Orangejack

I’ve had as least one twitter account for over 2 years now. I now have 4 accounts that I keep up with with different strategies for different purposes. This post is almost like a case study of these accounts since I use each one for a different reason. Hopefully you’ll also get new ideas of how you can use Twitter as well.

@orangejack – my personal account

Started: June 2, 2007
Purpose: Personal account sharing things about me and interesting items I find online. Main account for interacting … Continue Reading

Facebook Pages are great ways to get your brand on Facebook. It’s a better solution for exetnding your brand into Facebook when compared to having a profile or using Facebook Groups. In short, the advantage of using a Page vs a Group are:

1. Facebook Pages are public outside of Facebook (Google can find it)
2. Facebook Groups are private inside Facebook (only Facebook people see Groups)
3. To join a Facebook Page, you become a Fan. Updates from the Page are pushed into fan’s News Feed.
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If you’re using FriendFeed (and many more people are nowadays), there are a couple of default settings I feel everyone should set up. Please? This isn’t a post to convince you to use it or why you should. It’s for people already on there or thinking about going there though I added some thoughts about it at the end.

At the top of your FriendFeed profile page you’ll see room for some bio information. See mine. You’ll see there is a link off to the right you can make edits to your settings.

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I’ve mentioned before there are tons of ways to use Twitter; and I don’t want to turn this into a blog about Twitter. I want this to be a place that gives you ideas, answers questions, and helps you use the web well.

Today some strong storms were rolling through Central Florida. I receive severe weather announcements via email and normally that is the media device that works best for me.

Not everyone wants email updates and would rather get Twitter updates in real time. I started thinking that there could be a niche to carve out on Twitter for severe weather … Continue Reading

Social Networks are big. How popular have social networks become? Social Nets and Blogs More Popular Than E-Mail!

Facebook is the current leader in social media life. It recently passed MySpace as the most visited social media site. For comparison, I put also included Digg, LinkedIN, and Twitter on the graph below…

 
One of the reasons they keep growing is that they keep making changes to who gets to be in the community, what they can do, and how they interact with the site and others. They don’t always … Continue Reading

I’ve been thinking about a way to think of Twitter in a way that most people could relate:
Twitter is like an email with a no subject line and a short statement in the body.
As you probably know, you only get 140 characters to publish something on Twitter and that’s all you get.  It’s a statement where you share something.

Twitter allows people to direct their updates to particular people as well as all people (Twitter is public), and tag their messages for certain subjects just like email:

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Recently the number of Internet users around the world passed the 1.5 Billion mark. I also hadn’t realized how close we are to 7 billion people in the world! That’s why the percentage of the global population online is less than 25% – that’s right, not even a quarter of the world is online! My gosh! If they aren’t online, how do they communicate!?!?!

source: InternetWorldStats.com

Did you notice the populations and percentages from each global region? Asia has the most online but North America has most … Continue Reading

Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report Feb 12: Twitter and status updating.  Some really interesting numbers and demographics came out of it (that shouldn’t be all that surprising):

Growth of Microblogging American Adults 

• 6% in May 2008  (used Twitter, status updates, etc)
• 9% in November 2008
• 11% in December 2008

Ages of People Using Twitter

• 19% online adults aged 18-24 (use Twitter, status updates, etc)
• 20% online adults aged 25-34
• 10% online adults aged 35-44
• 5% or less for online adults over 45

Median ages for some social media sites:

• 26 years old for Facebook
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I couldn’t put it better myself so I’ll just quote from this article: Smashing Magazine: 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites:
5. You Are Wasting Money On Social Networking

I find it encouraging that website managers increasingly recognize that a Web strategy is more than running a website. They are beginning to use tools such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to increase their reach and engage with new audiences. However, although they are using these tools, too often they do so ineffectively. Tweeting on a corporate account or posting sales demonstrations on YouTube misses the essence of social networking.
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You may not be on twitter nor feel like you necessarily need to be, but I’m sure by now you know it’s a communications format/service that is growing. You might just be interested to see who in Congress is on Twitter and trying to be on the cutting edge with their communications. Remember, just because someone is on twitter doesn’t mean they know how to use it well; it’s pointless without a communications plan and strategy.