Schedule - #TwitterFiction Festival 2015. ‘Strike off a thumb, 20 shillings’: digitised Textus Roffensis is a window on early British law. “If a mouth or an eye becomes damaged, one is to compensate with 12 shillings,” exhorts the Textus Roffensis, a 12th century manuscript containing the only surviving copy of the oldest law in English. The four front teeth, meanwhile, are worth six shillings apiece, while “if one strikes off a thumb, 20 shillings”. The centuries-old legal encyclopedia, which is dated to the 1120s and runs to 476 pages, with 484 images, has just been digitised by the University of Manchester and made available online today. Described as “Britain’s Hidden Treasure” by the British Library, the manuscript was written in 1123-24 by a single scribe at Rochester Cathedral in Kent, which partnered with the university on the project.
It has never been seen in its entirety by the public before. Written in Old English and Latin, the book derives its name from its 14th century inscription, The Textus de Ecclesia Roffensi per Ernulphum episcopum (The Book of the Church of Rochester through Bishop Ernulf). Witter / ? Interactive: This Is How Much Money Twitter Owes You. Now that Twitter has a market capitalization of at least $24.9 billion, more than a few of the social network’s 230 million users have noticed their tweets are making other people rich. Many people want their cut.
So what would that be exactly? TIME has crunched the numbers. Plug in your username (or anyone else’s) below to find out how valuable your Twitter feed is. How Much Does Twitter Owe Me? Enter the username of any public account to measure its share of Twitter's fortune. Not enough to retire, huh? To see how we came up with those numbers, check the fine print. Methodology. BlastFollow! This application will allow you to search for Twitter users based on a keyword. It will then return the number of users who have tweeted that keyword recently.
You will have the option to follow all of those users en masse, which is a really efficient way to follow people who share your interests on Twitter. Learn more. A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009 « Web Strategy by. Manage your Message: Top 40 ways to get noticed online (apart fr. This is a great compilation of resources for increasing the profile of a person or organization online. I found this at the Taylor Herring PR blog . If your company is looking to raise awareness and grow its online audience, you'll find at least a few ideas to help you tell your stories. And having them all in one place will save you a lot of time and research. : Upload stories and articles on reddit to drive traffic to your site or blog. Submit items often so that you’ll gain a more loyal following and increase your presence on the site. : Digg has a huge following online because of its optimum usability. . : Social bookmark your way to better business with sites like del.icio.us, which invite users to organize and publicize interesting items through tagging and networking. : You’ll open your online presence up to a whole new audience just by adding the StumbleUpon toolbar to your browser and “channel surf[ing] the Web.
. : According to Squidoo, “everyone’s an expert on something. Master List 3 (A Wiki of Social Media Marketing Examples) TweetMeme - Hottest Stories on Twitter. The 7 Ways to Approach Twitter. Lon S. Cohen is a writer and Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY. He is @obilon on Twitter. There are plenty of strategies for approaching Twitter. It’s getting more complex each day, but in the end it can be boiled down to a few simple approaches. From Twittering on behalf of yourself to Twittering for a company, playing the part of a classic character to being a robot, here are seven ways users approach Twitter.
Introduce yourself and tell us about your Twitter approach in the comments. 1. You are on Twitter for the community, the knowledge you get and give, and the sharing of resources - whether it’s for professional or purely personal reasons. I can go on all day providing examples of people who Twitter for their own enjoyment or just business networking but not specifically to promote anything or anyone in particular.
@john_hunter - He’s a writer from England who frequently just tweets what’s on his mind. @amykchulik - The best friendships on Twitter came from out of the blue. 2. Nearby Tweets - Find twitterers nearby. What the Hashtag?! - the user-editable encyclopedia for hashtags. Artylizer. Share art . | Art, design, architecture, fashion, tec. Tweetable Art: 10 Twitter Tips for Artists. Natasha Wescoat is a licensed artist and social media creative at NatashasArtCandy.com utilizing the web to promote her art and connect with her audience. You can follow her on Twitter.
As an artist or creative business, one of your main goals is to connect with your audience and collectors. Social media allows us to connect and collaborate on a level we otherwise would've never known outside of the web. It allows collectors and fans to connect more intimately with the artist and allows for a stronger relationship with the art itself. As an artist, I've found that Twitter is an excellent place for self promotion and connecting with my audience.
Have more tips to add? 1. Be creative and open. Jeremiah Ketner (@smallandround) of SmallandRound.com, a gallery artist, tweets the progress of his work in text and photos, incorporating pictures from Twitpic and Flickr. 2. Do you run auctions online or own a shop on etsy? 3. Using Twitter for networking is the best part. 4. 5. 6. 7. 300+ Active Web Designers to Follow on Twitter. Twitter are very much popular now a days. More and more People are getting fun of using it including myself. But do you know what Twitter is? Maybe you’ll ask What is Twitter? What does it Do? Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (also known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. You can Tweets your Updates on your blog(if your a Blogger) or just simply Tweets what your are doing from now and then. Now you know a little background if what is Twitter. Here they are.
@mayhemstudios - Calvin Lee of mayhem studios @imjustcreative- Graham Smith of Im Just Creative @adellecharles – Adelle Charles of Fuel Your Creativity @chrisspooner – Chris Spooner of Spoon Graphics @nourayehia – Noura Yehia of Noupe @fudgegraphics – Franz Jeitz of Fudge Graphics @myinkblog – Andrew Houle of My Ink Blog @designshard – Max Stanworth of Design Shard @andysowards - Andy Sowards of Andy Sowards Ads. FrontPage. Enterprise social networking has landed in BT « Inside out. Posted on June 17, 2008. Filed under: Facebook, social networking, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 | Tags: enterprise social networking, Facebook, social networking | Last weekend we launched our internal enterprise social network … my profile page is below (still a bit empty as I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet). So what’s on offer on this page? : top left is the normal friends functionality … only we call them contacts because it would never do to have friends at work ;-) … this also displays a newsfeed of your contacts’ current activities or status (you can edit your status at the top of the page)below that is My personal FAQ which is a place that you, or others, can pose questions that you would like answers for … searchable, of coursetop right is social bookmarking … although mine is currently emptybelow that is a newsfeed of activity on my profile pageout of sight below the fold is wall or message board functionality.
Like this: Like Loading... Make a Comment. Twitscoop - Search twitter, see what's hot right now. TwitBuzz - Twitter's hottest links. TwitterCounter: How popular are you? Tweet Clouds. How to Use Twitter as a Twool. I may get more value out of Twitter than anyone else on the planet because I use Twitter as a tool—specifically as a marketing tool—for my website Alltop and my book, Reality Check.
If the concept of using Twitter in a commercial manner interests you, keep reading. If it doesn’t, then you can continue to send and receive tweets about how cats are rolling over and the line at Starbucks. Forget the “influentials.” You must buy into the theory that products and services reach critical mass because mere mortals spread the word for you. This defies the common wisdom that a handful of “influentials” shape what the rest of us try and what we adopt. In the online world, these influentials include Mike “I can go a week without Twitter” Arrington, Robert Scoble, Seth Godin, and to some extent me.
Reliance on influentials is flawed because the Internet has flattened and democratized information. Can I tell you a funny story? Ask for help. Create an email list.