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!
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.
Posted by Kim Redd | Posted in Basics, Trends | Posted on 15-10-2009
This “How To Throw A Killer TweetUp” post written by Kim Redd (@RedSmitty) was originally published at Kim’s Blog: The Adventures of Reddsmitty, on August 31, 2009. Kim is a charismatic Social Media Coach, Sales and Marketing Diva, Event Planner Extraordinaire, and Road Warrior who seeks out new business, opens doors and uncovers new opportunities. A consultative problem solver, she analyzes business situations at a glance and offers strategic solutions.
Kim Redd
Have you ever wondered what your Tweeps are like in real life (IRL)? Ever wondered if they really look like their avatars? Why not host a TweetUp! No matter where you live or what you do there are others on Twitter nearby and there’s nothing quite like meeting your favorite Tweeps in real life (IRL). Just ask @RobinWalker or @MisterNoodle…I huggedthem when I met them at a TweetUp. Besides hugs you may also find job leads, sales leads, new connections, and folks with whom you can barter entrepreneurial services…I know I did. So what’s stopping you?
Here are 7 tips for hosting a successful TweetUp in your neck of the woods:
1. Select the Venue - Choose a location that’s central and easy to navigate. Find a spot with plenty of standing room as well as seating for those with “barking dogs”. Convenient parking and/or public transportation is key. Free WiFi is a consideration if the event is in the morning or midday when Tweeps are tethered to their laptops. Be sure to talk to the owner/manager of the establishment prior to the event for their blessing and possible sponsorship. Make sure you visit the venue before publicizing the event.
Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Broadcasting, Tweets | Posted on 01-09-2009
Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s family used twitter (and a website) to update details about arrangements, who would speak at the Friday memorial service and famous Edward Kennedy quotes. (Funeral photos / Funeral Program)
Through the use of twitter and their website, the family was able to keep people directly informed and make information available to people who could not attend in person. This gave the family the ability to manage events related information in a way that could not have been done had the coverage been left entirely to the press.
(This post is in no way an endorsement of Senator Edward Kennedy’s views, opinions or actions and is merely an observation of how twitter is being used as it becomes an ever more central part of how we communicate.)
Posted by Kent Beatty | Posted in Basics, Broadcasting | Posted on 22-08-2009
My friend @johnhaydon shows how to find a twitter user’s RSS feed:
RSS is a way to subscribe to a blog or twitter account, etc. so that it comes to you rather than you clicking on bookmarks or a link to go there. Here’s a great one page explanation of RSS (Rich Site Summary).
Posted by David Druckenmiller | Posted in Misc | Posted on 21-08-2009
If you haven’t seen the David Crowder Band Rockumentary “Twitter Will Kill You”, it is worth a view and sure to bring a smile. The band gives the short video a sort of “The Monkeys” like quality. Very creative and apropos to the twitter experience.
If you are not familiar with their music, you should give them a listen. Solid faith oriented guys. My favorite track is “No One Like You” from their album, Illuminate. The clip is perhaps a good example of embracing a popular cultural phenomenon and using it to promote your own work in a creative and dynamic way. It currently has over 82,000 views. Its also interesting that within the clip the band has fun with another very popular clip on YouTube, “David After Dentist”.
Posted by David Druckenmiller | Posted in Basics, Twitter | Posted on 18-08-2009
A kinder & gentler strategy for finding quality twitter follows & followers.
Note: The First Follow strategy posted here has been rendered ineffective due to changes by Twitter in how the following-follower page URL is generated. Nuts Twitter! In the meantime this D.Cortesi tool, [my first follow] is similar, well sort of.
If you have an established Twitter account and some interesting updates, here is a way of having some fun generating quality follows & followers. This is NOT automated … just basic human psychology. All legit twitter users need to be needed and want to follow “like minded” twitterees …
1. Find a user you follow that you really dig, i.e. they are like minded, in the same line of work, interesting, etc. etc., whatever your criteria for judging a twitter user. Now, go to this user’s home page using the standard twitter web viewer.
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, hit the “next” button. This displays the “second to last twenty-one people” the user has chosen to follow, in the order they followed.
4. Look at the user’s total following number, how many users is this user following, in this case 1,856. Divide 1,856 by 20, that equals 92.8. Now, let’s go to the page that reveals the first users that this user decided to follow. Take the number you arrived at: (rounded up) in this case 93, and put that number at the end of the URL address in the command line of your browser. …(cont’d)
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