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The Anti-Twitter: Macroblogging and the Art of Ranting

Chris Dannen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:00:28 -0400

Twitter's beauty is brevity. But what about when you need 1400 characters, not 140? What about when you want 20,000?

For those of us that are too prolix for Twitter, there are now two services that let you blather on for lines and lines with impunity. They're calling themselves "macroblogging" sites, and they have two distinct goals: one is to riff on what could be called the "culture" of Twitter by letting writers go on at alexandrine length. The other, more interesting purpose, is to serve as repositories for public rants.

Twitter Hasn't Jumped the Shark (and probably never will)

JD Rucker — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:06:21 -0400

When social media experts talk about Twitter and its future, there is usually a time frame attached to qualify their statements. "It's big and growing fast, but should lever out in 12-18 months before fading or becoming obsolete."

Oprah Hearts Twitter. So What?

Chris Dannen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:10:42 -0400

Oprah is now officially on Twitter.

The Chicago talk show host completed her first tweet just this morning, and is devoting a block of time in her broadcast today to discussing the microblogging site. "HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME," she wrote. "FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY."

Twitterprise: Bringing Whole Selves to Work

Marcia Conner — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:11:30 -0400

I began using Twitter out of spite. Fast Company had a mass website upgrade and some links weren't working. Our editor was suddenly unreachable (after saying we should contact her if we needed any help). I had a deadline and I was stuck. Looking for additional contact information in Plaxo, I saw she was tweeting from a cab, commenting on the messenger's bike beside her.

Learn More with Less: Nontraditional Fundraising for Corporate Education

Marcia Conner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:41:29 -0400

The first article in this series focused on enrolling the help of more people.
The second article addressed free and lost-cost content.
The third article (here) approaches nontraditional fundraising.

Twitter Your Time-of-Day

Marcia Conner — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:29:34 -0500

When a dear friend sailed away from the town he'd called home for decades, he probably assumed his small cadre of Twitter followers was alerted to his bon voyage. Not so. I only learned about his departure hours later when a mutual friend mentioned it in his updates and I followed a link. There I learned I'd missed not only the launch; I hadn't seen a handful of fascinating updates, critical changes, and significant life events posted during hours I'm rarely online.

Learn More With Less: Corporate Education in the Current Economy

Marcia Conner — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:38:33 -0500

I've directed large education organizations with huge budgets and small departments without a dime. Training rooms I managed accounted for the largest portion of real estate on a spatial corporate campus and another time I ran the training function of a startup out of my attic office. The journey has been a productive one, sometimes flush with money, other times only rich in experience. Each has its merits and all were educational.

Can Twittering Create an Economy of Words?

Marcia Conner — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:36:03 -0500

Business leaders tell me they can't use Twitter (or its enterprise-strength counterparts) because they don't have enough space to capture deep thoughts and bright vision. This admission often follows a conversation about why they don't want their people to use these tools, which ironically often has more to do with productivity and legalities than making room to say something big.

Manage Your Status Updates Across Platforms with Ping.fm

Rich Brooks — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:05 -0500

Once you start "living" in more than one social media space, the idea of updating your status across multiple Web sites gets tedious fast.

However, Ping.fm is a tool that can update your status across dozens of popular social media sites. Once you sign up for Ping.fm you'll be able to add your login credentials for a host of popular social media sites. The list keeps growing, but it includes such heavyweights as:

Counting the visits to my online ranting as they click-through, how many peope visit your links on twitter?

Bill Heaton — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:04:04 -0400

I am a big fan of microblogs. I’ve launched a shorter URL tool to reduce the length of
your long, permalink blog URL. It will make a short url like http://rant.cc/JPh

Ever wonder how many people visit your links, as they click-through? ... Shorter URL site LIVE, with visit counting feature in real time.... http://rant.cc/dY4