The Ten Behavioral and Emotional Stages of Twitter
In one week, I will celebrate my one-year Twitterversary. I began what I called my “Twitter Challenge” about a year ago.
With close to 1,500 Tweets and almost 200 followers (well, until Twitter ate most of them yesterday, anyway!) I reckon that I’ve gone through different behavior and emotional stages of Twittering over the past […]
Why Hashtags at Twitter?
Hash is in the air!
Not only did I enjoy “Hippy Hash” at a local diner recently, I also discovered the joys of using hashtags at Twitter.
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What the? Why Hashtags?
Hashtags are a joyous way to track only certain Twitter posts. For example, if you’re at a conference, you might want to use a […]
Double Your Subscriber Numbers Overnight!
Every month, I trash at least 4 or 5 magazines — without reading them.
They arrive in the mail. I stopped subscribing to them ages ago.
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I’m sure I’m not alone. A number of friends of mine were just grousing about this annoying issue last week. It’s not just a waste of paper. It’s […]
LinkedIn Reveals a Hideous New Look
LinkedIn has a new look.
It’s awful.
On so many levels. Here are just three:
Irrelevant news feeds. First, I am greeted with a “News” section that I cannot get rid of. The “News” features headlines from a company I haven’t worked with in 8 years. It’s not relevant to me. And it’s not why I use LinkedIn.
Bad ads […]
Watch Your Social Media Mouth!
In all innocence, I asked the ad agency creative director: “Do you Twitter?”
If he did, I intended to follow…
“I twitter efficiently,” he barked sharply, then turned away.
Oh dear. Didn’t mean to offend.
But honestly, the occasion seemed to warrant casual, social media lingo.
After all, the creative director was wrapping up a brief talk about using […]
Beware of Self Congratulatory Web Copy
Imagine a well-dressed, sophisticated professional woman enjoying a glass of fine wine in her favorite four-star restaurant.
A nice-looking, well-groomed young man approaches her and says,
Hello. I’m a hot stud.
Now, what chance do you reckon this young man has with successfully continuing the conversation?
I ask you this because when I see companies and people with self-congratulatory names, […]
The Veg-O-Matic for Twittering FaceBook Feeds
Yesterday, I mentioned that using Twitterfeed was like Veg-O-Matic for Twitter. Instead of veggies, you pop RSS feeds into Twitterfeed, and voila! Your feeds are automatically sliced and diced into Twitter! Set it and fuhgettaboutit!
But what about auto-publishing your FaceBook status on Twitter? This shouldn’t be hard — after all, Facebook has an RSS feed.
The […]
Facebook Fridays…
What is the best day for social networking? Seems I see more action on Fridays. Big surprise?
The holidays also seemed to bring about more friending at FaceBook. And is it just me, or did Twittering go to an all-time high between Christmas and New Year’s?
Here’s the test: if you want to add me as a friend on FaceBook, […]
It’s Like a Veg-O-Matic for Twitter…
I added two of my blog feeds to TwitterFeed today. That way, whenever I post, Twitter is instantly updated.
Twitterfeed is something of a Ron Popeil Veg-O-Matic “set it and forget it” play. Except instead of entering vegetables, you enter RSS feeds into Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed slices and dices any feed you care to enter, and then updates them […]
It’s Like a Veg-O-Matic for Twitter…
I added two of my blog feeds to TwitterFeed today. That way, whenever I post, Twitter is instantly updated.
Twitterfeed is something of a Ron Popeil Veg-O-Matic “set it and forget it” play. Except instead of entering vegetables, you enter RSS feeds into Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed slices and dices any feed you care to enter, and then updates them […]
