Blackberry
It seems that Twitter has made a surge as of late - especially with BlackBerry users. Twitter services have always been available in the form of IM, SMS and WAP - but as every demanding BlackBerry user knows, a powerful easy to use app is the way to go for any mobile service. Until recently, we were stuck with only a few Twitter applications for Blackberry devices such as TwitterBerry and BlackBird. Later down the road TinyTwitter came along, and then there was Twibble which was ported over from the N95. A few weeks ago we got word of SocialScope which shows amazing promise in its early alpha stages, and yesterday our friends at BerryReview let us know about BBTweet. There is also Twitter functionality being worked into a new version of Viigo which we learned about at CES. So if you aren't a Twitter user or just haven't started tweeting from your BlackBerry, here is a quick roundup of the pros and cons to these applications. The best part by far is that they are all free. The tough part is deciding which one is right for you!! Read on for more BlackBerry Twitter client info and let the decision making begin.
TwitterBerry
TwitterBerry is mobile client for posting updates to Twitter. It works over the data network, so you don't need to use SMS.
Twibble
http://m.twibble.de
Blackbird
http://dossy.org/twitter/blackbird/
Social Scope
http://www.socialscope.net
BBTweet
http://code.google.com/p/bbtweet/
Friday, June 19, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Top Automation Power Tools for Twitter
Here are a list of power tools you can use to automate and link content
from social networking sites:
1. SocialToo: SocialToo can help you be a social networking power user. Keep your follower lists in sync across networks, and get daily updates. Send surveys to your followers and more! All you need is a SocialToo login, your Twitter ID and an e-mail address.
# Auto Follow - Follow those who follow you!
# Auto Filtering - Protect your accounts from following spammers!
# Survey Creation - Create surveys and send them to multiple networks!
# Daily Updates - Find out how your network has changed, overnight!
2. TweetLater - Tweet can help you with the following tools:
Schedule tweets — Plan, set & forget! [more]
Schedule tweets and keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you're not in front of your computer. Publish tweets when your international followers are online and you're asleep.
Bulk upload & schedule tweets — Save time! [more]
If you have many tweets to schedule, prepare them offline, put them in a simple text file, and upload them in bulk. Save time by not having to enter and schedule them by hand in the system.
Track keywords on Twitter — Empower yourself! [more]
Set up alerts and track keywords in the public Twitter stream. We will monitor the Twitter tweet stream and periodically email you a digest of the tweets that contain those keywords. You can also use this to track your @replies.
Save and reuse drafts — Save hours of typing! [more]
Save draft tweets, frequently used text snippets and URLs and reuse them in your scheduled tweets. Save tons of time by avoiding repetitive typing.
Send welcome DMs to new followers — Automate! [more]
Send a nice non-promotional DM to new followers that focus on them and your future interaction with them, or simply to thank them for choosing to follow you.
Bit.ly URL shortening — Track those clicks! [more]
Add your bit.ly URL shortening account details to your TweetLater profile, and we will shorten your links with it so that you can track the clicks on all your links.
Follow those who follow you — Automate! [more]
Automatically follow people who follow you and save a ton of time while your Friends list builds itself.
Unfollow those who unfollow you — Automate! [more]
Automatically unfollow someone when they unfollow you if that is how you prefer to manage your Friends list.
Vet new followers — Semi-automation! [more]
Even though you've selected to auto follow new followers, we will interrupt the process for 72 hours and give you an opportunity to manually review new followers and decide if you want to follow, ignore, or block each new follower.
Purge your DM Inbox — Keep it tidy! [more]
You will probably agree that it's a bit of a pain to manually delete DMs from your Inbox, especially since they accumulate so quickly. You can run a purge on your Inbox to delete everything, or DMs older than 7 days, or DMs older than 30 days.
Personal status feed — Your own tweet engine! [more]
Grab your own personal 140-character tweet scheduling engine and RSS feed. You can schedule and publish tweets that don't go to Twitter, they go to your personal tweet stream, which is available in RSS, XML and Javascript formats.
from social networking sites:
1. SocialToo: SocialToo can help you be a social networking power user. Keep your follower lists in sync across networks, and get daily updates. Send surveys to your followers and more! All you need is a SocialToo login, your Twitter ID and an e-mail address.
# Auto Follow - Follow those who follow you!
# Auto Filtering - Protect your accounts from following spammers!
# Survey Creation - Create surveys and send them to multiple networks!
# Daily Updates - Find out how your network has changed, overnight!
2. TweetLater - Tweet can help you with the following tools:
Schedule tweets — Plan, set & forget! [more]
Schedule tweets and keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you're not in front of your computer. Publish tweets when your international followers are online and you're asleep.
Bulk upload & schedule tweets — Save time! [more]
If you have many tweets to schedule, prepare them offline, put them in a simple text file, and upload them in bulk. Save time by not having to enter and schedule them by hand in the system.
Track keywords on Twitter — Empower yourself! [more]
Set up alerts and track keywords in the public Twitter stream. We will monitor the Twitter tweet stream and periodically email you a digest of the tweets that contain those keywords. You can also use this to track your @replies.
Save and reuse drafts — Save hours of typing! [more]
Save draft tweets, frequently used text snippets and URLs and reuse them in your scheduled tweets. Save tons of time by avoiding repetitive typing.
Send welcome DMs to new followers — Automate! [more]
Send a nice non-promotional DM to new followers that focus on them and your future interaction with them, or simply to thank them for choosing to follow you.
Bit.ly URL shortening — Track those clicks! [more]
Add your bit.ly URL shortening account details to your TweetLater profile, and we will shorten your links with it so that you can track the clicks on all your links.
Follow those who follow you — Automate! [more]
Automatically follow people who follow you and save a ton of time while your Friends list builds itself.
Unfollow those who unfollow you — Automate! [more]
Automatically unfollow someone when they unfollow you if that is how you prefer to manage your Friends list.
Vet new followers — Semi-automation! [more]
Even though you've selected to auto follow new followers, we will interrupt the process for 72 hours and give you an opportunity to manually review new followers and decide if you want to follow, ignore, or block each new follower.
Purge your DM Inbox — Keep it tidy! [more]
You will probably agree that it's a bit of a pain to manually delete DMs from your Inbox, especially since they accumulate so quickly. You can run a purge on your Inbox to delete everything, or DMs older than 7 days, or DMs older than 30 days.
Personal status feed — Your own tweet engine! [more]
Grab your own personal 140-character tweet scheduling engine and RSS feed. You can schedule and publish tweets that don't go to Twitter, they go to your personal tweet stream, which is available in RSS, XML and Javascript formats.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tools that Rock: Using the Bird for Research
Here are some cool ways to use Twitter as a research tool:
1. Set up a poll - there are applications such as PollDaddy (http://twitter.polldaddy.com/), twtpoll (http://twtpoll.com/),
and StrawPoll (http://strawpollnow.com/welcome/) to name a few.
2. Hook into a Web based survey tool. You can embed Tiny Url links
to existing tools such as SurveyMonkey to conduct a survey, much like
you would via email. The advantage to using this method is that you can
gain access to people via their Twitter accounts in real time.
3. TweetStats - If you are trying to find out how often you are tweeted, you can
run this too to check @reply habits.
4. Trendrr
This tool is a new favorite to use in order to track statistics across multiple social network platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and others. Provides graphing and trending for keywords. This application is ideal for tracking Twitter searches, and comparing information.
5. Tweetmeme
If you’re looking to do research on retweeting and link-sharing on Twitter, Tweetmeme provides retweeting stats for articles on Twitter. It’s best for recent events, but does have legacy.
Twitturly and Retweetist also do similar things. Also be sure to try out Twist if you want to graph out Twitter trends.
1. Set up a poll - there are applications such as PollDaddy (http://twitter.polldaddy.com/), twtpoll (http://twtpoll.com/),
and StrawPoll (http://strawpollnow.com/welcome/) to name a few.
2. Hook into a Web based survey tool. You can embed Tiny Url links
to existing tools such as SurveyMonkey to conduct a survey, much like
you would via email. The advantage to using this method is that you can
gain access to people via their Twitter accounts in real time.
3. TweetStats - If you are trying to find out how often you are tweeted, you can
run this too to check @reply habits.
4. Trendrr
This tool is a new favorite to use in order to track statistics across multiple social network platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and others. Provides graphing and trending for keywords. This application is ideal for tracking Twitter searches, and comparing information.
5. Tweetmeme
If you’re looking to do research on retweeting and link-sharing on Twitter, Tweetmeme provides retweeting stats for articles on Twitter. It’s best for recent events, but does have legacy.
Twitturly and Retweetist also do similar things. Also be sure to try out Twist if you want to graph out Twitter trends.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Top Five Twitter Extensions for Firefox
Firefox is a powerful browser with excellent features such as better searching, better bookmarking, smart address bar, master passwords, and excellent add-ons, including some great ones for the Twitter application. Here is a list that I have compiled of the top five Twitter extensions for Firefox:
1. Power Twitter
Power Twitter adds features to the Twitter Web interface including:
-search and recent searches
-search scoped to a specific user
-status history peeking on mouseover
-Facebook status updates
-inline YouTube, Flickr, TwitPic, Google Maps, song.ly, and more
-url expansion
-url translation to page titles
-open web update (news feed) mapping
-custom settings
-@mentions
-photo uploading
-link shrinking
-#hashtags
2. StockTwits
Install and magically turn StockTwits tagged tickers on twitter.com into links back to stocktwits.com so you can easily catch up with the latest conversations.
Works with:
* Firefox: 2.0 – 3.1b2
3. TwitterFox
This extension lets you know your twitter status.
The extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their status. Also it has a small text input field to update your status.
You can see more information on http://twitterfox.net/
If you have a problem with TwitterFox, please follow and send me a tweet on Twitter. You can find @TwitterFox on http://twitter.com/twitterfox
4. TwitterBar
TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox's address bar. A small Twitter icon sits to the right of your address bar; clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over it to see how many characters you have left.
You can also post by typing "--post" at the end of your tweet. Clicking the Twitter icon when visiting a webpage will send a tweet containing the URL of the webpage you are currently viewing.
Works with:
* Firefox: 2.0 – 3.5.*
5. Twitzer - Twitter more!
Twitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter.com.
It also provides a feature where you can resolve all TinyURL links to actual links so that you are sure you are clicking on safe links.
Works with:
* Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0.*
1. Power Twitter
Power Twitter adds features to the Twitter Web interface including:
-search and recent searches
-search scoped to a specific user
-status history peeking on mouseover
-Facebook status updates
-inline YouTube, Flickr, TwitPic, Google Maps, song.ly, and more
-url expansion
-url translation to page titles
-open web update (news feed) mapping
-custom settings
-@mentions
-photo uploading
-link shrinking
-#hashtags
2. StockTwits
Install and magically turn StockTwits tagged tickers on twitter.com into links back to stocktwits.com so you can easily catch up with the latest conversations.
Works with:
* Firefox: 2.0 – 3.1b2
3. TwitterFox
This extension lets you know your twitter status.
The extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their status. Also it has a small text input field to update your status.
You can see more information on http://twitterfox.net/
If you have a problem with TwitterFox, please follow and send me a tweet on Twitter. You can find @TwitterFox on http://twitter.com/twitterfox
4. TwitterBar
TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox's address bar. A small Twitter icon sits to the right of your address bar; clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over it to see how many characters you have left.
You can also post by typing "--post" at the end of your tweet. Clicking the Twitter icon when visiting a webpage will send a tweet containing the URL of the webpage you are currently viewing.
Works with:
* Firefox: 2.0 – 3.5.*
5. Twitzer - Twitter more!
Twitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter.com.
It also provides a feature where you can resolve all TinyURL links to actual links so that you are sure you are clicking on safe links.
Works with:
* Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0.*
Monday, June 8, 2009
Using Social Networking Software for Research
Using Social Networking Software for Research
Dr. Gail Ferreira
June 8, 2009
The ability to use social networking software to conduct business research is a necessary skill in today's collaborative business environment. Social networking software is based on contributions, the merit of the responses, and self-organization of resources. Three different software tools will be discussed briefly here with some tips for doing research.
DIGG
Users submit DIGG worthy content (include news stories, blogs, videos, and pictures. Member of the community rank content with votes. This can be used in a university setting to start discussions and rank participation based on merit scores from the group.
de.licio.us
de.licio.us is a Web site where you can create, shave, share all of your bookmarks. You can import/export existing bookmarks from your browser. The creation of a personal tag library allows you to organize articles and content in a manner that is relevant to your own personal research habits. You can also share your bookmarks and tags with other users by export/import.
Twitter
You can interview participants in a study by sending out targeted surveys to user accounts on Twitter and attaching traditional tools such as SurveyMonkey. You can also have partipants in a study subscribe to groups such as Twibes (http://www.twibes.com, http://www.grouptweet.com) and share content. You can also track statistics and trends on Twitter and other social networking sites using selective search tools and techniques, some of which can be found at the following URL: http://mashable.com/2009/05/03/twitter-research-tools/
Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking value; companies create real when they combine technology with new ways of doing business (McKinsey, 2007). Education is a viable business that must embrace the new skill sets in order to accelerate growth. By learning to use tools during business research, students will be poised to enter the workplace with a new skill set that can be used to reinvent business methods.
Dr. Gail Ferreira
June 8, 2009
The ability to use social networking software to conduct business research is a necessary skill in today's collaborative business environment. Social networking software is based on contributions, the merit of the responses, and self-organization of resources. Three different software tools will be discussed briefly here with some tips for doing research.
DIGG
Users submit DIGG worthy content (include news stories, blogs, videos, and pictures. Member of the community rank content with votes. This can be used in a university setting to start discussions and rank participation based on merit scores from the group.
de.licio.us
de.licio.us is a Web site where you can create, shave, share all of your bookmarks. You can import/export existing bookmarks from your browser. The creation of a personal tag library allows you to organize articles and content in a manner that is relevant to your own personal research habits. You can also share your bookmarks and tags with other users by export/import.
You can interview participants in a study by sending out targeted surveys to user accounts on Twitter and attaching traditional tools such as SurveyMonkey. You can also have partipants in a study subscribe to groups such as Twibes (http://www.twibes.com, http://www.grouptweet.com) and share content. You can also track statistics and trends on Twitter and other social networking sites using selective search tools and techniques, some of which can be found at the following URL: http://mashable.com/2009/05/03/twitter-research-tools/
Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking value; companies create real when they combine technology with new ways of doing business (McKinsey, 2007). Education is a viable business that must embrace the new skill sets in order to accelerate growth. By learning to use tools during business research, students will be poised to enter the workplace with a new skill set that can be used to reinvent business methods.
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