Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

How to Write in 140 Characters or Less

On Wednesday, I wrote a set of tips on writing (http://is.gd/wlJ). I had in mind business and similar situations where solid writing counts.

Joel, also of Lifehack, linked to the post on his blog (http://is.gd/wlU), saying I should do a guide to writing in 140 characters or less.

With Twitter fast becoming an important marketing tool - maybe THE important marketing tool (http://is.gd/wlZ) - there’s… » Continue

June 13 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: concise, short, twitter, writing | 30 comments»

How Bloggers Can Use FriendFeed Effectively

FriendFeed is becoming more and more popular, and if you’re not on it yet, you’re in the minority. While some people stop what they’re doing to complain about the ever-changing landscape of social networking - don’t get me wrong, a totally valid peeve - get a headstart on them by becoming an effective FriendFeed user.
First Stop: Managing the Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Services like FriendFeed are known for generating a lot of noise… » Continue

June 11 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: aggregation, content, friendfeed, microblogging, twitter | 4 comments»

Keeping A One Sentence Journal

Gretchen at The Happiness Project has a nice little idea to keep a journal of one sentence entries. She allows some flexibility to include the occasional two or three sentence entry and skip a the odd day, but the system is there.

Why do this?

My hope is that, years from now, when I’m trying to remember what life was like at this point, I can look back at my… » Continue

August 10 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: journaling, twitter | 17 comments»

Twitter Talks With Remember The Milk

Online ToDo List and task manager, Remember The Milk, have gone ahead and done something cool again: they’ve integrated their system with the much-hyped, yet strangely alluring, Twitter.

Not only can you add tasks to your RTM account by just Direct Messaging their Twitter [like call jimmy at 5pm tomorrow or return library books in 2 weeks] but you can also tell RTM to check off completed tasks, get… » Continue

July 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: rememberthemilk, twitter | 3 comments»

That Whole Social Networking Thing

If you haven’t figured this all out, the reason the world is going all social networking happy is because this is your means to connect to people directly and get away from the rigid structure of corporate ladders and protocol and hierarchy. It’s a way to extend your audience of friends, colleagues, business partners, and teammates. The whole point of this is to build your new world map… » Continue

June 7 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: facebook, linkedin, myspace, socialmedia, socialnetworks, twitter, wink | 15 comments»

Build Your Social Networks

I spent a little time on my blog the other day griping about LinkedIN. I wanted them to add photos (still do), so it’d be even easier to connect with other people. So many times, we go to a conference or professional event, come home with a stack of business cards, and realize that we don’t really remember which face went with which name, and sometimes worse, which… » Continue

June 4 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: flickr, linkedin, networking, socialnetworks, twitter | 5 comments»

Fine Tune Twitter for Value

If you’ve been shunning Web 2.0 social apps for an entire year, I forgive you for not knowing about Twitter. Otherwise, where have you been? Twitter is a multi-mode message delivery system used most often to answer the question “What are you doing?” Only, the cool kids know that the answer to that question is far less useful than “What has your attention?”

But I’ve come up with something… » Continue

May 21 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: hacks, howto, search, software, twitter | 6 comments»

Right Tool Right Job- Social Media

I had this idea that I bet Leon and the others can riff on. Basically: there are plenty of tools out there for lots of aspects of life. Let’s make sure we propose the proper tool (or our take on a good tool) for the right job. From managing our tasks and priorities to determining how best to engage our communities, let’s all start looking around for the right tools… » Continue

April 9 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: blogs, flickr, howto, network2, pbwiki, podcamp, socialmedia, software, twitter, web2.0, webapps, wiki, wordpress | 9 comments»

Find Twits Locally with TwitterMap

With the Twitter explosion over at SXSW this week, and the general increase in popularity for the mini-blogging app, here’s TwitterMap!

This is a handy little mash of Google Maps and Twitter so you can check what people are saying around the world and, specifically, in your part of the world.

The handy part is you can Twitter your location and show up at different spots on the map, so you… » Continue

March 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: twitter | 3 comments»

Attend Conferences Without Being There

There are LOTS of conferences to attend, and only so much time and money to get around. For instance, I wished I could’ve dragged myself down to Austin, Texas to attend South by Southwest Interactive. But my own conference, Video on the Net is next week, and I’m busy.

So this is how I learned how to attend without being there.

Live Flow- Twitter [website]- Add enough

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March 13 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: blip.tv, conference, conferences, itconversations, linkedin, podtech, software, sxsw2007, twitter, videoonthenet, web2.0, youtube | 10 comments»

5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good

I’m a big fan of Twitter, and have been using it heavily since the outset. For those of you not yet using it, Twitter is a communications gateway that asks the question: “What are you doing now?” Users can answer and hear their friends’ answers via SMS, via IM, or on a webpage. Updates have to be under 140 characters. Think somewhere between IRC and IM and that’s Twitter.

Twitter… » Continue

March 10 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: blogging, online, software, twitter | 309 comments»

Social Software As Connection Gateways

Why do people bother with MySpace?

I’ll tell you why: people can make connections and communicate and open dialogue. By “adding friends” and building your space, and adding multimedia, and using the tools on there, you can establish connections.

The benefit of using this social sharing sites (Flickr, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIN, Upcoming.org, etc, etc, etc) is that you get a different, digital connection to people. Some are people you’ve not… » Continue

January 1 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: community, flickr, myspace, socialsoftware, twitter, youtube | 2 comments»