So many sports analogies are used without realizing a portion of the audience likely has no idea what they mean while others understand exactly what it means. Recently each in a group was asked to describe their work style in a one sentence or few words sports analogy — so I said I still have my fastball.
What’s yours?
Maddie blogged about some Twitter stuff. I have some stuff to add.
First and foremost, there’s a brand new Commoncraft In Plain English video about Twitter. If you still don’t get Twitter, watch the video and behold its awesome power.
Here come my favorite Twitter apps:
Twitbin is a Firefox plugin that lets you see updates and post to Twitter from within your browser. It’s a little unstable, but works pretty well.
Flock is a web browser built on mozilla with all kinds of social networking goodness baked in. Read from and post to Twitter, get facebook updates, YouTube updates, Flickr updates, all right within Flock. It’s also a bit unstable, but very, very cool. I read about it months ago, but only after seeing it nominated for a SXSW web award did I download and install.
Utterz is the coolest website you’ve never heard of. I honestly thought it could win a SXSW web award this year, but it’s not even nominated. It’s tres cool nonetheless, and it works with Twitter (among other social medias like blogs and facebook). Once you’ve set up an account, here’s how it works:
You can also configure Twitter to work with all kinds of other web apps. IwantSandy.com is a virtual personal assistant that takes instructions from your tweets. You can get news and the weather and traffic reports through Twitter. All in 140 characters or less: Perfect for the attention starved world we live in.
I think Twitter is the easiest social network to join, because you don’t even need a computer to get started. To start tweeting and following my tweets, just text “follow bkmcae” to 40404, wait a few seconds, reply to the Twitter-generated text message you receive with your name or preferred internet alias, and you’re done. You now have a Twitter account and you even have a Twitter page at http://twitter.com/youralias.
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How many challenges can one hotel have?
The one I’m staying at in Denver may take the cake…
When I arrived, their computers were down so they were doing very slow hand registration.
The association exec’s room I used to change from travel clothes to speaking clothes had no door on the bathroom.
The hotel restaurant has […]
Check out the Cactus Cuties, a singing group of eight- to 13-year-old girls singing The Star Spangled Banner at the Texas Tech vs Texas basketball game earlier this year. Here’s the video link.
What a way to start off any event! Thanks to Dianne for the link–they are amazing. Imagine how good they’ll be by the […]
A few people have asked me about this thing I just set up. Twitterfeed enables you to set up your blog so it automatically tweets every time you have a new blog post.
While I’m on the subject, you can also get a twitter badge for your blog, which lists the last few tweets on your sidebar (or wherever you want to put it).
There’s also loads of cool stuff to be found on the Twitter Fan Wiki, a collection of third party apps by (you guessed it) Twitter fans.
Finally, for Mac users only, there’s a cool download called Twitterific which sets up a little desktop application where you can see everyone’s tweets scrolling on by and you can post yours directly too, without going to the twitter website (when you are not mobile tweeting, that is, obviously).
Twitter-fabulous!
… or just dabblers like me…
LinkedIn go mobile. Awesome!
And check this out - You can set up a LinkedIn Outlook toolbar which makes it easy to “grab” contacts out of your email inbox. Review on SMT here.
Here is a certification test study tip I’ve never seen before: “Think like a 60 year old white man.” This is a study tip included in a document posted on an ASAE & The Center online community for CAE candidates (you need to sign in). Let me be clear that the community and the study tips are NOT provided by or affiliated with the CAE Commission. ASAE & The Center created the community and any…
Just a few weeks ago, after more than 20 years as a PC user, I switched to Mac. I'd like to say the transition has been smooth and painless, but that would be, well, a big fat lie. I've got a lot of PC-ingrained habits (like Alt-Tab to switch windows) that simply don't work on […]
Another cool video from Lee and Sachi!
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