I‘m teaching Twitter this week to my classes, and it’s always one of my favourite things to do. Twitter is such an intimate medium: I know it seems like you’re talking 1-6,000 (or however many followers you have), but really, […]
Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but I have lots of pet peeves on Twitter. In no particular order, stuff I hate that people do on Twitter: Hook their Facebook up to their Twitter so that every time they create […]
My dear friend Cat, who teaches at a local acting school (and runs Biz Books), recently did a giveaway of one of my books to her students. The contest was, they had to get on twitter, and one of them […]
A couple months back, I was trying to decide what I should pitch to the Northern Voice organizing committee for a workshop this year. I’ve been a presenter at NV since 2010 (note the orange “Bloggable” shirt from that year), and it’s […]
In one of my other (many) lives, I’m a food blogger, and I was recently assigned to write a piece on restaurants with great patios. I reached out to several of these restaurants via Twitter, and was surprised at the amount of time it […]
Seems like every day I get an email from someone who is hyping up their new app or new tool. I usually look at them all, but the ones that rise to the top are ones I’ve been using for […]
I‘m rolling my eyes a tiny bit as I write this. One of the exciting parts of my job is seeking out new social media to tell you about. It’s also the bane of my existence, because, you have to […]
As Social Media continues to mature as a marketing practice and evolve, it is becoming more and more of a customer service tool. I think that using Twitter and Facebook for customer service will eventuallly become more popular than using […]
Yesterday, Twitter made a couple of big announcements. They are updating the look of everyone’s profile, and they’re also rolling out an update to their iPad and iPhone apps. The main change in your Twitter profile is that you can […]
Despite RSS feeds seeming to be harder and harder to find these days, they still are really, all kinds of awesome. And here’s a good example of how they are awesome. Let’s say there’s a hashtag you follow on Twitter. […]