Tag Archive | "Twitter"

Twitter Visualization Done Right

Sunday, January 17, 2010

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Stamen Design is a boutique design firms in San Francisco that consistently leads the pack with innovative displays of data. I’ve admired their work for many years and they’re famous for creating unique ways to view live data as it happens–like the groundbreaking coverage of the Whitbread Cup way back in the ’90s when [...]

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Twitter and LinkedIn Partner-is This a Good Thing?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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Twitter and LinkedIn announced a new partnership yesterday to bring the two apps together for the first time. You’ll be able to update your status on LinkedIn and have it go out to Twitter or send your tweets out to your LinkedIn connections. just as you can do now with blog updates. When I first heard [...]

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Live Broadcasting and Twitter

Monday, September 28, 2009

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It’s amazing to me how quickly new apps pop up to fill a need. Last week I listened to a good part of the 140TC conference through a site called twebevent. The site embedded the Ustream channel and allowed people to talk to each other around the program through a Twitter interface. Login to [...]

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Twitter- Where’s the conversation?

Sunday, September 13, 2009

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It’s funny how the questions I get from my network seem to come in waves. This week I got a load of people asking me what had happened to the “old” Twitter where we bantered with our friends, made new ones and had back and forth conversations as in a typical face to face. The conversations [...]

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Delicious is not dead

Monday, August 31, 2009

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In fact, Delicious just got some new bells and whistles that take it beyond being the social media bookmarking site where you keep your bookmarks and pin your SEO dreams on. Delicious just go real time. Yahoo (Delicious’s parent co) added Fresh Bookmarks to the site. Now when you visit Delicious bookmarks [...]

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6 Ways to Attract Twitter Followers

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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No it’s not another Twitter pyramid scheme. This is about attracting real, useful followers to your Twitter network. Be interesting and unique Share your own perspective on news or new information you find. Do you scan a pile of blogs for information? Share it, but look for things that aren’t mainstream. I mean, I love ReadWriteWeb, Mashable [...]

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Hands-on Social Media

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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I’ve just had a remarkable two days working with Tech Soup volunteers in the “Tech Soup Kitchen” at the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault Leadership event in Sacramento. Our mission: Help attendees understand how they can use social media for outreach, education, fundraising and branding. We worked hands on with members on a one-on-one basis, setting up [...]

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Getting to Know FriendFeed

Friday, July 17, 2009

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FriendFeed just gets more interesting every day. Some people may say it’s too hard to use or it should have more or less features, but you have to look at FriendFeed for what it’s purpose is. FriendFeed was initially a place where you could bring your social network RSS feeds into one place and share [...]

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Supr shorten those URLs

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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Su.pr is fresh out of beta and if you’re a fan of Stumbleupon you’re going to love it. Like most URL shorteners it’s got a bookmarklet to add to your browser so you can quickly shorten a url and send it to Twitter.There’s also a Wordpress plugin and you can access the API to work [...]

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Twitter-smart entrepreneurs or spammers?

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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I just love the fact that you can track a Korean BBQ truck, a gourmet ice cream truck and even a Sprinkles cupcake-mobile on Twitter. You can get discounts on pizza, cupcakes, hear about the latest trend in donuts and a whole lot more. OK, but why do I think it’s cool? Because these businesses [...]

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