Social Media Right

Extend Your Network: Mr. Tweet Takes You on The Street

http://mrtweet.com

Mr. Tweet dot com is an interesting Beta app running to compliment the use of Twitter. When you have people in your network that you appreciate and value enough to want to do that little bit something more, you can use Mr. Tweet as a promotional vehicle that keeps track of their recommendations. It’s essentially another good way for anyone to give and collect testimonials/recommendations with others.

What I liked about it:

• The presentation of users following me that I had not yet followed back gave me a nice birds eye view of each person, and allowed me to follow back with a simple Tweet.
• Recommendations showed me other Twitter users Mr. Tweet suggests I follow. I didn’t look into how it determines this, though from the display, my guess says it is based upon my networks conversations just out of my reach.
• The immediate feedback mechanism built into the interface so Mr. Tweet can get the user experience feedback on the spot in order to improve what they’re creating.

What I didn’t like about it:

• For what it does, there wasn’t much I didn’t like about it. Given their feedback feature, I was able to bring up the one item that I felt would benefit the system. About to share it here, it got me onto a full explanation that I’m posting to the General subject category for everyone’s benefit.

Hootsuite: Hoo Do You Want to Hoot Too?

All I can say is, “About bloody time!”

I know functionality is a key driver in the initial stages of creating any new application. The online realms are no different. As such, I’ve chomped down on my lower lip and muscled through many of the online apps thus far to help me streamline my Twitter experience. Busy with clients, building sites, promoting social media, others sites, and so on — there is a LOT to DO — it’s rare that I find much time to really enjoy gabbing and when I do, I’m too damn tired! Not fair, eh? :p

Okay, enough of that pity party. HootSuite showed up here recently with a beautifully laid out interface that allows managing multiple Twitter Accounts, Schedule Later Tweets (didn’t see recurring/spinnable  unfortunately), integrated stats for links clicked and really what I would consider a clean and easy to follow adminstration dashboard. None of what they offer as I’ve mentioned so far is terribly unique, but I still stand firmly by the major kudos for a great interface that is doing more for usability and functionality.

What Else Stands Out?

Add Editor to help manage accounts. Wow! In others, this feature is quite different, and in the case of Tweetlater is one that insists all who manage tweets from the pro version must also be pro buyers. Well, if everyone were paying for the pro version, then us pros wouldn’t need the pro version to provide services for others, right?

It looks to me like HootSuite has seen the writing on that wall and is enabling a more seamless means to manage accounts and permissions to help people in organizations manage projects and campaigns.

I still have much more finicking here with HootSuite to do as I’ve literally just cracked open the door tonight and got all excited. Check their About Page and see their list of features. By the way, did I mention these are some local boys in Vancouver, British Columbia?

Flickr-ize and Extend Your Site’s Reach

Flickr has long been the first recognized social media site of the Web 2.0 phenomena. Started to provide a medium for amateur photographers to share their photos online, it quickly revealed the social component that brought tremendous exposure for many. Most people don’t realize that Flickr has gone far beyond just being a place to upload photos. With many social media elements, rss feeds, slideshows, groups, and so forth, the opportunity to leverage the medium is only limited by the imagination. Those “in-the-know” permission their image-work under different Creative Commons licensing.

Stay tuned for more opportunities and tips using Flickr.

Raise Your Twitter Efficiency with TwitIQ

TwitIQ is a pretty layout, interface, and toolset that is feature-rich. If offers a visually helpful keyword cloud that gives a good picture of your account’s conversations, along with the # hash tag conversations. The Channel feature allows you to set up search/sort criteria that you can follow more easily in the filtered stream.

Depending upon your preferences and needs for managing accounts and engaging your online Twitter crowd, you may find this a comfortable companion to what you already use, or a superb replacement. Only you’ll know that as you check it against what it is you do with Twitter. At the very least, it’s usefulness is obvious for those looking at their Twitter accounts and statistics from various angle to gain the best advantages.

Google Directory Gets You Found Fast

Google Business Directory, Local Business Centre, is tied to Google Maps. Adding your business, services, location, and other details relevant to your industry, including the link-back to your website gets you found for the keywords relevant. You can add keywords through the directory too for your listing. You can use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool to help with research.

Contact http://omcsocial.com for more detailed instructional ebook.

Get Social Media Right

Welcome to the first installment of Social Media Right. This site will gradually unfold with useful information about the use of Social Media. Currently a one man job, this may take a bit of time as each social hot-spot is covered.

On this main domain-level, you will find the little helpful tidbits that will keep you somewhat informed and educated. The big ticket items will be hosted separately in another training area for signed-up community members. I’ll have more on that for you later.

In the meantime, visit my friends at OMC Social Media Solutions for the current educational news items.

leedman at 14:20 on 4 May 2009

Yes, the one man show is glad to be a part of this and finally getting a space together for ...