Greater Twitter Goodness
Everyone is all about Twitter these days. It’s all anyone was talking about last weekend.
I like Twitter, too, as you know, and what’s totally cool is that since JV Alert, I’ve picked up almost 300 new followers. Wahoo!
Yesterday, Andrew Devine (@adevine1) posted an awesome tweet about 14 cool Twitter tools from Kenny Hyder. Some of them I’ve not heard about before, and I thought I’d share. Check this out: 14 Tools of Highly Effective Twitter Users
- Ever wonder if you should follow someone or not?
- Check out the plethora of # tags that exist
- Stalk people on Twitter (Follow them incognito.)
- Get some very cool stats about your usage
- Download and Save a copy of your Twitter account
- Get beyond TweetBacks
- Enter yourself in the Twitter Business Directory
- Host your own short URL
- Add your photographs to Twitter easily
- Post to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (I like TwiterFox for that better, really.)
- Post to your Google Calendar by sending direct messages
- Find stats on your Twitter relationships
- Grade yourself as a Tweep
- Schedule and post Tweets
All there!
I started this yesterday, so sorry I’m behind. We started a new program at Overcome Everything — ListBuilding 411, where members can ask one question per day and a member of our crack OE staff will answer in video. It’s pretty cool for the members, but we’re experiencing some growning pains and guess who gets to manage all that?
Moi.
So, I’m behind.
But not for long. Bear with me. 
angela f.
February 14th, 2009 at 5:40 pm #
As a new Twitter-er, this info is greatly appreciated! I’ve yet to use all the Twitter options, but now that I know there’s a Twitter Business Directory, it’ll be the first I try! Thanks
jothiit
February 18th, 2009 at 2:18 am #
blog:
Recently Forrester Research released a report that says that offshore captives, which have been much in vogue for the last three years, are “imploding”. A blog post here makes for interesting reading, especially the comments.
I am not surprised. Captives were gathering steam in my last year at Infosys. There was this buzz around captives that created a feeding frenzy for management consultants and research analyst firms. We knew these were bad decisions but were helpless in the face of advice from firms that had the ears of the CEO and CFOs. Plus we had a clear conflict of interest. Captives were bad for our business and so we couldn’t be relied upon for good advice.
There are two sets of reasons why making captives for enterprise IT is harder than it looks (product development has different drivers and I don’t cover it in this post). One set are structural reasons – economic, employment market etc. Another set are around how to manage distributed teams.
Priyamvada
February 18th, 2009 at 3:48 am #
One more post about twitter
.Lol haven’t tried this twitter thing yet somehow.Don’t know why people have gone crazy for this.I think i too need to check it now.
maulikshah
March 12th, 2009 at 5:42 am #
Hey I am using twitter from last 3 years, it is the best way for marketing. You will get definately high money by using twitter.