It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a Twitter tool because, well, it’s been a while since I’ve found one I’ve been excited about enough to review. Crowdbooster is a Twitter analysis tool that provides data on your own Twitter activity. As an analytics/self-improvement junkie, I LOVE the ability to do this. What are my most popular tweets? Who are my most loyal followers? What content gets retweeted the most? … Read more »
In 2008 Seth Godin wrote this blog post: “Why bother having a resume?” I particularly remember reading it at the time because I was actively looking for a job and every conversation I had ended with “Please send a copy of your resume to..” I remember thinking, “what a nice thought… but yea-freakin-right Mr. Godin. ” So I probably don’t have to tell you Seth Godin is a pretty smart … Read more »
Sometimes I want to know what you ate for breakfast. Surely by now, you know a report a while back said that 40% of Twitter posts are pointless babble. The report made quite an impact. I don’t know about you, but I hear about it everywhere. As well, I’ve heard quite a few remarks from people who defensively claim: “I don’t tweet what I’m eating for breakfast!” Ok. Fine. I … Read more »
As you may have heard the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas is kicking off later this week. This is my second year going, and I’m excited. So excited, that I anticipate to be tweeting about it… A lot. In fact, if you follow many people who are going, I can guarantee you’re going to get sick of hearing about it. (I remember the feeling in ’08) Good … Read more »
As 2009 ended, like usual, we saw tons of blog posts and speculation about what’s in store for 2010. One common theme (that had even been hinted upon long before the end of the year) was “geo-location based apps” such as Foursquare, and now contender Gowalla. While I definitely see a huge untapped potential for local businesses to take advantage of. At this point I don’t think Foursquare will be … Read more »
If you’re reading in an RSS reader, please click through and have a look… Seriously, I’m feeling a huge sense of relief. When I chose my previous theme (Bella) over a year ago, I loved the look of it, but had issues from the start. Most notably it was difficult to customize and often loaded painfully slow. I only found out a couple weeks ago from a tip from a … Read more »
So just when I finally decide that Tweetdeck is the best Twitter app out there and tell everyone about it…. I find one that I love even more! Nambu is hot off the press and still in beta, but has already won me over. Apologies to my PC friends, but it’s only available for Mac (you can, however, still use Tweetdeck, which is a great tool). One thing I didn’t … Read more »
This is a continuation of a class I did with the Algonquin College first-year PR students (The aptly named “Twitter party”). If you are one of the students–thanks for attending and I hope you’re able to continue to build your brand as well as understand the tools for practical PR application. Also, feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you thought of the presentation, or if … Read more »
This is a follow up to my recent post: Concerned about privacy on the social web? Particularly because of the recent news of Facebook changing its Terms of Service. The story broke on Consumerist, and there’s still a lot of buzz going around. There’s a lot of talk about how ‘scary’ it is that Facebook and other sites get access to all of our personal information and tell us they … Read more »
OK, so it’s been a while, but SM2 is one of the tools I’ve been enthusiastic about reviewing since I started. (To recap, you can check out my review of Social Radar as well as Radian6). One thing I particularly loved about Techrigy SM2 is it has a ‘freenium’ option! Which is really handy if you do not have a big brand and lots of keywords to manage and no … Read more »