Interesting, have heard about this but not explored it yet. Thanks for the info!
Tag Archives: Twitter
Storify and Journalism: An Exploration (via Anna’s Cubby Hole: Ramblings of a Cub Reporter)
Filed under Infrastructure, Resources, Social Media, Technology
Hootsuite: New Features! Exciting!
I love Hootsuite.
It took me (seriously) a while to get comfortable with it. But now I just adore it.
I mean, all the volume of content still is a bit much at times.
But overall it works well for me and I haven’t even considered using any other similar program.
I schedule messages quite a bit, since I’m working under the belief that having tweets spaced at least 45 – 60 minutes apart is optimal. My actual work life doesn’t allow for being with Twitter all day long every day. So the time I do have, I use to gather content and send it out again – in the future.
Now, that is one area that I’ve been less than enthusiastic about – the scheduling. I mean, it’s worked fine as far as doing what it’s supposed to do. But when I’m scheduling 8 messages for a work day ahead, first thing in the morning, it’s not easy to keep all those times in mind to fit new things in to the stream optimally.
I didn’t really fret about it though, I figured with all they have going on, they would probably be addressing that.
And now Hootsuite has made all my dreams come true. There is a ‘Publisher’ window, 2nd-from-the-top over on the left side, which shows you all your scheduled tweets! And, more than that, you are able to revise your scheduled times for any of the scheduled tweets! And you can edit the tweets themselves!
I am extremely happy. Now the process of tweeting is much closer to the process of good writing – you can brainstorm basically, set up various tweets. Leave it for a bit. Then come back to it, go in to ‘Publisher,’ and edit what you’ve written as you look at the full set of items all together.
Maybe you were going to re-tweet one particular item about a new development, that had a link to a good source of information about that development. A little bit later, you come across a better reporting of that new development. Before, it didn’t matter. That tweet you had scheduled was gone, you had no way to revise it, you just had to live with it.
Now that artificial ceiling on the quality of your tweets has been removed! You find better content, you can replace that in!
Each tweet you send can now be its actual best self!
Filed under Books & Publishing, Business, Infrastructure, Marketing, Resources, Social Media, Technology
Pay with a tweet : vendez votre produit pour le prix d’un tweet! « Marketing Web (via I am a Bridge (Hugues Rey Blog))
Interesting post on a fascinating new topic!
Filed under Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Social Media, Technology
Selling Snake Oil in the Age of Social Media (via Matt Moore Writes…)
Good points, useful to hear. It does seem like folks are almost rushing to create a new bubble du jour, an activity bubble of internet content/hype than seems inevitably heading towards its own crash of some kind. Sad, given how much important work there actually is to be done in these days of rapid, momentous changes.
Filed under Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Social Media
5 things a freelance writer should do on Twitter every day (via The official blog of Helium.com)
Great list! I’m such a newbie, content like this lets me know how far I have to go yet. But at least I’ll be heading in the right direction!
Filed under Books & Publishing, Social Media
Brickfish Contest _ Social Media site report
So, now that the contest is over, it’s interesting to see the viral map of all the activity.
Lots of new sites explored!
I thought I’d type up the list here of sites we posted to, activity per site, and so on.
Most of this list is pretty clear, it will say BF (meaning Brickfish) and then a small number (1-3 usually), that’s the number of times the link was posted from Brickfish to that site or platform. Then a larger number, and that larger number is somewhat mysterious. It has to do with activity levels from that site – could be views as well as votes. Because I believe that if I add up all those larger numbers, it doesn’t equal views exactly, or votes, or the sum of the two. I believe it’s a proportional indication of both view and votes, from that site vs. the total activity.
The complicated part is when the contest was posted to a site, then posted from there to another site. If you look at the map itself you’ll see what I mean.
So, may add/clarify this more as time allows, but wanted to share this in case of interest.
BF – 1 – Instapaper – 4
BF – 1 – Indexor – 21
BF – 1 – Other – 374
(would *reallly* like to know what this is!)
BF – 4 – Facebook – 102 – posted 1 to different Facebook page – 2
BF – 1 – Hi5 – 13 (activity measure)
posted from that Hi5 site as follows:
Hi5 – 1 – MySpace – 29
Hi5 – 1 – LiveJournal – 12
Hi5 – 1 – Xanga – 1
BF – 4 – MySpace – 29 (activity measure)
posted from MySpace as follows:
MySpace – 1 – LiveJournal – 1
BF – 1 – Bebo – 19
BF – 1 – Blogspot – 84
BF – 1 – Twitturls – 4
BF – 1 – Hootsuite – 77
BF – 1 – TypePad – 27
BF – 1 – Email – 1386
BF – 1 – tinyurl – 14
BF – 1 – WordPress – 72
BF – 1 – Tumblr – 101
BF – 1 – Longurl – 8
BF – 1 – LinkedIn – 8
BF – 1 – EfolioMN – 11
BF – 1 – LiveJournal – 15
BF – 1 – Xanga – 2
BF – 1 – Stumbleupon – 4
BF – 1 – mn – 8
BF – 1 – Twitter – 46
If you want to see the other, more viral sites, you can go to the right side bar that says ‘Other Entries’ than below those 4 pics or so, there is a link that says ‘see more.’ That brings you to the whole list. At the very top of that front page of the whole list, there are headers that you can sort by. One of them is ‘Most Viral’. This entry of ours is #21 I believe!
For history on what this was all about, please see the posts tagged as Brickfish. Long story short, my daughter entered in to this contest, and asked for my help. I decided to use the contest as a springboard to implementing more social media for my company, and an impetus to learn more about the functions I had been using. Clarity Solutions did not establish a presence on all these – not MySpace of course. And some of these I didn’t have anything to do with. But the involvement I did have completely met my goals for it!
PS The ‘winners’ haven’t been announced yet. The prizes aren’t that substantial anyway, I was really just interested to see what actions would yield what results, how our efforts compared to others, etc.. And I really appreciate all those of you who helped!!
Filed under Social Media
Twitter tips to protect your privacy and your identity
Great article from makeuseof.com by Mahendra Palsule
Filed under Social Media, Technology
Sweet Tweets (via Social Media Savvy)
Great article, always love to learn more!
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Twit stalking tips for business intelligence collections
From Small Business Trends..
Fascinating!
Filed under Business, Social Media, Technology
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