The Journalist's Guide to Twitter Leah Betancourt is the digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. She is @l3ahb3tan on . Journalists are using Twitter to engage with their audience, connect with sources and continue building their personal brands. The 140-character format forces writers to focus their attention and get to the point quickly. But this isn’t just sound-bite style reporting. Twitter enhances reporting Jason DeRusha, who’s @derushaj on Twitter, a reporter at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, uses Twitter daily as part of is his job. DeRusha uses it specifically to crowdsource stories and promote his work. He often puts his questions on Twitter at the start of the day, and then his followers (more than 2,200) help him come up with angles, or chime in with their opinions. DeRusha’s first Twitter success story was in late 2007. John Dickerson (@jdickerson), Slate's chief political correspondent and author of “On Her Trail,” has been using Twitter as part of his job since November 2007.
Vital Twitter Tools for Managing Twitter Better Lilach Lilach is the founder and driving force behind Socialable, and highly regarded on the world speaker circuit. Forbes and Number 10 Downing Street have even been graced by her presence! After launching her first business within three years of becoming a mother, her financial success was recognised by being a finalist at the Best MumPreneur of the Year Awards, presented at 10 Downing Street. A business owner, social media consultant, internet mentor and genuine digital guru, Lilach is consulted by journalists and regularly quoted in newspapers, business publications and marketing magazines (including Forbes, The Telegraph, Wired, Prima Magazine, The Sunday Times, Social Media Today and BBC Radio 5 Live). When Lilach isn’t working she enjoys spending time with her family and is an avid fan of Zumba.
10 Better Ways To Use TwitPic - Flock By Kalvin “Dr. Kal” Chinyere, M.D. of Dr. Kal’s Weight Loss Tips. Follow him @DrKal. TwitPic is an excellent application that further boosts Twitter’s usefulness. Using TwitPic as if it were Flickr is similar to using your iPhone as if it were an iPod. Below are 10 ways to use TwitPic to improve the quality of your life and the lives of those around you. How to Use TwitPic Weight Loss Pictures: Use TwitPic to chronicle your weight loss. Funny Pictures: Use TwitPic to spread laughter across the Twitterverse. Drunk Pictures: Use TwitPic to improve your vision. Food Pictures: Use TwitPic to get food advice. Blind Date Pictures: Use TwitPic to set up better blind dates. Cheat Day Pictures: Use Twitter for memories. Five-Second Rule Pictures: Use TwitPic to destroy the five-second rule. Rash Pictures: Use TwitPic for medical diagnosis. Sanity Pictures: Use TwitPic to prove your sanity. Neighbor Pictures: Use TwitPic to bond with your neighbors. These are the ways I use TwitPic.
Simple small business software, collaboration, CRM: 37signals February 5, 2014. This year marks 37signals' 15th year in business. And today is Basecamp's 10th birthday. We have a lot to celebrate, and two exciting announcements to share. 37signals was founded back in 1999 as a web design firm. Since then we've launched Ta-da List (2005), Writeboard (2005), Backpack (2005), Campfire (2006), The Job Board & Gig Board (2006), Highrise (2007), Sortfolio (2009), the all new Basecamp (2012), Know Your Company (2013), and We Work Remotely (2013). We also created and open sourced Ruby on Rails (2004), wrote a few books (Defensive Design for the Web (2004), Getting Real (2006), REWORK (2010), and REMOTE (2013)), and published thousands of blog posts on Signal vs. Fifteen years into it, we're proud of the work we've done and the business we've built. However, because we've released so many products over the years, we've become a bit scattered, a bit diluted. Further, we've always enjoyed being a small company. So that got us thinking...
169742 from socialmediatoday.com The 2010 Edelman Global Trust Barometer released today might motivate you to take another look at your 2010 PR and social media strategy. For the first time trust and transparency rank as important to corporate reputation as the quality of products and services. In fact, in the U.S. and in much of Western Europe, those two attributes rank higher than product quality—and far outrank financial returns. “We're seeing a vastly different set of factors driving reputation than we did 10 years ago<” says Richard Edelman. “Trust is now an essential line of business to be developed and delivered.” The most credible voice for a company has shifted back to academics/experts or industry analysts. The credibility of mainstream media, including television, newspapers, and radio, continues to wane. In the U.S., the credibility of television news dropped 20-plus points in two years (from 43 points in 2008 to 20 points in 2010). Link to original postLink to original post Connect: Authored by: Sally Falkow
12 Leadership Traits You Need to Thrive in Tough Times Trying to grow your business in this sluggish economy is a little like trying to swim through Jell-O. Ineffective or uncertain leaders definitely need not apply. So what does it take to lead a small business through this ongoing economic mess? The blogosphere is humming with ideas lately. Here's a roundup of the important traits for entrepreneurs in 2012: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. What leadership traits do you think matter now?
7 Great Databases for Twitter Applications - Flock Everyday new applications are being developed using the twitter API. We strive to get seven selected twitter applications databases under one roof. Tweeter Apoo TweeterApps is your one stop shop as a resource of all twitter apps on the interwebs. Twitdom [postadsense] How to switch to a new laptop in 5 minutes inShare0 Switching to a new computer can be a painful experience, and my own previous experiences have been just that. I actually know quite a lot of people who prefer to stick with their old and low-performing computers simply because it is such a cumbersome task to switch to a new one. I got my new work laptop, a Dell Latitude E4300, yesterday. For me, switching to a new (PC) computer has never been as easy and painless as this time. First of all, I am a frequent user of Google Docs. Nowadays I manage all my files and documents in DropBox. For my to-do-lists I use Google Tasks, so I didn’t need to care about moving those. All work emails, contacts and calendar events are stored on the Exchange server, so I didn't have to care about those things. For password management, I use the SplashID iPhone app. This is what I did after starting my new laptop (with Windows 7) and logging on to the network: All in all, this took me about 5 minutes.
10 Twitter Tools To Help You Track And Perform Better I’m guessing if you are reading this is because you use or want to use Twitter for more than just pure fun. Maybe you even have an objective in mind. Maybe you are trying to convert followers into prospects for your product or service or you are trying to increase traffic to your website or blog. Whatever those objectives are, having the right tools handy is always important. Think of a traditional marketing campaign, big or small, there are tools that help you measure your performance, compare with the competition, manage your cost, track your conversion rate and many more that will allow you to adjust your strategy and go after the right prospect. The good news is that there are applications out there that you can use to get some visibility on how you are doing and help you get in front of the right public. 1. 2. Another destination with some cool data to take in consideration. 3. One of my favorites. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Bit.ly is more than a URL shortener. 10. Final Thought
The Only Twitter Applications List You'll Ever Need Twitter is a status-updating or microblogging social networking website. It is a breakthrough in social networking because it takes communication into another level. Before, a person can only update his status (eg. what he’s doing, where he is) at a certain time. But with Twitter and it’s mobile integration, he can update his status almost all throughout the day and get in touch with people that matters to him the most. But the functions of Twitter do not stop there. It is now used by various fields.
Uncovering Connections on Twitter Could Become Big Business If there's a hard-to-reach person you want to meet, one of the best ways to do so is through their friends. That's true in the offline world and the increasingly social nature of the internet may make discovery of the social circles of key influencers a powerful business practice online. A new class of tools intended to surface influencers and the people they are influenced by are focusing on a hub of rapid, connected conversation that's wide open for analysis - Twitter. Could analysis of individual behavior on Twitter become a valuable tool for business development and marketing? Last week Twitter announced that it will soon allow users to create lists of friends that they can share with others. On the margins of the developing Twitter-as-business tool ecosystem are startups building light-weight influencer discovery and analysis tools. Shining a Light on Webs of Connection Still one of the most useful tools in this group, if still largely a proof of concept, is Pete Warden's Mailana.
Professional Goals for a Social Media Strategist | Community Org I don’t usually blog about my professional self, but blogging at 8:30 pm on December 31, 2009 will do that do you. Inspired by Joe Waters’s post about his 2010 professional goals, I decided to take a moment and fill you in on where I’m heading in the next year. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, I thank Joe for a great idea. Blog Ideas I began this blog on December 15, 2008 with a post about the basic principles of Community Organizing, and their application to social media. My goal for this blog was always for it to be a meeting place, and a conversation starter around the convergence of social media, nonprofits, and technology. Time for Research I’ve increasingly realized that I just don’t have the time that I need to play with the newest tools and platforms. Mixing in the New In 2009, I spent a my online time divided between blogging, Twitter, Linkedin and some time on Facebook. And a few professional goals Lastly, a few professional goals: I’d like to meet more of you.