Making different content for different platforms

Posted on by Sarah Cooley

I have decided to start making separate videos for my tumblr account and hopefully foster a community over there that is separate from my random sarah community. Maybe they will both end up being the same…we will see.

I am trying to focus on my different communities across the social web and embrace the fact that they are different. In the spirit of this, I have un-linked my twitter feed from my facebook status updates so that I can try to focus on the facebook community as something that is separate from my twitter community.

  • Kevin

    Hi Sarah,

    Good stuff. I am dealing with this a little myself. I have not yet published my blogs/sites to the world as I attempt to sort them all out. My original idea has spawned other ideas, which are just as important to me, but I don't necessarily want to combine it all together. I'd like to keep my jazz-related content on my jazz site, my family and other basic interest on more of a about kevin site, and one other idea I am working on yet on another site. Whew. Confused? Yeah, me too. I don't want to get so bogged down that I don't do anything. So, thanks for your words of wisdom. I like your direction and was thinking the same sort of thing myself. I should be out there soon enough.

    Thanks,

    Kevin (aka JazzLifeJunkie)

  • http://randomsarah.com sarahcooley

    Hey Kevin,

    I am glad you like the idea, we will see how well it works out. I am the kind of person who always seems to have a million ideas floating in my head, so I understand where you are coming from.

    I hope it all works out.

  • robblatt

    I think that all contact has its place, but you have to be careful that you're not serving the same community the same stuff in more than one location. Adding Facebook to TweetDeck has shown me how much duplicate content is out there on social sites, and when you start seeing the same updates and content from people in the multiple places, people might start getting a little sick of your stuff.

    I'm all about making community appropriate content, but you might want to be careful when you start cross posting.

  • Kevin

    Hi Sarah,

    Good stuff. I am dealing with this a little myself. I have not yet published my blogs/sites to the world as I attempt to sort them all out. My original idea has spawned other ideas, which are just as important to me, but I don't necessarily want to combine it all together. I'd like to keep my jazz-related content on my jazz site, my family and other basic interest on more of a about kevin site, and one other idea I am working on yet on another site. Whew. Confused? Yeah, me too. I don't want to get so bogged down that I don't do anything. So, thanks for your words of wisdom. I like your direction and was thinking the same sort of thing myself. I should be out there soon enough.

    Thanks,

    Kevin (aka JazzLifeJunkie)

  • http://randomsarah.com sarahcooley

    Hey Kevin,

    I am glad you like the idea, we will see how well it works out. I am the kind of person who always seems to have a million ideas floating in my head, so I understand where you are coming from.

    I hope it all works out.

  • http://robblatt.com Rob Blatt

    I think that all contact has its place, but you have to be careful that you're not serving the same community the same stuff in more than one location. Adding Facebook to TweetDeck has shown me how much duplicate content is out there on social sites, and when you start seeing the same updates and content from people in the multiple places, people might start getting a little sick of your stuff.

    I'm all about making community appropriate content, but you might want to be careful when you start cross posting.