Tanya McGinnity

I just finished reading this article on ‘Nine Trends for 2009 for a World in Flux’ and while I do agree with many of the projections, there is one in particular that resonates with me. “Micro-blogging meets meditation” calls upon the need for a balanced approach towards social media, with all of it’s merits and drawbacks.

It’s easy to feel bombarded by all of the comments, posts, tweets, status updates, photos, videos, shared links and other miscellany of messages that come flooding in. I’d love some suggestions on how you work with this. Any tips, tools and techniques you use to kung-fu chop the tidal-wave of info-data-bits would be greatly appreciated.

A valuable blog for me these days is the revamped ’43 Folders’ where Merlin Mann has changed his focus from productivity to finding the time and attention to do your creative work. In so many ways, this is where my mind is at. Rather than read a tweet about someone eating a plate of Kraft Dinner, I want to be producing, sharing and collaborating great ideas.

Now I can doodle on all of those GTD books!