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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, Nicholas James, Daniel Rowley and 6 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
Use a client with flexible filtering, like Simple Twitter Client http://davebsoft.com/applica...
- Dave Briccetti
Don't get caught up in the race to get more followers. Be social and spark conversation.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
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 9 other people liked this
I'd apply but I don't know what a VA is.. :(
- Phil G
VA = virtual assistant
- Sarah Perez
Me either Phil, glad it's not just me!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
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
I live in VA
- BEX
I see anonymity with feed-fury and serious multi-twitter-alities...can I be your VA?? :)
- techPR
Before becoming an assistant I need one of my own anymore
- BCK
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
Kol a is Virtual Assistant is a temporary worker who works for businesses over the internet.
- Nicholas James
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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Soy Sauce: Refrigerate or not? - http://images.google.com/images...
Rob Haas, Derrick, Josh and 12 other people liked this
Do you refrigerate your soy sauce?
- Admiral Anika
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No, of course not.
- Reuben Thum
Nope.
- Rich
No, the sodium content alone...it's self-preserving!
- techPR
I never heard of refrigerating soy sauce until I met my husband. He used to only put tamari in the fridge, but now all 3 kinds of soy sauce are in there and I can't get used to that. They're supposed to be in the cabinet! :)
- Admiral Anika
I do only because my husband insists on it...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I can't read Japanese so I wouldn't know what it says.
- Admiral Anika
No, why would you need to?
- Alan Le
Add another tally in the no column for me.
- Kevykev
No
- Sally Church
Um, mine says to refrigerate it, so we do. However, we don't lose any sleep if it stays out all night.
- Mistletoe Glen
I do but it's not needed. I put it in the fridge so I know where it is all the time. Otherwise it would get lost in my 1 room home.
- Morgan Haley
Ponzu (opened) is in the cabinet, it says to refigerate after opening. Found a bottle of Yamasa brand soy sauce (unopened) in the cabinet, it has nothing on it. The tamari and shoyu are both in Japanese, so I can't read it, but they're both in the fridge along with an almost empty bottle of Yamasa soy.
- Admiral Anika
No, never, shoyu doesn't go in the fridge.
- Paulo Nuin
Nope. No need
- Rodfather
And like I said, the only reason I'm asking is that this is a new thing from my husband. I've never known anyone to refrigerate soy sauce before, so I was curious if people did.
- Admiral Anika
Our bottle of tamari says "refrigeration recommended" so we do.
- Marvin Smith
Nope.
- ronin
Given I live in the subtropics, I tend to refrigerate most foodstuffs after opening. Force of habit!
- Kate Foy
Nope
- Mona Nomura
In most Japanese stores shoyu stays on shelves, not in fridges. Japanese people also does not refrigerate it.
- Paulo Nuin
Nah. I know the bottle insists I refrigerate, and yet I still don't. Cold soy sauce creeps me out. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Follow the locals, people!
- Reuben Thum
Amanda, I know how you feel. It's like a salt shot.
- Admiral Anika
don't do it.
- .LAG liked that
Nope. Not even in hot countries like Thailand, India etc.
- Kamath (नमः)
You're whack for refrigerating!
- Andrew Trinh
I don't use soy sauce.
- Morton Fox
I keep it at room temp on the counter in the little dispenser and in a huge jug in the pantry. Use it all...the...time.
- Josh Haley
no, not necessary. just store in room temp.
- Melissa
No soy sauce in the fridge. But I put ketchup in the fridge.
- Miriella
No.
- Victor Ganata
Chinese restaurants as well as most Asian ones in general leave this out on the table all the the time as well.
- Josh Haley
what Josh said.
- Morgan Haley
When I was a young teen my father had a chef who was Japanese. I once put the soy sauce in the fridge and he looked at me as if I had just killed his first born. I have a feeling it does not go in the fridge.
- Adriana
According to one site, soy sauce is already fermented. The purpose for keeping soy sauce in the fridge is, according to them, so that the flavor isn't degraded. http://www.thenibble.com/REVIEWS...
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Playing devil's advocate, what's the downside of putting soy sauce in the fridge? Other than the fact that it gets unnaturally cold and that it defies the traditions of all Asian cultures that use it in their cuisine?
- Victor Ganata
I would hazard to guess that a bottle of soy sauce gets consumed rather quickly by the people who don't refrigerate it. Probably, like, what, one week, maybe two weeks tops for the folks who buy the container that resembles a canister of gasoline?
- Victor Ganata
@Victor: Only reason I could think of is that it would evaporate slower :p. I can't imagine sticking a bottle of tapatio in the fridge either.
- Rodfather
I fridge....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I get by on the packets. I only use soy sauce for non-Korean sushi, so no need to keep a bottle around.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Fridge fo sho. Cuts some of the brewed flavor of it down to the salty goodness.
- Josh
No.
- Mike Reynolds
Nope.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Newp.
- Will Higgins™
Yes, but I refrigerate everything including pretzels and granola bars.
- Rob Haas
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?
Darren Heydon, Mark Trapp, Lisa L. Seifert 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
Is Twitter an appropriate place for an unofficial "last will and testament"? Better this than nothing, eh?
Cremate me, give my entire estate to my wife. If she's not available then give it all to our daughter or otherwise to my sister.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Now that's brevity; LWT in 140 char or less. Hm.
- techPR
Living will: No, I don't want to be kept alive with life support once I'm braindead.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Guardianship: Please ask my big sister if she'd be kind enough to take care of our daughter. I should really have asked her myself by now.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Marivic - it seems FriendFeed is better suited to the bulleted lists that outline my idea of a will. Perhaps Twitter would be better for epitaphs.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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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Now following a squillion more tweeters that I was already reading on FriendFeed thanks to https://twitter2ff.appspot.com/
Susan Beebe, Igor Poltavskiy, Hutch Carpenter and 12 other people liked this
Heavens to Betsy that was a thing of beauty!
- techPR
I was flabbergasted at how many of my FF subs I hadn't already connected to on Twitter. I have about 400 subs on each service and I'd always assumed they were mostly the same crowd. I couldn't have been much more wrong!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm curious Daniel how InnerTwitter was recommended to you?
- Todd Hoff
InnerTwitter? If you're asking about the service I linked to here I got it from comments on Lindsey's FF stream: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I probably should've given the hat tip there but I was lost in a frenzy of clicks at the app itself and felt it would be prudent to explain myself immediately in case my new followees inspected me. Now the circle is complete, at least on FF.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I run InnerTwitter and got email that a few people here joined. I just wasn't sure how. Thanks.
- Todd Hoff
I get it now - your FF account is linked to twitter account "@mindful" which in turn is used by the InnerTwitter service at http://innertwitter.com/
- Daniel J. Pritchett
That makes sense. Thanks.
- Todd Hoff
...awesome!
- JA Castillo
+1 for squillion
- Carmen
I am trying it now and I think the Internet just broke.
- Louis Gray
thanks for following me on twitter :)
- Taban Khajehnassiri
Hmmm, this is interesting - I checked it out and found out people I was following on Twitter before are no longer there even though I didn't unfollow. Does Twitter bork connections?
- Sally Church
Sally, I think this only works in cases where the user has the same Twitter username as they do on FriendFeed. Maybe that explains the misses?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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 64 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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now we need a peoplebrowsr desktop client!
- sixbit
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
Great Tom Hanks reference in "Big".
- Kevin Whalen
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
+1 Thomas Hawk - wasn't impressed
- William Harryman
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
Trying this now...thanks.
- Jen
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
I am surprised EVERY TIME when slideshare doesn't have keyboard navigation within its slideshows. Am I the only one who likes to flip through with the spacebar or the arrow keys?
Dan Morrill AKA Techwag liked this
Of course you're the only one! You probably expect peoplebrowsr to do pics and Facebook to actually be navigable as well - what're you thinking?? :-)
- techPR
I'm thinking "How do I flip through slideshows in Powerpoint? I'll do that here since it looks the same."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I think every website should integrate the cursor keys, for everything like pictures, moving in videos, blog articles(?), 'cause on the desktop every app can do this.
- Max Schulze
never thought about using the space bar at all.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
This is hilarious. Turn a airplane barf bag into an iphone holder during flights - http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2008...
Lisa L. Seifert 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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