You might have seen me around the Interwebs or you may have known me for awhile. Either way, something you may know about me is that I like to live my life in two ways. (1) Online and (2) Efficiently.

 

In July of 2009 (yep, if you’re reading this in July, just this month!) I decided it was high time to improve the situation of my social media chaos.

 

You MUST know what I am talking about… If not, let me tell you a story.

 

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ryze, Plaxo Pulse, Plurk, Digg, Delicious, Technorati, Stumble Upon, etc., etc. all creeped up at some point or another in my life and I joined the sites. Yep. Each and every one of them.

 

For a long time, I failed miserably at keeping them all up-to-date (as you yourself may experience from time to time) and when that started happening, I felt HORRIBLE! Like I had set out to do something and every day, felt as though I were failing at it a little bit more.

 

I let myself stay in social media chaos hell for a long time. Too long really.

 

Then, July of 2009 sprung up and I was asked to speak at WordCamp Montreal. For those who don’t know, WordCamp is essentially a conference / gathering in thousands of cities around the world where WordPress geeks come together to share both the technological and the theoretical sides of blogging.

 

I was speaking theory. With no topic in mind.

 

So, I e-mailed Jeremy Clarke, one of the organizers of #wcmtl (Twitter hash tag ftw!) and sent him a topic I had known about but wasn’t implementing myself — the lifestream.

 

This was two weeks before the actual conference AND I was headed to New York City the following week so I had a few days to really sink my teeth into the lifestream and the presentation notes.

 

So, I began mapping out what the lifestream looked like.

 

Why Lifestreams Help Take the
Chaos Out of Social Media

 

Lifestreaming is a continual broadcast of events in a person’s life through digital media.

 

Lifestreaming is also the act of aggregating many streams, generally using a third party service that then shows the content in chronological order.

 

The reason these are so needed is because people are feeling the “need” to utilize all of these different sites but there is no automation or system to it.

Building a lifestream creates order in the midst of real life chaos.

 

Implementing a lifestream also provides readers with a snapshot of your life providing a much more in-depth look into what you are doing, reading and listening to.
It allows you to share things quickly, easily and effectively with your readers.

 

Why Would I Want to Invest
in a Lifestream?

 

With the amount of NOISE in our world today, it’s easy for our customers, colleagues, fans and friends to get lost in the midst of all of that noise.

 

They may find it nearly impossible to keep up with everything you are doing and they may not have any opportunity to learn about you… the real, truthful you… the one that is going to attract in other authentic people.

 

Aside from the noise factor, it helps YOU out by creating efficient systems so that you aren’t manually updating Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., etc. but rather having an excellent system that allows your blog to work for you AND allows for social interaction.

 

The thing is, lifestreams aren’t for everyone but when you tap into their power — really cool, efficient and exciting things start to happen.

 

This Self-Study Program
Teaches It All

 

You'll learn how to setup and design your lifestream, configure plug-ins, map out your social media sites and put everything back into your agreggated system.