One of our conversation topics yesterday at in50 hours was how to extract the useful conversations from Twitter. One way to do that is to find the intersection between tweets from the people you follow and the topics you are interested in. This is easier said than done. How do you identify tweets with topics… [Read more…]
June 8, 2011
Having used Twitter for a while, I am slowly reducing the amount of time I spend on Twitter clients. I feel some times that I am missing out on good stuff. I started thinking about an ideal Twitter client for my needs. Here is what I came up with. Some of it is being done… [Read more…]
May 20, 2011
Source: Check page alerts, InfoMinder, Infostreams and Twitter Stream Top 75 College Education Tweets and Twitter Accounts via @onlinecourse Unemployed, educated, and indebted, more Millennials seeking work beyond U.S via @onlinecourse Hacker Monthly Hacker Monthly – checkout the special issue on startup stories. I found this via YC News and a @checkpage alert. Growing need for… [Read more…]
January 1, 2011
I probably started tweeting a bit earlier but the bulk of my tweets were in 2010. Here is a tag cloud of those tweets: Nice to see that retweet (RT) was one of the largest. That is one thing nice about Twitter. It does not take a lot of effort to share information and knowledge.… [Read more…]
October 19, 2010
I use Twitter more than anything else nowadays. More than any other social media – facebook, linkedin, Google Reader, Wikis, Social bookmarks or even podcasts. I use all these, but the links actually seem to generate from the tweets I read. Twitter is my quick environmental scanner. Twitter stream brings me nuggets of news, opinions,… [Read more…]
August 18, 2010
Here is a Twitter app I came across recently – Twifficiency. I tried it and here is what I got. Pretty neat. I was happy with my score and even read the little blurb. Then I suddenly noticed a Google Ad on top right. That is kind of cool. So is this one way to… [Read more…]
June 18, 2010
How To Incorporate Twitter Into Your Event This is a great post with very useful information on how to use Twitter for your events. The comments show a few more ideas. Based on some of the things we did for a few events, here are a few more things you can do. Host a pre-event… [Read more…]
June 9, 2010
After I started Tweeting, my blog activity took a nose dive. Most of my LinkLog entries are now tweets. So here is my first attempt to take some of my tweets and elaborate a bit. “Social Media and Business Intelligence” Presented by Phil Brittan, CI Manager at Best Buy http://bit.ly/a7mn0o This is notes from SCIP10 (annual conference… [Read more…]
June 22, 2009
I need to thank Bill Daul for bringing this story to our attention. It is about an amazing “visual meditation” about Iran Election. This beautiful article interleaves the science of social networks and the power of visualization with a very human story. At this very moment, millions are uniting with their brothers and sisters in… [Read more…]
June 21, 2009
Trying to keep up with #iranelection on Twitter, is like trying to drink from a firehose. Twitter, Facebook, twitpics, flickr and youtube have become the new citizen media to get information from a region that is not easily accessible to the main stream media. Notice the way Twitter is used to share knowledge on how… [Read more…]
August 13, 2011
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