Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Social Media, Twitter | Posted on 14-09-2010
Twitter has changed some people’s lives by allowing us to connect with kindred spirits and talk about a wide variety of subjects. Looking to express what your twitter friends mean to you? This Twitter Love Song is written and produced by Marcome & Bruno Pelletier. The song takes inspiration from songwriter Marcome’s (@Marcome) Twitter friendship with Reg Saddler (@zaibatsu), according to the song’s YouTube profile. “I would really like to give a huge thank you to Reg Saddler for inspiring me to do this Twitter Song project,” Marcome says in the profile. “I’m grateful to my friends and followers on Twitter who gave me so much love and kindness. I’m proud to be alive because you are there with me!” As the song goes:
Twitter me some love / follow me / follow you Twitter me some love
Watch the video:
Marcome (pronounced Marko-may) is a singer songwriter from Canada. She was born in Quebec and speaks both English and French. Gifted with a pure voice, she blends lyrics and fuses different world influences with jazz style and classical vocals. Check out her website and blog where she talks about the making of the Twitter Me Some Love and the Music Video. Click here pics of Marcome. Bruno Pelletier is also a vocalist from Quebec. For info on him go here and for pics of Bruno here.
Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Misc | Posted on 17-07-2010
Pluggio (which is entirely web based) does much more than fix Twitter’s shortcomings. It manages to create an entire workflow system around Twitter that makes it easy to manage nearly every aspect of your Tweeting life.
This is a really great twitter client, simple enough for everyone
yet powerful enough for power tweeters!
Use this to publish “Rolling Tweets”! A rolling tweet is essentially a bunch of tweets that are titles of articles that others have written that include the link to those articles for my networks to check out. These posts are generated by the RSS feeds I choose to have pulling into my RSS section.
Pluggio.com has a suggested follow and unfollow feature. Each day when I login to my account, I am given up to 20 suggestions of people to follow and unfollow based on my bio and keywords.
You can have multipleTwitter accounts synced to one Pluggio account – Very handy!
Posted by Katie Martell | Posted in Misc | Posted on 06-12-2009
Katie Martell is a Marketing Manager at NetProspex, a B2B startup outside Boston, MA that provides verified B2B contact information that has been crowd sourced by a community of users. She works with marketing/PR strategy, promotional design, and new media, with a portfolio of freelance and entrepreneurial fun. She believes in the power of new media and the creative ways in which it makes meaningful connections…but values your ability to hold a conversation unplugged.
First, a bit of introduction before my first post on TweetValley:
My name is Katie Martell, I’m a millennial in B2B marketing, and Twitter got me a job.
I’m living proof that combining valuable content and insightful comments makes Twitter a useful, powerful tool.
For me, twitter is a new platform for the fundamentals. Social media, with all of its hype and what many predict to be a short-lived glory, is a powerful new place for the fundamentals
But you’re already reading a blog about Twitter – there’s no need to convince you that there is now a necessary and important place for it in our lives.
Who do need convincing are many B2B marketers. (Not all, just many.) Recently I attending a breakfast/panel discussion for those in the marketing automation field. Social media was brought up for discussion, dutifully, and I was surprised at how quickly it was disregarded as hype/just the latest trend.
This Social Networks Infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today. You’ll notice the really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period. Twitter had a rather late beginning:
What’s next? For one thing: Personal Branding. According to Chad Levitt, parts of the next wave of innovation will revolve around social networks, personal brands, massive amounts of data, collaboration and making senese of it all to create value. Also, expect more internal company social networking.
It will not be only about Twitter -status updates will be open across social software -all social software will have status updates -Facebook has 40+ million updates a day
Twitter will still be dominant in status updates it’s the motherboard on which we plug in
We will laugh thinking we were updating them all manually
The social graph will also open up
Twitter will be big to get an idea of a person or a brand reputation not by number of followers but mostly influence with retweeting and lists lets you think like that person thinks
Other tips that Laura offers for any social media platform are: listen, learn, care, and serve. If these rules are applied, she says, “You will absolutely have success.”
Posted by Michelle Maura | Posted in Basics, Tools, Twilosophy | Posted on 04-11-2009
Michelle Maura is an Organizational Psychologist, singer and Yoga teacher. She practices Mantra Yoga Meditation and Hatha Yoga, while studying Yoga philosophy. Michelle shares her thoughts on her blog Thoughts Are Things, while also contributing at Intent.com. She focuses on the importance of looking at the positive side of every situation in life and always moving forward. You can follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/michellemaura.
There are infinite uses one can give to Twitter- from online marketing, to sharing interesting information to filling in moments of boredom or loneliness. There are also varying degrees of Twitter usage- there’s the user that will go online for 20 minutes a day and check older tweets as mini emails, there’s the person who logs on after every break to update others and themselves on the day’s happenings, and there are the hard core users who use software like Tweet Deck or have apps on their mobiles to notify them of every tweet possible, audio alert and scheduled tweets included.
Whether you are new to the vast and still growing Twitterverse or already feel established your tweet space, you might have asked yourself this question just how much Twitter is good for you. Here are a few questions that might help you get your answer.
How much Twitter is good for you?
Are you using social media to establish your product or company on the market, and would like to enjoy the advantages Twitter offers?
Are you aiming to promote yourself because you like the idea of being a microcelebity?
Are you going through a lonely stage in real life and hoping to meet fellow tweeters and feel more connected?
Are you engaged in your goals and activities and simply like the additional social advantages of Twitter?
Are you only looking to share information with like minded people, or learn new things from those who think differently?
We're a bunch of tweeps who love twitter (just like you), and we're working hard to build the best Twitter experience for you.