Chelsea Aures #Social4Good Presentation Here is a #social4good presentation brought to you by @chelseaaures @ashlyo and @kristinmommers. Tune in December 6th at 11am to follow the live tweets. Picking the Pearltree I’m trying out pearltrees for the first time in #NewhouseSM6. Twitter Apps: First to Worst This week, let’s take a look at Twitter apps for #NewhouseSM6 and @dr4ward. 1. I love the concept of multiple streams on Hootsuite. 2. The fact that TweetDeck is a desktop application is a huge downside for me. 3. The Seesmic interface is absolutely hideous. 4. I was a little surprised to learn that there are different levels of SocialOomph, some free and some paid. 5. TweetGrid looks like it is in its beta version. 6. Monitter seems like it would work great for brands that need to keep track of consumer insights. Overall, I would choose Hootsuite over any other app. How much does Chelsea love Tweet Chats? The answer: Not at all. I do have one positive thing to say about tweet chats.
Kiersten Wing (@KierstenWing) sur Twitter Grace Marie Johnson My first attempt at TweetChat could probably be compared to my first day here at Newhouse: scary and overwhelming. The first issue I found was how unorganized it seemed to be. I understand that there is a moderator available to facilitate the flow of conversation, but at around 20+ people, the moderator became ineffective. My computer continuously flooded with ten to fifteen new tweets at once to answer people’s questions about Klout. I found myself struggling to follow one string of questions to another, and was even too overwhelmed to ask one myself. Another issue was the intense focus it demanded on participants, which is also tied to the lack of organization. If I could make a recommendation for the overall process, it would be to limit the amount of participants in a chat to a handful at most. The compromise that I found for my confusion and focus was to follow classmate’s retweets from the chat because I knew they were relevant and informative.
Jaclyn Slovic So we’ve been examining all the ways people can measure us based on our social media impact. So I’m happy to turn the tables and give my opinion on social media apps. After testing out six social media management apps, I have decided that HootSuite fits me the best, by far. Here’s why: TweetDeck: Frustrating for the non-savvy-social-media user like me. I was not keen on downloading an app to my desktop when my computer’s already slow enough. Seesmic: Eh. SocialOomph: An eyesore- I would have gladly recommended this site for our Graphic Design website renovation project if I could. TweetGrid: Another poorly-designed, impossible to navigate eyesore. Monitter: Easy to use, but few tools and not much to it. But wait! HootSuite: Easy to navigate, easy to customize, easy to look at. So if you’re looking for an app to make your social media interactions easier, HootSuite is the way to go (especially if you are a beginner/intermediate user like me).
Ammy Sriyunyongwat (ammysri) Twitter Chey Contiguglia Diving for Pearls This weeks discussion topic in NewhouseSM6 via DR4ward at www.dr4ward.com, was about Pearltrees, the website is www.pearltrees,com if anyone wishes to make an account. I signed up for a Pearltree account and created a Pearltree for the class, check it out here: I am still trying to figure out how exactly to use this site, even though I used the help pearl and a blog, www.blog.pearltrees.com, recommended by a classmate. Try, Try, Try again This week in my Social Media Theory and Practice class, better known as #NewhouseSM6 on www.twitter.com taught by Twitter handle @Dr4Ward, we had to use six different twitter platforms. HootSuite: This ended up being my favorite platform, not because it was the first one I tried, but because after comparing it to the rest it was simply amazing! TweetDeck: This would have to be the runner up to HootSuite because it has almost all the same features, but is missing the ability to make it feel like I am in control.
DR4WARD Brian Moritz (brianmoritz What they told me: Newspapers are dying. It's time to jump ship. Get out while you can. There's no future in journalism. What I told them: I want to know why. I'm a former sports reporter who walked away from my beat to find out why newspapers are struggling, what they can do about it and how the Internet is changing the way the media does business. I worked for the Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) and The Times Herald (Olean, N.Y.). Some day, I'll write a book.