Socialnetworking. Excuses. Clinical. Del.icio.us. Twitter gets Nobel Peace Prize recommendation. Twitter, the micro-blogging service which has taken the net by storm in the last year, has been given one of the most prestigious thumbs-ups ever – a recommendation for the Nobel Prize.
While at first glance it may seem odd that Twitter has been recommended for a prize which highlights people or services which promote peace, dig a little further and it's clear to see why. The site was a mouthpiece for the recent Iran protests, and was active in helping those in Iran get their point across, when myriad other media services were shut-down amid the frenzy. Window for the world It's this reason that former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications for the Bush Administration Mark Pfeifle is putting the website forward for entry into the Nobel Prize short-list. Public Relations Pros Must Know Social Media. I’ve long held the belief that public relations, as a discipline and department, should own the responsibility for social media across the spectrum of enterprise and corporations.
Mind you, I don’t think social media should be crammed into a silo with PR and forgotten about, but rather, employed across the organization with PR owning the responsibility of managing its implementation and internal education. According to a study released today by Eric Schwartzman’s iPressroom, in collaboration with TrendStream, Korn/Ferry International and PRSA, that belief is a general reality. The report, titled, “2009 Digital Readiness Report: Essential Online Public Relations and Marketing Skills,” shows that public relations owns the responsibility for web strategy relative to blogging, podcasting or RSS; social search; social networking; microblogging and, to a lesser extent, web content management. PR prevails in comparison to marketing, IT, HR and Executive Management.
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You should use it in a right way to boost up your productivity and connections around the world. Twitter has numerous web, desktop and hand-held device applications. Now with this wide range of Twitter related tools you might get into a real hard time to find the right applications. Specially when all the popular sites posted so many Twitter tools to use. The real life fact is you can’t and you wont be able to use all these tools in one shot. . #1 TweetDeck – The Ultimate twitter desktop application Previously I’ve written about the best adobe air desktop clients designed for twitter. Tweet Spinner: Micro-targeting without Micro-managing. Check out this link (Shared via. In the short time since Twitter burst onto the social media scene, cancer centers and advocacy organizations have come to use it as a valuable tool for building the community of those who fight cancer, with the microblogging service seen as an opportunity to see and be seen in a meaningful way that did not exist before the little blue bird flew onto their computer screens.
David J. Sampson, Director of Medical & Scientific Communications for the American Cancer Society, likens Twitter to a good professional conference that never ends. He learns what his colleagues are reading, what they are excited about, what they just learned, and what they think about topics of mutual interest. He says he can thus share information, clear up misunderstandings, engage individuals in one-on-one conversations, and advocate for positions he feels strongly about—all without ever leaving his desk. Engaging Physicians At the University of Texas M. To Help with Communications To Engage in Conversations. Generate a List of Twitter Users. Elliott Kember dot Com - twitter solutions. We're a Nation of Joiners, Spectators and Creators - Advert. Explaining Twitter to Those Who Don’t Get It « Bit Rebels.
Last weekend I went to a charity event sponsored by a national television show.
As I watched the sponsors get up in front of everyone and say, “We think it is better to connect with you this way than through Twitter or Facebook.” I immediately took offense. I thought, “How dare they insult my precious Twitter!” Then I quickly realized they didn’t mean to be offensive, they just simply don’t get it. When confronted with a situation like that, what do you do? But when the average person thinks the purpose of Twitter is to tweet what you had for breakfast, how do you explain the real deal? Why I Use Seesmic Desktop Instead of TweetDeck » kimplicity. Texas A&M Takes an Active Approach to Social Media Marketing. Features Texas A&M Takes an Active Approach to Social Media Marketing Multitudes of potential students are found online these days--tweeting, blogging, MySpacing, and Facebooking--but marketing to these prospects in their native environments isn't as simple and straightforward as it might seem at first.
Why Organizations Need 'Social Labs' My background is in product development management and processes.
One of the things that you learn is that the R part of R&D has to be managed and measured very different than the D part. Companies, ignore social media early-adopters. Recently, Steve Rubel decided that blogging was dying, and that he was moving away from it.
Whether you agree or disagree with Steve (and honestly I disagree with him often, especially on this issue), the fact remains that he's a very influential voice in the social media space. Companies read what he and other social media early adopters write, and they take it to heart. But on the backdrop to the latest resurrection of the 'blogging is dead' meme, there's this; Google just announced that they will be jumping into the operating system business, launching an OS for computers based on their Chrome browser. And how did Google alert the world to what Andy Sernovitz calls the biggest tech news of the year? Social Media vs Institutions. So you think you've heard every perspective there is about social media and why companies should take notice?
Think again. AutoTweeter – sends automated tweets to your twitter account. Twitter grew 1,444% in a year. 36 Things You Should Know Before Starting a Twitter Account. Home > Applications , General , Internet > 36 Things You Should Know Before Starting a Twitter Account [digg-me] Recently, we find it hard to ignore the hefty buzz around Twitter. It seems the service is in its peak nowadays and every news channel or media network across the globe, already covered this microblogging revolution in one way or another. Not to mention the massive popularity that Twitter is getting from mega celebs like Oprah Winfrey, Ashton Kutcher and many others, who find the service convenient enough to transfer their notions to the masses (AKA: followers).
But famous people aside, using Twitter for quite a long time, made us realize there are many rules and norms people should acquire before getting into the service. The 10 Commandments of Social Media. Twitter Page SEO: 5 Tips To Optimize Your Twitter Page - Part 1. Twitter pages have their own page rank too in Google, so it is important to do this 5 mins drill better utilize your Twitter page.This article is based on the assumption that you have done your keyword research and you have a beautiful keyword (broad or long tail) at hand already before you start optimizing your twitter page.
Bear with me though, that you would rather optimize your Twitter page with a single keyword (incl. long tail) simply because there is no room to optimize for another. You may be wondering what Keyword Research is, and how it should be performed. Keyword Research is a monster. It is the key of the house, heart of a body in ALL SEO practices.