My Daily “Must-Visit” Web Site List
Now that I’ve officially entered into the foray of social media applications, I’ve noticed that I’m spending more and more time on the Internet. Recognizing the additional time consumption, I am determined to make sure that things do not get out of hand.
To do this, I need to list down all the sites that I visit on a daily basis and then prioritize the maximum time I should spend on each. I’ll address the latter in a future post.
Here’s my list:
My Daily “Must-Visit” Web Site List:
1. Alexa: Traffic Rankings for my 3 blogs
2. Google Adsense: Advertising revenue - it’s nice to see how these figures update almost real-time.
3. My Blogs: Mr.Gadget Australia, Arnold Aranez dot com and Gadget Loop (new site)
4. Kontera: Another advertising revenue website
5. Affiliate Websites: Clickbank
6. Plurk: Social media website that acts as a micro-blog with graphical timeline
7. Twitter: Micro-blog which I post a couple of announcements per day
8. Stumble Upon: Social bookmarking tool
9. Digg: Social bookmarking app
10. Google Gmail: Check in to read and reply to mail a couple of times a day
11. Technorati: occasionally pop-in to see how my Technorati rank is progressing
12. Facebook: Social media app to keep in touch with friends and family
Now that I’ve identified the top websites that I visit daily, I now need to time-manage each to make my day more streamlined / effective. Would love to hear of any tools or techniques that other people use.
How many sites are your “Must-Visit” website list?
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Pretty similar to yours, actually…
- Adsense
- Chitika
- Facebook
- Plurk
- Digg
- StumbleUpon
- Google Reader (which takes care of a LOAD of other sites I’d otherwise have to visit individually)
- Geek-Speak (to moderate comments and/or delete spam)
*Gmail
*Facebook
*MySpace
*Google Calendar
*Plurk
*Twitter
*Blogger (if I’m writing a post)
*Google Reader, which inevitably leads me to several others so that I can comment, read a full news article, check out pics or videos, etc.
As far as time-management goes, I give myself 30 -45 minutes when I first get up to do the non-work stuff. All my social networking notifications are filtered straight to an out-of-sight-out-of-mind label in Gmail so I don’t get distracted by them throughout the day (I’m an always-open Gmailer). Then, during breaks, I can check that label or browse a site. (I’m a university instructor, so I determine when/how long my breaks are!)
Looks like I missed out on Plurk, will give it a shot. I go to myBlogLog instead.