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Twitter helps recovery of Lance Armstrong's stolen bicycle. Members of Congress who Twitter - Congresspedia. Share photos on twitter. Is Your University Using Twitter to Its Fullest Potential? | .ed. Last summer I did research for my independent study project in graduate school that resulted in “The Use of Social Media in Higher Education for Marketing and Communication: A Guide for Professionals in Higher Education.” The research was largely done in June and July 2008. During this time, very few universities were actively using Twitter.

When I did that research, I concluded: We haven’t found a definitive way to use Twitter for marketing in higher education yet. Some have suggested it can be used in conjunction with other social media tools, such as student bloggers also having Twitter accounts they update more often than their blogs, to serve as another tool to promote their new blog entries. Others have suggested it can be used in emergency situations, such as the shootings that happened at Virginia Tech (Swartzfager 2007), or using it in place of a live chat service for recruitment (Wilburn 2008). But, there is so much more that can be done to use Twitter in a less robotic way. @AKGovSarahPalin joins Twitter. Twitter. 301 Moved. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same | Social Med. From entire conferences to unconferences to new government appointees to full-scale social networks, there’s no doubt that “Government 2.0″ has become the latest and greatest buzzword. Agencies and departments from across the government are jumping on board, starting their own blogs, creating YouTube channels, and tweeting their days away.

It’s also been grabbing all the headlines – in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and myriad others. But is all this talk about the next generation of government really all that new? I found these headlines from the ’90s in doing a brief Google search this evening: “Talking to Clinton, Via Computer” The Bergen County Record, July 29, 1993 “White House Correspondence is Shifting to Electronic Mail” The Dallas Morning News, April 18, 1993 “Government Expands its Claim on the Web” Washington Post, March 18, 1997 “Servicing Citizens with the Internet” Washington Post, April 21, 1997 “Understanding the IT Revolution”

Is Twitter Really Social? | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog. 2009: A year that's looming larger each day for social media. Or is it? Times are tough. Many people may be looking forward to four years of hope and change, but the realities of a slumping global economy are upon us today. As we conclude budgeting season - or some procrastinating companies are just beginning - social media undoubtedly has received more attention for integration than ever. On one hand, social media tools can be inexpensive and an effective way to create deep customer relationships. Ping.fm @ Ubiquity. Social Media Targeting Strategies. Jason Falls I’ve long been of the belief that the vast majority of social media thinkers and doers easily lapse into the self-gratifying bubble that is our little online world and forgets the primary audience to which we should speak lies not on Twitter or Facebook or blogs.

We are good a sharing social media. We are better at stroking each other and the latter is easier to accomplish. But what it accomplishes is little. I’ve said before that I feel we should spend less time talking to each other and more talking to the un-enlightened. But what can we do for our clients, our businesses and our immediate social media needs to get outside that box as well? Forrester Research's Social Technographics Ladder from Flickr. Let’s start with Forrester’s now familiar Social Technographics Ladder.

According to Forrester’s 2008 statistics to fill in those roles, 21 percent of Internet users are now creators, up from 18 percent in 2007. Forrester Research's Social Technographic Profile of U.S. George Bush (UnemployedBush) Facebook "stream" red. Facebook's latest redesign which has been clearly inspired Twitter's real-time stream of status updates has had a ton of detractors from all corners. One of the biggest places where the outcry has centralized is the Facebook Layout vote application which currently has had over a million votes from Face book users with over 94% against the new changes and almost 600,000 comments, most of which seem to be negative if the hundred or so I read were a representative sample. One thing I've wondered is how the folks at Facebook are taking this feedback.

On the one hand, people don't like changes and the more disruptive the change the more they fight it. It's almost comical to go back and read the Time magazine article about the backlash against the news feed from back in 2006 given how much the feature has not only ended up defining Facebook but how significantly it has impacted the social software landscape at large. Here's the problem with the redesign.

Twitter is a micro-blog. The Twitter Experiment - Bringing Twitter to the Classroom at UT. Share photos on Twitter. Pew Research Center: Twitterpated: Mobile Americans Increasingly. Twitter users are mobile, less tethered by technology In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Users may post messages about their status, their moods, their location and other tidbits on social networks and blogging sites, or on applications for sending out short messages to networks of friends like Twitter, Yammer and others.

As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others. Of the standalone applications that enable short messaging to a network of friends, Twitter is the most well known. Twitter’s open development platform allows outside developers to build add-on applications to expand the service’s functionality. Portrait of a Twitter user. Help Me Raise Money for the Big Climb | MediocreAthlete.com. My coworker Mike put together a team to do Seattle’s annual Big Climb event (this year it’s on March 22), and I am one of his easily winded participants (go Team Flabalanche!).

What is the Big Climb? Well, every year the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society organizes a race to raise money for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma research. The race consists of climbing 69 flights of stairs up the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle. Yes, this is the little kid from Jerry Maguire. That’s right, your favorite mediocre athlete is going to try and run up 69 flights of stairs. So yeah, jogging up a butt-ton of stairs can’t possibly lead to disaster for the clumsiest person in the Pacific Northwest… Anyway, I pledged to try and raise $500, so I’d really appreciate some donations (think of it as a tip for serving up awesomely mediocre blog content). Please donate! Twitter.com Widget. Brit Ben Southall Wins Best Job In The World | The Daily Dust | A bungee jumping, scuba diving British charity worker has been named as the winner of what has been dubbed the “Best Job in the World”.

Ben Southall, 34, of Petersfield, beat nearly 35,000 applicants from around the world for the six-month dream assignment, a £73,400 contract to serve as the caretaker of a tropical Australian island. He will be required to swim, explore and relax on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef while writing a blog to promote the area. The job totals around 12 hours of work per month. Sixteen finalists spent the past four days on the island for an extended interview process, which involved snorkelling through crystalline waters, strolling along white sand beaches and relaxing at a spa. Southall starts work on July 1. Two words..jammy git. Pic from his blog. Is Gen Y teamwork killing creativity? | Modite. Generation Y is a kind generation. Our conservative lifestyles and penchants for quiet opinions have led us to work together happily with healthy doses of idealism. We are a teamwork generation, fully in line with each other. Top-down management and the clutch of hierarchal authority no longer illustrate the strokes of success, but instead lead to siloed rows of depressed employees and opportunistic managers.

Gen Y, in contrast, is all about the team, preferring conformity inside the lines over pushing boundaries or ourselves. “In many respects,” psychology expert Jeremy Dean argues, “[these] norms have a beneficial effect, bolstering society’s foundations and keeping it from falling into chaos.” We’re the soothing wall fountain over a fire of greed, instability and unethical behavior. We dislike ambiguity and risk and mitigate the risks that we have inherited accordingly. It’s incredibly easy for crowdsourcing and group-think to take over.

Teamwork threatens creativity. Breaking Out. Facebook's new home page. Waltz with Bashir. Avi Joseph: @alexcg socialmedian has Q... What Is Twitter About in One Word? Marketing in 2009 (free eBook) I have long believed that dialogue is the art of thinking together - talk changes our lives, it allows us to learn by listening. Customers and communities are changing the nature of marketing and communications through talk, but also through actions. If you're like me, you think that social media = tools and marketing = business. Since we are in our own right working on changing not just the tactics for the channels but the nature itself of marketing (as currently done), I asked twelve great marketers from my network to share their thoughts on what we'll be working on in 2009. More than predictions, which is hard to do, we focused on direction. This eBook is the result of our collective energy and execution experience.

For a bite-size preview, here's what they say: I pulled together their ideas in this PDF - Marketing in 2009. [Layout by yours truly. WiseStamp Email Signatures that work for you! Get in Front of your Audience Without Search Engines - Shimon Sa. What if your target audience doesn’t really use search engines in their business? Perhaps financial executives? What if your target keywords are low volume? Furthermore what if you only have a 10 page website that you started only a week ago?

Hmm. As much as I love SEO, I wouldn’t recommend it in this scenerio. Although, the target audience probably gets their information in other ways than the search engines. If you could get noticed by the Wall Street Journal writer on Twitter, who then decides to link to your blog post, that could be your best method of getting in front of your target audience. It’s the combination of creating high-quality content, along with nurturing and building a strong profile on the social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Plan of Attack: Step 1: Start using Twitter and Facebook regularly. Ideas for Content: 1. Journalists, reporters, editors, bloggers, are all on Twitter. It’s great to have a website or a blog. Customer service done right in Twitter, #wa style | Web Analytic. Like many people, over the past few months I have become quite the Twitter-wonk. I find myself spending an increasing amount of time monitoring the #wa channel in Twitter, even if my individual contribution has a tendency to ebb and flow.

And while I watch the Twits ramble on, one thing I have developed is an appreciation for the work that Ben Gaines is doing on behalf of Omniture. Who is Ben Gaines? Ben is the guy who monitors all of Twitter for things like “reported 25 hour latency in omniture conversion reporting. good thing we’re not ecommerce” and “really productive omniture call – happiness is helpful reporting tools!!” More importantly, Ben is the guy who is paid by Omniture to take the time to reach out to anyone and everyone who has a problem in an attempt to engage them in a positive conversation.

Yep, Ben Gaines is @OmnitureCare. Q: Tell me a little about yourself … who is “Ben Gaines” and how did you get into web analytics? A: I’ve tried probably a dozen Twitter apps. Twitter StreamGraphs. A StreamGraph is shown for the latest 1000 tweets which contain the search word. The default search query is 'data visualization' but a new one can be typed into the text box at the top of the application.

You can also enter a Twitter ID preceded by the '@' symbol to see the latest tweets from that user. A parameter to the URL can be used to specify the initial search word. For example, use to see the latest tweets about coffee. 11% of Online Americans Now Using Twitter - TVWeek - News. Strategy First, Tweets Second. Twitter is a stupid waste of time. Twitter is the stuff of genius. Where you fall on that spectrum often has more to do with how you see this important social medium strategically than how knowledgeable you are about the ins-and-outs of Twitter. Or any social medium, for that matter. Those who contribute to the social media landscape write often and extensively on the HOW—tactics. Not that hows are bad, especially as social marketing is so young. Ultimately though, hows are just a tactical laundry list.

You might do this. If you’ve begun to explore social communities, like Twitter, but haven’t been able see real benefits, don’t blame the medium. Not familiar with Twitter? Twitter users communicate online (and via mobile web, mobile phone and instant message) by sending and receiving short 140 character messages, called updates or tweets. See for yourself at www.twitter.com/help/how. Objectives▼Strategies▼Tactics Objectives set the goal and define how your success will be measured. 1. 2. 3.

Map. IRAN: A Nation Of Bloggers. Hvordan f. Foamee. TwitterRemote: see which Twitter users visit your site - The Nex. Working TwitterRemote example: At The Next Web Blog we love to report on what the future of the web looks like. And if we get a chance we love to help shape it ourselves. Next to a blog (and a conference!) We also have an active Incubator with shares in several projects and companies. One of those projects is TwitterCounter. And so we built it and launched it, all within 48 hours.

Since then we have grown fast and we are now generating more than 3 million TwitterCounters per day, we generate 30.000 pageviews a day on TwitterCounter.com and sell the Featured spot on the front page for $500 a week. Yes, five hundred a week and we are sold out until April! We are constantly working on new features ands improvements for TwitterCounter with the 2.5 developers we have. The last two weeks we have been working day and night to launch a new and exciting feature which we call TwitterRemote. We tested the service with 200 people for the last 2 days and are now ready to get more testers involved.

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