CommonCraft released a wonderful 2 1/2 minute video that explains:
What the heck is Twitter?
Why would ordinary people (read non-geeks) like to use it?
What that person tapping on their mobile phone might actually be doing
Best of all, this video’s got nothing to sell you. Perhaps that’s why it’s so persuasive.
Respect The Tweet
Twitter, Linked-In, Plaxo and Facebook are all part of a savvy business-person’s life. So in a recessionary economy when you want to treat customers and prospects with additional respect, you read ALL their feeds. Social CRM is a buzzword describing software that makes that easier for you.
I Met Her On LinkedIn
I was at an election night party in New York when I first met “Lilly-Social-Responsibility-Lady.” She was reconnecting with our party host after 10 years of radio silence read more…
Twitter, the popular social media messaging site, has been all ablaze about “Motrin-Moms.” These are the mommies targeted by the online ad campaign linking body aches and pains to the practice of carrying children in harnesses and slings.
Mothers who advocate this practice took great offense at the message in general and the following voice-over line in particular:
“Supposedly it’s a real bonding experience. It totally makes me look like an official mom.”
The perception that carrying your child in a sling was read more…
Twitter is a micro blogging service that consists of 140 character posts. You can think of it as SMS for the web.
It has grown into a near real-time messaging service ranging from the banal “just ate an egg McMuffin” to the useful, “Arrested” which freed James Karl Buck from an Egyptian jail cell. [See link at end of blog post]
Here are five things a business person needs to know about Twitter:
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