Making information work

A lot of people have spoken lately about their media consumption. While this type of list is of key importance to many, I would like to speak more about the other direction – my media production. More specifically, what I have created so far, and the goals I am setting for 2007.

Email
I write approximately 50 emails each day. Some of these contain great content – answers to SEO questions, thoughts regarding different specific communication challenges, etc. They should clearly be saved, but aren’t. I have a habit of walking around the office and speaking to people rather than sending emails, so I hope to spend this year lowering the email numbers, and at the same time documenting everything worthwhile that I create.

Blogging
I write here and on our internal company blog on average 10 times per week. I try to keep my entries somewhat short, but they usually end up being in the 400-word range. I also try to actively comment on 10 or so blogs, either automatically via tracebacks, or manually by actually visiting them and adding my comment. I hope to increase my blogging activities this year – probably to the point of consistently posting more than one time each day on this blog. That would equal in excess of 700 posts this year.

eBooks
I have started and failed here several times. I have three eBooks that are basically finished – a beginning SEO book, a weight loss book, and a life lessons book – but I somehow am unable to finish the off. I expect to finish and publish all three eBooks this year.

Research articles / reports
I have done nothing of importance outside my company yet, but expect that 2007 will bring resources and allocated time for a highly interesting social media / online conversation study of large listed European companies.

Images
I always take crazy amounts of pictures when I have the chance. Or, at least I used to. When Kristina and I were in Thailand, I probably took in excess of 500 images in 2 weeks. Impulsively, the image creation is absurd. I have only started uploading my images to my Flickr-account. I expect to shoot and upload 500 images this year.

Video
My excellent camera creates descent video. As I will be a father in about two months, I expect that I will be permitted to purchase a true DV-camera, but considering the outcome of my first attempt at editing, I am pretty happy with where I am. I expect to create and upload 20 5 minute videos this year.

Audio
I have created exactly nothing here. With my MacBook Pro it should not be an issue – there are tools that would make podcasting a breeze, but I have not yet felt the need. I also expect that this will start happening this year – probably as a result of my family in the US wanting to hear my upcoming daughter make her noises. I therefore have set a goal of 10 quality podcasts during 2007.

I probably missed a lot of media here – but I will update this as I think of it.

David