Insights into social platforms, creator tools, trends, algorithms, audience behavior, and the evolving role of social networks online.
How To: Get Your Dog to Tweet
Oh. My. Gosh. You gotta be kidding me… thanks to Mattel’s new Puppy Tweets dog collar, your dog can now tweet. For real. You want your dog to join you in the Twitterverse? No problem! Everyone is talking about this, in the past week it has been written about in the LA Times, Fast Company, engadg ...
The Buzz | Is This Another Attempt to Be Like Twitter?!
When you see something, the instinct now is to share it to your online friends. The Buzz word lately no pun intended around the interwebs is Google Buzz. When I opened my Gmail account I had that icon with some updates already and some of my contacts already following me. They also have an intere ...
150+ Ultimate Round-Up of Helpful Twitter Articles
I’ve tried to create something here that I have not seen before. Below is a list of 150+ very helpful Twitter articles. I get tweets every week from people just starting on Twitter and they are struggling, trying to figure it all out and find their way. I wanted to create a post that they could g ...
Celebrate ♥ Day on Twitter
February 14th is hearts day and now people who have Twitter accounts can now celebrate or show their friends and family that they ♥ them. The application is called Sweethearts. It is really simple to use. A person can customize candies that will be available to users. Users can then gather up fiv ...
9 Ways To Use Social Media for Your Business
Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It ...
How To: Secure Your Online Info
As more and more people go online and participate in communities like FaceBook, Twitter and communicate via Gmail or maintain blogs, their information and documents need to be secure. You wouldn't want to lose them for sure. Pictures and portfolios for example are precious commodities for bloggers ...
How To Build Relationships Thru Your Blog!
More and more people are going online and for varied reasons. Some do it for pure information and research and others to connect with people from all over the world. Ever since I started being more active online, I've noticed that the gap in time and distance is becoming more and more irrelevant. ...
How to Create a Bubble Tweet | Video on Your Twitter Page
Bubble Tweets are so much fun. They offer a way for you to connect with your Twitter friends in a more personal way since they allow you to talk to your followers instead of just using text. Before Bubble Tweets came along, the only way to show your followers a video was to upload it to YouTube an ...
Does Twitter Make You a Nicer Person?
Have you ever noticed how nice the Twitterverse truly is? I sat back and stared at my Twitter stream today, which is often a source of inspiration to me, and I just looked at all the niceness oozing out of my Tweetdeck.
No wonder I’m on Twitter so much. I want to live in my Twitter world much o ...
7 Tips for Becoming a Twitter Badass
Let me start this post by saying that I am not personally a Twitter badass; however, I am friends with a lot of people who are, and I’ve been studying their tweeting style for a long time, and I feel like I have a good idea about how a person can develop into a Twitter badass.
Let me also say tha ...
How To: Send a Voicemail in a Tweet
A few weeks ago I received a tweet from the username @pocketsapp. The avatar was bright purple, so there was no way I could miss it. In the body of the tweet, it said, “you have voicemail from @ShellyKramer waiting to be heard at http://pocketsapp.com/voicemails.”
I clicked on the link and sure ...
This Should Be Considered a Twitter Crime
Most people I have talked to say that their biggest Twitter pet peeve is when someone sends them an automated direct message. Those actually don’t bother me anymore, I’ve grown strangely used to them and I just hit delete, not much aggravation or effort required there.
However, I have a Twitter ...
Are You a TwitterHolic?
First let us define what a TwitterHolic is. According to the Urban Dictionary a TwitterHolic is a person who is addicted to twitter. They tend to tweet at least 20 times per day, follow at least 200 people, and attain at least 150 followers. Since Twitterholics tend to do very little other than use ...
Use Emoticons To Share on The Web!
Have you noticed that sometimes we are judged or looked at based on how we feel? Let me elaborate. If you Tweet, people seem to add smileys to show how they feel. it is either by using the =) when happy or =( when they feel sad. We not only do this on Twitter and FaceBook, but often times we als ...
How Many Clicks Are You Getting?
Why bother with statistics you may ask? Why should I even have to know the numbers? Statistics are important. Why? Here are some reasons why you should track your traffic.
One reason is it allows you to measure your campaign's success. For brands, this is important. Knowing what your customers ...