Retwact hopes to clean up Twitter's misinformation problem. While Twitter can be an invaluable news source, it’s also a cesspool of misinformation – just take a look at the recent hacking of The Associated Press’s official account as an example. We’ve recently covered how you can be a proper netizen on Twitter; if there was one more thing to add to this list, it would be this: Think before you retweet, because once it’s out there, there’s no way of correcting your post other than deleting it. Facebook currently doesn’t have a way to edit already-posted status updates (that sometimes includes re-posted links), but at least is has the edit function activated for comments and photo captions so you can appropriately correct any bits of data once you become aware of mistakes.
Retwact (a combination of retweet and retract) is a sideline project built by Stonly Baptiste, a software developer at independenceIT. Retwact is definitely a bare-bones app with a few limitations. Creating Visual Quotes for Your Small Nonprofit. Last week was a post on some new tools for presentations and it included the idea of using sketchnotes rather than text notes to present ideas. The idea intrigued me, so I bought the book about creating SketchNotes by one of the best known proponents, Mike Rohde. Called the SketchNote Handbook, it argues for presenting information via text augmented with visuals.
I'm reading through it and will review it at a later date. In the meantime, let's talk again about visuals for social communications: Visual Quotes I mentioned Tweegram in last week's post because it's quick. PictureNumber of wordsTypefacePositioningPicture It should go without saying that you need to use something that you have the rights to or that allows fair use rights or that you've licensed. Most of the pictures you find online won't be high resolution, but if you use one that is, you'll probably have a little trouble uploading it to sites like FB because it's too big to load or load quickly. Number of Words Typeface. Google Analytics | Create Infographics | Visual.ly. Shine on the web | Scoop.it.
Handsome Stats. Crowdbooster: Social Media Marketing Analytics and Optimization. Recruiting Users for Testing with Ethnio. There are several ways we find people to help with usability tests or user interviews. We use social media networks, we respond to people who tweet about a MailChimp feature we’re currently studying, and we send campaigns to a mailing list of people who signed up to help with testing. (You can join that list, BTW: When we have open criteria for user interviews, we get great results through those methods. But when we need to recruit for a very particular feature or criteria, it becomes difficult and time consuming. Getting specific usually increases the recruiting time by a couple days, which is a total drag when we’d rather actually be talking with our users.
Enter Ethnio, a nifty tool that allows you to create a popup screener, make a short survey for the screener, place the popup on your website or send out a direct link on social media, and easily recruit participants for your user interviews or usability tests. Our Ethnio Screener.