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Twitter for (not so) Dummies

July 6, 2009

Today marks the official publication of Pistachio Consulting‘s book Twitter for Dummies. Truly a team effort between me, Michael Gruen and Leslie Poston, (and a supporting cast of dozens!) we hope we’ve compiled a useful and convenient reference to help people get the most of Twitter. Have folks around the office who still just don’t [...]

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Enterprise Micro-Learning

June 17, 2009

An earlier version of this article was published on FastCompany.com and is reprinted here with permission. If you can’t fathom how Twitter can help your company, read on. When a student opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus, the school had no systematic way to alert those in harm’s way. In the days that followed, [...]

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Twitter and the Iranian Elections

June 15, 2009

This is a guest post written by Wilfried Schobeiri. Anyone watching Twitter trends over the last few days would have noticed the hashtag #CNNFail up there toward the top. Why? Because CNN and other major news media failed to pick up and report on the severity of the turmoil surrounding the Iranian elections. In the [...]

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Should You Display the Live Twitter Stream on the Big Screen?

June 2, 2009

This is a guest post written by Olivia Mitchell and has been reprinted from Speaking About Presenting with permission. Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Now the question is: should you display a live Twitter stream on a large screen so that everyone (not just the tweeters) in the audience can see it? [...]

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Community, @replies, #fixreplies and Change

May 26, 2009

When Twitter changed its feature set to exclude a favorite opt-in feature (See All @ Replies), Twitter erupted. As one of the people affected, I wanted to get my thoughts on paper. I started a bit of a back and forth via email with colleague Alexander Howard about that change and the other changes Twitter [...]

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Twitter Hatchlings and History

May 8, 2009

This post originally appeared on Adele McAlear‘s blog and has been published to the Touchbase Blog with permission. Ever wonder about the early days of Twitter? Long before @Oprah and @aplusk, many social media and technology early adopters hopped on board helping to spur the service forward. If you’ve ever wanted to do an historical [...]

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17 Things We Used to Do

May 6, 2009

This is a guest post written by Andrew McAfee and was reprinted with permission from his blog. Twitter grew by 131% in March alone, and Oprah started tweeting last week (and already has about 175,000 followers), so it seemed like the right time to discuss this technology/service/phenomenon/whatever-it-is in my MBA course. Laura Fitton came to [...]

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Twitter Follow Etiquette for Councils

May 4, 2009

This is a guest post written by Simon Wakeman which was originally featured on his blog and has been reprinted with permission. We’ve been running @medway_council on Twitter for a few weeks now. One thing that I’m still unsure about is how councils should use Twitter’s concept of “following” others. People are choosing to follow [...]

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Still Don’t Get Twitter? Maybe This Will Help

April 16, 2009

It’s okay to admit it. You’re among friends. You’ve been on Twitter for a couple of months now and you still can’t figure out what the heck all the fuss is about. It took me a while to “get” Twitter, too, but now I find it an indispensable part of my toolkit for gathering information [...]

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#hashtags on Twitter are like channels on cable TV

April 13, 2009

Readers of ReadWriteWeb no doubt appreciated the hashtag refresher contained in Sarah Perez’ post, “What Does that Hashtag Mean? Tagalus Tells You.” As growth in Twitter has exploded, conversations, interest and confusion over #hashtags have spiked as well. How could they not? The problem is that for all of those new users, the # signs [...]

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