I mentioned Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop site last week. It comes out of beta tomorrow. Mashable’s Kristen Nicole has an interview with Guy, which you can watch on the Mashable site or below. I’m pleased to say that this blog is on the social media page at Alltop, so check it out. And then check out the whole gamut of sites that makes Alltop such a great resource.
The web is a resource that can, at times, seem miraculous in its depth and abundance. Unfortunately, that abundance can also be a major shortcoming for those of us who have to work in human years. More and more ’stuff’ - of quality that ranges from essential to mind-numbingly inconsequential - gets added at a phenomenal rate. We talk a lot about conversations at bpodr but there’s a danger of serious hearing loss unless you know how to tune out the majority of the noise.
Social networks play a crucial role in helping you to focus. Letting recommendations and tips and hints guide you through the web is a constructive way to find the bulk of what you need on any given topic. It’s a two-way street, of course, and your own recommendations help others know what rocks your boat. This is the currency of social networking.
Step one, of course, is finding the people you trust to give you the first recommendations. I like to think that bpodr will serve as a node in your network of trust. One of the things we’re doing is building a blogroll to point you to blogs and experts that we trust in the field of social media. We’ve deliberately not started with a long list of links: over time as Adam and I reference particular blogs in posts we’ll add the link to the blogroll. It’s a bit like building trust slowly.
Each of the blogs we reference, of course, will have their own blogroll and you can happily follow links across the web from there. Or you can always start at ‘the top’ in a category by going to Guy Kawasaki’s new venture Alltop. This does some of the hard work for you by listing the best-read and respected sites on the web for categories ranging from Cars to Music to Politics and, of course, Social Media.
I’ve just added Alltop to our blogroll, too.
