| | | Socialized | |  Twitter | 72 articles |
| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | SOCIALIZED NOVEMBER 6, 2009 A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). The most influential people on Twitter are either already celebrities, create their own content, or both. Of course there are many reasons these people are influential, but a very basic reason is that they are creating original content somewhere other than Twitter. Who do you see most often retweeted? | SOCIALIZED JULY 26, 2009 What Does Your Twitter Avatar Say About You? Tweets are short at 140 characters, but a Twitter avatar must visually represent a user in just 2304 pixels. If you’re a conservative, you’ve probably changed your avatar to show your affiliation with TCOT (Top Conservatives on Twitter), even though you find grassroots political activism a little confusing. Brown box special : The tacky default Twitter avatar, indicating a new user, or a spammer, or both, or someone who is too private to post an avatar, or maybe too lazy. Tags: Social Media avatars Twitter twitter You’re “normal,” whatever that means. LOL!”. | | | | | |
| SOCIALIZED OCTOBER 26, 2009 My Brief List of 54 Twitter Rules (Did I Miss Any?) also have a lot of rules for how I use Twitter, so I thought I would share them. was very deliberate when I wrote “rules for how I use Twitter.” wouldn’t presume to tell you how to use Twitter. Block people who tweet your Twitter name in connection with marketing and follower scams. Use Twitter on various days at various times to catch followers around the globe. Don’t use Twitter like it’s IM. Don’t let anyone tell you they know all the Twitter rules. Add your top Twitter rules in a comment before Nov. Be relevant 90% of the time. | SOCIALIZED NOVEMBER 26, 2009 Five Social Media Predictions for 2010 Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Twitter recently rolled out its Geotagging capability on a limited basis. Facebook and Twitter both offer “interesting&# ideas in social search, and both are sitting on top of mountains of social data, but both have taken an incidental approach to social search. Here are my five social media predictions for 2010. space. PowerPoint is ubiquitous. | SOCIALIZED MARCH 24, 2011 Is the Twitter RT irrelevant? Do we still need to extend the quaint courtesy of letting people know where we found a link from another Twitter user? There are now over 200 million Twitter accounts (not all active), with think the retweet, aka RT (in both its informal and official forms), has run its course. | SOCIALIZED JANUARY 22, 2010 Debunking Five Social Media Myths It’s hip and cool to say Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging have replaced e-mail, and “anything worth saying can be said in 140 characters,” but it isn’t true. Had I sent it to her via Twitter, it would have required 60 separate messages. Similarly, today, many contend that a truly engaged CEO should have a blog, or ought to be on Twitter. After Barrack Obama was elected, many people were disappointed when they couldn’t find him on Twitter chatting with the hoi polloi. If you enjoyed this article, please feel free to add me on Facebook and Twitter. Wrong. | | | | | | | |
| -
SOCIALIZED | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009 McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media
But I’m not talking about social media gurus or mavens, or people with 20,000 followers on Twitter. McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates. The value to a brand of a social media presence, whether through a corporate blog, Facebook page or Twitter account, is hard to dispute, but equally hard to measure. And on Twitter, when someone clicks “Follow” in our profile, they are subscribing to our updates, not following us. Twitter users have subscribers or connections. And all but one of them are dead. MORE >> -
SOCIALIZED | MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2010 Social Media Isn’t Conversation, It’s Publication
The idea that social media allows us to engage in online conversations is getting people into all kinds of trouble, because what we’re doing when we click “Tweet&# on Twitter or “Share&# on Facebook isn’t conversation — it’s publication. Twitter, for example, still has a thing called “ the public timeline &# where all tweets are reproduced and can be found by search engines and services that aggregate tweets. Imagine you’re chatting with a real friend in a real cafe. If you’re not cautious, a couple of people might overhear. MORE >> -
SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2010  Baskin Robbins Sells 31-Cent Scoops With Smart Social Media
Below the two girls is a link to a Facebook page, and to the right, links to Facebook and Twitter. It was all over Twitter and Facebook. So it went to all my Twitter followers and then over to FriendFeed and Facebook. We converse through many online platforms including Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare, but are always looking for new ways to strike up a conversation with our fans. We set up a fan page and a Twitter handle so people have ways to speak to their brand and fellow fans about their experiences. The interview is a little later on in this post). MORE >> -
SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2010 Social Media as an Investigative Tool
Secura Insurance Companies is recruiting for a Social Media Claims Investigation Intern, whose basic responsibilities include: Utilize various social sites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace to gather information for potential claims cases. Utilize other online avenues and Websites to obtain information on potential claimants. Monitor any online activity pertaining to specific MORE >> -
SOCIALIZED | SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2010 Students Failing English Due to Twitter, Facebook
The free-form writing style of social networks like Twitter and Facebook is changing the way people communicate, and causing students to fail English. That’s the claim of a piece out this afternoon from the Canadian Press. According to the article “(at) Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, one in 10 new students are not qualified to take the mandatory writing courses required for graduation.&# And academicians are, in part, blaming social networking. MORE >> -
- At 10,000 Followers, Rethinking the Follower Thing SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2010
- Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare? SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010
- Tips for Using Facebook Fan Pages SOCIALIZED | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009
- Think Twitter Has No Rules? Think Again SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 2010
- “I’m At Safeway.” So what? The Problem of Trivial Updates SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 2010
- Five Things to Do About Facebook Privacy Other Than Closing Your Account SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2010
- Could you go social-network-free for one day a week? SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
- Under the Social Media Influence SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010
- How the Economy and Social Media Are Ruining PR SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009
- More on Social Media and Language Skills SOCIALIZED | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010
- How Transparent is Too Transparent? SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010
- Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2009
- Twitter Rules vs. Community Values SOCIALIZED | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2009
- Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009
- Kenneth Cole Egypt debacle illustrates Five Rules of Social Media Crisis Communications SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011
- LinkedIn and Twitter Connect: So? SOCIALIZED | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
- How Social Is Your Company, Really? SOCIALIZED | TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2010
- Third Grade Show and Tell: Online Privacy SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010
- The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010
- Every word matters SOCIALIZED | MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2011
- Twitter Translate Rolling Out SOCIALIZED | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2009
- Social Network Mass Unfollowing is an Empty Gesture SOCIALIZED | TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010
- Twitter Asks SocialToo To Discontinue Automatic Unfollow SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2010
- Twittorati Features Tweets Everyone Already Knows About SOCIALIZED | SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2009
- Accepting That You’re not Going to Marry Gwyneth Paltrow SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
- Debunking Five Social Media Myths SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009
- Harmless Twitter Prank or Malicious Act? SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009
- Corporate social media: skate everywhere the puck has been and is going SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
- Ignoring Twitter = Loss On Noninvestment SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011
- To Fail Whale or Not to Fail Whale? SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009
- Six Social Media Predictions for 2010 SOCIALIZED | MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009
- Stand By for a Foursquare Superuser SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
- Who Are Your Twitter Fab Five? SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2009
- CTV Canada Story on Cyber Libel SOCIALIZED | TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010
- United Breaks Guitars: Case Study in Old Media Failure SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2009
- How important is social media content quality? SOCIALIZED | TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
- Craigslist Isn’t Facebook - And That’s Good SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2011
- Crackdown on Athlete Twitter Use Points Up Frustration, May Violate 1st Amendment SOCIALIZED | TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2010
- What Do They Mean by Social Any Way? SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010
- Social Media Career Development & Job Search SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2009
- Social media love is all you need SOCIALIZED | MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012
- Twitter Lists Are Life Changing, Threaten Yammer & Others SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2009
- On Santa Cruz Radio Jan. 23 10 to Noon SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010
- BP Destroyed the Gulf, So Forget Your Brand. Huh? SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010
- Asymmetry of Expectations in Social Network Friending SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
- Is +1 really 15 years old? SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2011
- Trying Out Twitter’s New Retweet Feature SOCIALIZED | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
- Dick Clark jokes - too soon! SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
- Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter. SOCIALIZED | MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012
- Why are status updates important in internal social applications? SOCIALIZED | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2011
- Switching to Impulse: Social Media Gets Faster SOCIALIZED | TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009
- Social Media and Your Ever-Expanding Brand SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009
- Microworkers Paid Less Than a Penny for Writing SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009
- Recurring Tweets Outlawed By Twitter Rules SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009
- Finally, a Twitter Hashtag I Like, Sort Of SOCIALIZED | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009
- Is That DM Link Safe? SOCIALIZED | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009
- A Few Motivational Thoughts SOCIALIZED | THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010
- Twitter Blocking Recurring Tweets in Realtime SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009
- Make it Brief! Threely Makes Shortest URLs SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2009
- Dixon Hamby Wins Copy of SocialCorp SOCIALIZED | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009
- Sun CEO’s Blog Does the Time Warp SOCIALIZED | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009
| |
