Twitter posts

Time management… those two words are heard often enough throughout life it is hard to not realize that it embeds itself into every aspect of our lives, even the one we share online. With that said, most of the time, it is easier said than done since life happens and not everything can go entirely as planned. A strategy is of course is needed when planning to execute your social efforts online which include all areas of social media; from blogs, social networks, social bookmarking to finding shareable content and my friends, this all takes time. …

Purists will say that using apps and dashboards like Hootsuite or Buffer take away the fundamental interpersonal relationships that are built through social media. By scheduling posts or sending them through these tools, users won’t be able to see the person behind the message, they say. Marketers find other reasons to avoid dashboards, particularly with Facebook. The posts often do not carry as much weight as ones posted directly through Facebook, making it convenient but less effective to use tools. Both purists and marketers may be correct, but there’s one major advantage that dashboards…

The art of saying as much (or as little) as possible on Twitter with the 140-character restraint is challenging to master. Some of us still prefer to use proper English and regular spelling of words (archaic, I know) when texting or posting to social media, so getting the full message across appropriately is difficult. One technique that works well is to punctuate with a hashtag at the end of your Tweet. Think of it like the opening scene to every CSI:Miami episode. The main character, Horatio Caine, walks onto a crime scene and is giving a quick debrief. He then gets his trademark stoic, contemplative…

Justin Bieber, move over. The POTUS just tweeted 3 words and a picture that may end up with over a million retweets. Compare that to Bieber’s record of 223K retweets for “RIP Avalanna. i love you” and the victory Tweet by re-elected President Barack Obama is a record that should stand for while. As of 10:15 pm it’s just over 412K and rising fast. Here’s the Tweet: Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st… — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012  …

Social media is a unifying force on the internet. It brings friends and families together. It allows for people to discover others of similar backgrounds and goals. It connects people around the world in ways that could barely be imagined a couple of decades ago. Still, there are certain tendencies from country to country that make the way the people use social media different. Languages, cultures, and diversity of needs all have an effect on which social media sites are popular and how they are used. This infographic breaks down some of the differences and shows us that despite the multitude of…

There are two types of successful unscheduled or late-announced events. You can blast it out there and generate viral buzz online and offline and hope that enough people change plans and come to the event impromptu, or you can have the event “happen” in the middle of an already-large gathering. The organizers of the Stevie Wonder “Get Out the Vote Early” event failed to do both and the results were predictable. The unannounced event in Cleveland was broadcast to 34,000 Twitter followers of the organization the morning of the concert. The hope was that Wonder would sing a song, then people would…

Today’s world in America is one dominated by the mobilization of technology. So it’s only fitting that even the Presidential election be looked at from a mobile standpoint. With 88 percent of registered voters owning some type of mobile phone and about half of that number owning a smartphone, keeping up with this years Presidential election can be done in various ways. Over 35% 0f the total U.S mobile audience has access to some form of social network on their phone. Over half those people either posted a comment about a candidate’s campaign or either read someone else’s post either on Twitter, Facebook or…

Bet you thought you had a fantastically carved out pumpkin to display for Halloween, so proud to show off to those trick or treaters… yeah well so did I until…PUMPKTRIS …

There are many social media managing tools available that are free or that come with a cost, yet none of them allow us to edit or change our settings from one spot for various social networks. Instead to change a profile picture or to edit our bio, we must go directly to the social network to make these types of changes – that is until now. …

In a recent post on TechCrunch, Twitter was reported to have used their country-to-country blocking powers for the first time. The popular social media platform, at the request of local authorities, acted on a request to deactivate a Neo-Nazi Twitter account. TechCrunch reported that- Twitter users outside Germany can still view content from the @hannoverticker Twitter account of the banned group, but users trying to access it from within Germany will see a message saying the account is being withheld. This country-specific blocking policy was announced by Twitter in January as a compromise…