5 Social Media Resolutions for the New Year

Happy New Year (two days early)! Whether you pronounce it twenty ten or two thousand ten, I hope it’s a good one for you and yours.

I’m not really one to tie myself to New Year’s resolutions, but I do have some personal goals for social media for next year. Here are my top five:

#1 Time management: About every week, my Reader gets to 1000+ items. I’ve started editing the list of personal and professional blogs I read, but I need to do a better job of getting through posts on a more regular basis. I’ve created a must read list, that I try to get to each week, but I still need to pare it down a bit.

#2 Remember that social networks are “social”: Often I find myself getting caught up in using social media for my day job and forget that the purpose is to build and maintain relationships. I need to do a better job of staying connected to my social friends even when I’m busy checking Facebook ad campaign stats, Twitter chatter for a client, etc. And, I need to remember why I started blogging and got on Facebook in the first place – it’s fun!

#3 Making an investment in “meeting” new tweeps and bloggers: Because I’m busy (aren’t we all?), I haven’t done a great job of taking time to investigate interesting people and thought leaders to follow on Twitter or adding my thoughts via comments to the blogs I read. Nailing down resolution #1 should help with this goal.

#4 Maximize LinkedIn: I use LinkedIn a lot for business connections, but I’ve been lax about taking advantage of insight shared via forums and groups. I also haven’t linked it to my Twitter account…still debating on that one.

#5 Partner with thought leaders I admire on blogs: This year, I only ponied up one guest blog post and I haven’t featured anyone else’s thoughts on this blog. I’d like to improve both in 2010.

So, what are your resolutions?

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