WebmasterWorld Side Effect

Information overload

[Radial]

Hi all,

I have been coming to WebmasterWorld for about six month now and have learn a lot of great tips and ideas and it works for my website however I often find myself getting side tracked with ideas from certain discussions when I came to find info something else. Does this happen to anyone else and how do you prioritize your ideas and time to get around this side affect of WebmasterWorld?

[edited by: trillianjedi at 9:42 am (utc) on Oct. 16, 2005]

[ronburk]

google: "interruption science"

[adamxcl]

You need to both minmize and maximize your time here or any forum. It's easy to try to read everything, learn tons of stuff but then not have the time to use it. Every minute spent in forums could be spent on content and improving your website. So it's a balancing act to find the right amount of time. Come here for specific information, motivation or networking. Pick only a select few forums to follow and only visit the others when you need specific info or are searching for something in particular. Maybe swing by when you are waiting on a file transfer or a quick break. But don't stop working on your dreams to spend time in any forum.

Hard work, while knowing where to go to find a solution is more effective means to success than knowing an answer and never asking the question in the first place.

[ogletree]

If you are serious about making money on the Internet you need to spend a lot of time at first reading WebmasterWorld and other boards. After a while and that might be a year you will get to the point where you don't get much from the boards. You need to come up with your own ways of doing things at some point. By the time something important gets to a forum everybody else is doing it. You have got to network with people. Make friends go to conferences. The best secrets are talked about in person not on forums. If you expect to get rich quick or have someone hold your hand you need to get out of this business. The successful people make things happen they just use boards and ideas from people as a springboard for their own ideas.

When I started I spent hours and hours reading this board. It was like going to college. You can prioritize but it is important to read on the new things you found by accident. There have been many times I read a thread that sent me in a new direction. I still get great ideas from threads. The thread did not talk about the idea it just made me think differently. I then started going to conferences and made a lot of friends. I work out of my home and all my income is from ads on websites including affiliate and adsense.

[vivalasvegas]

"Hard work, while knowing where to go to find a solution is more effective means to success than knowing an answer and never asking the question in the first place."

So well said thanks for that.

[sohogogo]

so do I...

To me, forum is just like a gold mine of knowledge. In order to avoid distraction, I'd open the side-tracked topic in a NEW window so that I can hold up myself not to read them further until I've finished looking up what I primary wanted/needed. By doing this way, I'd not then miss out those interest things. Even in case I still have no time to read on these side-tracked topics, I'd copy and save the links in a text file and save the same file on my destop, so, next time when I'm free I can then just look them up. Hope this sharing can help...

Cheers.

[jatar_k]

>> I'd open the side-tracked topic in a NEW window

geez, you should look into tabbed browsing ;)

man, you folks think the forums are amazing, you should come to a conference. Five minutes talking to a very long list of members I can think of off the top of my head

and

your minds would literally explode with the overwhelming possibilities.

[whoisgregg]

My first year on WebmasterWorld I was very unproductive. Too busy trying to learn everything... But my second year? :D I can do the most amazing (to me) things with very little effort. The trick is to *not* lose your job during the first year. ;)

There's always more to learn, but without WebmasterWorld I would be taking 3 times as long to get the lamest websites done.

[jk3210]

<<I often find myself getting side tracked with ideas>>

I submit to you that "getting side tracked with ideas" is the single greatest thing about WebmasterWorld --I've been exposed to new ideas that would otherwise have taken me years to discover on my own.

<<how do you prioritize>>

Bookmark them and add my own notes.