twitter: Secrets of Networking Success: How to do a Successful Twitter Chat - 11/16/11 04:43 PM
If you're average you didn't read this article. If you're above average you read the title and got this far thinking, "I thought Twitter was all chat". Welcome, you're going to love this if you read this far.
Twitter, in case you do not know, is the wildly popular global, open stream, 140 character text chat system. If you have been around long enough to remember the AOL chat room with 25 guests maximum image that with thousands of guests but limited to 140 characters including spaces called "tweets". If you do not yet have a Twitter account here's what I suggest:
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twitter: Why you are wasting your time on Twitter - 12/29/10 01:44 PM
Never having been accused of being the quiet type it has been a lifetime challenge to keep my opinion to myself. Yet when I hear people say or read people's writing talking about the waste of time Twitter is it piques my interest. Listen, I'm the first to admit anchovy pizza isn't for everyone but if 25% of my prospective relationships like anchovy pizza it's worth a try. Learning how to talk about the anchovies, knowing what compliments their flavor, other intricate details about anchovies - that is my duty if I intend to serve.
So you're on Twitter and it's a waste … (9 comments)
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twitter: Points, Followers and Friends ... Why? (Measure of Success) - 10/11/10 04:23 PM
How do you measure online success? Is it the number of followers you have on Twitter? How about the number of friends you have on Facebook? Are you ranked number one in your area for points on Active Rain?
Back in the 1980's I had a little Electronic Bulletin Board System (BBS) "page". It contained my name, phone number, business address and about a paragraph of what I did for a living. It took about 45 seconds do display on the visitors page and it looked something like this:
Back then I had no idea how many people even saw my … (3 comments)
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twitter: Using TweetGrid to Filter Twitter Information - 09/13/09 01:19 PM
Sure, I can start with the basics. TweetGrid is a web based solution for watching multiple, filtered streams from Twitter. For example I have used TweetGrid during the Presidential Debates to track up to six hashtags. Today I am using TweetGrid to track six relevant to NFL Football Twitter streams.
Sorry! You don't know what a hashtag is? Really hashtags are very simple. Even if you have not used one you have seen them on Twitter. Anytime you see a word preceded by a hash mark (pound sign, tic tac toe sign) that is a hashtag. Hashtags are used to … (14 comments)
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twitter: Twitter 099 – VERY Basic Twitter - 09/05/09 12:39 AM
It never dawned on me there may be people who don't understand the very basics of Twitter. This would be the person to whom someone said, "Create a Twitter account", so they did. Chances are it was even an email with a link to http://twitter.com with no further instructions. So, for those of you to whom this applies here are the ABC's of Twitter: 1. Go to http://twitter.com 2. Click on the link that says "Sign up now" (or simply go to http://tiwtter.com/signup) 3. Fill in the blanks: Real name, stage name, password. (Tips on creating a username: It will be … (9 comments)
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twitter: How to Hate Twitter (Yes, You!) - 09/02/09 07:39 PM
I hear it all the time, "Twitter is a waste of time." "I just don't get the big deal about Twitter." "I'm too busy." "I only focus on mortgages." (A little secret snark there for a friend.) Let's back up just a few steps so we all have the same perspective.
Twitter. If you have not heard of it welcome to earth. Twitter is, simply put, a very fast past, one sentence electronic bulletin board. Oddly enough about 25 years ago that was the only way I communicated over the Internet. Actually it was called FIDONET back then and I accessed … (46 comments)
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twitter: Social Media Edge: Twitter - 04/23/09 03:04 PM
I see you there on Twitter. Your name is there, you have your profile completed with a little thumbnail of your cute little self there. You even have your phone number in your profile - good! But then I see you have 23 followers and you follow 8 people and you have updated 112 times. Updated means posted. Posted does not mean interacted. Especially when all 112 posts after the initial two: "Trying Twitter" and "Hello?" begins with "Just posted on ActiveRain".
You're not Tweeting. In fact, you're abusing. Ouch - I know. But what would you prefer - me to … (7 comments)
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twitter: Why Personal Branding is More Important Than Ever - 04/05/09 02:51 PM
They're gone. Big names in the industry - huge names. In fact if it wasn't for what will probably turn out to be some very shady and possibly illegal dealings one of the largest banks would not have saved one of the largest lenders from certain failure. How many hundreds of thousands of employees in the real estate, banking, construction and supply company have lost their jobs in the last 24 months?
If you spend all your time building your company name there is no guarantee that from one day to the next you will still have that name on your … (6 comments)
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twitter: Matt Fagioli of REtechSouth w/ BIG Announcement at NOON EST Today - 03/31/09 10:19 AM
Most of you know Jason Crouch and I co-host Twitter Tuesday Radio at http://budurl.com/jckc and today I really want you invite you to listen in and alert everyone you know in the real estate or related industries to know that I just got off the phone with our guest today, Matt Fagioli whom most of you know, and he is going to make a really big announcement live on the show today.
Seriously - I said, "Wow" when he told me what he wants to announce. You can join us LIVE at http://budurl.com/jckc or you can always listen to the archives. … (7 comments)
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twitter: Shouting My Own Secrets - Social Media Etiquette - 03/24/09 03:17 PM
Social media is not a disease but it can have an infection. I personally have been guilty of infecting social media but my lessons were (mostly) learned two decades ago when there was little forgiveness. Of course we didn't call it social media back then we called it by other names like USENET or BBS. Trust me, in 1989 you did not have to wonder if you may have stepped over some boundary - you knew it within seconds. We called them flames or flame wars. If you posted a link to your blog or an invitation to your event in … (11 comments)
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twitter: Using URL Tools To Shrink Links and Track Web Traffic - 03/22/09 12:04 PM
Many of you have been using URL (Uniform Resource Locator also called web link or link) shortening tools for some time. You may already know the value of saving space and now you may be about to learn about using these same hosted applications to track your traffic. For example you may be able to know where the visitor clicked on the link. This is important when you use the link on multiple pages.
Let me back up. Why shorten a URL? Until recently there really was no reason to shrink a URL but with the coming up of microblogs and … (37 comments)
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twitter: Twitter, Facebook and Wasting Time (REtechSouth) - 03/07/09 09:33 AM
Guilty. Not you - me. I am guilty of wasting time on Twitter and Facebook. In fact I have wasted so much time on Twitter and Facebook that I now waste even more time keeping up with at least a dozen new prospects every week. Then the closings that I am seeing are really cutting into my week - like the $300,000 FHA 203(k) loan I am doing because of a referral I got from a Twitter "friend".
Sure, I will back up just a bit. Twitter is a "micro-blog" and so named because users post messages called "tweets" of a … (13 comments)
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twitter: I Don't Blog For Points or Position - 03/01/09 05:28 PM
Never have I nor never will I blog for points or position. My winnings are measured by the number of conversations I have with people I have met online. When I get on the phone with a real estate agent from California, an appraiser from Maine or a title man from New Jersey just to say, "How's it going?" I win. I can't even provide loan services in those areas so it's definitely about friendship.
Oh, I enjoy the checks I cash from the deals I close from my online relationships but quite honestly I have not closed that many deals … (20 comments)
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twitter: Maximizing Your Reach Through Multiple Social Media Outlets - 02/10/09 09:28 AM
Join me and Jason Crouch on Tuesdays at Noon Eastern for a continuing BTR radio show on social networking.
Today is a very special day - today is the day that many of you make your first steps out of print and traditional media and beyond blogging to social network building. Best of all you will get to learn not only from me but from my co-host, Jason Crouch who is the most subscribed to blogger on Active Rain who is not a staff member, and our special guest Bill Crosby who is truly packed with knowledge about social networking.
The … (9 comments)
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twitter: A Trio of Micros for Powerful Social Networking - 11/24/08 08:04 PM
Really the formula is quite simple: meet more people, be nice to more people, know more people. Between all of my social networks I can directly touch (through friends, connections, followers, etc) roughly 11,500 people within a matter of about 1/2 hour. Add to that the number of people who have signed up to receive occasional email updates from me and it nearly triples. I can tell you not only from majoring in marketing but from spending a few bucks on it to be able to touch that many people that quickly for such a low immediate cost is simply amazing! … (13 comments)
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twitter: If You Tweet, What's Your Twitter? (A Repository for AR Users on Twitter - Leave Yours) - 10/08/08 09:25 PM
Do you want to be more recognizable, more popular, more read, more noticed than you have been to date? Want to meet more people in the biz? Want to alert more people to your AR postings?
Sometime earlier in life, things change so quickly in the economic realm I cannot recall if it was this year or last, I looked at something called "Twitter". Then I re-looked. Ever re-look? I relooked just last week.
On Twitter I find many AR friends and many new friends but I want to be able to find all of the AR users who also use … (11 comments)
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