Posts Tagged Twitter

New Technologies Create New Opportunities

social_prefix = ”; social_title = ‘New Technologies Create New Opportunities’; social_url = ‘http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/29/new-technologies-creates-new-opportunities/’; It’s not very often that a new technology comes along and is immediately embraced and put to use by small businesses.  The fax machine was one such technology and it was huge boon for small businesses. Now Twitter is the  new technology that [...]

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7 Social Media Rules of Thumb

Despite countless blog posts and multiple books on how to use social media, people new to the medium still have questions. So here’s my seven social media rules of thumb relying heavily on the classic Journalistic Heuristic of who, what, where, when, why and how. 1. Who should use social media? It seems like this is often the first question asked [...]

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Can You Control Social Media? Should You?

Is social media controllable? If you think it is, should you attempt to control it? If you think it isn’t - what does that mean for your organization. Can you control your customer’s use of social media? The  Southeastern Conference, SEC, in another in the ongoing string of organizations who seem to completely fail to understand how pervasive social media has [...]

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More Thoughts on Twitter

First of all, let me say that Twitter has dramatically improved their service – I haven’t seen the fail whale logo since April which is pretty amazing given the growth that Twitter is continuing to experience these last two months and the massive surge in tweets in the days immediately following Michael Jackson’s death. Twitter’s founder, Biz Stone, was quoted in [...]

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Twitter Thoughts Flittering around in my head

Twitter’s exponential  growth continues unabated and like millions of other twitter scofflaws, I’ve stepped into Twitter’s waters teeming with 140 character missives. (You can follow me @jobhuntin ) It took a little time, but I’ve quickly found it to be an interesting way of sharing information and finding people with new and interesting points of view. [...]

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