Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

The Benefits of Automation

Automation is the use of control systems to control processes, reducing the need for human intervention. Putting this into context, automation is having technology do things for you so that you don't have to. Automation is all around us. When you're at a set of traffic lights, there isn't a traffic light operator that decides when to change the light from red to green. It is done automatically… Continue reading

July 2 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: automation, email, Productivity, time, twitter | 7 comments»

5 Ways To Celebrate Father’s Day, When Your Child is Still a Baby

Father’s Day is just around the corner. Besides taking the kids to the beach or having brunch at a nice restaurant, here are 5 ideas for dads to use web and social technologies to make this day even more memorable.

Tweet with the kid. Whether you are at a Father’s Day barbeque party or at a jazz concert, live-tweet the event and give short updates on what’s going on. You can share

June 19 2009 | By Leon | Tagged: family, father's day, parenting, twitter, web-app | 10 comments»

10 More from the Webware 100

Last week, I looked at the apps chosen by CNet for the productivity section of the Webware 100. There were, however, 10 other sections – 9 categories of apps voted for as top in their class and an extra categories of apps chosen by the editors at CNet. This week, I want to look at a selection of applications from the rest of the Webware 100… Continue reading

June 4 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: backup, image-editing, online, search, software, sync, twitter, web-app, webware-100 | 6 comments»

Where Would You Be Today Without Social Media Tools?

Social media is becoming completely integrated in our lives. It has altered the way we communicate as human beings and changed the way we do business. It has flattened corporate hierarchies and tightened our relationships. Of course, traditional ways of networking and messaging still hold true, such as text messaging, email, phone calls and in-person "meetups" (tweetups in the social media world). The greatest part about this… Continue reading

March 2 2009 | By Dan | Tagged: community, facebook, linkedin, networking, promotion, social-media, social-networking, twitter, web-app | 14 comments»

From Here to Tweeternity: A Practical Guide to Getting Started on Twitter

Twitter is clearly the Next Big Thing. In the past couple of months, we’ve seen CNN adopting it as a way of giving living feedback during their shows, celebrities from Britney Spears to Demi Moore opening accounts, and hundreds of thousands of new users join the ranks of Tweeters. Businesses are getting into the Twitter game, too, using it as a way to provide near-instantaneous customer service, to promote their services… Continue reading

February 12 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: audience, best-practices, engagement, marketing, promotion, twitter | 22 comments»

Taking Your Job Hunt to Twitter

Some Twitter users update about everything — including when they're hiring. Some do it just to mention what's going on in their day, while others like the thought of reaching out and finding someone in their online network. Either way, Twitter can offer a quick way to learn about who actually has a job to fill and perhaps even help you get your application on the top of the pile… Continue reading

February 6 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: career, job hunt, twitter | 18 comments»

How to Build Credibility on the Web

There are literally millions of voices on the Internet. Blogs, Social networks, micromessaging services like Twitter, instant messaging services, email, wikis, forums, and dozens of technologies I haven’t even heard of – and dozens more to come – give us all an unprecedented ability to be heard. But with all those voices clamoring for attention, how do you stand out from the crowd? More importantly, once you get someone’s attention, how… Continue reading

September 22 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blogging, credibility, internet, self-promotion, twitter, website | 23 comments»

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 reading

June 13 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: concise, short, twitter, writing | 42 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 reading

June 11 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: aggregation, content, friendfeed, microblogging, twitter | 9 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 reading

August 10 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: journaling, twitter | 19 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 reading

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 reading

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 reading

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 reading

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 reading

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