I have been twittering my booty off and have totally neglected my ActiveRain blogging commitments. I took a class on "Twitter for Business" on Tuesday and learned some very helpful tidbits and connected with some folks that up to that point I had only known by their Twitter handle. If you are an avid twitterer and have not yet downloaded tweetdeck - I highly recommend it. it automatically converts your URLs down to a manageable size and can be  set up to run on your desk top so that you can actually work on other things while keeping an eye on those all important twitter updates.  

I learned how to effectively use the "search" button at the bottom of the twitter page to find people and topics that I am interested in. Learned how to use #hashtags too. I'm actually very interested in the NPR Pirate updates coming out of Somalia. (not sure why..but I am) 

Now that I have been twittering for awhile I am becoming more discriminating...I am "un-following" lots of folks (sorry guys) that I'm really not interested in or those people who get a little wild and downright nasty (yep, they are out there) and adding people who have content that I do want to know about such as Charleston, South Carolina, Mortgage, the Arts, Facebook, Social Media Optimization, pirates and so on.   

I'm posting this blog from a MAC (yuck) at The MUSC Library..hence, no pictures or handy linkage going on. Sorry.  

Melissa "The Mortgage Maven" Breeland