By jason on Mar 19, 2009 in Social Media | 0 Comments
The sudden increased popularity of twitter and social media in general has created a new avenue of looking for jobs-with the millions of people using twitter and talking about everything it was only a matter of time until this medium could be used for employment.
You can use twitter search to look for jobs but you [...]
By jason on Mar 17, 2009 in Opinion | 0 Comments
On March 17th, Senator John McCain and George Stephanopoulos from ABC News faced off in what was dubbed a twitterview or more simply a interview conducted over the microblogging service Twitter.
To see the interview you had a couple of options
1. You could follow both Sen John McCain and George Stephanopoulos and read their twits
2. You [...]
By jason on Oct 17, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Most URL’s are too long for twitter and need to be shortened. TinyURL is great for shortening long links but doesn’t provide its users with any time of feedback or analytics. Enter Cligs- Cligs is a short URL service that gives you access to detailed traffic statistics of your short URLs.
A “clig” is a short [...]
By jason on Oct 16, 2008 in Social Media | 1 Comment
Friendfeed debuted live updates during last nights televised presidential debate. The real time view offers comments, posts and pictures at the top of a users feed as they are posted.
For last nights debate over 500 people joined the 2008 debate room and participated in live real time comments as the debate was going on.
Once the [...]
By jason on Oct 14, 2008 in Social Media | 0 Comments
Tweetlater is a useful tool for managing a single or multiple twitter accounts. Tweetlater lets you set a schedule to send tweets and also allows the setup of auto welcome and auto following
The ability to set up delayed twitter postings makes most people think of spam or abuse of the system. Delayed tweets do have [...]
By jason on Sep 18, 2008 in Events | 0 Comments
I am a big fan of the book Groundswell and almost all research I can get my hands on concerning social media and how to apply these concepts into companies big and small
Groundswell is a step by step blueprint on how to implement a social media strategy in your organization. The book focuses on social [...]
By jason on Sep 15, 2008 in Social Media | 0 Comments
FriendFeedSpy is a new beta service similar in nature to Twitter search. The difference between the two services is instead of searching for information based on keywords or users it is a live view of posting activity on FriendFeed.
You can filter the information posted by users into different categories news, bookmarking, video, photos, blogging, books, [...]
By jason on Sep 12, 2008 in Social Media | 0 Comments
First Anderson Cooper started blogging and taking blogger questions live on his newscast now a new show on CNN is here interacting live with twitter- CNN Newsroom with Rich Sanchez weekdays at 12pm PST
Now Rick Sanchez has a daily newcast integrating Twitter into the show. Viewers can twitter comments and opinions about live news of [...]