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5 Great Twitter Track Tools to Organize Followers
When it comes to social networking sites, there’s really nothing quite like Twitter. The simplistic design and layout belies it as a basic program, when...
3 Awesome Ways to Schedule Your Twitter Updates
Through its power to connect people on a massive level – Twitter has essentially become the center of the online universe. If it were an...
How PR People Are Destroying Social Media
This is by definition a controversial post and a bit of a rant. So I want to be clear what I’m saying, and who towards...
Search for Tweeted Links and Photos with PostPo.st
Social search has been a hot topic for quite some time but seldom we come across a really great search start-up. The problem with social...
FlipBoard versus Zite: Two FREE iPad Apps to Read Social Updates the Magazine-Style
One of the best ways to take advantage of my husband’s iPad has been using it to keep track of social media updates. I don’t...
Stop Scheduling Tweets Today!
Twitter is an amazing service that a lot of us have grown to love. The great thing about twitter is that a single tweet has...
Guide to Cultivating Relationships in Social Media
So, you’ve decided to bring your company into the world of social networking. Congratulations on evolving beyond the last stone age (but don’t feel too...
The Fastest Ways to Share Anything on Twitter (FireFox and Google Chrome)
Let’s face it, we tweet a lot. Most of us have a great habit of sharing any interesting article we come across. And I am...
Tool Alert! Create a Twitter Digest to Easier Keep Up with Your Closest Friends
Keeping up with your social media contacts is one of the most important steps in building online presence. But how not to get lost and...
Twitter Killer? Why Your Business Should Make a Facebook Group
Facebook launched their newer version of Facebook Groups back in October 2010. But it wasn’t until the last couple months of being personally involved in...
Top 5 Car Execs to Use Twitter
Top executives enjoy using Twitter because it gives them an opportunity to connect directly with an audience that is too often distanced by countless layers...
Google’s Follow Finder Lab Helps Twitter
It’s true that Google has its own social networking, although those of you who haven’t heard of or signed up for Google Buzz aren’t missing...
Make the Most of Twitter Lists with Formulists
When Twitter lists were first introduced many people were very skeptic, others (like myself) didn’t have the time to use them properly and to figure...
If You Tweet In A Forest… Blah Blah Blah No One Cares
According to a new study, no one really cares what you’re tweeting.* … #wtvr Of course, it didn’t really take a study of 1.2 billion...
Twitter’s Search Function, Now Powered by Lucene
Even though they have had their new search out for a few weeks now, Twitter’s new real-time search engine is just now starting to get...
How To Monetize The Twitter/Facebook Bubble Before It Bursts
I had an interesting discussion with Jeremy Koch of Pertnear (the guy responsible for 88,000 fans, in 4 weeks, at half price) to try to...
Twitter Adds New Feature to “Promoted” Products – Promoted Accounts
Twitter launched Promoted Tweets in April of this year, to allow businesses to highlight ordinary tweets that they would like to reach a wider audience....
Use Twitter Lists to Engage Your Community Members
Getting people to join, subscribe or follow is only one step in the process of building the powerful community around your brand or product. Another...
How to Easily Install Twitter Testimonials on Your Blog
A couple of weeks ago I took a look at some examples of how brands collect and leverage Tweeted feedback – which has a positive...
Topsy Lets Us Reminisce on Our Tweets Past…Kind Of
If you have ever tried to search on Twitter you know that it is pretty frustrating. The search results don’t go back very far at...
Why More of Your Employees Should Be On Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
Why aren’t more companies leveraging the power of social networking? Here are the obstacles: They don’t understand the benefits They are afraid to empower employees...
4 Useful Twitter Bots for Marketers
The best thing about Twitter is the evolution of the concept. I feel too lucky to enter the Internet Marketing world at the right time...
Tweet With Your FACE: Why Big Brands Need Social Brand Ambassadors
This is something Zappos has done for years that really needs to catch on more than it has, because: The rewards for corporations are huge,...
Process for Analyzing a Twitter Account
Whenever someone follows me on Twitter, I will check out their profile to see who they are and if they are legit or a spammer....
Quickly Embed Tweets to a Web Page with Blackbird Pie
Do you often use the screenshots of your (or maybe someone else’s) Tweet? I see the Twitter screenshots throughout the web. People use the screenshots...
Change Your Default Twitter Following Email Notifications
By default (but optionally) Twitter sends you an email “notice” of each user who starts following you. Unlike Facebook, for example (where you have a...
Create Your Social Media Life Stream at WordPress Blog
I registered the domain for my name – annsmarty.com – two years ago (to protect my online reputation) and since then I’ve had no idea...
Why Facebook Marketing Slaps Twitter Marketing In the Face
And beats its pants off. [Sorry we were just brainstorming linkbait titles about John Daly’s pants.] I was asked to speak about “Capitalizing on the...
Google Quickly Uses Twitter @anywhere on Follow Finder
Google is definitely showing its all out support to Twitter. Aside from the Google Replay feature which lets you view past tweets related to your...
Google Now Lets You Replay Popular Tweets
Want to go back in time and read those famous tweets that were indexed by Google? Well, actually Google did not just index those tweets,...