly on Facebook updating the two pages that I manage for work and browsing news feed for my personal enjoyment. I read multiple blogs regarding my profession, career growth, development, ideas, and more. I peruse pinterest for everything from a menu for this weekends BBQ to how my kitchen will look in my dream home. LinkedIn has become a staple in my social media realm now that I am coming up on a life and professional shift. Instagram and Twitter are fun but those are utilized occasionally throughout the week.
New media has made me more aware of everything happening around the country and world. I have always been a bit of a news junky and now I am able to absorb and seek out the news that I interests me. Social media has turned everyday life events into monstrosity sized events because of the added exposure and fast past spread of information.
Social media in general is a positive influence into my life. I am able to monitor my usage of it and not allow myself to be overrun by the need to post or update my profiles while spending time with my family. However, at work social media can have a negative influence in the sense of time management. It is easy to become fully engaged in the social media aspect of my job and loose sight some days on the day-to-day administrative side to work.
Michelle - I like your About Me description and your adjectives for your children. If I had to manage a social media site as part of my work duties, I think it would be difficult to pull away from it to accomplish other tasks. What strategies do you use so to overcome this challenge of time management that you mentioned?
ReplyDeleteHello Renee, I am a strong believer in time blocking my day, week and life!!! I try not to multi-task as much as possible. I have a set amount of time set aside for emails and logging into social media and the company website, another block is set aside for researching and writing content, then I break another chunk for upcoming, past and current events. I end everyday with 15 minutes to reflect on the current days to-do lists and prepare the next days to do list so it is waiting for me when I get into work.
ReplyDeleteOnce I discovered time blocking and let go of the notion that multi-tasking is fantastic I am way more productive at work and the quality of my work has gone up. It also keeps me from bringing work home. Everyone operates a bit differently, this is just how I balance work and my family time.