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This website is a stream of her daily activities, updated via an iPhone, a Droid, and a Blackberry, with an occasional blog post here and there.
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Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing
Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat. It doesn’t matter if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr;…
Twitter Fail Whale Tattoo is Awesome, Kinda
If you must ink some kind of web 2.0-related geekery on your body, there’s a whole lot of awful choices and only a couple of good ones. Within that scope, Twitter’s fail whale doesn’t fare too bad; in fact, “normal”…
HOW TO: Organize a Successful Tweetup
Stuart Foster is a marketing consultant in the Boston area. He specializes in brand management, social media, and blog outreach. He authors a blog at Thelostjacket.com. Tweetups. You can’t escape them. They are pretty much ubiquitous these days. The @…
I Can Has Cheezburger to Launch “Son of a Tweet”
Pet Holdings, the company behind sites like I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog, and GraphJam, is moving into the realm of tracking Twitter memes. They’ve purchased a website called Twittypic that monitors Twitter for popular pictures and videos and posts…
Twitter To Start Charging Companies For Having An Account?
Companies using Twitter for commercial purposes may soon start getting charged for that activity, according to an interview British trade magazine Marketing (part of BrandRepublic) held with co-founder Biz Stone. This is what Stone reportedly said: “We are noticing more…
HelloTxt Launches Status Message API
HelloTxt, a service that lets you update your status message across multiple services at the same time, opened up its developer platform this week. The service, which we first covered on Mashable in 2007, is a way to update your…
Where are Twitter and Facebook’s Geolocation Features?
I’ve been playing around with Google Latitude on and off since this morning. I must admit, it’s pretty cool and demonstrates why geolocation is interesting, and services like Loopt and BrightKite have found some success as early players in the…
Twhirl Updates: Will You Dump TweetDeck?
Die-hard Twhirl fanatics (like me) can celebrate the start of the weekend with a fresh new update to the desktop Twitter app. Albeit just a preview release, Twhirl v.0.8.8f is here and includes a few extra gems for Twitter, Seesmic,…
Twttrstrm: Squidoo Turns Twitter into Yahoo Answers
A few attempts have been made to turn Twitter into a more robust Q&A platform than it already is. For example, services like Twtpoll and Strawpoll let you create a question and will then give you a unique URL to…
TweetSuite: Complete Twitter Integration With WordPress
Dan Zarrella, who introduced us to Tweetbacks last week, has released a new WordPress plugin that takes the concept to the next level. Dubbed TweetSuite, the plugin builds on TweetBacks utility of displaying all of the tweets that link back…
DMfail Fails, Reborn as Re-Twit’d
The creators of sneaky Twitter app DMfail are back creating apps, but this time they’ve released something pretty useful that’s likely to last more than a week. re-Twit’d is a simple application that lets you see what’s hot on Twitter…
Twitter DMs That Went Public: DM Fail
In what must be one of the nastiest Twitter apps created, DM Fail aims to highlight Twitter messages that the creators intended to make private, but accidentally posted to a public Twitter stream. The method for catching these is not…
Tweets to Go: 35+ More Twitter Resources for Your Phone
In the past year, Twitter has exploded; more and more users are joining and finding new ways to stay connected to the service 24/7. Here are over 35 Twitter resources for your iPhone, G1, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile device, smartphone, or…
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Irony Alert: Get Website Downtime Alerts via Twitter
Not too long ago, Twitter was constantly lambasted for its lack of reliability. Now, at least one developer is confident enough in the microblogging tool to launch a simple service that notifies users of website uptime/downtime via Twitter replies. Ding…
Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts with #Splitweet
Have no doubt: Twitter is becoming serious business. And we’re not just talking about enterprise Twitter apps like Yammer. Splitweet is a new tool for “heavy and corporate” users of Twitter with some handy tools for businesses. The 3 key…
Twitterspeak: 66 Twitter Terms You Don’t Need to Know
Never read a twiller? Having twissues with your twerminology? Welcome, then, to the unforgivable abuse of the English language that some call Twitterspeak. The trick, in most instances, is to take the first two letters of microblogging service Twitter and…
5 Ways to Keep Your Drunken Self Away From the Internet
Going near the Internet when you’re drunk is a bad, bad idea. Many people have discovered this the hard way. It’s particularly bad if you work online. Google acknowledged this potential threat of the modern age when they provided a…