How to take Twitter to the next level

Here are some tools to help you take your Twitter campaign to the next level. If you have any questions please comment.

 

Twittering on the Desktop (3rd party): Twitter Clients

http://hootsuite.com/ *

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Twittering on the Web: Twitter Web Sites

http://bit.ly/ *

http://twitpic.com/

http://tweetshrink.com/

http://itweet.net/web/

Working with Twitter Gadgets and Widgets

Power Twitter *

TwitterFox

TwitKit

Mobypicture

– @peterlang

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How To Tweet in 10 Minutes a Week.

If you find yourself posting on Twitter multiple times per day you won’t find much use in this post. But for the readers that find themselves drifting away from Twitter due to daily time requirements, continue reading.

There are some primary reasons why users stop updating their profiles:

1. No Interest – Often a result of a few months of participation with little connection to others.

2. Professional reasons – Created by tweeting for clients or for work that makes updating your own profiles too much work.

3. Lack of time – Invested to much time in the beginning and never received any kind of return for the interaction.

 

The truth is we have no choice because short form communication will continue to dominate, so it’s time to check out Twitter again. Here are some reasons why.

• Twitter.com/yourname will always help you rank well on search engines. When you are searched online it would be good to have the results be updated and relevant. 
• As your clients and companies embrace Twitter they’ll look to you as a person to follow and as an example.
• Engaging in Twitter and maintaining an up-to-date feed only takes 10 minutes a week.

Yes, I said 10 minutes. How do you accomplish this?

1. Use a 3rd party app that allows you to schedule tweets. I recommend Pluggio, TwitResponse and Hootsuite.
2. Give the application you’ve chosen access to your twitter account. Best way to accomplish this is by staying logged into Twitter. 
3. Aggregate information via a reader. Google Reader or Alltop, for example.
4. Write 5 tweets. Choose from a statement, a link to something you enjoy, a link to something one of your followers wrote, a celebration of your followers, an @ reply, something interesting you overheard, a question, or an RT of something you find interesting.
5. Write your tweets and schedule them for the coming week. This way you’ll have a Twitter feed that is personable, interesting, current, and useful.
6. Link your Facebook Fan Page or profile.

Follow me @peterlang.

Social media statistics in real-time

The world of social media is invading the web at a speed that we cannot even imagine. It ‘a revolution, the social media revolution, social networking, the new way of conceiving the web, media, sharing. It ‘a revolution before our very eyes, of which we are all a part of and can no longer control. No one could have imagined, even a few years ago, that this would have happened. Read and watch these stunning statistics on social media:

Gary Hayes has collected some statistics and has made a counter that shows the numbers in real time: ‘Gary’s Social Media Count’: Which I have included below.

• 20 hours of video are uploaded on Youtube every minute!
• 600,000 new members each day on Facebook
• 700 million photos and 4 million videos on Facebook per day
• 18 million new users per day on Twitter and tweets sent 4 million per day
• 900,000 new items on blogs a DAY!
  
• 1 billion videos viewed on Youtube DAILY!
• 250,000 virtual goods in Second Life each day, and 1250 messages per second!
• 73 million visitors and 700 million Flickr photo uploaded a month!
• More than 2.3 trillion SMS messages were sent in 2008 alone! Here is it written out  to make it clearer 2,300,000,000,000,000,000 SMS!

via (web.splesh.net)

Thank you noltha.

Update Everything You Need with Ping.fm

Those of you that are worried about the social media demand on time have nothing to fear. I realize that the thought of logging in to every social media and uploading content really puts a damper on the experience.

If this is you, then Ping.fm is a must. This is a one-stop service that will allow you to post to all your important social networks. Not only will Ping.fm update statuses and micro-blogs it can now update your Facebook Page. Their step-by-step guide will help with the setup. The first attempt at creating the connection was tricky but if you follow the steps closely you will be just fine.

To point out- Once you’ve finished the setup you will need to grant permissions to the desired pages. Your options include posting status updates, notes, and photos to pages

Once Ping.fm is setup then you will see the advantages.

A Twitter Mystery

Advertise Your Profiles!

Follow me – T-Shirt

Standout and allow people to see your social media passion. Personalize, popularize, and promote your presence with a Social Media Shirt.

–Peter

Communication in 2009

Are you looking to start a conversation in todays environment? Begin here.

The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas

The “Get First” WordPress Plugins

When beginning a blog one of the first things to come to mind are plugins. Great example- web.splesh.net.

The 10 “Get First” WordPress plugins when starting WordPress Blog.

1. All In One SEO Pack – It’s top on the list for a reason because it is essential for all bloggers!!! All In One SEO Pack allows tweaking Meta Titles, Descriptions and Tags of your blog without changing the content.

2. Comment Luv – Comment Luv enables you to show some love as soon as a comment has been posted by including a titled link to their last blog post or tweet at the end of their comment. This plugin drastically increases user interaction on your blog through increased exposure.

3. Popularity Contest – A great plugin because it shows which posts are the most popular by evaluating views, comments, impressions, etc. You will be able to create a side bar widget showing the most popular by the date style of your choosing. (year, month, week)

4. TweetMeMe – The Easy ReTweet Button. Using TweetMeMe will increase the likilyhood of your posts being tweeted. So much easier, a must.

5. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – YARPP provides a list of posts and/or pages related or similar to the current post/page introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. This will imporove click through rates because it gives the reader more of what they like.

6. WP Super Cache – WP Super Cache makes your blog load faster. What is there to say other then that? Get it.

7. Smart Update Pinger – Plugin protects your blog from over pinging by pinging only when you publish a new post – not when editing. Great for security.

8. Redirection – Bad SEO is often caused by broken links. Redirection enables you to prevent Google Bots and Yahoo Spiders from getting stuck in a loop. Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

9. Contact Form 7 – Every major blog has a contact form. They used this plugin to create it. Visit mine on the Contact tab above.

10. Sexy Bookmarks – A great way to share in the sexiest way possible. The best looking sharing plugin you can get. Sure, there are plenty of alternatives and some of them are probably much better than Sexy Bookmarks, but unlike any other, this plugin actually makes you WANT to share.

Twitter for business

Sit down and enjoy. A great look into Twitter.