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Have you ever wondered why some people and businesses on Facebook and Twitter seem to post relentlessly, even at odd hours? Although insomnia and dedication are certainly possible, the most likely answer is that they're writing their posts in advance and scheduling them to appear at a later time. Scheduling posts enables you to keep up a consistent "drip feed" of updates for your fans and followers, time your posts precisely to coincide with future events or keep up a presence while you're on vacation.
On Twitter, the popularity of a tweet doesn’t just depend on its contents -- when you post it also matters. A May 2012 study conducted by link-shortening service Bitly found that links tweeted Monday through Thursday between the hours of 1 and 3 p.m. ET are more likely to be clicked on than links tweeted at other times. If you’re tweeting on behalf of a business, timeliness and engagement are crucial to enticing other users to follow and interact with your brand. Following, tweeting, replying and retweeting can be very time-consuming, however, especially if you’re also actively engaged with other…
Although social media dashboard TweetDeck is now officially a part of Twitter, it is possible to integrate posts you make from other social networks, such as Foursquare, into its posting interface. Foursquare allows you to "check-in" to local businesses and locations and display your whereabouts to members of your social network. Several factors may lead you to experience an error adding Foursquare to your Twitter account to Tweet deck.
When running a website, one of the most important factors in determining where your site ranks in the search engines is the number of inbound links you have. Webmasters use many different strategies to try to obtain these links. One strategy is that of posting links on social networking sites like Twitter. If you use this strategy, you may be able to improve your search engine rankings, but there are no guarantees.
Get your Klout score on HootSuite to measure your relative influence across social networks. HootSuite is a social media dashboard that allows you to make posts to multiple social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, from a single interface. The Klout score is built into HootSuite, permitting easy access to the score, whether you look up your own score or that of another social network user.
Connecting your blog to popular social networks can help increase traffic to the site and net a wider audience for your blog posts. One way to promote your Blogger blog is to encourage Twitter users to tweet your posts to their network of friends and contacts. Blogger includes a free social networking gadget that you can add to all your blog posts. This allows readers to tweet your Blogger posts by clicking a button with the Twitter logo at the bottom of all your blog posts.
The Newsfeed aggregates all the status updates, posts and activities from your Facebook friends so they are easily visible in one place. If group posts are filling up your Newsfeed, you can easily hide the group posts from coming up on your page. Facebook allows you to quickly edit your preferences right from your home page.
Tweets posted to Twitter are favorited by users for a variety of reasons -- the favoriting system can act as a basic bookmarking tool or a simple to do list recording tweets requiring a reply. Favorited tweets are displayed in chronological order on the "Favorites tab" on the "Profile" page. A public list of a user's favorite tweets is available at the address "twitter.com/<username>/favorites" unless the account is protected. In addition, tweets sent from a protected account are hidden from the list.
Google-owned Feedburner offers a wide variety of resources for getting the most out of your RSS feed, including "FeedFlare" in your feed. FeedFlare consists of links and buttons to social networks, including Facebook. Adding a Facebook button to your Feedburner RSS feed lets your readers easily share posts on Facebook, increasing your chances for exposure and traffic.
If you regularly need to include the same text, image or ad in your Blogger blog posts, you might want to create a default post so you don't have to keep typing the same information. The default post option in Blogger acts like a template -- each time you create a new post, Blogger automatically adds the content from your default post to the bottom of the page. You can create a default post in Blogger using the post template tool in the "Post and Comments" section of your Blogger account's Settings page.
On a Facebook newsfeed you can browse your friends' photo albums, status updates and posts they've written on mutual friends' walls. A newsfeed also displays posts when your friends play a Facebook game. You can customize your newsfeed if you don't want to see updates from a certain person or a certain type of post.
Social networking across the many services available can be a time consuming endeavor. Fortunately, a few web applications exist to consolidate all of your networks into one central location. Ping.fm, for example, allows you to post once and have it sent to your list of social networking sites. However, since you cannot read your social networking sites on Ping.fm, other applications, such as HootSuite, are also needed to streamline the process. HootSuite allows you to view your feeds and streams, as well as post updates, for a small number of networking sites. Since Ping.fm offers a significantly larger number of…
If you like to share your own blog posts or the latest posts from a website with your Facebook friends, you can manually paste each new link into your Facebook status. However, using RSS feeds to syndicate new content to your Facebook status is much easier. By creating a feed with a free Twitterfeed account, you can set up your favorite sites' RSS feeds to automatically post links to new posts as status updates on your Facebook account.
The Hype Machine is a website that aggregates content from prominent music bloggers around the world. People can come to the Hype Machine to discover new music and read the opinions of writers they respect. If you have a high-quality blog about music, add your blog to the Hype Machine to attract attention to your work and gain new readers.
Ping.fm is social networking utility that allows for convenient sharing of your posts with the world. Ping.fm does this by allowing users to post their latest news just once using Ping.fm, which will in turn update the information on multiple networking sites. This includes major social networking sites such as "Twitter" and "Tumblr." The major advantage of using Ping.fm is it will allow users to customize their updates and posts to their multiple social network sites, using just one utility (Ping.fm).
Feedburner allows blog publishers to easily automate their RSS feed publishing. This saves the time and effort of the manual method, in which each new post would have to be published by hand. A Feedburner feed also offers you the option of including graphics, showing your website logo or a picture of you, the author. However, if you want, you can easily get rid of those graphics from your Feedburner feed.
You can connect XML feeds from blogs and other syndicated websites to Twitter using the Twitterfeed service. Once your XML feed is connected, newly published items from your feed will be automatically posted as tweets to your Twitter profile. These tweets will include a brief excerpt from the feed item and a short link pointing to the blog or news item so that your Twitter followers can easily read the entire entry in full.
WordPress users have several types of widgets they can use to display additional information to readers. One such widget is the RSS widget, which lets you insert an outside blog into the sidebar of your own blog. For instance, if you write about sports and want to insert blog posts from another sport's writers blog, you can do so using the RSS widget.
The Facebook News Feed contains posts from users and applications to give you an overview of things happening in your networks or on your friend's pages. This information helps you see status updates, notes posted, details from games your friends are playing and more to keep you connected. In some cases, you may want to hide updates from a friend without blocking them or removing them from your friends list. To hide updates from a person, just drop him or her from your News Feed so you no longer see those updates.
If you want to link directly to a Blogger feed in LiveJournal, you can use the LiveJournal syndication feed. This is useful if you want to have a news ticker, or display recent posts from a website (be it yours or someone else's). The LiveJournal RSS syndication automatically updates based on the RSS link of the other website. When you click a syndication link, the linked website opens in a new window or tab.
Blogger is a Google blogging platform that hosts many well know blogs, including Irish gumbo, Alice's Bucket List and One Girl and Her Ipod. If you want to link to or subscribe to any of Blogger's posts, the procedure is very straightforward. Gone are the days when you had to try and locate a certain piece of code to link to a page or navigate your way through menus: linking to or subscribing to a blog on Blogger are almost as easy as a single click.
Back in the day, Twitter users could only view so many tweets at a time. Looking at old tweets meant loading a new page. The most recent Twitter user interface features an auto-scrolling feed that updates with new content automatically, and will theoretically let you scroll back in time as far as you need to. The auto-scroll feature is built into the Twitter homepage and does not need to be activated by the user. All you have to do is click and drag.
The Internet offers people a various ways to express their inner thoughts, showcase their art or just tell bad jokes. One major method falls under the somewhat unmelodious name of a "blog." Originally called Web logs, blogs started out as little more than a few daily diaries or recordings of life. Today, they are such an integral part of Internet sales, marketing and communication that few major sites are without one.
Blogger is a site that allows you to create your very own free blog to share your interests, express your thoughts and stay connected with friends, family and even clients or business peers. Creating a spotlight article on Blogger will allow you to showcase a certain topic, subject or member of your organization in a special way. Your spotlight article will be a special blog post that you can do periodically (weekly, monthly etc.) that gives your readers a detailed perspective into that certain subject. It may even be a bit more detailed in content than your regular Blogger posts.…
The Facebook Newsfeed is a list of top and recent posts on your Facebook Home page, including messages from specific Facebook apps, such as games and quizzes. Facebook gives you the ability to deactivate messages from apps that you do not want to view on your Newsfeed. If you accidentally block an app from your Newsfeed, you can activate the application again to allow the messages to display on your Home page.
Many Facebook applications require you to request assistance from your friends. If you have a large amount of friends or play several Facebook games, viewing game requests on your News Feed page can be complicated. Facebook contains a feature that allows you to filter the posts of your applications. This feature enables you to choose which game stories you want to view and lists them in chronological order. To filter the application postings that appear on your News Feed page, you must view your game requests.
Inside Eldercare is a website that focuses on the issues and circumstances that surround elders and their families. The site includes a flow of consistently updated articles that include tips on how to deal with hospice care, creating a will, living life to its fullest and other timely topics. This content can be shared on your Web page in a news feed. This means that those who visit your page will be able to see in a list some of the most recent articles added to the Inside Eldercare Web page.
You have a blog on Blogspot and you want to generate some additional traffic. You can manually update Twitter each time you post, but there is a way to do this automatically. The easiest way to connect your Twitter and Blogspot account is to use the free tool Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed links your Blogspot account (on Blogger.com) to your Twitter account. It regularly posts updates to Twitter with a link to your blog entry, notifying your Twitter friends when you have a new post.
Your Facebook account's internal key allows you to customize the way that your Facebook RSS feeds display in an RSS reader or on your website. The internal key for your Facebook account is not readily apparent; however, you can find your account's internal key in the RSS section of the "Notifications" area of your Facebook account.
Whether it's the friend who sends out too many photos of their kids, or the casual acquaintance who posts a new status update every 20 minutes, you may find a time when you want to filter what you're seeing on your Facebook News Feed. Though Facebook is constantly evolving, you'll find a number of ways to filter out unwanted people or topics from your News Feed.
Share your favorite songs with friends and family through your Blogger account. Blog visitors can click on links to music clips that you've provided within the text of your post. Readers just have to look for the underlined hyperlinks. Embedding links to music sources takes just a few seconds, and invites readers to listen to music you've recommended.
Facebook offers users a variety of privacy settings to customize the way other friends view your personal information on the Web. The news feed feature captures all recent activity related to your account, including comments on your wall, photo tags, posts on friends' walls and status updates. Deleting some of your news feeds can help you control the amount of information other people can see. Facebook lets you remove all the news feeds you have created as well as those that are related to your recent activity.
A Web feed relays posts on a website to subscribers of the feed. Feeds serve as an opportunity for webmasters to keep their readers regularly updated without any additional effort beyond writing the content on their website. If you've noticed that your FeedBurner feed is not displaying the full contents of your post, the problem probably stems from activation of the FeedBurner summary service. If you're a WordPress user, the problem stems from your WordPress "Reading" settings.
Attaching a link to a post on your Facebook "News Feed" or someone else's wall allows you to share more information with your friends. Although Facebook allows you to type a text-based message alongside your link to explain why its content is important, you have additional options for enticing your friends to click the link. If you link to a blog, for example, select one of the pictures from the post to display alongside your link.
Facebook groups are a good way to promote your business or service to like-minded individuals who opt to join the group. When promoting a business online, it is beneficial to have more than one avenue of marketing such as having a Facebook group page and a blog. If you wish to link the two so that your Facebook group members can read your blog posts as well, you can do so through the "Notes" section.
Google FeedBurner converts RSS feeds into a standard format that allows it to be recognized by a wide range of RSS readers and aggregators. The free service also checks your feed for updates every half hour and posts the changes to its massive public directory. Buzz is Google's attempt to enter the social network sphere to compete with sites such as Facebook where users may share their online experiences with their friends. One of the updates that Google unveiled in 2010 was the ability for readers to post FeedBurner feeds to Google Buzz.
The Facebook "News Feed" displays all of yours and your friends' activity on the site in reverse-chronological order. Example of "stories" that post to the news feed include status updates you and your friends send out, updates to your profile and relationship status and media you upload, including photos. If you upload multiple picture to your Facebook account, three of them display on your Facebook News feed as a preview for your photo album.
RSS, which stands for Real Simple Syndication, is a Web technology that allows you to syndicate and republish content from one site to another. You can use RSS to generate content for your site by syndicating a site's feed into your posts. If you like to post interesting news stories to your Facebook account for your online friends, Twitterfeed is a free service that allows you to syndicate any newsfeed to your Facebook wall as a status update.
If you have a business, you might use your blog, Twitter and Facebook to connect to your customers and potential customers. Whether you blog for business or pleasure, Twitter and Facebook are ways to publicize your blog posts. Because a blog allows long posts, while Facebook and Twitter limit the length of posts, you can't just copy the whole blog post on Twitter and Facebook. The services below send an automatic summary of your blog post to Twitter and Facebook without extra effort on your part, once you've set it up.
You can post items from an RSS feed to Twitter using the Web-application Twitterfeed. The service takes your RSS feed and truncates the items in the feed so that it fits the 140-character limit for tweets. Each new item published to the RSS feed will be published as an individual tweet. Along with a snippet of the RSS item text, Twitterfeed will include a short link to the original post associated with the RSS item so that your Twitter followers can easily click through to the full text.
FeedBurner, a free service offered by search engine giant Google, provides its users many more options than similar services do when it comes to managing RSS feeds and email subscriptions. One such option is "Socialize," which allows you to connect to your Twitter account and publish your RSS feed to your Twitter profile automatically. FeedBurner even gives you the ability to add hash tags, leave character room for re-tweets, add additional text and set the number of items to be published to your Twitter profile.
Linking your blog or website posts to Twitter is a useful way to expose your work to a larger audience. A multitude of options exist for posting article updates and links to Twitter, and most of them utilize some variation of an RSS feed from your site. An RSS feed is a method of content distribution and is relatively easy and free to establish.
Blog Talk Radio provides Internet users the ability to host and digitally broadcast a talk radio show online. As of the time of publication, the site boasts over 1,000 broadcasts each day, and you can make your broadcast available through Facebook. With Blog Talk Radio's Facebook integration, you can update your friends when a new show or event is scheduled, when you are live on-the-air and when each show is archived for later listening.
Blogger is a web-based publishing tool hosted by Google that allows blog writers to publish their posts instantaneously without having to learn web design. Blogger users need not waste time learning code or script to make their web page; it is all handled for them. Among its many features, Blogger allows users to set specific blog posts to private, keeping unwanted readers out.
In Twitter's original design, users had to load a new page in order to see older tweets. With "New Twitter," the user interface has been redesigned to include an auto-scrolling main panel that displays all the latest tweets in your Twitter feed. If you have never used a website with an auto-scroll function before, there's a little learning curve. However, even the most novice Twitter user can master the auto-scroll within minutes.
One of the advantages of the Blogger content management system is that users don't necessarily need access to a computer to update a blog. You can use your cellphone, smartphone or another mobile device to update your Blogger-hosted blog remotely by sending an email from the phone's mail application. Once you've registered for the free "Mail-to-Blogger" service, you can remotely post a Uniform Resource Locator link, image or text direct to the blog.
Blogger is Google's blog platform that allows users to administer and manage multiple blogs from a single Google username. Many people manage more than one blog with the service, and Blogger provides several tools that add your social media profiles from other sites to help add content easily to your blogs. If you want to promote your blog on Twitter by auto-posting new blog posts as Twitter status updates, you can set up a free account through Twitterfeed to syndicate your blog's RSS.
RSS feeds are a way for you to syndicate, or re-publish, one site's content onto another website. Sites provide RSS feeds for their online content as a way of extending the reach of that content. Since most feeds post a link back to the original site, RSS is also an effective way of promoting the syndicated website. RSS, which stands for Real Simple Syndication, works by creating a unique URL that you can use to post and read syndicated content when parsed through special RSS applications. Twitterfeed is a free, Web-based application that allows you to post any RSS feed…
Your Blogger website includes an RSS feed to which visitors can subscribe to receive new posts in their feed readers as you create the posts. If you want to know how many subscribers you have to your RSS feed, you can redirect the Blogger feed to a FeedBurner feed. FeedBurner will keep track of subscriber data. Google owns both Blogger and FeedBurner.
Link your WordPress blog or website to your Twitter account, so that every time you publish a new blog post on your WordPress blog, it automatically shows up on Twitter. You can also add your Twitter feed to your WordPress blog as a widget. TwitterFeed is a free service that links any WordPress blog feed to your Twitter account. It automatically checks your WordPress blog for post updates, and you can set the frequency.
When you have a very important announcement to make on your blog, such as a giveaway or important site news, you want to make sure that all of the visitors to the blog see it. If you continue to publish blog posts, a normal post will get buried beneath the most recent posts. WordPress allows you to bypass the normal posting options by using a "sticky" post. A sticky post is a post that remains at the top of your blog regardless of how many posts you write after it.
While blogs and podcasts allow people to get their messages across, feeds are one-way content publishers on the Web used to increase a site's audience. Published articles automatically promote on your feed, allowing readers to choose where to access your content, from the computer or mobile device applications. Google FeedBurner allows you to publish your feeds, promote new posts and track consumers with embedded traffic analysis. For extra revenue, monetize your Google feed with Adsense, earning you money as your audience increases.
Your Twitter profile is a steady glimpse into the events of your day or a marketing tool for your business. You can tweet about your work or about something going on in town. When you use social media and gather Twitter followers that you do not personally know, protecting your privacy and security is a priority. You can remove your location from any tweets you publish and from your Twitter profile.
Many people use social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to promote their blogs and alert their followers, friends and personal network to any new posts they update with. Most people manually cut and paste a link to the individual blog posts with brief descriptions to each social network, but this can be time consuming and allows for many errors. The solution is to register for a free Twitterfeed account, which will post your new blog posts to Facebook and Twitter automatically each time you update your blog.
Until recently, Google did not offer a direct method of synchronizing FeedBurner with Twitter. Users had to rely upon third-party services like TwitterFeed to sync the two accounts. You can now include your FeedBurner feed on Twitter by adding your Twitter account username and password from within the FeedBurner platform. The setup process takes only a few minutes to complete and tweets will begin appearing instantly.
If you have a blog, sharing your new blog posts on Twitter can be an effective way to promote your blog, increase your readers and let your followers know you've posted new content. Many blog owners manually update their Twitter accounts by copying and pasting the URLs of new blog posts to Twitter, but this can be very time-consuming. With a free Twitterfeed account, you can automatically syndicate your blog's RSS feed to post onto your Twitter account each time you make a new post.
Blogger.com allows for multiple authors to write on one blog. Authors that are not the original creator of the blog will need permission from the primary holder of the Blogger account. Once permission has been granted to an individual, that person will then have the ability to write or edit the blog in the same way as the primary account holder. Multiple people can be added to the permission list for a Blogger account.
Twitter Tools is a plugin for WordPress blogs that makes it easy for you to tweet links to your blog posts. If you decide you don't want to use Twitter Tools anymore, you will need to deactivate the plugin and, if you're sure, delete it altogether. Deactivating a plugin will stop it from performing its functions, but retains the settings so it's easier to reactivate it later; deleting the plugin removes it from your account completely, requiring you to reinstall it and input the settings again if you want to use it later on.
When adding a URL to your business card, you want to make sure that the website is relevant to your business and image. People will be able to visit your website easily. The exact method for adding a URL to your business card depends almost entirely upon how you're designing the card -- the procedure for adding a field is different on VistaPrint and Moo, which varies from FedEx's custom design service. However, the same general etiquette and rules apply no matter how you design your business cards.
Setting a blog post to always appear at the top of Blogger is often done to alert readers to site news, announce events or introduce new readers to your website. There are two different methods for setting a post to the top of Blogger, each providing slightly different benefits. By setting a post publication to a future date, you can ensure a post is kept at the top while also appearing in your RSS feed. Alternatively, by adding a sticky post page element to your template, you can easily control the content of the entry without changes appearing in your…
Publishing your Blogger posts to your Twitter profile is a simple way to gain both exposure and traffic, but, as of the time of publication, Blogger does not offer a plug-in to post directly to Twitter. Blogger is, however, owned by Google, which means you can access other Google services with the Google ID associated with your Blogger account. Feedburner in particular offers a variety of services, including automatically sending your Blogger posts to your Twitter profile.
Although they're often seen as rivals, Facebook and Twitter do work together in some ways. For example, the sites have allowed you to easily link your Twitter account to your Facebook profile and fan pages. By automatically republishing your tweets as Facebook status updates, you'll save time and make communication across multiple social networks easier, and sharing a link to your Twitter profile on Facebook could help get you more followers.
Blogger is a blogging platform from Google that allows users to send blog posts directly from their email account as an email message. This feature enables them to communicate with their subscribers without having to log in to the Blogger website. The special email address that is created in the process can be used from anywhere, and from any Web browser. Users can set up their Blogger account to allow this feature in a few simple steps.
Twitter is the popular site that allows you to update your followers in status updates of up to 140 characters. These updates are like mini-blog posts and are called "tweets." You can manually update your Twitter account through the Web interface or on your mobile phone. If you have a blog or another external site that has an RSS feed, you can also add these feeds to your Twitter account to automatically update your Twitter status each time you post.
One of the benefits of using Twitter is that you can communicate with hundreds of people on a daily basis, even if you don't live on the same side of the world. This also means that if you don't tweet on a regular basis, people will notice and may unfollow you. If you're going away for a bit and still want to post regular tweets, you can use one of the many websites that allows you to schedule Twitter posts.
Twitter users tend to update their Twitter timelines frequently, and since timelines only show a limited number of messages at a time, you may want to mark specific messages that you find poignant or informative to revisit at a later time. The official Twitter site and many Twitter applications support favorites, a function that serves exactly this purpose.
When people visit your blog, they see your latest posts---entries typically ordered by publication date. With each visit the posts change. Your newest entries supersede the older ones. If you want to create something static that your readers can find each time they visit---for example, a contact page or an article explaining who you are---use Blogger's Page feature.
When time is money, it pays to streamline the process for marketing your business online. To save you the few minutes each day that you spend logging in to multiple social networking sites, you can instead direct your updates from Facebook to automatically update your Twitter feed. Anyone with administrator access to a Facebook fan page and the login information for a particular Twitter feed can make this happen.
As a social media platform, Twitter is a powerful tool you can use to connect to people with similar interests. You may also use Blogger, Google's free blogging platform. You may want to link to your blog on Twitter each time you make a new Blogger post. With twitterfeed.com you can set up a free account that will post your Blogger links to Twitter automatically as you post them.
You may spend a lot of time keeping your Twitter followers updated with tweets, and find that you would like to share the same information with your friends on Facebook. If your Facebook friends pay more attention to Facebook than they do to Twitter, or if they don't have Twitter accounts, they can miss out on what you have to say. However, you can easily bridge the two social networking sites by adding Twitter to your Facebook page.
Twitter is a useful tool to gain an audience, keep them updated and spur interest in your brand. With Twitter plugins, you can boost your presence and attract and track your followers. These tools are developing and changing all the time, so plugins that are state-of-the-art today are quickly replaced by new versions.
Twitter works in real time, which means the moment you post your 140-character-or-less status updates, or "tweets," they are out there for the world to see. Unfortunately, once you post a tweet you can't edit its content. You can, however, delete a tweet if you want to permanently remove it from your Twitter stream and profile. The number of people who see your tweet before you delete it depends entirely on how many followers you have.
Twitter's popularity has grown exponentially to the point that famous people like Barack Obama and Lady Gaga are "tweeting" about what their hour-to-hour activities. Twitter reflects a growing trend of sharing information through social media, particularly because making your Twitter profile private doesn't necessarily mean it won't be indexed by Google.
Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to communicate with other users in 140 characters or fewer. If you are sharing a link or you have a story to tell, you may exceed the 140 character limit. When this occurs, you can do one of two things. You can use an outside service to send a long tweet to your Twitter account or you can shorten the URL in your tweet.
Twitter is a popular social networking site that allows you to post short musings in 140 character sentences using your computer, mobile phone or gaming console. At times you may wish to show videos to your friends through Twitter. Follow a simple procedure and "tweet" your friends a link to view your video messages.
Twitter is more than a place for socialization; it can also be a powerful tool for professionals, even when searching for a job. If you have a lot of followers on Twitter, it may be tempting to simply upload your resume online, tweet the link and hope for the best. Even if you have thousands of followers, however, chances are good very few of them will actually click the link. To maximize your chances of success, it's best to use both a Twitter application for resumes as well as the best hashtags when tweeting your resume.
Twitter Tools is a Wordpress plugin that you can add to the home-page display of your personal or commercial website. The plugin itself is particularly useful because it integrates your Twitter account with your website. Although your full Twitter or website URL is not displayed within the tweets, you can still post the URL as the header of the Twitter Tools sidebar box.
A webinar is a form of conference, such as a lecture, workshop or seminar, which is transmitted over the Internet. Webinars tend to be fully interactive discussions, with all attendees allowed to ask and answer questions, debate topics and offer relevant insights. Attendees often need to register for the live webinar, then visit the host website and log on to make contributions. As webinars are available to the global population, not every stakeholder will be able to attend. So to make a closed webinar available, you will need to distribute it across various multimedia channels.
Twitter allows you to participate in a running dialog by including your own thoughts, sharing the thoughts of others and providing links. Twitter's 140-character limit makes it difficult to include a message and link, but URL shorteners, some of which shorten URLs automatically, can solve this problem. Since using a shortener will make it impossible to know where the link is coming from, tell people what link they are opening.
Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows users to share photos, music and links, as well as the normal short messages that the service has become renowned for. Posting links to Twitter can be a bit challenging when a user is trying to stay within the 140-character limit, but can be done using a URL-shortening service.
Twitter is a social networking site that allows its users to communicate with each other in 140 words or less. Users can follow updates from celebrities, companies, news stations and friends. This simplified form of blogging lets users post photos, attach links and even share videos with friends. However, once you have posted a tweet, there's no way to edit it unless you delete the entire thing. There are two similar ways to delete tweets.
After telling the world you just saw your favorite celebrity, you realized you spelled his name wrong, or you were going to meet a friend somewhere but changed your mind. Panic goes through your mind because you don’t want to be embarrassed by your mistake. Although you sent your 140-character tweet to the world, you can delete it in a matter of seconds.
Social networking is fast becoming the primary form of communication for many people. From social networking sites like Facebook to the micro-blogging giant Twitter, people are turning to the Internet to tell the world what they are doing. Savvy users that participate in both Twitter and Facebook may want the ability to not have to repeat themselves and be able to broadcast their thoughts across platforms without having to retype their messages. Luckily there are several easy ways to make your Twitter updates appear on your Facebook account.
Social networking has gone to the birds. Celebrities, politicians and everyday people are tweeting on a daily basis. Twitter continues to grow in popularity, and posts to this popular online networking site come from anyone, anywhere. You can use Twitter to promote your band or just tell the world what is on your mind. No matter what you type, you are limited to 160-character entries, but posting a picture can sometimes speak 1,000 words. It is easy to do and totally free using Twitter's photo site, Twitpic.
Twitter has become an essential Web tool for staying in contact with people. If you have a website, it is even more of a useful resource because you can easily post live links without needing to know HTML coding. Your "followers," those who choose to receive your updates, are notified immediately. Your posts can be sent to your blog and they also become searchable on Twitter. In this way, you allow your website to reach a much larger audience.
Providing interesting content on twitter is important if you want to grown your network.
Twitter is a free social messaging service that allows its users to receive updates on other user's answers to the question, "What are you doing now?" They call these updates "tweets," which are are sent via short text messages. You can receive tweets by visiting the Twitter website, IM, SMS, RSS or email. You can send tweets from your Twitter profile, your mobile phone, IM account or via a third-party Twitter client. If you have already established a presence on Twitter (have a Twitter account), you may wonder how to add pictures. Twitter doesn't have a picture posting feature of…
If you have a Blogger blog and a Twitter account, automatically feeding your blog posts to Twitter can save a lot of time and hassle.
