Twitter Geo-Location Place Stamp Demonstration

Here’s a quick screencast demonstration of Twitter’s new geo-location feature. Found at YouTube from estrategy.

Online Communication For Nonprofits

This is a series of interviews I did for Map for Nonprofits‘ Map TechWork Nonprofit Technologies Best Practices Web site. The interviews cover Google tools like Analytics, URL Builder, Trends, Insights for Search and YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TweetReach, as well as blogging and WordPress and Posterous in particular.

Stats: The State Of The Internet

A cool video statistical visualization of the state of the Internet. Found at Vimeo from Jesse Thomas via Holy Kaw!

Twitter Wants Me To Be More Findable

Just got this pop-up screen from Twitter: Twitter is asking me to make my profile more findable by filling completing my profile information (which is, of course, already complete) but they also want me to make my phone number and my email address public. UPDATE, 2/27/10: Ginger Sorvari Bucklin (@LovelyGinger) points out that making your email [...]

Twitter Traffic Up 9% After Google Real-Time Search Launch

“ComScore data show the number of unique visitors to Twitter increased by 9 percent from December 2009 to January 2010. The 21.79 million unique Twitter visitors in January was an all-time high, just over the 21.25 million visitors that comScore tracked in July 2009. December 2009 unique visitors were up 3.1 percent over November, so [...]

CHART: Kids Don’t Hate Twitter Anymore!

At the end of 2009, more than 30% of Twitter’s visitors were under 25, this chart suggests, up from about 20% of its visitors at the end of 2008. …Posted via web from e-Strategy Blog Links via businessinsider.com

Minnesota Politics & Social Media

Blois Olson introduces the social media & politics panel

[/caption] I can credit the start of my career in online strategy in large part to my fascination with online political communication. In 1994, I read about the first online gubernatorial debate held by E-Democracy (of which I am now a board member); but [...]

Google Buzz Demonstration

Google announced Google Buzz today, their integration of social accounts and online conversations with Gmail. TechCrunch has a rundown, here’s Mashable’s coverage, here’s ReadWriteWeb’s coverage, and here’s Google’s own blog post about Buzz.  Here’s a video demo of Google Buzz. Found at YouTube from Google. UDPATED: 2/9/2010 3 P.M. Google Buzz on a mobile device. Found at [...]

Facebook How To: “Retweet” Feature Demonstration

Facebook keeps adding new Twitter features, the most recent being the ability to effectively “retweet” content that appears in your live or news feeds. The significant element of this new feature as a marketing utility is the fact that the feature source-stamps the content, so something I post personally that is shared by someone else, [...]

Using Status Updates To Announce Your Unemployment – Interview Notes

Photo by mikecolvin

[/caption] Last year I responded to a reporter asking: “I am seeking someone who can discuss whether announcing a recent personal layoff in a Facebook status update is the right choice and some advice on the best way to do it.” This was my answer: I think it depends upon the circumstances [...]

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