It’s no secret I love Twitter. I love it because it’s still completely open (unlike Facebook), and it gives you unprecedented access to millions of cool people. My marketing strategy on Twitter is two-fold: it’s really important that I give […]
I read a couple of interesting articles this week, and I’d like to share them with you. First, there’s this one from Brad Blackman called Write Blog Posts Faster with a Template or a Checklist. In it, Brad simply lists […]
Analytics. It’s what makes us smarter, better at what we do. Analytics helps us to learn what works, and what doesn’t work. Often, however, when a new social network starts up, building in analytics is the last thing on their mind. […]
Last week, I wanted to take my son to a baseball game. I checked online, and it looked like the game might have been sold out, but there was nothing on the website that indicated that is was categorically sold […]
It’s ironic: there is an online source from which many people get their daily information, and yet this tool is often considered to be “too distracting” to have a place in the classroom. I’m a teacher, and it’s a debate […]
I got asked a question by Susan, one of my followers, last week. She was wondering what the appropriate way to thank someone who favourites one of your tweets was. I’ll get back to my answer in a sec, but […]
I get new followers on Twitter (@rebeccacoleman) every day–usually somewhere between 5 and a dozen. I’m pretty careful to check on each new follower, because I want to see if they are someone I should follow back, or someone I […]
Vine, that six-second, endlessly-looping video service owned by Twitter, has just launched vanity URLs for your account. You can now grab your user name. Your new Vine URL will be vine.co/yourusername. This means, of course, that web profiles are in […]
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 […]