Pelan namun pasti, twitter sudah diakui pengaruhnya di jagad maya Indonesia. Sudah jutaan orang Indonesia yang menggunakannya. Mulai dari artis, penyanyi, pemasar, politikus, olah ragawan, orang IT, wartawan, orang iklan, rohaniwan, sampai orang umum pun nge-tweet.
Ada yang bisa memanfaatkannya dengan baik, seperti Pandji Pragiwaksono (artis, presenter, rapper) nge-tweet untuk membentuk citranya sebagai artis yang peduli dengan ke-Indonesiaan, namun ada pula yang gagal memasuki lingkungan twitter seperti Mario Teguh (motivator) karena tweet-nya yang kontroversial.
Beberapa produk (brand) pun sudah memasuki twitter. Bahkan, perusahaan-perusahaan yang masuk dalam jajaran 100 perusahaan TOP dunia kebanyakan telah menggunakan twitter sebagai salah satu alat pemasarannya.
Bagaimana dengan Anda? Sudah punya account di twitter? Apakah Anda juga menggunakan twitter untuk memasarkan diri dan atau brand Anda?
Berikut ini beberapa tips yang semoga bisa membantu Anda ketika memanfaatkan twitter sebagai alat pemasaran.
Pertama, nge-tweetlah sesuatu yang bernas. Ingat, twitter merupakan microblogging, dibatasi 140 karakter untuk sekali posting. Jadi, cobalah untuk nge-tweet sesuatu yang berkualitas seputar topik yang kita tekuni atau di mana kita terlibat. Jika memang tweet Anda bermutu, pasti akan banyak yang me-retweet. Apa untungnya ketika Anda diretweet? Tentu saja, Anda akan lebih banyak dikenal, sehingga akan difollow, dan pendapat anda dijadikan referensi.
Kedua, follow orang-orang yang sekiranya penting bagi Anda. Follow orang / tokoh yang selingkungan dengan ceruk pasar Anda. Follow juga website-website penyedia referensi penting tentang dunia Anda.
Ketiga, pantau tweet dari lingkungan ceruk pasar Anda. Kemudian, berinteraksilah dengan mereka. Ciptakan dialog dengan mereka. Bila perlu, tambahkan sesuatu yang bernilai ketika berinteraksi.
Keempat, ikutilah apa yang sedang menjadi trending topik. Paling tidak, yang sedang tren di timelines Anda dan di ceruk pasar Anda. Twitter adalah social media yang real time. Jadi, ikutilah. Tapi tetap ingat, saringlah informasi-informasi yang penting.
Kelima, integrasikan blog / website Anda dengan twitter. Jika perlu, gunakan robot twitter. Tentang pembuatan robot twitter telah dibahas dalam website ini.
Keenam, ketika Anda / brand Anda sedang mengadakan program-program atau acara, baik offline maupun online, jangan segan untuk “melaporkan”nya secara real time melalui twitter.
Ketujuh, ciptakan karakter Anda. Mungkin ini yang butuh proses agak lama. Yang terpenting adalah, konsistensi. Konsisten dengan topik yang Anda tweet, konsisten dengan bahasa Anda, dan konsisten dengan kontinyuitas tweet Anda.
Semoga tips tersebut bermanfaat. Jika Anda punya tips lain, saya sangat senang jika Anda mau berbagi juga di sini.
…not surprised to discover how ignorant this Twitter business is. Okay, so I was away from the internet for about 18 months. I return to find this latest fad called Twitter. I have been on the net for 9 years (okay – 7 and a half if you want to be precise) and I have seen a lot of silly ideas pass across my browser. But this is really one of the real doosies of modern communication.
I was curious as to what this Twitter biz was all about. Was it a new kind of blog? Or just another plea to get me to join another useless forum or message board group of idiots who can’t talk about anything related to the subject of the board or forum. Anyway, I sign up and begin to try to use this crappy piece of useless techno junk. Within a few seconds, I realize that this is just a sort of electronic game of tag. I supposed to follow so and so around all day and read his or her little dribbles of info, like “Going to the store now..” and I am in turn supposed to write to him or her back something like “Good, hope the store has what you want.” Now another person is supposed to join into the conversation and add something like, “What store are you going to?”
I suppose that Twitter is in line with the current fad of text messaging every detail of your working day off to the world. I suppose it also is in line with the theory that everyone has such an interesting life that people from all corners of the globe want to know precisely what you are doing 24 hours of the day.
Bull hockey!
This is just another childish fad, another cheap plea for attention from spoiled twenty-first century children, like the way they took MTV and turned it from a show about rock n roll with real music videos 24 hours a day (yes, real music videos with no ads and nothing to buy), took MTV and turned it into a campus fashion show. Twitter is as useless as beepers, and more annoying to the intellect of human beings than silly putty on an ice cream cone. I guess I am just too mature to handle this latest craze of text crapola. It will pass eventually, like a bad meal, or like tattoos and poking metal rings into every corner of your body. And when it passes, someone will write a book about “How I Spent My Summer Vacation Twittering Away Every Detail of My Life and How No One Really Gave a Crap… continued in Book 2, The Twittering Nightmares!”
So…………… I leave you with this PHOTO THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Britney Spears was the beginning to a long line of pop stars. A lot of them owe their respects to Brit, however one of today’s “biggest” pop stars is denying Brit the respect that she deserves.
In Ke$ha’s new song “Styrofoam” she sings about how nothing ever lasts and how nothing is permanent, except for styrofoam that is. She disesses the songstress in a line, which has created a trending topic on Twitter (#Keshawho)
The line goes, “In 10 years, Britney Spears…Britney, who?”
Ke$ha has only recently become famous from her single Tik Tok, and her other song featuring 3OH!3 Blah Blah Blah ( A huge disappointment ) Now she is making it seem she has taken the throne away from every other pop star out their. Sorry Ke$ha your brand new and talentless, Brit has been around since the 90’s making hit after hit, what have you done? Made 2 catchy songs, thats it. Like Britney or not, she’s been around for over 10 years, and she’s still on top with her most recent successful single, 3.
MY PERSONAL MESSAGE TO KE$HA-
It is not hygienic to brush your teeth with a bottle of jack, I use toothpaste. Second if I felt like Pdiddy in the morning, I would go to the doctors, third-You are the degenerate sister of Hannah Montana with the idea that you are a rebel because you don’t bathe and wear leather… classy
Wherever you go people are talking about Twitter. It certainly is a great way to “micro blog” things.
If you have a mobile then it’s not possible to not be able to tweet as long as you have a signal. There have also been various applications on every phone that’ll let you tweet more easily.
Most notably on Nokia devices is a program called Gravity. Great interface, loads of features and a joy to use.
Android has loads of different Twitter apps, some are good, some are too basic but there has yet to be an official Twitter application.
Androidandme.com has reported rumours that this may actually be on the way to Android devices. Whether you’ll actually want or need to use this application will obviously be down to your personal preference.
Those of us who will be using the HTC Sense UI will have built-in Twitter access so may not need to look elsewhere.
Have a read of the Androidandme.com article and see what you think
My brain is overloading with the coolness of this little LEGO robot. On top of being remote-controlled, NIKO can receive its commands via Twitter! Now that’s a cool use of social-robo-networking!
There’s lots of competition, you’ll have to get lots of views for your content and you’ll have to do so fast. So why subject yourself to that? Because, quite simply, to do otherwise is to leave your business in your competition’s dust. YouTube content receives more than a billion views every day, and if you aren’t getting a piece of that pie your business is never going to flourish as much as it could.
The good news is this: There is some expert help out there. Social media marketing experts uSocial.net have figured out how to change the video marketing game in your favor. They’ve added a new service to their roster of social network marketing products, and this latest addition is designed to help you make money through video marketing. How, you ask, is this possible? They’ve figured out a way to help you get the video views necessary for success – by buying them.
“After we launched our other social marketing services, we saw video as the next obvious means for expansion,” says uSocial.net CEO Leon Hill. “Once we found a way to quickly generate loads of quality views to videos, we knew we were onto something that people would go crazy for.”
USocial.net can bring video viewers to your content either from within YouTube or through other social sites like blogs.
Hill says that what makes the company different is that they “can guarantee fast, targeted traffic to videos, instead of relying on traditional means like hoping for viral use, or pay-per-click advertising,” explains Hill.
Bollywood celebs like Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar are on Twitter to connect with friends and fans, but actor Parvin Dabbas found a novel way to use it – he got a title for his directorial venture thanks to the social networking site.
“It was actually Mr. Anupam Kher who suggested to me to take to Twitter to hunt for the title,” Parvin told IANS over telephone.
The actor had initially announced a cash reward of Rs.15,000 to whoever would suggest a title that he would choose.
“I had announced about the cash reward within my cast and crew. One day Anupam-ji came and asked me to post it on Twitter as well. He also Tweeted about it. We had a few other titles but finally ‘Sahi Dhande Galat Bande’ was selected,” he said.
Parvin is still trying to find out who gave him the film’s title. The only cue is that he is one among Anupam Kher’s 26,420 followers on Twitter.
“We are figuring out who the person is and where he lives. If he’s someone from outside Mumbai, we’ll get him here and give the reward,” said Parvin, who has acted in films like “Monsoon Wedding”, “Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara” and “Khosla ka Ghosla”.
Parvin’s “Sahi Dhande Galat Bande” is an action comedy with a political twist, and revolves around a gang of four guys. Apart from Anupam, the film also stars Vansh Bharadwaj of “Heavens on Earth” fame, newcomers Kuldeep, Ashish Nair and Tina Desai.
The cast also includes Kiran Juneja, Sharat Saxena, Yashpal Sharma, Neena Kulkarani and Vipin Sharma.
Parvin is not only directing the film but is also acting in it. Asked if it was difficult to tackle both the responsibilities, he said: “I did a lot of preparation in terms of storyboarding as well as acting. I knew how I would be handling it.”
Delhi boy Parvin has mostly shot the film in various parts of the capital and claims his film doesn’t cater to a specific audience.
“I am not a kind of person who keeps a target audience in mind. It is a film that will be watched in multiplexes, single screens across towns and cities,” said the actor.
“It has been an interesting journey. I am happy to get work that I enjoy. I try to do something that people would enjoy and get entertained,” he said.
Apart from his directorial venture, Parvin is also doing films like “Undertrial” and “Alibaug”.
Instead of mapping out a long-awaited plan to sell ads on Twitter, CEO Evan Williams yesterday unveiled a new feature, “@anywhere,” that allows other Web sites to link to Twitter feeds. Users will be able to send tweets through participating sites without having to jump to Twitter. AllThingsDigital/MediaMemo: When will we see Twitter’s planned ad platform? WebNewser: Twitter’s Evan Williams on what @anywhere means for publishers.
We’re in a new stage of consumer evolution thanks to the latest advancements in technology. The last decade has seen Myspace, Facebook, the Wii, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, Hulu, Netflix, iPods, iPads, and the myriad of innovative explosive consumer cache that these devices inherently spawn.
Facebook games, iPhone applications, and product placement are only a few examples of the highly (surprisingly) profitable weeds that sprouted from capitalism’s planter.
Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon professor and former Disney imagineer, spoke at the 2010 Design Innovate Communicate Entertain (DICE) Summit about these capitalist wet-dreams.
“Facebook is weird,” he announces to the crowd, “Webkinz. Wha? Really?”
Technology is revolutionizing not only our relationship with technology but our relationship with reality. Webkinz is so obscenely successful because it employs psychological tricks to keep our children playing. All the games on the website are free – in which you earn points and in game money – but the only way to spend your hard earned money is to pay a small monthly fee.
In 2007 Club Penguin, a children’s internet game, was purchased for 350 million dollars by Disney.
According to tech crunch there are over 350 million Facebook users. By the end of 2009, Twitter reached 18 million users. Now, note that there are more Farmville accounts than Twitter accounts; the massively popular facebook game has purportedly surpassed 80 million active users.
The law of inertia finds that technology converges: Refrigerators fit with wi-fi, computer/tv screen, and anything else you could possibly imagine – or want – from one kitchen appliance.
Pockets are the exception.
“Pockets turn the law of divergence inside out,” said Schell, “The iPhone is a modern digital swiss army knife.”
Schell’s speech, “Design Outside the Box” is fairly short (28 minutes) and extremely interesting. The last few minutes are a cheeky but probably not so inaccurate extrapolation of what our future will look like wrapped in Tech. Here is one of Schell’s many extrapolations: internet-synched ad tattoos. Scenario: See a friend at a BBQ who has the same ad-tattoo as you. The ads “link-sync” and you and your friend high five – because that is how you score points in the ‘game’ (winning you and your friend achievements which you can use for tax breaks). This ‘game’ teaches you to pay more attention to ads.
It makes more sense if you watch the video, which I’ll post below. I also linked directly to the video in the beginning of this article.
Xbox 360 Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5
The extent to which we are immersed – and continue to be immersed – in technology reminds me of the award winning Young Adult novel Feed by M.T. Anderson.
This is Amazon’s summary: In this chilling novel, Anderson (Burger Wuss; Thirsty) imagines a society dominated by the feed a next-generation Internet/television hybrid that is directly hardwired into the brain. Teen narrator Titus never questions his world, in which parents select their babies’ attributes in the conceptionarium, corporations dominate the information stream, and kids learn to employ the feed more efficiently in School. But everything changes when he and his pals travel to the moon for spring break. There Titus meets home-schooled Violet, who thinks for herself, searches out news and asserts that “Everything we’ve grown up with the stories on the feed, the games, all of that it’s all streamlining our personalities so we’re easier to sell to.” Without exposition, Anderson deftly combines elements of today’s teen scene, including parties and shopping malls, with imaginative and disturbing fantasy twists. “Chats” flow privately from mind to mind; Titus flies an “upcar”; people go “mal” (short for “malfunctioning”) in contraband sites that intoxicate by scrambling the feed; and, after Titus and his friends develop lesions, banner ads and sit-coms dub the lesions the newest hot trend, causing one friend to commission a fake one and another to outdo her by getting cuts all over her body.
But the title of this post targets advertising.
Hulu introduced us (and has already spoiled us) to easy, legally accessible, virtually commercial free TV viewing. A half hour show will typically have about 3 thirty second ads.
One might assume viewers could sit through a 30 second ad and indeed, we might, if only advertisers tailor their systems to the internet. So far they have taken the broadcast commercial and transplanted it directly into online viewing, an arena that is submerged in distractions – even for thirty seconds of free time. Thus, these same old, flat, repetitive commercials are not keeping holding internet-attention spans. And thus, the 30 second time spot is already dead.
Here is a very thorough post by Frank detailing the reasons we should rightly hold a memorial for the 30 second advertising slot. He concludes: “The bottom line is this: advertisers and marketers need to embrace new media now or else.”
The two “new media” approaches I see having a future online are: storyboard and interactive ads.
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One thing that makes commercials so unbearable, especially for me, is redundancy. I can’t stand seeing the same (usually boring) commercial several times in one night – and on the same channel. Hulu is a front line offender with its 15 second to 2 minute ads. With only one ad per spot (about 3 spots/ 40 min show), Hulu often plays the same ad in each spot. Viewers already have distraction at their fingertips by virtue of watching from the internet and consequently will abandon an ad – even if only for a 15 second Twitter quickie – even faster than tv watchers.
There are two hulu ads which stand apart from this trend. One is interactive and literally lets the viewer explore a set scene (say, a barbershop) to discover facts about a product such as shampoo or combs. The second ad is actually a series of ads that play out essentially like three acts in a play. Act 1: see boy at soccer game make a mud-sliding save. Act 2: mother applies detergent [product] to uniform Act 3: clean underwear all around.
I even see multiple products advertised in one storyboard ad. Perhaps, both detergent and the type of washing machine.
This could be seen as already in use by shows that incorporate a good amount of product placement (30 Rock). I do wonder if product placement will become standard in all television shows in place of, or in addition to, 30 second commercial spots. (Let’s hope it doesn’t go too overt e.g. The Truman Show).
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Frankly, I am surprised at how lethargic advertisers have been to adapting to the internet. As a frequent and primarily internet-television viewer, I do not want to be bored by ads. I welcome those ads are find a happy medium between intrusive in my browsing and flat, boorish designs.
My sister and I used to play a game in movie theaters giving thumbs up or down to trailers to indicate our anticipation level for the advertised movie. I would imagine that everyone in the theater could hit a button “thumbs up or down” and the theater’s collective interest or disinterest would show up on the screen after each trailer. People live to interact with their technology. We love integration, adaptation, and enhanced reality (just a shade shy of actual reality). See: motion-detecting video games and games like Second Life.
How long will it take for advertisers to evolve with the rest of us? And how far are we willing to take it?
I recently saw a cartoon that I thought was both very funny and very sad. It shows a young man, presumably the boyfriend, chastising a young woman, presumably the girlfriend. He’s telling her that he recently checked his texts, his voice mail, his Blackberry, Facebook, and Myspace and couldn’t find any updates from her, that it was like she had dropped off the face of the planet. He was practically distraught, he says. The girl responds by asking him if he has checked Twitter. When he does, he reads aloud, “Going to the bathroom. Be back in two minutes.” What makes it funny is how utterly true it is. What makes it sad is how utterly true it is.
I have a friend who has her cell phone synced to several people’s FB status updates, a half a dozen Twitter feeds, weather reports from four or five cities, as well as alerts whenever someone responds to her comments and updates and blog entries. That’s in addition to the regular influx of text messages she gets from however many friends she is in near constant contact with. It’s safe to say that if her cell phone isn’t going off every two to three minutes the battery is dead. I once (or twice or three times) suggested that she turn it off for an afternoon and spend the time going for a walk, alone with just herself and her thoughts. She informed that there was no way she could do that. She has to stay busy, she has to stay connected, she has to stay (my words) distracted.
And that’s what it really is all about. Staying distracted. For most people these days the scariest place on earth to be is alone, and the scariest person in the world to be there with is themselves. An hour of absolute, uninterrupted quiet time would be unbearable for them. The most foreign place in their world is their own mind. And so they fill each waking moment with distractions and deaden each sleeping moment with sedatives to keep from having to journey into that most unfamiliar place.
And what of that place? What is there that is so frightening, so foreign, so unfaceable? I really don’t know. I grew up in a farming community in the Appalachians. I spent many days wandering up into the hills and through the woods with nothing but my thoughts to keep me company. I have spent more time in my own head than anywhere else on earth. That is a practice I have carried into my adult life. To take a break from the noise, the crowds, from the external , seems to me not just a natural thing to do, but an essential one. I have to get away from time to time to cleanse my mental palate. I walk the trails in our parks from every now and then and the other walkers I pass almost always have earbuds in, or are talking on their cell phones. Why come to a place of contemplation and then not contemplate? They are simply passing by on their way from one place to another. Their trip along this trail through the woods is emblematic of the trips they take through their own minds. Hurrying along, comforted by distractions, they are there out of some vague notion that this is supposed to be good for you. “Walks in the woods can be very relaxing,” says the article in Distractions Illustrated. “Cool,” says the distracted person. “I think I’ll take a walk in the woods. I wonder if they have Wi-Fi there.”
How did we come to this? I’m not sure, really, except that the media has told us we need more sound, more noise, more colors and flashing lights in our lives. We need to stay connected/em>, we’ve been told. And we’ve believed them. I’m not so old that I can’t remember a silent house. TV off by 9:00 PM, my parents on the porch in the darkness—my mom most likely smoking a cigarette and my dad most likely having a beer— and me in my room or, sometimes in summer, on the porch with them. Each of us alone in our own heads. And none of us distracted. Scary thought, eh?
I haven’t done a very good job of keeping track of the time spent on the site for the last two weeks. I know I’ve spent a lot of time, just not exact… I’ve been so focused on getting the blog entries edited, and finding and uploading the photos to complete the articles. But around 11:45 pm last night the last entries were completed – yay!
In our presentation, I took note of suggestions made by classmates and have made changes to the site accordingly. The letter spacing of the font has been adjusted so things aren’t so squished. I’ve added padding to the content area to align the text with the slider module. I have increased the timing on the slider module to make it less distracting, however; I can’t make the module loop. I finally found the CSS for the slider module to adjust the background colour of the module so it is the same as the wrapper colour (this took a LONG time!). I’ve also lightened up the header so it is not so dark and heavy.
I’ve worked on getting a better WYSIWYG editor installed to make editing of the articles and uploading images easier for the client. This was put into use for editing the last two dozen blog entries; uploading and adding photographs to those entries as well. I have also set up the search function on the site and it is working correctly.
This week, I also downloaded the comments modules and got that set up (that I know took about 3 hours to do site visitors can comment on the individual blog entries. I’ve also been doing some user testing on the site to see if there are any issues that need to be resolved. The group will be doing further testing once the e-commerce function is a little further along (this should be occurring early next week after our meeting with the client on Monday).
I still need to install and set up the social media sharing functions to distribute the blog entries to the client’s Facebook page and Twitter account. And finally (well, probably not finally ) there will be the client training and manual to produce!
I’m feeling very optimistic that we are getting this project done on schedule. Whew!
The portal has opened and I am faced with a smorgasbord of the latest technology. I have a blog. I am on facebook. I will soon be on twitter and linkedin. And for the life of me, I do not know what made me decide I needed to have a webcam to see around the world, but I got one. We stayed up what seemed like half the night trying to communicate across the room to find that the only cooperation we got was with Skype; imagine using Skype to call each other in the same room rather than in different countries.
It is in situations like these that I begin to question technology and wonder why I am doing any of this. It is a momentary lapse. I do still love all of this technology and pride myself in being something of a techno-geek; but right now I am a bit frustrated.
I feel a bit like the old college professor’s saying of ‘publish or perish’. I am sure I will prevail on all fronts. And as soon as I do, something new will have been invented for me to take another quantum leap in learning to use. But for now, let’s blog!
Can you sense the excitement in my voice? I just have to quickly give some props to two of my favorites – Alien Workshop and Andy Warhol. Word was released today via @thewarholmuseum on Twitter, and on Alien Workshop’s company site, that they have been working collaboratively to bring the world – wait for it, wait … Yes! Andy Warhol Skate Decks!!! Get in line; according to Alien they will be available Spring 2010. The 10 limited-edition pro decks feature work from Andy’s Death & Disaster Series, along with 5 of his iconic pop creations (they even got the packaging right!). You can find them at the Andy Warhol Museum and through Alien Workshop. Check ‘em out -
Since we’re talking emerging media, I decided to do a little checking up on these two underground mega-brands. As a designer, I’ve worked in the same town that Alien was born in, and it has been awesome to watch them grow. Apparently Alien is so cool now that it doesn’t even have to start its own brand page on Facebook. At last count, the largest FB fan page for Alien (there are several) had 8,113 fans, absolutely no posts, no company info, but 3 pages worth of fan photos – mostly of Alien boards. Those are some pretty impressive fan numbers for any brand and they should like that people are that so interested, they’re promoting the brand on their own. Alien can be found on Twitter (@alienworkshop) but be warned, not sure if this is a brand page either. There are a cool 710 followers, but only 14 tweets. The Tweets are mainly about events that seem attended by Alien. There are awesome action shots like this one:
Apparently Alien subscribes to the same mentality that most skaters do, come and find us, and see how ya like us then. Skaters are known for guerilla tactics, and Alien would be a prime candidate brand to slap a few more stickers on the walls of social media. Other big skate brands have done it and fans are flocking. Alien is already huge, but by reaching out a deck, they can continue to thrive by giving fans what they want – more Alien bada@#ness.
On To Andy
Andy’s always been a buzz builder. The man’s been dead for decades and his pop brand is still making people talk. As the man said himself – “Art is what you can get away with” (Andy Warhol). That’s what makes the union of skateboarding and pop art such a perfect fit. Skaters have been looked down on for years – arrested for using public places, picked on by class bullies, and yet, they’ve gotten back up, dusted off their chucks, and kept on riding towards the X Games. The critics never cut Andy any slack either. He did what he wanted, when he wanted, how he wanted, and where he wanted. He made art. You can like it, or you can hate it, but it’s his and he made it. And he really doesn’t care if you like it or not.
The Warhol museum and foundation are now in charge of his legacy. They’ve kept him in the spotlight with unique displays, articles, Twitter and Facebook pages, and informative Andy sites. Andy’s got buzz whether he’s dead or alive, and surely you can at least appreciate his hyped up style.
Just days before 2009 was coming to an end, two of my work colleagues decided to come to Alexandria for a day trip. There trip was to just get out of Cairo to have a change of scenery, see something new, have a fish meal and visit me. I truly enjoy it when colleagues, family or friends make a trip to Alexandria, it gives me the chance to be a host and their guide in the city that I have fallen in love with. I try and show them the hidden beauty of what is buried beneath the modern Alexandria of today.
Mariam and Radwa wanted to go some where ‘authentic’, I racked my brain and finally came up with a place that has a lot of history and was probably where the elite of foreign society used to have tea. Delice still know for it’s bakery and view of Saad Zaghlool square and the sea is where I decided to take them. My sister and I love to go there and buy their giant sized macaroons and mini meringues. My elderly neighbour ,Mme Yamna Souccar who used to live on the floor above my parents flat, loved their jam busicuits and when ever I could, I would go and buy her a box when I would go and visit her. My friends really liked the place because it had an air to it and it’s noticable in its fading decor. I be it was a spectacular place back in it’s glory days. The three of us ate our brunch, caught up on each others news and discussed where we were going to go next.
The Biblioteca Alexandrina was our next destination. We decided to leave the car in the parking area across from Delice and walk along the Corniche (sea) to the Library to work off brunch and to breath in the sea air, (plus, parking near the Library is a nightmare!) Along the promenade I pointed out some landmarks and told them stories that had be told to me and they in turn shared their experiences and memories of Alexandria.
We bought our full pass tickets to enter the Library, turned in our bags with our cell phones got our number and began our journey back in time. The first muesuem that we went in to is below the planetarium to the right. It was one I had never been to before and I have been to the Library many times, (that’s what I love about the place, no matter how many times I visit, I always see something I hadn’t seen the time before). The first was of Egypt’s assasinated President Anwar El Sadat (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/515786/Anwar-el-Sadat), looking at the items in the display cases and reading the explanations of what things were for and what he did and accomplished, I but feel sad. We as a nation lost someone great, some one with a vision and direction for the futre of Egypt.
* One of my great Uncles from the El Shindy side of the family was a politician and before Sadat came to be president, he and Sadat were in exile together. It’s strange to think that members of my family were and apart of the Royal family and others worked along side the president and shared now that personal history is lost because some greedy putts sold tapestry of our family tree and now have no chance of ever being able to retrace our linage or ancestry.
As we continued through the library and visited other exhibits, we came to my favorite. The Awad collection of maps and pictures of Alexandria. Looking at the framed maps and pictures deepened my sadness the city was breath taking. No wonder so many people chose to leave their homelands to come and live here. It had a melange of European and Oriental feel to it. Now the city as well as the country is in shambles if I was to compare it to what it used to be like,’ The pear of the Middle East’. You would think that with all our technology and education that we as a race or society of people would have advanced and improved, but I honestly think that we are moving backwards.
I have been to Saudi Arabia & Jordan and I am ashamed to admit it, but they have more pride in their country and make an effort to keep it clean. Egypt compared to them and to what it used to be like is a garbage dump. The streets are littered with trash because people throw their tissues, crisp packets, wrappers and cans from their car windows as they drive by. The garbage cans are over flowing and no one seems to care! WHY??? Don’t give me crap about it’s because our country isn’t governed by a sovereignty, what’s that got to do with being clean? Islam promotes cleanliness of self and home….then surly that should also include our country too.
I have no idea how this problem can be rectified. I don’t know if campaigning would work. I think reprogramming peoples brains maybe the only solution.
Please don’t mis-understand me. I am not against Egypt. I am very proud of my heritage and where I come from, but I find it so frustrating that we were once ‘the it spot’ in the Middle East and Mediterranean and now we aren’t when we very easily could be! I guess you could say I am just venting!
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What are YOOOOOUUUU Doing?
Our lives are filled with so much “stuff.” So much of the “stuff” is just junk that really doesn’t matter. But all that junk takes space and time. Time that could be given to “stuff” that is not junk. Ok, I’m already tired of the “quotations.”
Anyway, when was the last time you took some time to evaluate the important things? For instance, when was the last time that you evaluated the time and effort you put in to serving…the people at your church….your community….the world? What about using your gifts? When was the last time you used your gifts in the church setting?
In our American brand of Christianity, we very easily fall into the model of going to church on Sunday, hearing the message that hopefully touches us, dropping a few bucks into the offering plate, saying hi to some friends, going out to eat for lunch and then going about our week to start it all over again. What about going to church and using what God has given you to give back or minister to someone who is hurting or whatever. Then, doing it the rest of your week.
We shouldn’t go to church, but instead BE the Church. What would your Sunday be like if you went to church with that mindset?
Kindness?
Ok, this lady spent her birthday doing random acts of kindness for others. Check out the blogpost. It’s pretty awesome…and can give you some great ideas! http://mixmingleglow.com/blog/?p=1358
Zig Ziglar
If you’ve seen my other blog posts or Twitter, you would know that I’ve started downloading and listening to the Zig Ziglar podcast. I can honestly say that I feel good/pumped after listening to one of the episodes. His podcasts range from dealing with self-talk to parenting to making more sales…you name it.
I decided to visit his website and noticed that you can sign up to attend a free online webcast. They have 2 that you can currently sign up for and watch live when it happens. After you sign up, they send you the link info. through email. The next two are called, “You Gotta Get in the Game” and “The Only 3 Ways to Increase Sales.” The website is http://www.ziglar.com/home.html Check out the other resources too!
Lifelong Learning
I recently did a short video on how to find and download podcasts. You can view the video at my school blog – http://cyfair1.schoolwires.net/198720511182019637/Blog/browse.asp?A=398&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=65055
The posts are called Lifelong Learning 2a and 2b.
Sunday Sharing
This week – Galatians 3
Do you want to read Galatians 3 in a different version? You can go here - http://www.biblegateway.com/ If you want to look at Greek and Hebrew words, you can go here - http://www.studylight.org/
Small Group Questions* – Galatians 3
In this passage, Paul explained the relationship between law and faith. The law given by God is unable to save anyone because no one can perfectly follow it. It points out our sinfulness and our need for a Savior. Only Jesus, our Savior, can deliver us from our awful predicament. Only he can clothe us in his righteousness and make us right before a Holy God.
OPEN
1. What would life be like if you never made any mistakes?
EXPLORE
2. How were the Galatians attempting to live out the Christian life? (3:3)
3. What is the curse on those who depend on making rules and adhering to rules to make them right? (3:10)
4. What important element is missing in the law? (3:12)
5. What did Christ do in response to the law’s curse? (3:13)
GET IT
6. In what ways do believers try to live the Christian life in their own strength?
7. When have you felt most successful in living the way Christ desires Christians to live?
8. How does it make you feel when you really blow it in your faith?
9. What contrasts can you be drawn between rule-keeping and a relationship as a basis for spiritual living?
APPLY
10. How would change your life to make all your actions perfectly consistent with the belief that you cannot earn a good standing before God?
*taken from Ilumina Bible Software
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* Which customers or collaborators can help your business grow?
* Decision makers, always in the market for quality information.
* As long as it’s relevant, clear and concise. Really concise.
* Don’t expect them to read wordy, derivative articles or blogs.
* Or hang around networking events and flaccid Facebook pages.
* They demand real value, in messages that’ll fit on iPhone screens.
* Offer them bite-sized solutions to business problems and challenges.
* Excellent concise content can transform leaders into your followers.
* They’ll read articles like this on Twitter, posted one line at a time.
* So your messages will help business succeed for years to come.
* Just keep the messages short and sweet. Tweet tweet.
Found at Social CRM is a Journey, not a Destination – Revisited | CustomerThink.
I wrote the following in September 2009 – 6 months ago. But, I could have easily written it yesterday, and it would not be too different:
“There has been a tremendous amount great conversation during the past couple weeks, regarding Social CRM. What it is as well as what it is not. I am not sure we have reached any conclusions yet, but we have all become smarter for the insights of a great many individuals. Interestingly, I am usually a bit opinionated, but I sat on the sidelines, just observing – for the most part.
As my title suggests, I do believe that we are all (customers, businesses, implementers and vendors) on a journey.
To be continued at http://www.customerthink.com/blog/social_crm_is_a_journey_not_a_destination_revisited?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+customerthink+(CustomerThink+-+All+Content)
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Recommended read: The 5 Stages of Customer Acquisition for the Social Business (Part 2) @CustomerThink (fredzimny.wordpress.com)
Social Software – key debates revisited (cmswatch.com)
Yesterday, I was trying to analyse my hours (!) spent on social networks in a day. And its more than 7 hours a day. Seven! I almost died when I saw this number. But hey, wait, I don’t waste my time on these networks. I don’t poke, ping, peek or gossip or chit-chat. I don’t take social network for granted like most of you (none offences meant, hope none taken). I ask and ask few more. I am one of those annoying kinds who believe there is no one right answer for everything. I read and ask and answer and analyse, also like most of you.
Mechanical Zoo were the smarter ones and created Aardvark. This ask-your-friend-in-your-network technology is truly amazing. Its brilliant. For those who are new to this product, FYI, its a social serach engine that allows the users to ask or/and answer anything in real time in your network of friends (which includes Google contacts and Facebook contacts). Interesting thing is Aardvark finds that person on your behalf based on some intelligent algorithm and gets you one of your people to answer. Since Google bought it ($50 million), Aardvark is installed as one of your friends on your Google-chat list and communicate through key words like ‘pass’, ‘ask’, ‘more’ et cetera.
Here is a screen shot of my Aardvark page for you all to look.
Screenshot of Aardvark
It’s navigation is easy and simple. One can share their Aardvark’s thread and post it on Twitter or Facebook. Not only that, through my Google Inbox I can easily manage Aardvark account without logging into Aardvark page. So, whenever Aardvark sees me online, it asks me or updates me about various queries to which I can answer through Google-chat itself. Hence, no multiple window hassle.
Now coming back to those 7 hours, I spend most of my online time on social networks; of which, as anticipated, Twitter and Facebook were on the top. I love Facebook. I love it! But I love Twitter more. I am not one of those fanatic T-users but yeah, I still find it more useful. I am a sucker for news. For me twitter is more like a news aggregator. A place where I get all my news packed together on one page (from individual and trusted sources).
But there are lot of websites that I don’t follow even though I want to for a simple reason that my twitter page looks cluttered with unasked-for news feed. For example, New York Times. I still have to go to their website to read news on Business and Technology and Media. I don’t want to know their Weather news or Science & space news. It’s great and useful, just not to me. All I am trying to say is that Twitter should work on some technology that can customise news feed coming from one source based on individual necessity.
New spring/summer scents have been uploaded to the Scentsy website. I cannot wait to get my hands on these new Scentsy Bar scents. Here is a list of the spring/summer scents: cherry limeade, go-go-goji, sweet clementine, mayflower, mad about mint, plum delicious, calypso, berry blush, sugar, and grape granita. I will have these in stock soon. While you’re waiting, check out “My Scentsy Auctions” going on right now on ebay. The 3 auctions end: Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Don’t miss out on these last minute savings. Supplies are limited.
Twittollower is a new piece of twitter direct marketing software,
it is a fully automated system that targets twitter followers in your chosen niche and adds them onto your twitter account. This is done all on autopilot 24 Hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.
It’s great if your using twitter as a marketing tool as it guarantees you at least 2 thousand targeted followers each month.
If your using twitter as a marketing tool and your looking for some twitter ad marketing software then give twittollower a try.
How could I mention Twitter without talking about hashtags?
For those of you still in the dark ages (BT), hashtags are tags within your tweet (prefaced by #) which link to all posts mentioning the same tag. For example, if I mention an article about elephants, I can use the hashtags #elephants, #conservation, #wildlife, #animals, etc., in order to attract people searching for relevant tweets.
The most popular topics are listed to the right of your Twitter homepage. Don’t worry about clicking on any of them, though. The third most popular trending topic right now is #icheatedbecause. ‘Nuff said.
Like anything else in this beautiful world, hashtags are a wonderful idea which we should use wisely and in moderation. And any which use “your” incorrectly (#yourstupidbecause) should be immediately deleted.
Over the last few weeks, the Kalimatna team has been working on our presence in the wonderful world of social media. We created a page on the TYO blog where you can read more about our initiative, we began documenting our journey on flickr, and we created a Twitter feed!
While the overall goal of our project is to create a by‐youth, for‐youth multimedia kit to introduce the culture of Nablus to the world, our equally significant secondary goal is to engage an international audience in our journey. Entrez Twitter!
Twitter will allow us to share information about our work in Nablus with people beyond the city’s limits. We hope not only to imbue the image of Nablus with thoughtful and positive insights, but also to draw our audience closer to us, hold their attention and garner their support in order to improve our kit through intercultural and peer dialogue.
Kalimatna’s twitter feed will share news about our work, our journey, ourselves—our 140 character mini bios are already up–and our beloved city Nablus!
Please tweet with us @kalimatna to share your ideas about our work, our tweets and what you would like to learn about the culture and history of Nablus!
Recently, I have joined a website that allows users to ask me questions, either with their user info or the fun of anonymity. It can literally be any question in the world, from any person in the world! The thought is very intriguing – who knows, I could be explaining why I would obey the five second rule if in fact the food was delicious enough, posed by Angelina Jolie. If she has time to go on the Internet, that is. Join in on the fun at Formspring.
Also recently, I spontaneously booked a European backpacking trip to London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, and my longtime love, Paris, France for 8 fantastic days with my best friend. It stems off a much bigger issue: unemployment. I was recently laid off my job of two years last week; it was my first “real-world” job, so it’s quite a personal low for me. This is the first time I don’t have school or a part-time job to fall back on, so I’m afraid of sitting idle for too long. Several people posed the idea of taking a vacation, something I never had the time to do when I was working. Before getting too wrapped up in looking for full-time work again, or going the temp agency route, I decided I would finally to go to Europe, specifically Paris. I’ve been romantically involved with the City of Lights for as long as I can remember (I have an affair with the Big Apple), so it wasn’t a very hard choice to make. The money is tight, and the accommodations aren’t completely glamorous, but we’re going to make the most of it. I ask all of you to follow my preparations for Europe and my 8 day adventure through London, Edinburgh, and Paris March 16th-24th on Twitter. I’ll be using my personal account @stefkttn, so follow me for all the details, and of course, beautiful pictures that are sure to occur!
Finally, earlier this week, Sony’s older PS3 models started malfunctioning due to a bug in the internal clock. My fiancé is an avid PS3 gamer and was affected by the glitch, while I was just sort of annoyed that I couldn’t watch any Blu-Rays. On the flip side, a rather robust gentleman had some choice (and hilarious) words for Sony, as heard and seen below in my Video Kudos this week:
For my Media Copywriting class this semester, I added Twitter use to the syllabus. I didn’t add it for the sake of saying I was using Twitter to teach — after all, I preach goals first, tools second. My particular goal involved trying to boost and broaden class discussion.
A perennial challenge is that, while my students are bright and articulate, they often prove reluctant to participate in, or initiate, class discussion. I decided to start them 140 characters at a time. Their homework, on most class days, includes an assignment to answer via Twitter with a class-relevant hashtag. These work best when cultivating more thinking than a simple quantitative response. Top tweet topics so far include:
- Name a Super Bowl™ ad you thought was effective and why. As I’ve said before, having the Super Bowl™ during a class that involves advertising is a boon. Using students’ Twitter responses, I could call on them directly, show the ad they mention and ask for their analysis. When I tried this without Twitter, even as an official assignment, drawing participation was more difficult.
- What do you think your brand’s biggest weakness is? Students tend to select the brands they’ll work with their semester (Nike, Dunkin Donuts, Tim Hortons, Wegmans, Fender, etc.) based on strengths or qualities they like. But knowing a brand’s weakness, or perceived weakness, can inform the creative process as well, and provides a nice entree to critical thinking. It also ties into a research assignment I give them that involves a SWOT analysis, finding target demographics/psychographics and critiquing their brands’ current campaign.
- Tweet about the first thing you encountered on Thursday that annoyed you. They looked at me funny when I assigned it, but nonetheless talked about roommates, landlords, sinus headaches, slow drivers and other professors. I was providing practice in InDesign, so my in-class assignment was: Do an ad for a product (real or imagined) that would solve your problem (which also illustrates the suffering point concept). The students came up with all kinds of products including landlord repellent, traffic-beating hovercraft and The Shrink Ray, which neutralizes annoying psychiatrists. The amount of ingenuity many put into it was impressive, and the opportunity to blend creativity with problem-solving quite valuable.
As with the creative process itself, the quality of answers are only as good as the questions asked, so my challenge is to keep coming up with good questions. And I’ve noticed the class doesn’t interact with each other (although they do with me) on Twitter — though those accustomed to interacting via Facebook probably do so that way, and I’m not going to require them to cross-converse via Twitter unless I have good reason. But their rate of completing Twitter assignments exceeds 95 percent. And, strange but true, Twitter assignment completion actually runs higher than class attendance.
So Twitter — or any social media platform — can work in the classroom, as long as you tie it to goals you want to reach and are willing to put the time into it to make it relevant.
Check out the article posted this evening by Government Technology.
As of a few days ago, our government friends over at the Pentagon have verbally and visibly embraced the digital wave with “a newly released policy for using social networking and other Web 2.0 sites.” A lift on an imposed
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on Friday, Feb. 26, released a policy “for responsible and effective use of Internet-based capabilities.” It essentially lifts a year-long ban on access to typically taboo (in this sense) to sites such as MySpace, the book of Face, Flickr and YouTube.
My thoughts, if I were a government employee affected by this situation: Yay! New ultimate forms of procrastination! (Just kidding.)
According to Karen Wilkinson’s article, under Obama’s administrative eye, “the policy also allows commanders to ’safeguard missions’ by ‘temporarily limiting access to the Internet to preserve operations security or to address bandwidth restraints,’ the release said.
What are your thoughts about the big P’s decision?
I have recently realized that there are people inside Tehran that are reading my blog – therefore, I will translate every thing I write from here on to make it easy for them to get information, thoughts, prayers and support as quickly as possible. Why I didn’t realize this earlier is beyond me. Sorry about my lack. Thank you for your support. I am honored to support the Sea of Green. Humbled actually and in awe to know such amazing souls.
Well good morning to you. As I write it is 11:59 on saturday morning and I should be painting my skirting boards but I am putting that off to do this. I hope you feel honoured that I am prioritising you ahead of glossing!
I have been dabbling with a website called Chat Roulette this week ( www.chatrt.com )….I heard about it from Tim Lovejoy, who posted a tweet about it on twitter. (Already I sound like an internet junkie or a sad git, don’t I?) It’s a relatively primitive site, although the format is simple and, as is so often the case, when something is good it is an achingly simple idea.
You have a webcam feed from your computer, a webcam feed from a ’stranger’ and you have a text box (like on msn) to communicate if your webcam does not have a microphone. The idea is simple – the website puts you with a random person and you can communicate/have a chat or just click on ‘next’ and move on to see someone else. It may not grab you immediately, but it is addictive. There are no profile names, no personal details, you do not specify if you are male/female, etc, you just meet whoever comes up next. So far I have met several Americans, Argentinians, French, German, Chinese and a guy from Chile….but amusingly only one British person. There are so many people who use the site that the chances of meeting someone British, so it would seem, is quite slim. But that adds to the fun – the random day to day chat is so much more interesting if you don’t even know which country your stranger is from.
Yes I know the alarm bells may be ringing…the risks of this kind of anonymous site are clear…but you have to be sensible about what you’re putting out there and you have to be aware that it is possible to record what is happening. As an example of this search ‘Chat Roulette’ on You Tube. But people are becoming more savvy with this etiquette and as long as you don’t allow your 13yr old daughter on the site, all is well. On that point, there is a lower age limit of 16 years but it is quite disturbing to click ‘next’ and find someone who is clearly below that age. Such is the growing trend for this site and accessibility of the internet – unsupervised – in some homes this may be inevitable, but that is a subject for another blog. But I do wish parents would put some control mechanism in place to prevent this…it’s basic stuff….and the dangers are terrifying.
You have to also use this site with some knowledge of time zones and be aware of a basic human nature - give a webcam to a young male at a certain time of night and he will inevitably feel the need to get his penis out or remove some clothes. I think most adults over 16 have seen a willy and once you get used to the fact that sometimes you will click on ‘next’ and see a penis, you will get over this. Usually if you type ‘wow, small…’ in the text box the owner of the penis will click ‘next’ for you. I find it quite funny. But as a general rule USA are about 5 hours behind, europe an hour ahead and Asia are about 5/6hours ahead. this will usually give you a clue about the nationality of the penis!!
But that said, I have had some great banter with Americans – the day feels so much better after you take the pi$$ over their poor geography and tendency to invade places – and they think our women are all pregnant at 13 and our country is a dinky little island off Europe. In a way, both countries are right about the other. I find it blows their minds when you mention that part of Great Britain sits off the coast of Argentina, and they think it’s hilarious when you point out Canada is not one of the American states.
Some people just don’t get Social Networking on the internet. I am not addicted to it, but I find Twitter fascinating – communicating with people you just never would otherwise – and it gives you access to some high-profile people. On the other end of the scale, Chat Roulette is a bit of fun with random anonymous people and I find it’s banter all the way…but i would happily not use it for months. Facebook is for people I actually know and keep general contact with.
Some years ago I visited DisneyWorld for the first time and, in particular, EPCOT. I remember the first time I went on the ride inside the EPCOT globe - and the part where it ‘thrusts you into the future’….as far as a plastic car travelling at walking pace can. It predicted a future where people will communicate across the world with cameras and huge tv screens in their homes. This was about 20 years ago. Maybe slightly less. At the time webcams, the internet, Twitter, Facebook, Chat Roulette were not around and this vision seemed fanciful. (I would suspect many of the inventors of these sites were still in nappies if they were actually born at that point) Here we are in 2010 and we take this kind of thing for granted. I can sit at the top of the stairs and click a few buttons and chat with a stranger in China….or pick up my Blackberry and leave a Twitter post with a photo of where I am/a GPS map and this is accessible to the entire world…..or I can see what my old girlfriend is doing in Dubai through Facebook. Hmm…sometimes we take all this technology for granted.
Where will all this be in another 5 or 10 years? Well I think I will pick that as a subject of my next blog. First I have to paint my Skirting boards with a Brilliant White gloss. Wish me luck. And what will I be listening to whilst painting? Here are my ‘tunes to listen to whilst painting Skirting Boards’…..as ever the link is through the excellent Spotify.
Enjoy…
Caesars – Jerk It Out (Original Mix)
ZZ Top – Viva Las Vegas – Remastered LP Version
Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind [Jay-Z + Alicia Keys] – Explicit Album Version
So today I went out to a BINGO hall with one of my best friends to play a little BINGO and I have to say old ladies that play BINGO do not play around! There had to be at least 100 old ladies and these ladies were crazy! I don’t know what it is but BINGO brings out the worst in people. These ladies cursed worst than sailors and they had no problem telling people how it is. There was a lady that was sitting next to me and she was especially pleasant. This woman said “Fuck” at lease 50 times and she told the woman sitting next to her that if she won another game she was going to beat her ass in the parking lot in which the other woman said “Suck it whore!”. By the end of the night all the women were talking smack to each other and I didn’t win anything. I wonder if this happens at all bingo halls or just mine?
For those of you who missed Sean’s illuminating talk earlier this week, here it is!
Many thanks to Sean for sharing his talk on Vimeo. It has been broken down into 2 parts for ease of viewing.
Social Media for Small Groups (SocMedSG) Part 1_22.2.10 from seanmtully on Vimeo.
First part of a short talk I gave to a WEA training course on the basics of Social Media Strategy for small groups. Much of the thinking was based on a mix of my own experience to date, and learning from AJ Leon at osCharity.
Social Media for Small Groups (SocMedSG) Part 2_22.2.10 from seanmtully on Vimeo.
For those of you that follow American Idol, I found an interesting site that is using the number of followers that the contestants have on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to predict who will be eliminated each week. American Idol is still in the the first week of competition, so it is still early, but it sounds like it will be an interesting experiment to follow. Check it out at http://www.idoltwit.com/
Friday night while I was volunteering in Detroit for the Between the Lines Fundraiser I recieved the news that my great grand father age 93 passed away. He had lived a long and full life, a veteran of WWII, married for many decades, many had 16 grandchildren and I am one of a known 33 great grand children.
Today I will be in Flint with my family mourning the lose and the end of a long life. As people know me I am very passionate advocate for LBGT and youth mental health. From being award the Jed Foundation Award, for my 2 years of Project Light work. Additionally annually walking as with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention which you too can join in walking, advocating or donating to.
To this day wearing my Trevor Project star on my blazer no matter where I go to start dialogues of prevention. for years youth suicide a fully preventable matter has been a passion of mine. I am asking for people to while giving their prayers, blessings and more to considering making a donation to prevention for the leading cause of death for youth like myself who are gay (me) lesbian bisexual transgender.
Over the years I have attempted suicide, and spoken my story as the founder of Project Light which recently merged its membership into Trevor Project. I have seen hundreds of fellow members of my community some very very close to me who have attempted, and some who have been lose to this preventable matter that your donation of any size today could help a youth or several youths life turn to be 93 and live full long lives.
Today if you can go to Trevor Project donate page.
When Twitter first started blowing up into the cultural phenomena it is today my thought was “I don’t get it”. It seemed kind of maybe fun and a little interesting but other than that I couldn’t hit on the use-case. The only people I could think to follow were those I talk to regularly anyway. Plus, I love my friends but do I really care if Michael is doing laundry? As much as like him in smelling downy fresh, no I don’t care.
But then it hit me that Twitter was the perfect way for local companies/restaurants/drinking establishments to tell their customers/fans/lushes of chef specials day of and to give them the inside track on new releases.
Of course, if I had this thought then others must have too. I looked up a few of my favorite Chicago places and low and behold, they twitter what’s going on there! So, below are a few local Chicago(ish) foodie type places I follow. I’ve noticed that micro-brews do a much better job of utilizing Twitter in this way, but perhaps that is because their product line and production cycles lend to it best.
Three Floyds Brewery (Dark Lord!!!!)
Rick Bayless (Mr. Bayless also answers cooking and ingredient questions and is very twitter approachable)
Goose Island Brewery and Restaurant (forgot about Chicago as they got bigger but they are turning back to befriending their roots)
Koval Distillery (the rosehip liquor is out of this world, as is most of their creations)
Revolution Brewing (haven’t been there yet because the wait is 2 hours on Saturdays, but I support local brewers)
Spacca Napoli Pizza (Best damned pizza in Chicago. Makes me forget about deep dish)
French Market (a in door market in a train station in down town chicago with fantastic local produce and food — what’s not to love?)
Half Acre Brewing (I love the culture these guys have created around their brewery)
Metropolitan Brewing (Flywheel Lager is the perfect summer beer)
Metropolis Coffee (Great fresh roasted coffee in the heard of Edgewater)
In Fine Spirits (Bar and Wine Shop)
Paul Kahan (Owner and chef of a few restaurants, including one of my favorites: Publican)
Big Jones (Great Southern Costal restaurant in Andersonville)
Urban Belly (Bill Kim’s take on a gourmet neighborhood noodle restaurant, brandy lamb dumplings oh so good!)
Not an exhaustive list of who is followable because I only look for twitter feeds from places when I think of them. Anyone I’m missing?
If you’re a major Twitter enthusiast, Rjmetric’s Twitter analysis at the end of 2009 could be your downfall. Statistics showed that the number of Twitter users had reached a standstill at around 75 million accounts. While this might sound like a lot, their statistics also showed that only around 17 percent of users tweet on a regular basis, and 40 percent of accounts have never even sent a single tweet.
So, why are social media geeks singing Twitter’s praises? Don’t give up hope for Twitter just yet. The stats also showed that Twitter users become increasingly more active over time. It seems that Twitter is addictive, which makes it still a powerful marketing and branding tool.
Because that 17 percent of Twitter users who are ‘active’ are regularly interacting with their favorite brands, from celebrities and politicians, products and publications. What makes Twitter so powerful is that it’s a direct connection between brands and its consumers. Even if a company can get a few followers, that direct connection is worth the effort. After all, it is free. Check out some easy tips for measuring Twitter success here. You might be surprised.
Twitter users are also mostly young, in their late teens or early twenties. Companies can benefit from relating to their group on their terms, which right now mean that companies need to be online, at least a little bit. Having a Twitter account gives companies a certain cool factor.
And let’s face it: Twitter is easy. It’s simple, quick and once again FREE. So don’t worry about the statistics: Twitter could still make a difference, one follower at a time.
I’d just like to start by thanking the stupid ass person who left their car/MONSTER TRUCK alarm RINGING FOR TWO HOURS STRAIGHT right outside my place!!! BITCH ASS BELGIAN!! I hate Belgians.
Anywhoo, Tiger’s apologized but people aren’t buying it; Hilary Duff is engaged (cool!) and Esther is still crazy. I’m getting tired of this story now, someone else needs to do something equally crazy.
Also, I watched Race to Witch Mountain yesterday – is that supposed to be a kid’s movie, because its full of explosions!! Anyway I didn’t enjoy it as much as other people seemed to, but The Rock (sidebar:DO YOU SMELL…WHAT THE ROCK… IS COOKING!!!! WWF used to be AWESOME!!) was really good in it. He’s funny. Maybe I will get someone to d/l Tooth Fairy for me hehe. Ho hum lots to do (and by ‘do’, I mean ‘watch’) so I better get on it
So Esther was on K24 jana bringing the crazy. I’m lazy and also didn’t see it so I can’t/won’t comment. But its funny that she asked Jeff for a job, isn’t she going all (vice) presidential in ‘12!! Anyhow here are some tweets because its much easier to post these than write about this certifiable chick.
So yeah. It’s funny, but she should space out her craziness!! Come on… Otherwise she’ll be old news/completely batshit crazy (yeah, even more crazy) before the end of next week… Play your cards right, crazy!!
Every few months a developer comes out with another Twitter client for Android to try and take top spot. Android users used to be left in the dark when it came to good Twitter apps. Now we have apps like Tweetcaster, Seesmic, Swift, and now Touiteur (pronounced Twitter, but spelled in french) from LevelUp Studio. These are the same guys behind Beautiful Widgets for Android, so I have high hopes for this app. So I am going to put this app through the Guru Inspection and see where it lands. Hit the read more link to get the full inspection.
Touiteur is a great looking Twitter app. The bottom selection tab is sporting a gradient look and has a very nice gloss look to it. The free version comes with a standard dark theme which shows your time line in a nice dark tone. Your replies show up with the same dark tone, but with strips to indicate they are a reply, and your own Tweets show up in blue. This is really nice when quickly scanning through your main time line as it makes picking out Tweets fairly easy. The Premium version, which costs about $3.00, comes with a light theme and the use of widgets. You get a choice of three widget sizes, 4×1, 4×2, and 4×3. The widgets are very nice looking and allow you to Tweet quickly and at a glance see the latest Tweets from the people you follow.
The interface is very eye appealing and has some nice animations which set it apart from other Twitter clients for Android. When you click the Tweet button at the top, the menu drops down and “bounces” which I found really neat. Little things like that are a breath of fresh air for Android apps. Most Twitters apps for Android are a little bland with the exception of a few. Touituer is definitely a good looking app and has polish to compete or exceed what is on the Android Market currently.
Looks aren’t the only thing when it comes to Twitter apps. The app also has to have the right features to accommodate many different users preferences, likes and dislikes. Touiteur features all your standard Twitter functions, but also has multiple accounts, widget support, two themes, photo Tweeting and URL shortening. One thing that it lacks right now is threaded message view. This is a huge deal breaker for me as I use threaded messaging all the time to keep up with who replied to what. The other missing feature is video uploads, not a huge deal for me, but for some this could be a deterrent. Hopefully the developer will add these features later.
Notification options are just as important as features to a moderate to heavy Twitter user. We all have different ways we like to manage our Tweets and having the most options for notifications is always a good idea. Luckily Touiteur is no slouch when it comes to notification options. You can set the interval time as low as 3 minutes to as high as 4 hours. You can choose to be notified when you get any combination of Tweets, replies, or direct messages. You can choose to use the built in “bird chirp” sound, your own ring tone, vibrate and LED flashing to be notified when you have new messages. All in all the notification options available in Touiteur are top notch.
So does Touiteur get the Guru App seal of approval? YES it sure does! It looks good, it’s fast, you have almost all of the features you could ask for and the notifications are great! So hit the Android market ASAP and give it a try.
I was somehow moved by the article in our Developmental Reading, that I decided to search for blog-related articles on the internet. The title of the article that was given to us (about a week or two ago) is called Blogging loses its hold on the young by Martha Irvine.
I am not an active blogger in the past two years. I started several years back (in the year 2005) when I was younger, created a page at Geocities, and posted a lot of my mess there. I don’t have any idea how blogging can be a really serious thing. All I did was type away my emotions, my insights, and some of the usual things that teenagers talk about. I didn’t even want my page to be seen by the entire world. No comments, no traffics, no hit counters, just a plain unvalidated div layout (slapped on some Photohop brushes on a cropped image, typed those css codes in notepad, and presto!) created by a plain 14-year-old girl which focused on the content of her secret place. I buldozed that place down, thinking that the whole idea is reidiculous and would rather save my logs the traditional way — pen and paper, you know what to do. The rest is history now. Anyway, here are some interesting articles (blog-related articles) that are worth your time.
Stop Hating Bloggers
How Often Should You Really Post?
More Young People are using Twitter…
Even though I now blog regularly and get some hits, I still keep up to the traditional way. After all, it all started with the pen and paper, like who couldn’t afford to miss that? Count me in. I don’t post everyday and I don’t even use twitter at all — I don’t have a twitter account, to begin with.
Anyway, it’s fun to have a blog, you get heard and you hear other people as well. You can also make friends and surprisingly, even your offline friends get to know some stuff about you, and they comment on what you post in real life.
Blogging sure evolved through these years. These days, if you don’t have a blog, it’s not like you’re out of the fad. Whether you’re a blogger or not, it’s always good to keep a record of the things that you do, the things that you think, the things that you want to say, and so on.
Due to availability of APIs of many leading social networking shits and comprehensive content sites, now days people waste their skill creating interface to accommodate someone else’s innovation.
When twitter has web interface to send your tweet then why some one create another web interface to send tweet through their anus?
Its like claiming someone else’s shit as their own shit.
Why don’t they put their skills into some thing innovative, productive and useful.
Nobody could be as crappy as Ryan Lum! ‘N is for endoplasmic, Q is for queue.’ Bah, but still, you’re one of my best entertainer during recess! Hah, clowning together, messing with the crappiest business.
I’m pretty addicted to twitter and wordpress at this very moment, but well, seems that my sister is going have this notebook password protected. Damn it ):
I pretty hate physics graph drawing, with all the weird scales here and there. I freaking spent like hours on just 4 dumb graphs, or probably I’m the dumb one I guess. o.o Nobody would be a good girl except me to be doing all these crap on new year. And I’m all jittery for next week’s test. 3 on monday is total crap! And I have no more time to study, with all the chingay practices and performances. Speaking of chingay, anybody don’t want their chingay tickets? I won’t mind 1 or 2 more!
Time flies, and school’s back tomorrow. I just need one day more! Rant, rant, rant! :B
We got a beautiful feedback yesterday, that we wanted to publish. So we asked the guy, if that is okay and if we might mention his name. He wrote back within a few hours, although I had sent my message from Australia and he is obviously in the United States. It turned out that he wasn’t only impressed by the helpfulness of Sereive, because she helps him to reduce 3 hours of work down to 10 minutes. Beyond that he wrote back in his answer, that thanks to Sereive his start-up has been able to create more social networking sites than they would have been able without her.
Read Scott’s first feedback:
I am highly impressed and love this tool. I am thankful to be one of the first 365 so that I can use it for my company activities for free…lol. You guys and gals have done a great job. I did a test posting to the sites of interest and I was extremely happy. I use to do them all by hand and i just did 3 hours of work in 10 min. So. far no issues. Looking forward to the continued development and association with this tool.
And here his answer to my question if we can use his name:
Peter–By all means please go ahead and use it in your blog and if you don’t mind adding my name, position, and company rather than anonymous I am using it for I would appreciate it. It has been so helpful with getting word out about our start up. I have created new social network sites for our company just because I have the time to do more now with having Sereive to help me manage my postings.
Thanks again guys!
v/r
Scott C. Scheidt, MBA
Director, Global Operations
www.goldstrikepoker.net
Thanks, Scott! Feedback as this doesn’t only make us happy, because we learn that we created something really useful and relevant. It also helps us spread the news. And the more users we have, the easier we can work on our mission, which is to change the way we network.
February 14th. Valentine’s Day. Some look forward to it; some dread it. But this year it holds another meaning as well: Chinese New Year. And color plays a big role in both of these holidays… the color red more specifically.
Cranberries and burgundys are draped from every corner of every restaurant, department store and CVS. But what do this mean? Given the time of year, it can mean many different things. For Christians, the red on a candy cane is said to signify the blood Jesus shed on the cross. Sewn together with stripes of white, the red of a flag shows American pride. The Chinese consider red lucky and wear it during weddings to scare off evil spirits.
But when do we think about this? I mean, do we really stop to think before we put on a pair of blue jeans or a yellow shirt? Or what impression we’re giving off with that green hat or orange jacket? According to Changingminds.org, we perceive a lot of emotion from each other’s routine clothing choices. Red can mean love or anger, danger or excitement. Purple is typically power, royalty or mystery. And green symbolizes harmony or freshness. (For the full list, click on the Changing Minds link).
And have you ever noticed how so many social media sites use blues in their logos? MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress… all the biggies. Interesting since blue has one of the more split definitions. It can stand for professionalism, reliability and trust. Or it could mean boredom and winter coldness. Now I’m sure Dorsey and Zuckerberg were aiming for the former definition. But what made people agree with that connotation? And what made Chen, Hurley and Karim go for that reddish-orange in their YouTube logo? What does your website, blog or Twitter background say about who you are?
Colors take on even more meaning with flowers… the most common gift for Valentine’s Day. Teleflora.com shares that red roses symbolize love as well as passion and respect; pink ones mean elegance and refinement; white blossoms declare purity, truth and loyalty; yellow blooms stand for friendship and caring; orange is for enthusiasm; and surprisingly the lilac roses are the most romantic of all – love at first sight.
So don’t hand the florist your credit card before you think twice about what the flowers in your hand mean. And no, roses are not just for lovers anymore. Friends, family and roommates can all be happy recipients on this loving holiday.
Happy Valentines Day. Happy Single Awareness Day. Happy Chinese New Year. Or just Happy Sunday PReppies : )
Chinese New Year falls on the same day as Valentine’s Day this year so in the spirit of fun it’s time to see which twitter hashtag is better. Valentine’s Day gets the upper hand for being celebrating in more countries than Chinese New Year.
Snapshot of #Cny & Vday trend: 13 February 1am - 14 February 12pm GMT
February 13th
#Cny trended higher than #Vday between the hours of 6am – 3pm GMT eventually reaching the daytime peak at 4pm GMT. Valentine’s Day mounted a strong comeback immediately following which just failed to edge out #Cny by a whisker.
February 14th
The day is only half over in the UK and it seems that #Vday has won out, #Cny has been getting roasted for the better part of the day and with Chinese New Year pretty much over in Asia (9pm HKT) it’s up to the overseas Chinese to continue climbing the mountain.
It is worth noting as of 12pm GMT #Vday tweets sharply fell; perhaps #Cny can ease out another win?
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The first deployment of the Haiti Orphan Relief Team leaves for Haiti on Valentine’s Day, February 14th. One of things we’re hoping to do is keep up with the Twitter & blogs while we’re in country. I’m not exactly sure what that will look like but if you’d like to follow along here are the Twitter usernames for those on the team:
MAIN
Haiti Orphan Relief Team (HORT) – @haitiorphan
PERSONNEL
David Leventhal (Hope for Orphans) – @dleventhal
Paul Myhill (World Orphans) – @paulmyhill
Alan Hunt (World Orphans) – @oldmtb
Jodi Tucker (World Orphans and Christian Alliance for Orphans) – @joditucker
Google have decided to venture into Social Networks with the creation of Google Buzz which has set the world wide web, well, a buzz with talk of how this could be the next big thing.
So what’s the big deal? Basically you can automatically follow the people you normally email and chat with the most in Gmail. You’ll be able to publish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends, it’s your call. And any comments you receive will be sent directly to your inbox so you can’t miss them. You also have thumbnails with each post and you can browse full screen pictures from websites and import stuff from your Twitter, Google reader, Flickr and Picasa accounts. All of the updates are real time and of course Buzz recommends the most interesting things and the ones you should be avoiding.
But let’s be honest, whilst it’s great they’ve chosen to integrate all your favourite social networks into one space, they’ve forgotten one rather important one, Facebook. Will this stand in the way of Googles world domination? Only time will tell!
Google presented Google Buzz, a social networking source that is Facebook’s new competitor. In the WebNewser article, “Google Officially Introduces Google Buzz,” David Cohen mentioned that it takes Gmail users and enables them to share photos, videos and links from other social networking sites. It also has an additional feature that allows people to see where other people are posting.
Social networking is a convenient way for people to gossip and, even, keep up with the news. Follow the Huffington Post on Twitter and you’ll get an update every minute or so. Now, Google Buzz enters the arena armed with even more handy features. Users can post from anywhere and show readers/followers/friends where s/he was at the time.
I understand that this is evolution in the works and it has real potential for journalism, but have we gone too far? Do we really need to know what Britney Spears ate for breakfast? Is that really news or is it merely “junk food” for the brain?
Nonetheless, today’s consumers are spoiled. With the touch of a button, lists appear and you can choose from various news sources for the latest headlines or figure out the closest Chinese takeout location. If I owned a smartphone, I’m sure I would also be taking advantage of this feature. Nevertheless, today’s technology provides information that is readily available in the palm of your hand. People live in a world of “now” which makes journalists positions more competitive. Instead of taking the time to research, fact-check and critique a story, journalists need to sacrifice accuracy for immediacy. Now people can pin point where the action is, geographically. The question is: Will people care?
The Mullen advertising agency, and Radian6, a leader in social media measurement, created BrandBowl2010, a Twitter/Super Bowl experience that combined tweeting, ad reviews and a host of metrics to let viewers generate and view real time ratings of the TV commercials that ran on the big game.
“According to the 63,000+ Twitter users whose comments were captured in BrandBowl2010, Doritos was the most effective brand to advertise on the Super Bowl telecast on CBS this year. Budweiser Select55 was the least effective brand.
The results were determined from a total of 98,656 Tweets collected at BrandBowl2010. The site provided an overall ranking of the brands advertising on the game based on a composite score that takes into consideration both volume of tweets and sentiment (positive or negative).” Brandbowl 2010
A great idea for ad agency new business …
Mullen offered the last place finisher in BrandBowl2010 — Budweiser Select55 — free creative services to help them make a better Super Bowl commercial next year and they are serious with their offer.
Additional articles regarding ad agency promotion:
Ad Agency’s Super Bowl Party Generates National Attention
“Mindsalt – Magic ‘09 Ball” Used to Promote Ad Agency
The First of Five Ways to Promote Your Agency Using Social Media
The Second of Five Ways to Promote Your Agency Using Social Media
The Third of Five Ways to Promote Your Agency Using Social Media
The Fourth of Five Ways to Promote Your Ad Agency Using Social Media
The Fifth of Five Ways to Promote Your Agency Using Social Media
Ad Agency Creates Online Film Festival on YouTube
Social Media Marketing Map Used For Ad Agency’s New Business
Facebook and Twitter have taught us that people of all ages love to utilize the web for self-expression, connecting and staying in touch. 3D virtual worlds have similar characteristics: the ability for self-expression via customized avatars and the creation of your own ‘island’; the ability to connect with friends (or meet people you’d never get a chance to meet in the real world); and the ability to be part of a vibrant community.
In addition, 3D virtual worlds offer a fully immersive environment, that allows you to escape from the real world – and, experience virtual representations of real-world locations. For virtual worlds experiencing declining usage, however, “community” becomes a challenge to maintain (i.e. imagine using Facebook when none of your friends or family are using it).
Mark Kingdon (in-world: “M Linden“), the CEO of Linden Lab, laid out his vision of Second Life’s evolution, tying it in with the recent acquisition of Avatars United.
M. Linden on Community:
“When we talk to the users who sign up but then decide not to stay, they say they left, in part, because they had a hard time finding people to hang out with. Either their friends weren’t there, or they have a hard time meeting new ones inworld, or sometimes both. We need to fix this.”
M. Linden on Social Sharing:
“Another part of the “social glue” of any community is the concept of sharing. Inworld, it’s easy to share and we’ll make it even easier. But sharing between Second Life and the larger social Web is not as easy. As an avid photographer (well, aspiring to be avid), I’d love to be able to easily share my snapshots from Second Life with my friends on other Web services, and be able to watch a feed of the people I’m interested in.”
Reaction
Kingdon’s blog posting generated a wealth of comments from the Second Life community – I’d characterize the comments as mixed to fairly positive. My own reaction to the blog posting was very positive – my use of Second Life (and other virtual worlds) would increase based on my knowledge of in-world events/happenings attended by members of my social graph.
Here are my thoughts on how to increase community engagement and social sharing in a 3D virtual world.
Direct Integration with Twitter, Facebook
With Avatars United, according to Kingdon, “you’ll start to build an activity feed (similar to Facebook or Twitter) that keeps you in closer touch with the people you’re connected to in Second Life.” While I see value in a single feed that aggregates content from multiple social networks, I see equal (if not more) value in direct integration of Twitter, Facebook, etc., into the virtual world.
The Twitter API and Facebook Connect make doing so fairly straightforward. A B2B company with an island in Second Life may want to integrate a Twitter stream that displays tweets related to the company. Similarly, the company could prompt visitors to tweet about their visit and have that message be distributed to all of the visitor’s followers on Twitter.
By enabling this, the owner of the island generates “free” promotion to the social web – and, the underlying platform gains wider reach as well. A relevant analogy is Ustream’s Social Stream, which allows viewers to “chat with your friends over Twitter” while they’re viewing a live video.
On the Facebook front, imagine if the virtual world platform enabled Facebook Connect, thus allowing residents to sign in to Facebook and find a list of their Facebook friends who are also residents. Then, imagine showing users a real-time list of their Facebook friends who are in-world right now, with “links” to teleport to the friends’ locations.
Borrowing from another popular service (Foursquare or Gowalla), the virtual world platform could enable residents to “check in” at different locations (islands). Broadcasting their whereabouts to their social graph may result in more “planned encounters” within the virtual world. If my friends just checked in to “virtual island”, I may choose to teleport and join them there if I happen to be free.
“I Like It!”
Virtual worlds could create a stronger “shared experience” by allowing visitors to leave a trail of breadcrumbs reflecting their visited locations. If I “friend” someone in-world – or, if an in-world resident is a Facebook friend of mine, then I might want to follow the path they took during their last session. Additionally, the platform could support location endorsements, in the same way Facebook allows me to “like” a friend’s wall posting.
As I enter a location in the virtual world, I can see whether members of my social graph previously visited – and, what their comments were. Alternatively, I could see a list of all past visitors – with a link to view their in-world avatar and profile. If a past visitor panned a location, but I enjoyed it, allow me to send an offline message to that user, who can read my message the next time she logs in. This allows me to connect with other users even when they’re not online (a form of virtual world email).
Source: flickr (User: Indiewench)
Virtual World Closed-Circuit TV
Business owners leverage closed-circuit TV technology to perform surveillance of their store front or office. Wouldn’t a similar service be useful for virtual world residents, especially those who “own” an island? While we tend to be online during our waking hours, it may not be practical to be in-world all the time. How about a virtual world thin client – it provides a read-only “view” of a given location, similar to closed-circuit TV.
Since it doesn’t allow you to navigate, teleport, interact with others, etc. – the client is entirely lightweight and can sit in a corner of your desktop with only a portion of the CPU/RAM consumed by the full-blown client. So if you’re interested in a given location, the closed-circuit TV can alert you to visitors – and with one click, the thin client can launch the full client and teleport you to the location.
Services (like this one) that can instantaneously connect users are a win-win – they generate more logins to the platform and enable more connections, upon which a stronger sense of community develops. Alternatively, the virtual world platform can provide even more lightweight notification mechanisms: it can generate an email, Twitter direct message or Facebook email whenever a user enters a designated space. The notification could contain a link that teleports the recipient into that space to connect with the current visitor(s).
Embed Web Content In-World
As Twitter and Facebook have demonstrated, users of social services are inclined to share interesting content, often in the form of web links. Within a virtual world, “sharing” often results in the launching of a web browser to render the shared page. Why not provide sharing capabilities that render the shared content on an in-world wall or projection screen? This keeps users engaged, while retaining their attention in-world. Building upon this, I may want to look up Facebook friends and be taken to all locations in which they shared content in-world (as I have an interest in what my friends are reading and sharing).
On Demand TV (for Virtual Worlds)
Facebook has a great utility that allows me to record a video on my laptop’s webcam, upload it to Facebook and share it on Facebook. Virtual world platforms should enable users to press a “record” button and have their current session saved for later playback. Perhaps I’m attending an in-world concert or watching a keynote presentation – capturing a recording of the session allows me to share it with members of my social graph who weren’t able to attend. Treet TV provides similar services (with professional quality) – this capability empowers end users to create on-demand programming with the click of a mouse.
Conclusion
3D virtual worlds have a lot to offer already – by adopting useful social sharing services, they can tap into the phenomenon (social media) that’s the force behind many of ftoday’s most popular web sites.
Pelan namun pasti, twitter sudah diakui pengaruhnya di jagad maya Indonesia. Sudah jutaan orang Indonesia yang menggunakannya. Mulai dari artis, penyanyi, pemasar, politikus, olah ragawan, orang IT, wartawan, orang iklan, rohaniwan, sampai orang umum pun nge-tweet.
) there will be the client training and manual to produce!
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So yeah. It’s funny, but she should space out her craziness!! Come on… Otherwise she’ll be old news/completely batshit crazy (yeah, even more crazy) before the end of next week… Play your cards right, crazy!!
