Posts Tagged micro-blogging
Tweet away on Twitter
Twitter is more than a cool social networking application. Twitter is about sharing, meeting, connecting, networking, brainstorming, all in less than 141 characters. 140 characters is the maximum amount of space you usually have for twittering. You can always post more tweets. It is a communication lifestyle. These are short, micro-blogs, that are quickly prepared, on the spot, and posted for the general public to view, or a private group. Each twitterer makes that decision. Twitter asks the simple question, “What are you doing now?” The answers are formed in innumerable ways. You can tweet from your phone anywhere you have service, or from your laptop or PC.
If you can’t say what you want to say in 140 characters, than it probably is not worth saying, or you need to work on reducing fluff. Twitter gives us all the opportunity to make our point, briefly, and just that: to the point. As a result of this structure, the blogger is compelled to perfect his writing skills.
I use Twitter to get information to the consumers, network with other professionals in my field of labor, and other professionals, to express thoughts that come to me, to provide useful tips and ideas that I think could benefit others, and to make new friends.
Twitter has a powerful search engion to help us look up people we may want to connect with, and follow. We use this search tool to find groups, companies, associations, to see who the members are, and then, we can connect with who we want to. This connecting, in Twitter terms, is called “following.” When you click the follow button, beside someone’s profile, you have just added a new contact to your ever growing network. That individual in turn, has the option of following you. Now, you two can share. You can even see who someone is following, read profiles, and click the follow button to follow someone that interest you, socially, or professionally.
The key to success with Twitter, is to make your brief points, comments, suggestions, and ideas, interesing, fun, a pleasure to read, unique, and useful to the Twitterverse. You may get responses back to your comments, either directly, or for all to read as a post. You will even gain followers. This is good for most businesses. Followers can become customers.
Sometimes Twitterers ask questions, tell micro-stories, share recipes, discuss gardening, politics, school assignments, community events, personal recollections. Twitter is for everyone, but to be successful with Twitter, you need to feed your blog. Keep tweeting, and don’t stop. Let Twitterverse know you are out there. It really is fun, because Twitterers are fun and interesting people, that know how to use a micro-blogging platform to fit their needs in life. It is a lifestyle using a micro-blogging tool.
I am KenFach on Twitter. Follow me. Hope to follow you.
http://twitter.com/KenFach
Happy tweeting!!!!!
Add comment February 11, 2009
Order in Twitterverse
I have posted tips on using Twitter, but now I want to share what I think makes Twitter a valuable tool for business and social networking.It has to do with the idea of order.
Let me start by stating what we all should already know, and that is that there is order in the universe. Pope said so long ago: “Order is heaven’s first law.” He was right to my understanding of nature. A computer is a system functioning under the law of order. We do what we do online because of order. Code make us see what we see when viewing a page. Using another analogy, a day is an ordered display appearing as morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. Seasons come with order. Our lifestyles have order within and without them. In our work ther is and has to be order. We can’t avoid order because it is law, “heaven’s first law.”
In twitterverse, we tweeters of Twitter have fun networking, sharing with each other, meeting new folks, asking and answering questions, telling all what we are doing, thinking, eating, reading. Within this technology, there is order allowing our communication flow to happen.So, what is the law of order on Twitter that we all benefit from?
1. Logging into Twitter so a user can be identified as that individual with a given screen name.
2. The ability to follow other twitterers simply by clicking a button beside the user that we want to follow.
3. Creating a profile describing who we are to the Twitter community of users, and including our website.
4. Being able to reply to others’ posts.
5. Using no more than 140 characters per post. This limits what we say to what we feel is the message we want to send forth.
6. The ability to search posts under keywords, and to locate friends.
7. Seeing pics of who we are following and who are following us.
8. Seeing our chain of posts either as single proclamations, shared information, or within conversations with one or more other Twitter users.
Order on Twitter is reflected in so many ways giving its participants a useful system of communication with today’s communication technology: micro-blogging.
See you on Twitter. My screenname is KenFach.
Add comment February 11, 2009
Twitter Tip of The Day
Use Twitter, or other micro-blogging sites to practice and perfect sentence syntax. Since you have limited space for a message, within that 140 character space, style, structure and syntax can be played with perfecting a message. Twittering demands a concise, structured and organized space. Micro-blogging is blogging in smaller space than with blogging in general.
I have tried saying something in one way, found it was not effective, and tried other word combinations to perfect the message I wanted to deliver. Knowing my space limitations, that makes me less reluctant, and more enthusiastic about creating a better message.
There are so many reasons to micro-blog using Twitter or other platforms, but improving language and communication is a good reason to blog. We make better expressions of a message. We become more sensitive about how words are used and combined. Twittering is about the love of words, phrases, sentences and how they all come together in a chain of communications.
See you on Twitter.
http://twitter.com/kenfach
Add comment November 2, 2008
Twitter tip of the day
Twitter, and micro-blogging in general, is turning people into good, proficient writers. Since we are allowed up to 140 characters in our Twitter post, we have to get our message across using a minimal amount of words, yet say it in an attractive, convincing, and using good syntax.
Feel free to abbreviate when micro-blogging. People do this on Twitter, expect this, and accept this. Why? Because of the limited amount of writing space. 140 characters is not much, a sentence or two. I am surprised how much I can say in that brief amount of space. It has made me a better writer, and makes me work, and rework my posts getting as much into each post as I can, yet, expressing it attractively. Yes, our writing improves when there are space limitations, and we want to say what we want to say. We still can, but we have to get it across with fewer words. We filter out what is not necessary, and use language that will empower our ideas, our requests, our answers, our messages.
Now, one way you can learn what abbreviations are most common, useful, and easy to remember, is by taking time each day, and reading others’ posts, noting what abbreviations are used in them.
As readers of micro-blogging posts, we also become better readers, critical readers, and notice syntac and semantics in a way we did not before. I studied how to be a critical reader in my language and literature studies at Florida State University. I am trained how to interpret the context, message and symbols, which fill messages. We all become critical readers on the internet. We even have the option of commenting on others’ writings online. With Twitter, you can click reply beside someone’s post and then write you remarks, ideas, or suggestions. This is similar to the comment ability that readers of blogs have, if the blog creator allows for open commentary. I know I do.
Good day, and good evening blogging on Twitter, Pownce, Plurk, Jaiku, or any other micro-blogging platform.
You can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/KenFach.
Add comment October 4, 2008
My Tallahassee Twitter Tip of the Day
Micro-blogging has the potential of being the most commonly way of expressing oneself online. Why? Because you have a limited amount of space to present your message, and people prefer to read short messages and not full-length blogs. The creator of a mini-blog, also has more time to read others’, since less time goes into writing sentence after sentence and editing the work to get it right.
Twitter, which is the most popular micro-blogging platform, and other micro-blogging sites, allow for up to 140 characters. That is not a lot of space, so the writer if forced to work his/her message in a way that it presents what the writer wants presented. It tones and tunes writing skills. For that reason, micro-blogging helps to make us all better writers. The topics that can be written on are countless it seems. Any and everything is presented and discussed through micro-blogging. What makes micro-blogging even better, is that what is presented can also be commented on, and there can be a chain of conversations around an original post.
Have fun twittering and micro-blogging in general. Get your message out, and look forward to comments, and networking enrichment.
Kenneth in Tallahassee.
My Twitter screen name is, KenFach. Care to tweetup with me?
Add comment September 29, 2008
Twitter tip of the day
Using any micro-blogging platform, whether it is Twitter, Identi.ca, Jaiku, Plurk or other, why not let the world know something about where you are at the moment. It is as if the question can be, not, “What are you doing now?” but rather, “Where are you now?” Tell about the restaurant you are eating in, the store in which you are looking at clothes, a movie you are watching, a park you are playing in, view you are admiring, a town you are visiting, an old house you are walking through. Micro-blogging is good for getting to the point on something, as I always say. We can say something quick, and interesting, and then, move on to something else. As you post about a place, you never know, you may find that someone else has been there, and shares the same sentiments or has another comment to make about that particular place. That is the fun of micro-blogging, when people come together with something in common to reflect on, and travel seems to be just the subject that we all can relate to.
Twitter is my favorite micro-blogging tool. I write about something I feel is useful to others, following the Golden Rule, and receiving notices in my inbox that someone has decided to follow my posts. The follow button is on of my favorite button on Twitter. We can build up quite a following that way.
Have fun micro-blogging, and be sure to share something special with all of us.
Kenneth in Tallahassee
twitter.com/kenfach
Add comment September 23, 2008
This thing called Twitter
Twitter is more than a cool social networking application. Twitter is about sharing, meeting, connecting, networking, brainstorming, all in less than 141 characters. 140 characters is the maximum amount of space you usually have for twittering. You can always post more tweets. It is a communication lifestyle. These are short, micro-blogs, that are quickly prepared, on the spot, and posted for the general public to view, or a private group. Each twitterer makes that decision. Twitter asks the simple question, “What are you doing now?” The answers are formed in innumerable ways. You can tweet from your phone anywhere you have service, or from your laptop or PC.
If you can’t say what you want to say in 140 characters, than it probably is not worth saying, or you need to work on reducing fluff. Twitter gives us all the opportunity to make our point, briefly, and just that: to the point. As a result of this structure, the blogger is compelled to perfect his writing skills.
I use Twitter to get information to the consumers, network with other professionals in my field of labor, and other professionals, to express thoughts that come to me, to provide useful tips and ideas that I think could benefit others, and to make new friends.
Twitter has a powerful search engion to help us look up people we may want to connect with, and follow. We use this search tool to find groups, companies, associations, to see who the members are, and then, we can connect with who we want to. This connecting, in Twitter terms, is called “following.” When you click the follow button, beside someone’s profile, you have just added a new contact to your ever growing network. That individual in turn, has the option of following you. Now, you two can share. You can even see who someone is following, read profiles, and click the follow button to follow someone that interest you, socially, or professionally.
The key to success with Twitter, is to make your brief points, comments, suggestions, and ideas, interesing, fun, a pleasure to read, unique, and useful to the Twitterverse. You may get responses back to your comments, either directly, or for all to read as a post. You will even gain followers. This is good for most businesses. Followers can become customers.
Sometimes Twitterers ask questions, tell micro-stories, share recipes, discuss gardening, politics, school assignments, community events, personal recollections. Twitter is for everyone, but to be successful with Twitter, you need to feed your blog. Keep tweeting, and don’t stop. Let Twitterverse know you are out there. It really is fun, because Twitterers are fun and interesting people, that know how to use a micro-blogging platform to fit their needs in life. It is a lifestyle using a micro-blogging tool.
I am kenfach on Twitter. Follow me. Hope to follow you.
Happy tweeting!!!!!
Add comment September 7, 2008
