The Time for Tweeting is Now!
November 14, 2009 :: Travis PetersenFrom running advertisements and promotions on new products or deals to reputation management and responding to customer queries, online businesses use Twitter for a number of purposes. Figuring out how you might want to use Twitter for your business is important before registering an account.
#140conf – Interview with Braxton Woodham of Tap11
November 12, 2009 :: Steve FisherThere were so many great people and companies at the 140 Conference in LA and one in particular that I found intriguing was Tap11 which is affectionately named after the famous Spinal Tap saying “Turn it up to 11″. The product is built around Twitter and helps small businesses understand their followers/audience to know when to [...]
Would Your Parents Have Twittered Growing Up?
November 11, 2009 :: Joe LoongI’ve been continuing to think about differences in generational attitudes towards the use of technology in general and social media tools in particular, and I’m not getting very far. I keep going around in circles.
(I am hampered by the fact that I am not a sociologist — not even an armchair one. But let’s ignore [...]
#140conf – Interview with Dave Mathews of PeopleBrowsr
November 11, 2009 :: Steve FisherI have been using PeopleBrowsr since their beta and when I was at the 140Conf I was pleasantly surprised by two things: their upgraded platform and that Dave Mathews is involved in helping them become an even bigger success. I first met Dave at Gnomedex 2007 when he was working with this little company called [...]
#140conf – Interview with John Yamasaki of Seesmic
November 10, 2009 :: Steve FisherI first met John Yamasaki, or as his friends call him, Yama, at the Gnomedex conference last August. He is an evangelist at Seesmic, maker of the Twitter console tool of the same name. He has an extremely high enthusiasm for the Seesmic platform as you would expect of any product evangelist. I caught up [...]
Smart Working – Small Business Value of Using Twitter
September 14, 2009 :: Steve FisherThese days everyone is “all-a-Twitter”. It is on the tip of everyone’s tongue’s. Every mainstream media outlet and celebrity has a Twitter profile and revels in the real time aspect and direct contact they can have with viewers and fans. One of the coolest things on Twitter is the use of hashtag symbol (#) to [...]
137 Great Twitter Tips for Your and Your Business
September 3, 2009 :: Steve FisherEveryone these days is “on the Twitter”. The last year has shown such a swell of Twitter usage and the innovative ways this real time data engine is picking up steam with no signs of slowing down any time soon. With the recent news that Twitter is going to provide authenticated business accounts with analytics [...]
Blocking Twitter Spam Followers: Does It Matter?
August 24, 2009 :: Joe LoongI’ve gone back and forth about how aggressively I police followers on my Twitter account (@joelogon). When I first wrote about this in February, I had 218 followers, and was pretty strict about managing followers (save for a few lapses).
Likewise, in March, I complained about obvious spammers who still managed to gain reciprocal followers, presumably [...]
Smart Working Tools – Three Ways to Effectively Use Twitter for Business
August 6, 2009 :: Steve FisherI have a love/hate relationship with Twitter. I have written many articles on Twitter, Tools for Twitter and Resources to make you more effective. You see, it is not about me but about you. It is about you and how you can leverage Twitter for your business to make you more effective.
Recently, Twitter has finally started [...]
Twitter Gets Serious About Helping Businesses Understand.
July 28, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungSo it seems that Twitter is getting hip to what’s going on with businesses and realizes that there are a lot of brands wanting to know how to take advantage of this microblogging application. To help businesses out, the great folks at Twitter have put together a “How To” website that gives a beginner’s tutorial [...]
