- Image by Stuck in Customs via Flickr
I had a great week this week. How about you? I don’t have a quote of the week this time, but if you would like to submit one the comment section is open.
Comment highlights from around the Web:
Still talking a lot about twitter. It is the best things since blogs. Left a comment over there, and I am copying it here so I can find it later.
Twitter is a lot like discussions around the water cooler, greeting a friend on the street or any other quick informal conversation in a public place. It is common courtesy to reply if someone talks directly to you. Otherwise you just join the conversations that are going on at the time you stop by. Or start a new one. There is no need to go back and catch up with all that was said an hour ago. As a matter of fact if you do reply to a general comment (one not directed at you) made more than an hour ago I may not know what you are talking about.
The key to enjoying twitter is finding the right water-cooler (i.e. the right people to follow). You have it easy since a lot of “the tribe” are already on twitter. Follow them and then when they start talking to someone you are not already following, look at their history and see if you want to add them. Only follow people you find interesting.
Twitter can be great or it can be a time sink, depending entirely on who you choose to talk to.
Have you tried twitter yet? If not, don’t bother telling me why I have heard all the excuses, and used most of them before I tried Twitter, but after you use it for a while you will get it.
Shared Items:
I have not been including this in the past because it would be some much easier for you to read if you just subscribed to my shared items directly, but for those of you who do not know how to do that, here are the links to a lot of neat stuff I found lately.
- Lu: It’ll Be Back To Basics For Microsoft Online (MSFT)
- giddytab: My 8YO has been eating with chopsticks so…
- A Baby’s Best Friend
- Tune-in Tasks to Stay Mentally Fit
- nciku just added a new feature!
- Kung-Fu For Your Photography
- Why self-medicating is an essential China expat skill
- giddytab: Just did too good a job convincing my 2YO…
- Please Don’t Make Me Listen to THAT!
- giddytab: Anyone ever benefit from the generosity…
Twitter:
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giddytab It is snowing, and I could not see it without my glasses! Amazing!
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giddytab You can @ yourself?!
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lgedeon Yeah! First snow of the season to actually stick! Snow is so pretty.
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giddytab My 8YO has been eating with chopsticks so long that she is having trouble eating with a fork!!
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lgedeon @ianonmac they are still calling it a RC but it is live on .com Get it at http://tinyurl.com/6ho2ly
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lgedeon @mindyspradlin Don’t you know that Trix are for kids? Twitter is for grown ups.
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lgedeon commented on awesome picture at: http://tinyurl.com/65pnt3
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mindyspradlin How does my mother (@gailhyatt) have more twitter followers than me? That is just plain wrong!
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giddytab I wish everything had a ringer, so you could call anything you have misplaced.
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lgedeon @jabancroft re gReader I like it! seems like the header is smaller (a good thing). I will have to compare
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giddytab Does a gas oven run hotter than an electric one? Gas is new for me (no pun intended)
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giddytab My 2YO just looked at my brownie batter and said, “Mom, can we eat mud?”
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roberthruzek @lgedeon Hey, thanks, Luke. I’ll check ‘em out. Someday. When I have, y’know, time. :-\
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giddytab Just did too good a job convincing my 2YO that I ate paper. Now she is trying to eat it…..
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giddytab My 2YO just informed me that she is “NOT a kid.” Isn’t she a bit young for that?
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giddytab My 5YO just peeled a clementine for my 2YO and is feeding it to her slice by slice.
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giddytab My 5yo just said to me, “you gave me 96 cheerios. You really gave me 97, but 1 fell out me my cup!”how many have you had 2day?
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giddytab After eating green bean casserole, my 5YO said, “What?! I ate onions?! Well, I guess I like onions!”
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jabancroft Ooh, I got the new Google Reader interface in my account. I like it. Much cleaner, and feels quite fast. Can’t wait to try on a netbook.
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lgedeon commented on twitter time sink: http://tinyurl.com/6rv4dm
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mikedoe I understand small business growth. I was one.
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mikedoe It’s not the pollution that is harming our environment. It is the impurities in our water and air that are doing it.
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lgedeon @roberthruzek two options for photo editing https://www.photoshop.com/e… and http://www.gimp.org/
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roberthruzek @bradshorr Hey, great idea. Know of a good, free resource for photo editing? Actually, I think there’s a free online Photoshop clone…
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c_johnson You haven’t lived until you’ve copy/pasted a line break because your ENTER key is broken.
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lgedeon commented on: http://tinyurl.com/6ax5c6
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Ok, Luke, I won’t bother you with my excuses.
I am interested in your opinion, though. As with other social networking sites, I would have thought that a considerable time investment would be required in order to make participation on Twitter worthwhile.
I would have thought that the time invested on Twitter would have been better spent preparing material for blog posts, and commenting on other blogs and participatipating in discussion forums.
But everyone who is on it seems to think that its the best thing under the sun, and obviously, given what you have said above, you love it.
I’m curious – has Twitter been more valuable to you personally than time spent on other blogging or other online activities?
I would say that twitter would not be nearly as valuable without an active blog, and still consider it secondary in importance to commenting on blogs, but I have found it much more valuable than facebook and most other social media. The difference being that you are not *expected* to reply but you can in fact reply to anyone whether they are a “friend” or not.
Also everything is one page. The simplicity is the power.
As for time invested: Twitter scales really well. 5000+ followers is great for the ego, but you can get a lot of value by picking the right 100 people to follow even if they do not reciprocate. The biggest investment is finding the right people to follow. Hint: unless your core business is tech your top 100 will not be whales.
A good place to start is with the blogs you already subscribe to. Find out what their twitter ID is and follow them. I actually comment on some blogs in twitter because they require logging in to comment. Besides more people will see my comment in twitter than on their blog anyway.
But again, I could talk all day and the only way you will really get it is to do it. I am not sure why that is, but it seems to be a universal that people do not get twitter until they find the right people to follow.
Luke and Andrew,
I am on Twitter because I am getting much information about new blog post, interesting websites and articles. I am not on facebook, so Twitter is the only social media I am using (besides blogging and commenting on other blogs).
Ulla,
When you are using the best (twitter and blogs) why bother with the rest.