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Aug 06 2009

The Social Collider and Twitter Venn: TwitterTools for Visual Fools

Category: social media,tech opinion,tech reviews,tools — jmacofearth @ 10:53 am

A beautiful visualization: SocialCollider. Not sure how to use it just yet, but Wow!

Twitter Venn a great visualization tool for Twitter BuzzHunting.

I love using TwitterVenn to demonstrate to a client how the Buzz on Twitter IS important. But that doesn't mean they have to set up a Twitter account. <oops, Twitter rant coming>

I think Twitter is over used. I think businesses hoping to cash in on the Twitter trend will be first to fail. In previous posts and all over this blog I talk about Getting Real with Twitter. Twitter is NOT an RSS FEED. There are RSS Feeds and Email subscriptions for that kind of "follow."

A friend and Twitter-Champion said to me a while back, "But following on Twitter is so much easier than RSS."

Uh… and Tweetbots and Auto-DMs and Auto-Follows are NOT OKAY. Regardless of what the "experts" are saying, Twitter IS about authenticity and voice. If your voice consists of "Hot Deal on Inkjet Packs Today Only" or "Get a Bazillion Followers Today" or "My Money from Twitter program will have you reeling in the bucks and retiring in less than six months" then that says a lot about where you perceive Twitter to fit into your messaging program.

I'm sorry, if you are not REAL on Twitter then perhaps you should consider using other tools. Oh sure, point to Dell's $2 million in direct Twitter revenue and say, "Well, it's working for them." And I will point to the millions of scammers on Twitter trying to cash in on that idea and show you how most of them are transparent shills or RSS feeds in disquise.<end Twitter rant>

Be a voice on Twitter but don't be a bot!

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/twitterbuzz

Tags: #twitterbook, guy kawasaki, social collider, tools, twitter ui, twitter ux, twitter venn, twitter way, twitterbuzz, twittersniper, venn diagram, visualisation tools for twitter

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Jul 31 2009

Twitter is a State of Mind – The Twitter Way Gets A Cover Graphic

Category: executive learnings,lifestreaming,social media,speed the web,tech opinion,tools,trust & reputation — jmacofearth @ 7:34 am

May you find my perspectives illuminating, agitating or humorous depending on my tone and your state of mind. That’s what Twitter is really all about: TWITTER IS A STATE OF MIND!

Forward by a Twitter luminary to be revealed soon.

1. Managing the TwitterStream (ideas, strategies, how-to-use advice)

2. TwitterFail (my railings against bad server management, lack of vision and just plain problems with Twitter)

3. Twitter Business (Using Twitter for business building, discovery, research and monitoring the buzz)

4. The Humor of Twitter and TwitterFail
a. Direct from the Joker
b. The Twindle ™ Revolution

5. The TwitterMatrix (the most useful Twitter apps and sites)

6. The Twiki (index of Twitter terms, definitions and tutorials)

You can read the raw material for The Twitter Way on uber.la now.

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/twitter-way-cover

NOTE: Today The Twitter Way took a small step forward towards publishing. The cover image has been created. And the first Twitter Way t-shirt is now available.

The $10 Twitter is a State of Mind Shirt

Tags: #twitterbook, managing the twitterstream, the twiki, twitter book, twitter for business, twitter for fun, twitter is a state of mind, twitter resources, twitter ui, twitter ux, twitter way, twitterfail, twittermatrix

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Jul 08 2009

Dear Twitter: Do You Think It's Good To Launch/Test New Stuff During Prime Time?

Category: social media,teaming & leadership,tech opinion — jmacofearth @ 8:29 pm

So I'm going about my Twitness. Deleting hangers-on peeps that I'm following, but probably don't have much in common with, a culling of sorts, and I notice this.

Okay, so Meg is Blocking me? Not sure why, but okay. Do you think it's good I can plainly see that Meg is "blocking" me? I mean, couldn't (shouldn't) @megschmeg just not show up in my list rather than hurting my feelings? It's not that I'm taking it personal, but the idea of "blocking" is sort of private. I think. [Meg, whatever I've done to offend, I'm sorry.]

But what happened next just seems to reflect a trend at Twitter HQ. I've noticed that Twitter's CSS styles start getting wonky during the day when they are about to release something new. Last time it was an entire day (CST) of not being able to see my "friends" pages. Apparently @stop and company were readying the pages new updates. But why during the day, during prime time?

So tonight, it is 8:15 pm (CST). I would consider this peak traffic time for the social part of media, after people have gotten home, eaten dinner (I haven't, oops) and are ready to check in with their networks.

Here's what my page looked like a minute ago.

And it wasn't just a transitory problem. I reloaded my browser, my page and someone else's page who I was wanting see what they had been tweeting about.

Well, perhaps I protest too much. Or perhaps the @stop and the QA group and launch teams ought to think about launch times and try something not quite so visible to picky users like me.

It's not easy when working with a team that wants to get something out the door before they leave at the end of day. But release and testing schedules should take into account the heavy use times and not roll stuff just to get a page "live" before EOD (end of day). We all do it. But Twitter is a bit more exposed than most of our clients. Dell maybe. A local retailer, perhaps not.

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/twitter-css

Tags: @megschmeg, blocking exposed, CST, dear @stop, dear twitter, design fail, EOD, launching sites, launching under load, page "live", prime time testing, release schedule, stop, twitter blocking, twitter css, twitter qa, twitter testing, twitter ui, twitter user experience, twitter ux, twitter's css styles

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Jul 06 2009

More On Twitter UX Update: Show Me the Following Icon Again

Category: social media,tech opinion,tools — jmacofearth @ 12:02 am

Okay, I'm digging the Twitter "follower" and "friends" pages update. Except for one thing.

I can only tell if someone I follow is following me back if I click on the pull-down. I believe before, it was a simple icon that let me know if someone I was following was DM-able. And that is still the only clue, but today it hides underneath the pull-down instead of out in the open where I can see the status of an entire page of "friends."

Here's someone I follow who DOES NOT follow me back:

The only way I can see that Zooey is not following me back is the fact I cannot DM her. Oh well…

And here is someone who I follow to DOES follow me back:

And there's the DM-ability on Todd's pull-down indicating that he is following me back. [Thanks Todd!]

@stop, please put the are-they-following-me information back out on the page please.

Thanks again for all you do,

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/twitter-june-updates

There's more on The Twitter Way page.

Tags: follow me, following me, friend or follow, stop, twitter, twitter ui, twitter ux, twitterfail

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future posts

∴ A Collaborative Space: WebEx, Go-To-Meeting, Skype, Basecamp (Teaming/Meeting Tools)
∴ Twitter Problem: How do you find enough interesting people to follow? Then how do you keep up with them?
∴ The Agile Mind: Construction, Evolution, Care, and Feeding Instructions for Mental Flexibility

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The Social Collider and Twitter Venn: TwitterTools for Visual Fools

Twitter is a State of Mind – The Twitter Way Gets A Cover Graphic

Dear Twitter: Do You Think It's Good To Launch/Test New Stuff During Prime Time?

More On Twitter UX Update: Show Me the Following Icon Again

∴ A Collaborative Space: WebEx, Go-To-Meeting, Skype, Basecamp (Teaming/Meeting Tools) ∴ Twitter Problem: How do you find enough interesting people to follow? Then how do you keep up with them? ∴ The Agile Mind: Construction, Evolution, Care, and Feeding Instructions for Mental Flexibility

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∴ A Collaborative Space: WebEx, Go-To-Meeting, Skype, Basecamp (Teaming/Meeting Tools)
∴ Twitter Problem: How do you find enough interesting people to follow? Then how do you keep up with them?
∴ The Agile Mind: Construction, Evolution, Care, and Feeding Instructions for Mental Flexibility