Presenting at Tweetcampsa

This past Saturday the 18th of July, I went to San Antonio, TX for Tweetcampsa. I went with the intention of learning and presenting. For those of you that don’t know what a tweetcamp is, it’s an unconference format, meaning that the attendees set the agenda of the topics on the fly as the day [...]

Twitter Search on Steroids

OK, so maybe not on steroids, but definitely this is an enhanced twitter search. The other day, I explained what the twitter hash tags are and how to use them to track trending conversations on Twitter. Of course, the downside of trending conversations, is that it’s only a matter of time until some idiot spammer [...]

Twitter "#" tags explained

If you’ve spent any time on twitter, you may have noticed people closing tweets with a text like this: #3turnoffwords or #followfriday or #tcc You may wondering, what do those mean? Well, those are called hashtags, and essentially they are topics that people are talking about.  In the current version of twitter, the application is [...]

5 things that will get you unfollowed on twitter

I’ve been working a lot on my twitter presence. As such, I’ve discovered that there are some things that are more likely than other to get me to unfollow you. In talking to other tweeple (people on twitter) I discovered that a lot of us share these same guidelines. Without further ado, here are my [...]

Social Media – Do You Know The Internet and Social Media Lingo?

I’ve never been one to give much thought to the significance of knowing internet lingo. To me, it’s second nature. I just know what T1, DHCP, TCP/IP and Domain name are. I very quickly picked up on the meaning of other terms like “retweet,” “pinged” and “facebooked” among others. I know these terms because I [...]