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I need lots of tips for getting the most out of Twitter for a Technologizer story. What's your #1 tip? If I use, I'll credit and link to ya.
LonelyBob, Daniel Rowley, Molly and 5 other people liked this
Use friendfeed. Seriously. It lets me put my favorite Twitterers into lists and separate them. So, I can put techies onto one list, my family into another, famous actors into another, famous sports people into another, etc.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter Tip: Always know where your data flows, and participate where it lands. (Facebook, FriendFeed, etc.) Also, listen.
- Louis Gray
Aside from Robert's suggestion, you can also take a look at TweetDeck to organize your followees into groups.
- Vinko
This may sound archaic, but, evangelize Twitter in real life. That is, your colleagues, co-workers. The more it's threaded into functions, online and offline, the more relevant (and, ultimately, useful) it becomes as a professional tool.
- techPR
Don't get caught up in the race to get more followers. Be social and spark conversation.
- Shey
I have to agree with Robert. At his (video) suggestion I've tried using FriendFeed and Tweetdeck (or PeopleBrowsr) together, and the combination gets more out of and into Twitter than all other techniques that I've used combined.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'm just getting used to FF so the learning curve is high for me. Love the suggestions so far.
- Molly
Sweet Juniper! - http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009...
"I stole stories. Some I hope will never get told. Others I hope to tell time and time again."
- techPR
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Any VAs out there? I have a project for you. Must be FriendFeed savvy. I want references. Thanks!
Charlie Anzman, Parham, ژنرال فرهاد and 7 other people liked this
I'd apply but I don't know what a VA is.. :(
- Phil Glockner
VA = virtual assistant
- Sarah Perez
Me either Phil, glad it's not just me!
- FFing Enigma
OMG
- Mona Nomura
Too many internets!
- Morton Fox
I've got just the girl for you Sarah! @retta719
- Julie Vazquez
woah. rss + twitter overload.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
I live in VA
- BEX
I see anonymity with feed-fury and serious multi-twitter-alities...can I be your VA?? :)
- techPR
Thanks to @JustJulie for the recommendation. I'd be happy to help you out with your project ;) My services and rates are at http://easywahmwebsites.com/virtual... (just a quick list of common things, just let me know what services you need) You can reach me from there or on Twitter @retta719.
- Loretta Oliver
What is a virtual assistant exactly then?
- Kol Tregaskes
If you have VERY deep pockets .... Oh, never mind ...
- Charlie Anzman
thanks, I found a VA and the job is done
- Sarah Perez
WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL - http://www.madison.com/wsj...
Inauguration at work...
- techPR
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Seth's Blog - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
Punchline: if we really care about the investigation and the analysis, we'll pay for it one way or another.
- techPR
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Eric Schmidt wishes Google could save newspapers - Jan. 7, 2009 - http://money.cnn.com/2009...
"We write large checks when we have a great strategy. And we don't yet have that strategy."
- techPR
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SmoothSpan Blog - http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/
Any startup running their own datacenter today is at a huge disadvantage to those who are already in the Cloud
- techPR
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Would we say what we say if words weren't free? If you had to make ink (as was done not too long ago) what would you use it for?
Mark Trapp, Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™ and Hutch Carpenter liked this
Nope - we'd have to think extra hard about what we say. Which would be a shame for society.
- Hutch Carpenter
I don't agree that people being forced to think more would be a shame for society, though I wouldn't want to live in a world where I had to pay for my words.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I'll differentiate between thinking more and the amount of useful thought, analysis and content one puts forth. One example - for my E2.0 peeps, I tweeted a link to a full 50-page version of Gartner's Hype Cycle for Social Software 2008. If I had to pay to do that? Not happening. That'd be a shame.
- Hutch Carpenter
Mark: I'm thinking not as much about if you had to pay for your words, but rather: What would others pay for yours? (Interesting comments, all, I was in a serious brain freeze trying to churn out case studies...)
- techPR
My Dad and I were talking about typography in the 70s this morning, and he was telling me it used to cost $3-$5 a word to set type. Imagine if bloggers social media experts had to pay that: they'd stop trying to spew everything that comes out of your head and think about the actual value of what was it they said.
- Mark Trapp
MediaSpan Group cuts executive jobs to save money - Ann Arbor, Michigan Business News - with The Ann Arbor News – MLive.com - http://www.mlive.com/annarbo...
"MediaSpan Group Inc. is eliminating some top positions to reduce costs"
- techPR
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Whom to trust: Free or Paid | Broadcast Interactive Media | Blog - http://www.broadcast-interactive.com/blog...
Web traffic ratings systems, room for all
- techPR
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YouNews reporter awakes to sirens, photographs house fire | KVAL CBS 13 - News, Weather and Sports - Eugene, OR - Eugene, Oregon | Local & Regional News - http://www.kval.com/news...
Nice example of YouNews usage (courtesty KVAL)
- techPR
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Possibility of Cities Without Newspapers Raises Questions of Where People Will Get News and What They Will Pay For - http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewCon...
"anyone who proclaims to have solution to this problem is not telling the truth"
- techPR
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UPDATED: Creditor Files to Liquidate Equity Media, Claims Company Cannot Meet Payroll Obligations - ArkansasBusiness.com - http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article...
Filing covers holding corp only (doesn't protect 48 properties)
- techPR
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Radio Evangelist - http://radioevangelist.wordpress.com/
@mediadude Nice post! I like how you tied the analyses together...
- techPR
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Publishers Getting Just-in-Time Inventory to Increase Their Reach as ContextWeb's ADSDAQ Exchange Reach Extension Program Achieves Record Growth - MarketWatch - http://www.marketwatch.com/news...
The program eliminates inventory holding cost for publishers and is essentially risk free since publishers buy on the exchange only when they have a specific need for additional audience and content.
- techPR
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Radio Business Report/Television Business Report - Voice of the Broadcasting Industry - http://www.rbr.com/feature...
My piece on RBR.com this morning
- techPR
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Twitter (and all social networks) will never be the same thanks to PeopleBrowsr - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
SHHHE, Ron Emrick, David Krug and 57 other people liked this
I really like Peoplebrowsr and think it fills the gaps so many people have been whinging about.
- Nicola Quinn
PeopleBrowsr FTW, that's for sure
- Sociosophy Reviews
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No breakthrough:(
- YaDuMMeR
It's very nice. Kinda reminds me of TweetDeck in the presentation. Now they just need to expand to some more of the social services.
- R. Alexander Spoerer
I know its alpha and all that but it seems wildly over-hyped to me
- Trevor Cook
Remember the scene in "Big" where Tom Hanks keeps saying "I don't get it" to the toy presentation? Well, "I don't get it".
- Chris Stevenson
You can *tell* (ask?) it to refresh every X minute but it, uh, doesn't. Pondering.
- techPR
I am still yet to check out PeopleBrowsr
- Joe Dawson
I like the idea but found that the UI still needs some polishing.
- Davide D'Incau
Still needs work. I see the value in it, but it is slow...and odd to add panes.
- Kreg Steppe
Geez, and I thought FF was overwhelming when I first signed in...
- ronin
The really need to work on some of the usability / features around the non-twitter services.
- Chip Childers
I just tried it out. At first glance I don't see any value here. Then again I don't really use Twitter very much. I couldn't find any interesting FF integration and got nothing from the Flickr integration. Maybe I'm just not using it right though.
- Thomas Hawk
They need to pare down the number of features - much of what is there outside of twitter offers little to no clear value. That said, the twitter stuff has potential.
- Andy Roth
Their UI is action packed and they have some great ideas implemented for grouping and messaging. I could see it being useful even if if you're not a power user.
- Thropic
Had a try with it this morning and it reckoned my name on FriendFeed and Flickr was Mohamed. Very strange...
- Martin Bryant
Lovin' it so far
- Charlie Anzman
I love the search feature, grouping, bulk messaging and the richness of user profiles. Definitely a fun app to hang out and explore in.
- Maria Sipka
I loved it the minute I saw it... impressive concept, design and functionality. Needs on-screen UIX helps so users can easily navigate - too complex. I am very app savvy and had a hard time getting my way around ALL the features... I think I've got about 70% covered. The panes are a "pain" to use
- Susan Beebe
Chokes on my primary browser. Not a fan of Flash. Seeing what other networks other people are on is interesting, although if they're on FF, then you can see that already.
- Victor Ganata
great for alpha release...performance a little slow, but I like the concept
- Tom Mack
I do like it, but the group function did not function as I expected. I tried sending to a group, but it just created a bunch of twitter messages with @ signs and just a part of my message. Will have to play a bit more.
- Kenley Neufeld
Great interview, Robert. I'm excited to try this service. Is it something you're using on a daily basis?
- Devon Campbell
Nice job Video man .... :)
- Charlie Anzman
Cute, but slow and clumsy interface
- Nick
Not impressed. Confusing and hard to use. Keep it simple.
- David Jacobs
It definitely has potential, but at this point it has a clumsy UI and some performance/stability issues (understandable in an alpha). Does anyone else agree that it is just plain hard to beat the simplicity of the FF RealTime UI for following and participating in conversations?
- Robert Clockedile
...Perhaps FF should just let us drop our other social streams into the RealTime interface. Add cross-service posting, a la Posterous or Ping.fm, and that would be the killer app
- Robert Clockedile
Thanks for all the comments re PeopleBrowsr. Great feedback. We are working on UI and performance. And we improved the Groups feature. We use 'Live' tweets and messages from our Google Group http://groups.google.com/group... to shape PeopleBrowsr in real time. The Alpha Release is updated every day. Very welcome all your ideas. Thanks again
- SHHHE
This is hilarious. Turn a airplane barf bag into an iphone holder during flights - http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2008...
Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™ and Mike Doeff liked this
"unused" (blurgh)
- techPR
What is Twitter Good For in the Enterprise? 3 Key Use Cases - http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008...
Mala and Ben Hedrington liked this
Does the smoothspan blog twitter? Can't find 'em...
- techPR
How Businesses Can Conquer Twitter - http://www.twitterrati.com/2008...
Oscar Antonio Moralí , Tyson Key and Andrew Terry liked this
Darn. We make widgets!
- techPR
All about Google - SlideShare - http://www.slideshare.net/mistero...
Google deconstructed
- techPR
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KSTP, Star Tribune announce job cuts - http://www.startribune.com/enterta...
"The Star Tribune told its staff that it will eliminate up to 25 newsroom jobs through buyouts or layoffs. KSTP-TV is expected to lay off up to 18 newsroom staffers."
- techPR
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Newspaper Ad Revenue Falls Nearly $2 Billion - Advertising Age - MediaWorks - http://adage.com/mediawo...
That's a lotta zeros.
- techPR
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@friarminor Love all sorts of Filipino food. Pandit for sure. My MIL is an amazing cook of Filipino food.
Kathy, Ian May and Cheryl Jones liked this
Filipino food is awesome. :D
- Cheryl Jones
Lumpia (eggrolls), Babinka (sweet coconut rice), Adobo (chicken with...stuff), Pansit (noodles+veggies etc.)...man, I wish I could cook!
- techPR
techPR - great list! A couple others...nilaga and mechado (sp?). When my in-laws buy Filipino food, they go to Hermes in San Jose.
- Hutch Carpenter
My favorite is adobo, and I have an easy recipe that I've been fixing in a slow cooker, so it's really easy to throw everything in over lunchtime and then come back to a delicious-smelling house. :) I have a menudo recipe that I want to try out before Christmas because I'll be preparing it as one of the main dishes for dinner.
- Cheryl Jones
Oh my gosh. How could I have forgotten my second favorite -- sinigang??? Mmmm. I have some sinigang leftovers from my mom in the freezer; I might have to bust them out in the next day or two. :)
- Cheryl Jones
I love adobo sauce!
- anna sauce
wow, someone actually know filipino food cooking? so what other food do you like besides adobo, sinigang, ... pansit anyone?
- Kathy
Sorry, last one (I promise) but have you done mango with the shrimp paste? I'd resume carbs for that!
- techPR
I've had green mango with bagoong, and it's alright, but I am not a huge fan of bagoong to begin with.
- Cheryl Jones
@Kathy: My mom and brother are fans of pancit, but I don't really like it that much. However, I am not a fan of any Asian noodle dish unless it's ramen, so YMMV. :)
- Cheryl Jones
Cheryl - adobo is awesome. Chicken or pork. And bagoong is awesome. Like the spicy version.
- Hutch Carpenter
Kathy - sinigang is another good one.
- Hutch Carpenter
I forgot about kare-kare and lechon! Man, I'm making myself hungry...
- Cheryl Jones
@Hutch: I've made adobo with just chicken, or a mixture of chicken and pork. I like the mixture, but the hubby prefers just chicken. But since I am the one cooking, I get to decide. :)
- Cheryl Jones
Cheryl - you are bringing it with the filipino food selections. Kare-kare is awesome.
- Hutch Carpenter
Mmmm! Filipino food! I miss lumpia!
- Kevin L
@Hutch: I don't get to eat Filipino food a lot unless I cook it myself, but I *love* to talk about it. :) I guess there are some stores around here where I can order Filipino entrees from, but I often don't like how they prepared them (not like my mom's cooking!), so I have to make it myself. The problem is I don't have the energy to cook all the time. :P
- Cheryl Jones
Media: The new media landscape - http://nickdenton.org/5101664...
"....television—with 20 of the top 50—is holding its own. Sure, TV networks have a smaller share of the online audience than they do of all media consumption; but they have a future."
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Hear 2.0: Exclusive: Seth Godin updates his take on Radio's Future - http://www.hear2.com/2008...
Seth Godin's take on Radio's Future (AWESOME): "Where you need to have leadership as a station owner is to realize that you can teach advertisers to do business in a way that works for them, but you will only succeed at doing that if you are able to create this tribe."
- techPR
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Inside Radio / M Street Publications - http://www.insideradio.com/pdheadl...
CBS Radio, Yahoo merge online radio
- techPR
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Inside Radio / M Street Publications - http://www.insideradio.com/
COX consolidates all media units
- techPR
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So I got a whole bunch of followers today thanks to Derek Semmler. But they are all subscribing and not interacting. That's the problem I find with FF. Nobody interacts except for a group of hardcore followers. I'm not sure why people come here for a one-time-only visit and that's it.
Tyson Key, Igor Poltavskiy, news2me and 31 other people liked this
THANK you Brian :)
- Tamar Weinberg
Everyone looks at it one time and assumes it's too much to handle. Not sure why people feel like they have to take it all in. I never even go farther than page 1
- Rah-PM 2012
Interaction is what makes or breaks FF. Hopefully some of the less active people will realize that and become more involved (which will make the experience better for them).'
- FFing Enigma
I didn't like it all when I first started. It seems terribly overwhelming at first.
- Michelle M
The whole point is the conversation... if you aren't having any you are doing it wrong... IMHO
- Brian Roy
@Tamar That group of hardcore users is growing and growing everyday. I'm continually finding more and more active people on Friendfeed whom I've never seen before
- Shey
It took me a while to get used to FF, too Tamar. Give the people a chance! ;)
- Mona Nomura
just because they are following you doesn't mean you have said something today they feel is interesting enough to interact with...
- Jeremy Toeman
Hi Tamar.. I haven't seen you in a while...good that you're back! :)
- Susan Beebe
Probably because the number of people interested in actually using new technologies (early adopters) is probably much smaller than existing early adopters actually realize.
- Tony Hung
I would not have ever started using friendfeed if it weren't for an invite from a real friend. I am very conservative in who I subscribe to, because of the friend of a friend feature. I like that, but I don't really want to subscribe to people like Scoble who follow so many people. Then my feed becomes less about my real friends, (and usually contains lots of stuff I am not interested in).
- Robert Felty
I think FF would benefit greatly from a quick Video tutorial for new users or, at very least, a step-by-step tutorial giving the basics. That should help with people not feeling like it's too much.
- Rah-PM 2012
A quick video tutorial would be nice, for sure. I know I was a bit overwhelmed when I first joined up.
- Jonathan Hardesty
Sometimes lurking is good too (FF is always a good source of information) and sometimes interaction comes on some topic of mutual interest and after a short observation. I am one of your new followers, nice to meet you :o)
- Flavio
@Robert: I also started following only IRL friends, then enlarged the crowd. Friends list makes things easier, when you want to follow just a selection of people.
- Flavio
I think some of us just kind of hang back telling ourselves to stop chewing our nails and go say 'hi' already until we're sure we're in the right place. That sorta thing. (Hi!)
- techPR
It took me a few days of hanging back being completely intimidated by all of you geniuses before I worked up the courage to comment on a thread.
- Ladyepiphanybug
I think it takes people a little while to figure out just how FF works. Once I *got it* I was addicted and started poking my nose around everywhere on FF.
- Derrick
Um, I am interacting...:}
- Jean Ann Van Krevelen
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@Rasheen - I agree about the video. I know I mentioned that somewhere before. Also, it takes a minute to see how FF actually works. It can be real intimidating at first b/c there is so much info. Then you post up your own comment or link and NO ONE responds and you are like, "Maybe I don't belong here ...and maybe no one is listening to me" ... and all of a sudden, that little IM box...
more...
- Amani
@Robert, you just made me realize I have no idea how I found out about Friendfeed. @Jonathan, has Lee Lefeever made a video for it yet?
- Laura Norvig
friendfeed is more for stalking not participating from what I've seen
- Mark Edmondson
Hollow - Exactly the opposite, IMO. Try it out.
- Steve Isaacs
Hollow, if I may be blunt: you're doing it wrong =D There is a *ton* of interaction on FF if one chooses to participate.
- FFing Enigma
does this mean I'm Hard Core? I've been applying the "scoble standard" and figured I was light weight
- Sean Reiser
Yes, you are hardcore.
- Tamar Weinberg
I'm typically not that interested in what you've done other than the big picture. If the type of thing you post is of interest or value to me, I'll subscribe to you. However I only start interacting to items you post once your new stuff starts passing by my eyes.
- Kenton
I blogged in the summer that Friendfeed is a stalking tool, but how many people actually USE it to stalk? The thing is that if people do, they'd be compelled (I'd believe) to participate. If they aren't participating, they probably aren't stalking either.
- Tamar Weinberg
Robert must have some magic that makes his followers interact. Lurking is far more 'normal' than participating almost everywhere. It is the top thing moderators in forums used to complain about constantly. Many people don't feel confident enough to comment; they're too afraid of making a mistake or being thought foolish. (Too much schooling.)
- Internet Strategist
@Gregory Your target audience of participants is smaller. Your comments aren't wasted. Many will read what you write (here and in your blog) and learn much; however, a larger percentage will not feel qualified intellectually to interact with you.
- Internet Strategist
@Tamar - Tamar, I could really use your support of the Top Ten Favorite FriendFeed Friends Challenge. If you could possibly squeeze it into your schedule that would be great. You're on both my Top Ten and Derek's Top Ten lists. http://www.growmap.com/friendf...
- Internet Strategist
yeah there are a lot of people who never comment...but there are some great users who make friendfeed a ton of fun!
- (jeff)isageek
Those are separate issues, Tamar. I would assume after initially subscribing, they would come back to your feed later, not interacting right away. As for FriendFeed being too busy and limited to a hard core of people, there are definitely ways for FriendFeed to improve, and room for the audience to grow.
- Louis Gray
Guilty! definitely one of those people that stop by once in a while - get overwhelmed by the info stream, read a lot of interesting topics and think "How do these people come up with all that, and what can I possibly add to the conversation"! - I guess that's a common feeling for newbies. Maybe as people new to friendfeed gets more used to the stream and care less about sounding stupid they come over this barrier and just participate.
- Peter Efland
They get confused. I've literally sat with a LOT of people and walked them through different ways of enjoying the Friendfeed experience. First one to write a good eBook wins? :)
- Charlie Anzman
Louis, I try to add people based on a number of comments and likes. I have to usually look at comments to ensure they're comments made on FF and not on social sites (e.g. share with note on Google Reader, delicious comment, StumbleUpon review). That shows they're active on FF. Most of these people subscribe and don't seem to have ANY FF activity at all (except pimping their own stuff). But hey, that's my observation.
- Tamar Weinberg
To follow up, if the feed is empty with the exception of social sites they're active on, they're not real FF users. Those are the people I have issues with. I think people take the name of FriendFeed literally -- feed of your friends -- but they don't do anything else. Or know to. Or think to. Shrug.
- Tamar Weinberg
Tamar, you are right, in that they are not "real users". While the pace everyone uses is up to them, those who easily go weeks without participating are not truly "active". I believe many folks are using FriendFeed as they would Google Reader. Why not stay in one place to get caught up on TechCrunch, Mashable, etc.?
- Louis Gray
Louis, do you really think they're *using* FF though? I know sooo many people who signed up once and forgot that the site existed.
- Tamar Weinberg
Tamar, while I am happy you received a bunch of followers, I am sorry that they are not interacting - which obviously I have been lacking myself seeing as how long it has taken me to respond here.
- Derek Semmler
Tamar, this is why we need you to be writing about the various Social Networking sites. You have a much better feel for who is doing what where. If you post about it we can help spread the information. There are some really important things that FF has to add to keep people interacting and teach them how to use more of it. I want to hear more of what you know, Tamar. Which of the many blogs you write for is the best source for your thoughts on Social Networking sites?
- Internet Strategist
@Derek, totally not your fault! It's happened long before you actually wrote the post and it's a gripe I have with users who just want to squat on their profile without really doing much else with it. @Internet Strategist, I wrote about FriendFeed a few times already on my blog (www.techipedia.com). You might want to try louisgray.com for real new stuff--that Louis guy is an early adopter. I'd also recommend Mashable and not because I work for them. :) There are many more -- use FF to find em! ;)
- Tamar Weinberg
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