If you’re monitoring Twitter and Google for mentions of your brand or website, you’re probably only seeing half of the conversation. What about people that shorten your URLs and share them without linking to your Twitter profile? What if someone mentions your brand name in the comments of someone else’s blog? Do you even know [...]
By Jon Bishop
You may have taken a glance at Twitter’s search operators page. You also may have seen TwiTip’s 7 Secret Ways to Use Twitter. However, I have a slightly different point of view as to what Twitter’s function is in my life. For example, I would never search Twitter for interesting links and instead would rely [...]
By Jon Bishop
I see most businesses approaching social media the same way. The first thing they look for is a standard set of best practices and social media etiquette. Then they might go off and find some case studies or social media marketing examples. If they aren’t overwhelmed by the diverse results they receive they will most [...]
By Jon Bishop
Twitter management solutions for businesses seem to be popping up left and right now that everyone’s jumping on the band wagon. We at Magicomm have spent some time playing around with the different services out there and came up with this list, we feel, are the top 5.
CoTweet instantly became my favorite multi-account manager for [...]
By Jon Bishop
Twitter Spam, we all hate it and want it to go away … but what is IT?
The general population of Twitter tends to classify spam as unsolicited promotional material that provides little to no value to the community.
Some (possible) examples of this are:
Bots that RT specific users
TwitterFeeds of blog posts
Affiliate link feeds
Software that forces you [...]
By Jon Bishop
By Jon Bishop
Two things I hear a lot when talking to people just getting into twitter is:
It takes too much time
How do I gauge my success
The truth is that there are TONS of FREE tools out there that address both these issues. In my opinion some tools do their jobs better than others. This is why [...]
By Jon Bishop
Now you’re on Twitter and tweeting like the pros, but how do you develop a following. This involves a little reaching out. Granted people will find you without you having to go find them, but finding them first speeds up the process.
The first thing I tell anyone to do that is looking for more followers [...]
By Jon Bishop
Twitter’s API allows for information to be sent to your Twitter account without ever logging in. This is handy when using other status update type sites that you would also like posted on twitter. Here are a few examples of the more popular sites being used.
BrightKite
BrightKite is a location-based version of Twitter that supports images [...]
By Jon Bishop
Hash tags are a means of organizing conversations around events, holidays, ideas, webinars and the list goes on. Anything you would like to have an organized conversation about could have it’s own hash tag.
Anyone can create their own hash tag by simply placing a # before their tag. For example, during Graph Expo, Rick Littrell [...]
By Jon Bishop
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