Now that I have my established lists, the task of organizing begins. With several hundred subscriptions, the keyword is bulk management. FriendFeed allows you to bulk add friends to a desired list. However, it does not allow you to bulk remove friends off your primary home feed. This task is taking a considerable amount of time due to the removal of all my subscribers off my home feed, and into their appropriate lists. Currently this has to be done manually, as there is no bulk removal option in place for taking everyone off your home feed. Overall you will need to spend a decent amount of time organizing your lists to get the most efficiency out of them.
My question is, why and what do I need a home feed for?
Lists help tremendously, but still it is not the end all solution. You can’t truly use lists for topical breakdown because most people talk about multiple topics. This is an observation Mark Trapp voiced in this thread. I absolutely agree with Mark. I’m running into duplication issues now with lists. This is something I am trying to avoid with the elimination of my home feed as a starting point. Keywords would be a perfect solution for this problem. My ideal home feed would and should be based off keyword selection. I suspect we will see this implemented in the future on FriendFeed.
My List Management:
Page A: This is my FriendFeed all star page. Highly active members who I have established connections with and interact with daily. I often network with them on other social networks and platforms. This is my core inner network.
Page B: Members with moderate activity. Moderate for me is not also your posting frequency, but the content you post as well. I usually have a good tolerance level for topics such as politics and religion. However, when it overwhelms my feed, you will have then made it to the b-list.
Page C: Members with low activity. This also serves as a holding tank for members I have yet to classify, and who are newly subscribed to me and vice versa.
My other two categories are Social Media/Tech and Photography. These are self explanatory.
Duplicate detection:
Now when multiple friends share the same link, the set of duplicate entries will only show up once in your feed. There is an added bonus too, as quoted by Brett Taylor.
My favorite part of the dup detection is that it understands URL shorteners, so Tweets about blog posts will dup with the blog post itself. - Bret Taylor
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Mike, with your separate A, B, and C pages, how often do you find yourself checking out the lower tiers? I have a somewhat similar setup, but I find myself essentially fake following the people outside the top tier.
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I haven't gone this far - my main feed contains everyone still. I don't rank my FriendFeed users, but I do have overlay "Priority HIGH" and "Priority LOW" categories in Google Reader.
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Mark,with lists now I can check up on those people with a little more frequency. I check the lower tier lists about 3-5 times a day. My interaction is a lot lower, compared to page A. It basically equates to controlled fake following as you mentioned. List creation is forcing me/us to almost look at every members feed with a magnifying glass for proper categorization. This gives fake following a whole new dimension.
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Great article Mike. I've created one list for people who I follow quite frequently. I still use the home feed for diversity purposes. I don't use FF for specific topics like tech or social media stories. I can see the value in creating these lists for people with niche interests. Currently, managing lists is a pain in the ass.
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Thanks Mark. It's major work organizing these lists, but once done I think only enhances your FriendFeed experience. The noise now becomes organized blocks of noise My new dilemma is my home feed, I'm not sure what purpose it will serve me.
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Maybe I will do something like this too.
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Excellent post Mike! I think I will keep my home feed for the flood of information - sometimes very helpful for news flashes and tech trends. I really like your A, B, C approach - nice. My concern is that folks in C would not get promoted to B. what is your criteria, or what ideas do you have to manage this piece well? thanks!
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Susan, Thanks. That was a concern at first. I'm giving my lower tier lists more focus, and promoting the movers up to the A & B list. I'm making an effort daily to check on the lower tiers so no one is left out. This was nearly impossible before with everyone being on the home feed by default.
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I have used lists for more "topic" oriented instead of tiers. I have "newsies", "bloggers" and "app dev" lists and I have kept the home feed for everyone else. I cycle through all 4 groups all the time.
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Rob, I started to use topical in combination with the tiering system. My topical management is only for friendfeed staff, photography and social media. Everyone else falls into page a,b or c.
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