Tag Archives: Twitter

Twitter Use Visualized

Do you use Twit­ter for busi­ness or per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion? Are you new to Twit­ter? What are peo­ple actu­ally doing on Twit­ter? Check out the new report by Mike Volpe of Hub­spot, State of the Twit­ter­verse A key graph from the report: Most Twit­ter users are new and 70% signed up in June 2008– If you’re a busi­ness

Twitter Tools for Business

Brian Solis from PR 2.0 has pub­lished a com­pre­hen­sive list of Twit­ter tools for com­mu­nity man­agers and com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­als. Busi­nesses imple­ment­ing a social media strat­egy will find a wealth of value from this list of tools, and by using them in a way that cre­ates trans­parency and authen­tic­ity. One rea­son I haven’t spent a lot of time on this blog writ­ing

Salt Lake City Tweetup Group

Our lit­tle Salt Lake City Tweetup group is gain­ing some speed. We’ve planned a short-​​​​notice tweetup for Octo­ber 2, 2008. Inci­den­tally, this tweetup occurs on the same date as the VP debate, so we’ve adjusted our orig­i­nal loca­tion to allow those who want to watch the debates to do so at the Tweetup. Here’s the Tweetup

Why The Palin Peak Was Predictable

Twit­ter has seen much media cov­er­age lately, par­tic­u­larly dur­ing heavy usage peri­ods like the Gus­tav and Han­nah hur­ri­canes and of course, dur­ing the nation’s nom­i­na­tion of it’s high­est elected offi­cials. Seems that even the most respectable and resis­tant users have finally come aboard and are actively tweet­ing. A cou­ple of days ago the Twit­ter blog

Going Past Transparency to Overexposure

We all know that trans­parency is one of the virtues of social media. But what hap­pens when a com­pany, actively engaged online with its cus­tomers and investors, reveals too much, pos­si­bly com­pro­mis­ing its pri­mary oblig­a­tions to the pub­lic and fed­eral reg­u­la­tors? Yes­ter­day, Social|Median CEO Jason Gold­berg “decided to let [his] fol­low­ers know on twit­ter that there

Hitler Loved Twitter Too

Social Media Mar­ket­ing doesn’t have to be all busi­ness. What with the brand mon­i­tor­ing, cus­tomer ser­vice mes­sag­ing, cre­ation of user-​​​​generated con­tent in blogs, wikis, micro-​​​​blogs, etc, con­stant cus­tomer con­nec­tions, end­less research and analysis…the social media mar­ket­ing space might lead even the most die-​​​​hard Web 2.0 guru to get­ting burned out. So take some time to

Are There Any Secrets In The Social Media World?

var iamInit = func­tion() {try{initIamServingHandler(234,155,231993,“http://pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css”)}catch(ex){}}() For cor­po­ra­tions as a whole, the answer is ‘Not Likely’, since social media — right or wrong — has ren­dered busi­nesses Rad­i­cally Trans­par­ent. But for indi­vid­ual social media users, one Twit­ter broad­cast site offers a way for users to unbur­den their soul and con­fess their secrets with­out fear of ret­ri­bu­tion, Post Secret style.