9 tips that will change how you use social media

1. Listen to podcasts

Sure, they’ve been overcome by newer and sexier social flavors du jour but podcasts are still the best way to spend time when you’re not in front of a screen. Driving to work? Listen to Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation or MarketingProfs’ Marketing Smarts with Matthew Grant. Working out? Put on the ear buds and embrace John Jantsch’s Duct Tape Marketing or Chris Penn’s Marketing Over Coffee. I’d love to have your ears on my weekly Social Pros Podcast where we focus on real people doing real work in social media. (You can put your eyes on it too, because we run full text transcripts here.)

2. Take and curate photographs