Blogs About "Twitter"

At SXSW I met Alison Kramer a mom of three and owner of Nummies http://www.nummies.com/ nursing bras. Blogger, Twitter enthusiast, hot yoga addict and reluctant runner, Alison has a rather full and busy life balancing the ups and downs of running a business while being a parent. Before kids and creating Nummies, Alison was a Kinesiology graduate (never practiced) and Social Worker (barely practiced). Her company, Nummies was named...

An email inquiry yesterday - could I connect someone with potential sponsors, donors, supporters for an upcoming benefit - has me again writing about conversation and relationship building. It's a noisy crowded world out there, with many good, worthy causes seeking funding and sweat equity. There is no magic wand (or megaphone) to produce sponsors, donors and supporters, or to carry your cause above the crowd. The voices...

With the SXSW interactive conference starting tomorrow in Austin, social media articles, expertise and advice are flying around the internet at warp speed. Twitter exploded as a result of SXSW in 2007 - and yet, it is the social media tool many people still struggle with in terms of the how, why - really?, no way, not me.... So a few more articles to add to your reading list...

I read Amber Naslund's terrific blog entry "How I Made $100K With Twitter" today. Great title to suck you in panting "how?!???" "really!!!". Amber's story IS about making money using the social web but it is NOT a fairytale story about how to get rich quick. How does Amber attribute $100,000 of income to Twitter? To summarize:

Step 1: She followed people on Twitter in industries that interested...

Oh, to have had a crystal ball back in 1994 or 1995...Clifford Stoll's commentary on the future of the internet (The Internet? Bah!) in Newsweek (February 27, 1995) http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554/page/1 is mildly amusing when read today ("The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."). And as for how we're...

Over the last 9 months, I have had the great privilege of getting to know a phenomenal group of women in the interior design world (and great gentleman too). We have shared design successes and frustrations, asked each other questions and gotten to know one another all via Twitter. Now, we read each other’s blogs and comment and sometimes we even blog about each other! We follow each other...

I'm not a fan of auto-updates. My active online communities - Facebook, 85 Broads, Linkedin and Twitter - are very different venues and how I choose to communicate varies with each. No, I'm not suffering from multiple personality disorder! I'm being authentic, being "me" on each site. I'm focused on being responsive to each of my audiences as well as focusing on the subtle nuances of each social networking...

Scott Stratten has me thinking this morning. Scott's @unmarketing on Twitter and he's an expert in viral, social and authentic marketing - "unmarketing" as he calls it. The title of his blog post this morning is "What if I didn't use Twitter?"

Well, what if?

There are likely lots of other tasks, busy-work, real-work, pastimes, hobbies, I could list to fill in for the time I currently spend on Twitter.

Better (and...

I have to confess that I am a Social Media convert. A year ago, I would have harumphed at the thought of connecting on LinkedIn, would not have imagined enjoying writing a Blog, and laughed at the name Twitter - oh, so unprofessional. OK, I still think the name Twitter is a bit much, but I love Twitter.

First, the great fun in blogging and other forms of social media...