Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category
Popular Twitter Plug-ins for WordPress Blogs
Saturday, February 21, 2009 21:32 No CommentsWordPress is one of the main choices for a blogging platform on the Internet today. Twitter has quickly become the hottest micro-blogging application.
So can you imagine what occurs when the two meet and marry?
A partnership that creates a most wonderful thing – that’s what!
With the proper plug-ins you can create an awesome social networking [...]
Twitter As A Resource For Post Ideas
Monday, February 16, 2009 1:56 No CommentsTwitter’s got just such a personal feel that complete strangers are always going to be willing to lend a hand. (Biz Stone, who appears not to have a car, has twittered that people keep offering to lend him theirs.)
Ask your followers what sort of posts they’d like to see on your blog then and [...]
Promoting Your Blog on Twitter
Monday, February 16, 2009 1:49 No CommentsWhen publishers first started writing blogs, they were meant to be nothing more than online diaries, a place for people to write their thoughts and feelings… and let anyone read them who wanted to. They’ve become much more than that.
Today, blogs are a very effective publishing system. They’ve evolved to become online magazines rather [...]
Finding Top Twitterers
Monday, February 16, 2009 0:24 No CommentsSo you can try to build up a follower list that’s packed with people with useful skills, and who have lots of friends. You could also try approaching some of the big names on Twitter.
That’s always going to be harder, not least because you can never tell whether they’re typing their tweets themselves or [...]
Twitter as ultimate help desk
Monday, February 16, 2009 0:14 No CommentsSometimes you don’t need 140 characters to get something incredibly valuable out of Twitter. In April 2008, a graduate journalism student at Berkeley was photographing a demonstration in Egypt.
During the demonstration, he sent one word on his mobile phone to Twitter: “Arrested.”
His followers on Twitter saw the message and alerted both Berkeley and the US [...]


