05.21.10 | posted by btrandolph

how linkedin's facelift can help you look prettier

it’s time to rethink the way you cross post links if you maintain a social presence on both linkedin and twitter. if you are a linkedin regular, you probably have noticed a change in the service’s status updates. historically, updates on linked in were in keeping with its reputation as a buttoned-down, businesslike version of social networks like facebook and myspace. I wrote about linkedin’s increasing social mojo back in january. the new changes take it a big step [read more...]

12.26.09 | posted by btrandolph

elsewhere: twitter apps for droid and twitzophrenia

quick summaries of posts on my other blogs ‘smbar’ and ‘let’s hear it for the [read more...]

12.01.09 | posted by btrandolph

twitter clients on the droid: head-to-head

looking at some leading developers of twitter apps for the droid, and the newcomer I like [read more...]

11.20.09 | posted by btrandolph

twitter knows where you were last night.

twitter goes official with an opt-in feature that allows geotagging of messages. no changes on twitter.com yet, but developers are already telling people where you [read more...]

07.21.09 | posted by btrandolph

twitter as a prospecting tool?

broad-based is key if you want to make social media a lead generation system. blog. facebook. youtube. twitter. they all feed each [read more...]

06.16.09 | posted by btrandolph

I am a middle-aged valedictorian

oh happy day! the exams have been collected, the results tabulated, and it’s official. I am among the creme de la creme of twitter users.

a+, baby. woo [read more...]

06.15.09 | posted by btrandolph

wouldn't you like to be my neighbor too?

mr. rogers said it long ago, and it’s still true. it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. [read more...]

06.02.09 | posted by btrandolph

the loyal opposition

we cluster and filter, follow and unfollow, shaping our online communities to our own world view. what happens to the perspective we need to think critically and create entities – relationships, organizations, economies – that rest on stable, balanced [read more...]

05.04.09 | posted by btrandolph

tipping shark: whither twitter?

a·twit·ter (-twtr)

ADJECTIVE:

Being in a state of nervous excitement; twittering: a crowd atwitter with expectation. [read more...]

04.26.09 | posted by btrandolph

is twitter just for the cool kids?

In the wake of ashton kutcher’s hitting 1MM followers and oprah’s virgin tweet, veteran tweeters have been sounding off like those two geezers on sesame street. Twitter ain’t dead, baby – it’s just [read more...]