How I use Filtrbox to engage in the conversation
Something happened today that turned out to be a great example of the value of Filtrbox, and it didn’t hit me until after it happened.
We are quite busy over here these days, but I still want to be participating in the key conversations online that have to do with information overload and noise control. Ironically I was prepping for an important call and running thru my Filtrbox account when this article from ReadWriteWeb caught my eye in the dashboard (high ranking, from today). I clicked on the article and then left it up in a tab since I had the call in a few minutes. I came back an hour later and posted a comment. Then one of our users posted a comment giving us a nice plug. Thanks Danny!
The whole discovery-reading-commenting process took me less time than its taking to write this post, and I was able to 1. engage in the conversation about information overload and 2. inadvertently get an independent endorsement for Filtrbox out of it. I would have never gotten to this article if my only mechanism was to subscribe to the RRW RSS feed, because I’d already be thousands of articles behind…I don’t have time to manually search for information overload every day, and I don’t want to comment EVERYWHERE - just on the blogs that have high viewership (and high FiltrRank scores). This is a good example of noise-control at work - I didn’t miss the important post and was able to comment quickly, but I did not have to manually sift through hundreds of articles to find it.
Here’s the article (comments are at the bottom of the post) from ReadWriteWeb on Information Overload. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/info_overload_what_can_we_do.php#comment-58274