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Consolidating Twitter Accounts

May 3, 2012 Odds & Ends

This is a call for thoughts/opinions. Over the years I’ve come to use 3 different Twitter accounts for my own needs. techcommdood started as a catch-all but over time was limited to techcomm and other professional content. It’s since become more conversational though still leans professional. billswallow started as a private account for close friends, [...]

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Great succinct yet comprehensive Twitter guide

December 30, 2010 techcommdood

Mom, this is how twitter works This post talks through all of the main functionality twitter offers and explains the dos and don’ts of using each one. A must-read for anyone new to twitter or wanting to learn more about it.

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What’s with the newspaper links on Twitter?

August 24, 2010 techcommdood

Image via CrunchBase By now you’ve seen a bunch of newspaper links (“_____ Daily”) links from me on Twitter. Perhaps you’ve read them. Perhaps you’ve retweeted them (thank you!). Allow me to explain what you’re seeing. The papers are generated automatically using paper.li, a Twitter aggregator that takes a daily compilation of hash tags (or [...]

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Measuring your Online Influence: Metrics

August 9, 2010 techcommdood

Image via Wikipedia As I indicated in my last post, I wanted to learn a bit more about the various metrics used in measuring blogger influence. I still say the best means of measurement are the comments, emails, Tweets, and IMs you get from people thanking you for sharing information or helping them answer a [...]

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Putting names to faces at Tweetups

March 26, 2010 techcommdood

By now I’m sure most if not all people who will read this blog post are on Twitter, and many have likely attended a local Tweetup or planned to meet some of their friends and followers at a conference or trade show. The awkward part is that many times you have no idea what their [...]

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Regarding friend-finding Twitter tools

January 22, 2010 techcommdood

I just read Rich Maggiani’s blog post Effectively Managing Twitter and aside from being many months behind all the other hundreds of “use these tools to find people to follow” articles out there, I really think the post misses the mark. I firmly believe Twitter is a social media tool, something that I think most [...]

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Twitter: Cold-Calling 2.0

May 26, 2009 techcommdood

Are you on Twitter? If so, does this scenario seem familiar? Imagine you’re at a large social gathering. You float from conversation to conversation, greeting old friends and acquaintances and meeting new ones. You have some interesting conversations with some of the new people you meet, so you hand them your card to keep in [...]

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Trappist Tasting a Success on Twitter

January 17, 2009 beercommdood

The Twitter Taste Live beer tasting I blogged about previously was a success. People from all over gathered together to drink good beer and blog their tasting notes. Rather than rehash what I wrote previously or get into tasting notes, I’ll comment on the event itself. The forum was open, rather than led. We had [...]

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Twitter Taste Live BEER!

January 14, 2009 beercommdood

There’s an online Trappist Ale tasting going on this Saturday, January 17th, starting at 8pm Eastern. What you will need to participate: a Twitter account (free) a TwitterTasteLive account (free) registration for the event (free) a web connection one bottle each of: Chimay Red, Chimay Tripel, Westmalle Dubbel, Westmalle Tripel Need more info? Just ask. [...]

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