Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

  • CNN: 'Mommy bloggers' are fighting the backlash against their profession http://bit.ly/VMvRZ - 'Mommy blogger' is a profession?... :)

  • What Comes First for You: Internet or Breakfast? http://bit.ly/c15lT

  • Bloglines On Life Support http://bit.ly/fOl0m - It was the first RSS reader I tried. It is still superior to Google Reader in some aspects.

  • "Student is the teacher in more ways than one." http://bit.ly/2j5H1Q

  • Jeff Jarvis posts about his newly-diagnosed prostate cancer and the treatments options he considered http://bit.ly/LSfJj

  • The path to a better monetized MayoClinic.com with ads, premium content did not work http://bit.ly/tDCuH

  • Izea, an advertising network, has begun paying Twitter users for sending sponsored tweets to their followers. Izea ads on Twitter: A Twitter user with 10,000 followers could make $25 to $35 per commercial tweet. http://bit.ly/oKPzn

  • Twitter is like DOS - limiting and rudimentary. Yet, Twitter is the where the audience is right now and that's why many people use it. Not the only reason, of course.

  • Twitter’s platform shortcomings, by Scoble http://bit.ly/1ylyC - You really must read this for multiple reasons going well beyond Twitter.

  • Calacanis: The Case Against Apple–in Five Parts http://bit.ly/VTEFf and the antithesis http://bit.ly/2nPGtn

  • Text messaging etiquette tips http://bit.ly/ZIKIb

Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) is not an endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support.

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