Tag Archives: Twitter

Idol Predictomatic. Social media monitoring American Idol prediction.

Share I haven’t watched much of Amer­i­can Idol. I’m really not a fan of the sign­ing but I am a fan of using social media to pre­dict pop­u­lar­ity con­tests. So lets give it a go. First lets look at sen­ti­ment. Seems my taste for indie rock (and not pop bal­lads) isn’t shared by every­one. Sen­ti­ment for

Browser based Twitter apps. A down-and-dirty review.

Share Image via Wikipedia Note: A few weeks ago a pub­lished a review of desk­top Twit­ter apps. Desk­top Twit­ter apps are great but browser based clients are pretty darn robust these days too and cer­tainly wor­thy of your con­sid­er­a­tion. A col­league of mine was recently hav­ing prob­lems with her AIR app func­tion­ing prop­erly and switched to

Why are you so flaky online? Or 6 simple ways to maintain a consistent presence.

Share Image via Wikipedia I know peo­ple who are bright, ener­getic and engaged in per­son but don’t come off that way online. They have Face­book pro­files that are never updated and Twit­ter accounts they haven’t posted to in weeks. Or worse, a blog that has gone entirely dark for months. Sure it’s hard to keep

Desktop twitter apps. A down-and-dirty review.

Share Image via Crunch­Base If you’re still using Twit­ter from Twitter.com, I have to say you’re mak­ing it hard on your­self and you’re not get­ting all you can out of it. Desk­top apps are one way to make it eas­ier to track fol­low­ers, respond, orga­nize and mon­i­tor your pro­file or brand. I usu­ally make an effort

Top 10 reasons to rant somewhere other than your blog or your Twitter account

Share Lewis Black via last.fm Some peo­ple love to rant. Even more peo­ple love to rant on a blog. Some blogs were even cre­ated for peo­ple to rant about pol­i­tics, the price of milk, or even their ex’s groom­ing habits. In the non-digital world, peo­ple find that kind of behav­ior repul­sive. They sim­ply don’t want

27 tips for business tweeters. Or a Twitter cheat sheet.

Share Image via Crunch­Base A few months ago a client asked for a cheat sheet on how to uses social media tools. Here’s more or less what I gave them on Twit­ter. See some­thing impor­tant miss­ing, let me know and I’ll add it. Note: This list isn’t a sub­sti­tute for a strat­egy. Fol­low some good

Managing the noise. What to do about Twitter overload.

Share Image via Wikipedia So you have already drunk the Twit­ter Koolaide. You’ve been tweet­ing awhile and now you have a few hun­dred fol­low­ers and are fol­low­ing more peo­ple than you can keep track of using Twitter.com on your browser. And you’re begin­ning to feel that you’re prob­a­bly not get­ting all that you could out

What does real engagement mean? A change of mindset.

Share Engage­ment is a term that has been used so much in the last cou­ple years by mar­keters it’s start­ing to loose it’s mean­ing. It’s become a short­hand for do some­thing “social.” But engage­ment at it’s best is an emo­tional involve­ment or com­mit­ment between two par­ties. Unfor­tu­nately, com­mit­ment is some­thing many mar­keters only expect of

Halfway-serious webvertising predictions for 2010

Share Most pre­dic­tions are either easy, safe, or just wrong. So why not add a few more to the list? I dare you to go on the record on which ones of these are wrong. Mobile Web will become even big­ger. The kids will con­tinue to text at an alarm­ing rate — it’s pri­vate you know. Social

How’s your online personal brand doing? Or what we can learn from Tiger Woods.

Share This train wreck that’s been hap­pen­ing on all the gos­sip sites, new chan­nels, and sports out­lets should be dri­ving two things home to every­one who lives in the dig­i­tal age. There is no pri­vacy and can’t con­trol your per­sonal brand. So what if you’re not Tiger Woods with mil­lions of dol­lars of endorse­ments to worry