OK, Twitter For Dummies should be called Twitter for Everyone. I may be considered a pretty heavy Twitter user and was #herebeforeoprah but even I really enjoyed getting into the heads of Laura @pistachio Fitton, Michael @gruen Gruen, and Leslie @geechee_girl Poston. If I were to boil Twitter for Dummies down, I would say that […]
‘All a Twitter’ is Twitter for smarties
If you’re smart and savvy but have not yet been wooed to the world of Twitter, All a Twitter is for you: All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter. Author Tee Morris writes this book more to the folks who are not quite wooed by Twitter yet but who […]
5 questions for the author of ‘Twitterville’
Shel Israel discusses the impact of the real-time Web on society & business Shel Israel’s new book, Twitterville, is due to hit hit bookstores next week. (See Twitterville site, the Global Neighbourhoods blog or Amazon page.) A day after his book release party at the Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, Calif., Shel took time out […]
Escape your bubble: How to grow your social media circle
Seifenblase by Photoclinique Suggestions on how to quickly and effectively connect with people on LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter Most of us have passed the exploratory stage of social media. We are all signed up for the micro-blogging sites, the networks, the communities. We have been trading content and pushing around links for months, if not […]
I upgraded to HootSuite 2.0 because it works
Back in the earlier days of 3rd party Twitter apps (just a few months ago, actually), a few very effective web-based services got my attention: SocialToo, TweetLater, and HootSuite. Sad thing was, while they were all very powerful services, they were all poorly designed, very hacked together, and fugly. Enter the elegant, sexy, feature-rich HootSuite […]