How To Write Tweets Longer Than 140 Characters Ever had a bit more to say but hit the 140 character limit on Twitter? Spent a few minutes trimming your tweet down to acceptable levels? Me too. While there’s still not an official way to write more than 140 characters (nor will there ever be, really), there is a little hack you should know about. It’s called Tall Tweets and is from Amit Agarwal , the same guy who brought you the other fun tool we just showcased called Sleeping Time (shows you when your Twitter friends sleep – very fun!) How Tall Tweets Works Tall Tweets is a simple tool that turns your long tweet into an image. There is another option to ‘Tweet As Text’ where the service will chop up your lengthy text and then tweet it out piece-by-piece. The only problems I see are that @mentions don’t work (obviously) in the ‘tall tweet’ because it’s an image. What Tall Tweets Look Like Below is a tweet that contains the full text of this post you just read!
How To Use Facebook to Build and Maintain a Customer Base If you have just started a new web business or you’d like to but don’t know how to get the word out about it, Facebook is your friend. By using Facebook you can find potential customers, keep them up-to-date about your business and maintain their loyalty. Here are the ways you can build and maintain a solid customer base for your new web business on Facebook. Create a Facebook Page for Your Business This has become a MUST for any web business. By creating a page, you can allow fans to “like” your page, which will give your business more visibility. Use Your Friends If you already have a personal Facebook account and a long list of friends and family members, you can advertise your new web business through them. Build Expectations Looking for a way to create excitement and buzz for your business? Keep Everything Up-to-Date Keeping your Facebook accounts updated is an important job of maintaining your new online business. The Author Pamelia can be contacted at pamelia.brown@gmail.com 255inShare
Пользователи "Яндекс.Денег" могут переводить деньги через Twitter © Коллаж РИА Новости МОСКВА, 5 мар — РИА Новости, Дмитрий Филонов. Сотрудники электронной платежной системы "Яндекс.Деньги" запустили экспериментальный проект Twym, который позволяет переводить деньги от одного пользователя другому при помощи сообщения в сервисе микроблогов Twitter, говорится в сообщении компании. Для обмена деньгами с помощью Twitter-сообщений у получателя и отправителя должны быть счета в "Яндексах.Деньгах", которые при помощи Twym необходимо связать с соответствующими Twitter-аккаунтами. "Мы хотели сделать Twym на тех же условиях, что и внешние разработчики.
10 Ways To Launch and Promote A Product Using Social Media Launching a product using social media provides multi-media rich global platforms that makes it easy for each social network community to share the message and let other people know about your brand. Promoting, marketing and launching any product globally was usually left to multi-nationals with big budgets and access to prime time TV and other expensive mass media and to be effective required multi-million dollar budgets. Here is a case study of Guy Kawasaki’s launch and promotion of his book ‘Enchantment The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions‘ and how he used a multi channel social media marketing strategy and tactics that can be applied to any product. This approach or a subset of his campaign can be applied by anyone with the right discipline and appropriate resources and ‘yes’ you will need a marketing budget but it will not need to be 6 or 7 figures. So how did he launch and promote his book using social media? Primary Goal: Cost: Approximately $2,700 Primary Goal Main Goal:
16 Ways Businesses Are Using Twitter Vine Are you wondering how the new Twitter Vine (think ultra short videos) could work for your business? Vine is a new mobile app that allows you to capture life from your mobile device in short, six-second looping videos. You can share these short videos with your Twitter followers and Facebook friends. Think of it as Instagram, except with videos instead of pictures. In today’s post, I’ll show you some creative uses of Vine for business. Editor’s note: You can click on any video to pause it. #1: Engage Your Followers in Conversation Start a conversation with your followers using a Vine video. Simon & Schuster does this by not just asking what followers will be reading this weekend—they give them visual cues on what they could be reading. It could spark any reader to go to their local bookstore or order a new title online. It’s a long weekend! #2: Highlight Your Brand Advocates What’s even better than advertising one of your products on a Vine video? #3: Display Your Work for a Client 1. That’s it!
Is Content Marketing the Hot New Trend? - Infographic It was in 2008 that I realised the power of creating and marketing unique content to pull people to your website and blog. That was one of the primary reasons I started jeffbullas.com. I discovered this when I stumbled upon Hubspot, a company that was one of the early innovators of content marketing. Their marketing was refreshing change to “old school” marketing and was based upon creating attention through attraction with blog articles and free ebooks. It was the dawn of “pull marketing” or “inbound marketing” rather than push strategies such as telemarketing and direct mail. Fast forward to 2012 and it appears that there is a growing groundswell of activity and interest in content marketing is racheting up. This momentum is not only for B2B but B2C is starting to adopt this marketing philosophy and Coca Cola has created a brand new marketing strategy based upon this emerging trend. Other companies such as American Express are also embracing this trend. More Reading 416inShare
This is How to Use Twitter as a Curation Tool Twitter bookmarks way outnumber all the other bookmarks I have in my Chrome browser. Whenever I come across a video, a guide, a tutorial, a graphic, or a well written article on Twitter I automatically add it to this list of bookmarks and from time to time I refer to these bookmarks to select for the content I want to share with you here as is the case with the awesome graphic below. I am also working on a term paper for my MA Ed here in the Mount University. This paper is about the use of twitter as a professional development tool for teachers and which I will share with you in PDF format once it is submitted . Today I am sharing with you this great graphic from Langwitches. check it out below and share with use what you think of it.Enjoy
Database Error In today’s highly-connected world, effective marketing is no longer about broadcasting content and promotions. Talking at your customers just doesn’t fly — that’s the old way. Social media has changed (for the better) the way businesses connect and communicate with their customers and prospects. Consumers want more than just content; they want to get to know the people behind the brand, they want to hear from other consumers and they want to be heard and acknowledged. Tools for Engaging The tools for engaging your audience include both social media and email. Leverage the Strength of Email and Social Media Because of the real-time nature of the newsfeed and other factors like the Facebook EdgeRank algorithm, email remains the best way to get your message heard. It’s no longer enough to just provide solid content, it has to be heard and made easy to share. More Reading Author: Mark Schmulen is the General Manager of Social Media at Constant Contact
Great Twittorials for Teachers 11inShare Following the post I published a couple of days ago entitled 10 Video Tutorials on The Use of Twitter in Education, Lieberman contacted me and suggested more resources on Twitter to share with you. I checked the Twitter Learning centre from Cyberwise as she recommended and I found out some really great resources on the use of Twitter in education. I cant believe I missed out on them , they are just amazing. I particularly liked the 5 minutes long video and the accompanying guide. I am definitely adding these resources to the Twitter for Teachers section I have here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Check out this list for more articles on the use Twitter in Education You might also like: A Great New Twitter Guide for Teachers 10 Powerful Twitter Tools for Teachers Professional ... Using Twitter for Teachers' Professional Development The Best Twitter Tools and Tips Teachers should Know about Linkwithin @import url( Custom Search
5 Cool Apps to Save You from Social Media Overload Do you need a break from social media overload? Your friends and colleagues are constantly learning about something new, and it’s hard to keep up. The only way to stay connected was to waste time going through piles of social media websites, blogs and news feeds. This torrent of data and information is a big problem in life today. In order to be connected with the world around you, keeping across it all and obtaining an understanding is important. Curation and control of this data explosion is necessary to keep your sanity. Luckily, developers have been hard at work creating some pretty cool social news apps that will help you to stop wasting time and to stay connected with what really matters. Here are 5 cool apps to save you from what sometimes seems to be a social media overload. 1. LikeHack is available now and is an intuitive approach to social news. What do I really like about LikeHack? Even though it is still in the beta stage, Likehack really does deliver what it says. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Twitter Psychology Psychological research on Twitter reveals who tweets, how much, what they talk about and why. There are now 190 million Twitter users around the world producing 65 million tweets each day. 19% of US internet users now say they use Twitter or a similar service to share updates about themselves—double the figure from the previous year (Pew, 2009). So who tweets? Why? What are they talking about? Since Twitter didn’t exist until 2006, psychologists have had little chance to explore it, but some of the early research suggests a social network unlike those that came before. Before we get onto the research, though, here’s a quick intro for Twitter newbies: What is Twitter? Twitter is a cross between a social network and a blog. The video above shows you what it looks like on a mobile phone. 1. Because messages are short and can be broadcast quickly and easily, Twitter can feel to its users like a fast-paced conversation (Boyd et al., 2010). 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. 8. 9.
Teachers – The 10 Stages of Twitter Stage 1 Sign up to twitter following persuasion/pestering by colleagues. Follow Stephen Fry, a famous sportsman/popstar and a news channel. Read a few tweets, don’t understand what the fuss is about and mock anyone who uses twitter. Stage 2 Overhear colleagues chatting about twitter and a great article they found. Stage 3 Think about posting first tweet. Stage 4 Upon realising you have no followers ask colleagues how to get them? Stage 5 Have a mini twitter conversation with colleague, even retweet a couple of statements. Stage 6 Practise a couple of tweets that include @names and hashtags. Stage 7 Retweet any link you find interesting as people might read them. Stage 8 Thank colleagues for introducing you to twitter, impressed with the knowledge you have gleaned and your growing number of followers. Stage 9 Reflect that twitter is an incredibly positive place and everyone is full of praise. Stage 10 (the reason for this post) When seeking opinion from a range of people, ask PLN to respond.
Twitter: 7 Highly Effective Habits New research on half-a-million tweets over 15 months reveals the factors which increase follower-count. If you want more Twitter followers, new research provides some easy pointers to the right type of tweeting. This is the first study to examine what factors are associated with an increased follower-count on Twitter over an extended period of time. Hutto et al. (2013) studied 507 Twitter users over 15 months and half-a-million tweets (PDF). Some of these are just handy reminders of good Twitter practice, but you may find the odd surprise—see what you think. 1. If you’re quite a negative Tweeter, then it could be time to change, if you care about getting more followers. It seems that negative or sarcastic tweets are not endearing. 2. This one is so important for gaining new followers. Informers: 20% share information and reply to other users.Meformers: 80% mostly send out information about themselves. 3. However one easy way you can boost social trust is by completing your user profile. 4.
The Importance of Blogging – iPad in Education Blogging is important for educators. It allows for reflection, stimulates opinion and provokes debate. This blog only began as a colleague suggested it would be a suitable way to record thoughts on an iPad project in school. I am very thankful he suggested it! The rise of iPad use in education has led to clamour for research and evidence to support its implementation. It would be fantastic to have control groups compared to iPad classes and whole school 1:1 initiatives compared to a similar school without iPads. Having collated information about iPad projects across the globe we began our trial to see if it suited our school and students. We still clamour for hard evidence but this will not be available until the end of next year, in the form of national standardised test results. When reading the superb educator blogs that are posted everyday I feel compelled to write a blog to maintain the balance required to enhance learning. Like this: Like Loading...