That’s a very smart way to do it @warrenveach,  sort of a built-in content development calendar too. Great idea.I’m not sure where my blogs would fit in as I talk about most of those things on one or the other. Here’s a link to my blog; Social Media Coach hopefully it will fit into one of your days!

My Blogging Bistro blog is about more than blogging — it’s geared for entrepreneurs and micro- and small business professionals who want to improve their social media marketing.

My clients’ blogs come first (and I do a substantial amount of ghost writing for them), so I’m usually able to squeeze in 3 posts per week on my blog.

1. Mondays I post either a tutorial or a social media infograph.
2. Wednesdays are devoted to guest columns (the link goes to our guest post guidelines; feel free to adapt them for your own blog)
3. Fridays is a roundup post featuring links to the best stuff I’ve learned around the Web that week that pertains to social media.

That’s my rough calendar. I often supplement with other items I know will interest my readers.

@jfouts

I love it when the first thing on a page catches my attention, and that’s exactly what “How are you going to change the world in 2012?”  did.

In my mind I was responding to your question before I read a word of the article.

And, uh, the “Social Discipline” pic got my attention also….

I decided to start a new folder, “Social Media Marketing and put it on Thursday as I don’t have very many in the “Niche” folder.

Thanks for your input and sharing your blog.

@laurachristianson

Wow! What a professional looking site!

Love the Header, it looks just like a bistro kitchen, and since you are in Washington, I can see how you got the idea. (Starbucks Gold card holder myself where I can often be found sippin’ and typin’)

I slotted it into my new “Social Media Marketing” category and will be checking in on Thursdays.

Nice job, you obviously know your stuff!

@warrenveach Just trying to keep the blog sharing in one thread.  I had another one going a while back, but I think if everyone keeps it in one place, they won’t be spread out in three or more different posts.  

@warrenveach  I just realized that I totally misread your question. You were talking about how to organize the feeds of blogs you read, and I thought you meant you wanted to know how we organize our own blog posts. Sorry about that!  Apparently, I haven’t had enough coffee yet today.  I, too, am a Starbucks Gold Card owner here in Seattle, the coffee capital of the world.

(And I agree with you about the “introduce yourself” thread. Completely overwhelming. I like getting to know people on these “little” threads.)

I like your bookmarking system. Helps keep things under control. Thanks for sharing it.

@laurachristianson

LOL That’s ok Laura.

I like knowing how others organize their stuff also, because they may have a better way to do it.

First there was Folgers, then there was Starbucks!

i have to be honest here.

i rarely read blogs.

theyre a distraction for me, and even if i put them aside to read at a later date, theres another post published.  having too many unread blogs was quite distressing and i just stopped.

im all the better for it

so, i read the ones i want when i want and theres only a handful of blogs i follow.

reading content all time vs producing great content? 

having said that, ive just discovered Zite for ipad and im sticking the blogs i read through that

@warrenveach

thanks.   

maybe its just me, but i shun away from too much information.  rather, consuming it when its required.

when i started this whole social media adventure i was reading everything.  i guess you know how long that lasts before something gives (about a week for me).

SO MUCH INFORMATION.  on top of that, the hunger to learn and succeed was clearly outweighed by the content being delivered.

so i closed up.  picked some great blogs, and decided that if the title didnt catch me in 2 seconds, and a quick scan didnt left me wanting to read more, then I just let if go.

your reply above has this one awesome line “it keeps me off another mailing list…”

sums it up right there! 

Great information everyone – haven’t set a system as @warrenveach, but will be considering very seriously.

I spend about half hour browsing the blogs that are directed to my email, read the most relevant for what lies ahead that day and then bookmark others that appeal to read at a later time.

Like Warren and others, if the content doesn’t appeal, I move on.  Though the vast majority are very topical and well written.  Have built a top list more by author/organization than by topic.

Thanks for the shares.

Grodpm

@alexachipman

Also, an added benefit of breaking them down by topics on a a day is that by reading the articles on the same topic matter allows me to read without having to change my mindset and focus on just that subject.

As in school, I’d do my math homework, before starting on my history.

@warrenveach I LOVE your organization….I am going to adapt that process. Or maybe I can arrange my Goggle reader to categorize the blogs I am subscribed to..THANKS

@michellechurch

Thanks.

I have my newsfeeds organized in Google, because those are directly related to work.

However,  for blogs, I prefer to check-in on them at my leisure to keep my inbox relatively clean.

There are a few blogs that I have subscribed to as they always seem to provide up-to-date and helpful information.

For example, http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/

@JohnJantsch is a very good one to follow, so when he puts out a new article, I want to take a look as soon as he publishes.

@abigailgorton

Thanks Abigail,

It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you have the categories set, it is really easy to slot a blog into the best category for it.

Glad you like it, and I hope it helps!

@johnpulley

Hi John,

There may be other options, but Google is the one I’m most familiar with, so I use it.

Anyone else know of more options?

@gbreward

I also thought about doing that, but for me, I just didn’t want to deal with another e-mail account.

Too much work for me I guess.

But what you are doing serves the same purpose, it just appraches the problem from a different direction.

I agree with so many of you.  E-mail overload, information overload, etc.  I have attended 4 of the SMMSS over the last several years  and someone at the FBSS suggested just using the Bookmark tab in Firefox.  It took me hours to figure it out and categorize everything the way I wanted it. But now it is done and so easy.  I use Delicious to bookmark certain articles that I will go back to and Firefox to bookmark sites that I need to visit on a regular basis.
Some one else got me onto Scoop.it for finding relevant material.  I was surprised at how much twitter information comes through that. It is easy to scan and I do find something each day.

Personally, I follow a lot of different blogs from an assortment of geners eg. lifehacker which I find extremely useful however, the amount of posts per day makes reading every single one of them impossible.

I need to stay on top of what is being said in near real time both from social and the blog sphere so Google Reader is where all the blogs go that I follow. 

I have a Chrome browser extension FeedSquares that organizes those posting in a really easy neat format so  in a moment I can get the latest posting for any genre that I need.

@ptwylie I will scout out all of your above mentioned suggestion.  Thanks a bunch.  Anything to make life a little easier.

@charlottecharleehanna  Charlee whew, thats a lot of work!

However, you will be reward 10 times over just with the time savings. Evernote is really super easy and takes no steep learning curve. They have a user manual that you can download.

There is a very simple solution to organizing your blogs and keeping track of what is going on. Use google reader and RSS feeds to accomplish this goal.

1. Create an account in gmail
2. Set-up google reader www.google.com/reader
3. Create a folder for each category your interested in with Google reader.
4. When you land on a interesting blog, click on the orange RSS feed button
5. A box will appear asking you which account you want this rss feed to appear in choose google reader.
6. Then insert the blog post or blog feed in the folder of your choice

Here is a reference link to help walk you through the process

Once this is set-up all my feeds come to my reader. I open my reader in the morning and review what is going on while in my Pjays.

http://support.google.com/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70550

http://www.blueglass.com/blog/beginner-guide-to-rss-google-reader/

Hope this helps you all out

Cheers

Brian Mcfarlane

@brianmcf