From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Who tweets about you?

As explained in our Twitter for Dummies series: “retweeting” is an effective way for people to re-broadcast your tweets. Use this URL to find out who is retweeting you:

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The Twitter Tutorial

Discovered via Blog Godown

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Ernest Hemingway’s writing tips for bloggers

“Throughout his career as a writer,” says Larry W. Phillips in Ernest Hemingway on Writing, “Hemingway maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing.” Nevertheless the tips Phillips condensed into his book would be applicable to good blog writing too:

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The Twitter demographic statistics

When Sysomos, a social media research company, analyzed information about 11.5 million Twitters accounts, the results could not be but amazing and relevant: Twitter only picked up in the last six months: 72.5% of all users joining during the first five months of 2009. Most Twitter users seem to be either just ‘listening’ or are [...]

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Social Media and Social Behaviour…

Cartoon discovered via Iced Tea and Sarcasm

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Twitter for Dummies – Part 1: more than a microblog

Last week, @gaurisalokhe invited Jon from (AidWorker Daily) and I as guest speakers in a short FAO info session about micro blogging. I realized how difficult it is to explain what this social media phenomenon really is all about. Does “Twitter is a micro-blogging tool” associate it too much with “blogging”: “I publish, you read, [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – Part 2: Twitter, the social community tool

In the previous post, I elaborated what I use Twitter for, both at work and for my personal sites. So what is this “Twitter”-thingie then, hey? How can I explain Twitter as a social community tool rather than a blogging tool…? Well try these approaches: How to explain Twitter? Think of Skype, but different! You [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – Part 3: The parts that makes Twitter work

In part 1 of this series, I described what I use Twitter for. In part 2, I highlighted Twitter as a social networking tool. In this post, we will go slightly more technical: looking at the parts in the engine that make Twitter really useful.

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Twitter for Dummies – part 4: The Geeky Art of Nerdy Tweets

You have successfully created your Twitter account. You read part 1 of this series and have some pretty good idea what you will use Twitter for. You understand the importance of building social communities, and which tools can help you with those tasks… And then… the blank Twitter prompt is staring in your face. What [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – part 5: 10 tips for effective tweeting

You have successfully created your Twitter account. Through part 1 of this series you got some pretty good idea what you will use Twitter for. You understand the importance of building social communities, and which Twitter tools can help you with those tasks. Part 4 in this series thaught you the basic syntax of a [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – part 6: The Most Frequent Questions You Will Be Asked

This series all started from the basic question “How do you explain Twitter to someone who is completely ignorant about micro blogging and social media?”. We went through the moves of explaining the social networking side, what you can use Twitter for, the software components that make Twitter work, the technical syntax of tweets, and [...]

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