Category Archives: Microblogging

Twitter is a fad!

Recently I was in a meeting where somebody said twitter was a fad, that it will die and people WILL get bored. I guess there are no write or wrong answers to a statement like that, maybe the bird will tip off its perch, who knows! What I am sure about is the new trend [...]
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Well hello Mr President!

Another fake we think, we’re not convinced by the tiny amount of followers. Btw: As Gary V would say “This is the thunder post!”, post 100 people.
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Tweet with caution!

I was out partying not to so long ago and having access to twitter via mobile, whilst you’re drunk is not a good idea. I must have tweeted about how drunk I was, why? I don’t quite know, I suppose using twitter has become akin to using the phone. You often call people whilst you’re [...]
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Geek Meet

So I attented twestival earlier during the week, a sort of social media, web2 and netrentrepreneur gathering all organised via twitter. This was definitely the first media event I had attended, which had been organised through twitter. Some people were shocked about how many agency bods had attended but then what did they expect? A [...]
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Benefits of Microblogging – A real world example

Microblogging has so many versatile marketing uses, however, clients question why they should use microblogs and what are the real benefits? I could probably sit here and write 10 or more obvious reasons, however, one of the most important reasons has to be search engine visibility…I will lend you my real world example: I bought a lovely [...]
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Seesmic – Video Microblogging

I’m sure we’ll hear a TLA or an abbreviation for Video Microblogging at some point so I might as well have an attempt….V-Mlogging, sound good? :-/ Seesmic is just hours of entertainment to be quite frank, but there are some serious innovative marketing uses a facility like this can provide. We’ve all seen how effectively businesses [...]
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Dawdlr – Lifestreaming for the trendies

dawdlr is a I service that I stumbled upon a little while ago; however, I had my interest rekindled by a mention of it in DotNet. I like this app it’s realistic…its lifestreaming at a slower pace, a kind of twitter for those that don’t really care that much. It’s powered by Tumblr family hence the [...]
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