I’ve never been much of a blogger, so writing Twitter updates and collecting them here as been a good alternative for me. Sometimes the 140-character limit is constraining, but most often it just forces you to tighten it up and get to the point quicker.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-26
- RT @LawleyHead: We are following several #Pittsburgh companies that tried to capture #G20 business. Get the latest: http://bit.ly/JGVmk #
- Journalistics: 70 Percent of Journalists Use Social Networks to Assist in Reporting http://bit.ly/156jS0 #
- Business Pulse question: Through the end of the year, how do you think the economy will perform? http://bit.ly/1Fvo1g #
- RT @johnhcook: Everyone is counting on entrepreneurs to end the economic morass, so you better get to work folks. http://bit.ly/czON1 #
- @ bizjournals Now that cash for clunkers has ended, car sales are dropping. http://bit.ly/EKVTC #
- RT @bizjournals: Google CEO Eric Schmidt says recession is ending: http://bit.ly/ueM43 #
- RT @toddbishop: Using iPhone to pay at SBUX almost cool enough to feel better about dropping $4 on a cup of coffee. http://bit.ly/yLZjO #
- RT @bizjournals: Blame the recession, we're getting fatter. Recession hurts us in ways few contemplated. http://bit.ly/49VZXV #
- Bay Area BizTalk: What I learned from chatting with Facebook hijackers. http://bit.ly/1k3gUO via @addthis #
- Pittsburgh businesses brace for G-20 protests. http://bit.ly/mliSi via @addthis #
- RT @MichaelHyatt: According to Matt Cutts of Google, they don’t use “keywords meta tag”. http://bit.ly/Mqwrs #
- Fast company: The science of getting retweeted — use bit.ly and colons. http://bit.ly/49JtRU #
- WSJ: Google Voice drawing more attention from FCC, which is trying to decide how/if/what to regulate. http://bit.ly/1Q51Hw #
- RT @GuyKawasaki: 10 Revealing Infographics about the Web: http://om.ly/IuQl GR #
- RT @MichaelHyatt: Forget about the “keywords meta tag” for your blog. According to Matt Cutts of Google, they don’t use it: http://bit.l … #
- RT @bizjournals: Current bizjournals survey: Does Obama's health-insurance reform help small businesses? http://bit.ly/nf8im #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-19
- RT @ericengleman: Check out this cool graphic we put together: A Big Boom in the Universe of Electronic Books. http://bit.ly/O3QLE #
- NY Times simulator for driving and texting. I hit a few gates. http://ow.ly/pSaB #
- Visa pays to sponsors the S.F. 49er practice jerseys. It's a new market. http://ow.ly/pS3m #
- RT @ericengleman: New Google partnership to turn digital books into paperbacks. http://bit.ly/VZC6m #
- TechFlash: Are Kindle sales of 'The Lost Symbol' outpacing hardcover? http://ow.ly/pMAm #
- Silicon Alley Insider: The social media tools newspapers use … and how many papers that don't use any. http://bit.ly/13N66L #
- WSJ: Business owners are the happiest occupation group. http://ow.ly/pEPS #
- RT @toddbishop: Report: 'Phone jacking' a rising problem on Seattle's streets http://bit.ly/HqwRy #
- RT @bizjournals: More Americans living paycheck to paycheck: http://bit.ly/WktL #
- API: Among newspapers publishers, half say online pay wall will work. Must mean half don't. http://bit.ly/ejkdh #
- WSJ: Small businesses using Twitter for customer service, rather than just a publishing tool. http://bit.ly/x4NDG #
- Burgers are the hot restaurant concepts these days. Mmm. I want a cheeseburger. http://bit.ly/2NDpT9 #
- RT @toddbishop: Microsoft to businesses: Enough with the Windows XP already http://bit.ly/14yOgA #
- @bizjournals In defensive move, Intuit buying Mint.com for $170M, according to report: http://bit.ly/19okBV #
- RT @bizjournals: T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom considers takeover bid for Sprint Nextel: http://bit.ly/zrOrd #
- TechFlash looks at how tech companies are growing market share during the downturn. http://bit.ly/2c4tuj #
- @bizjournals: In our survey, year-round school with shorter breaks are viewer's preference http://bit.ly/48DKJf #
- RT @toddbishop Video: Ballmer's wild entrance at Microsoft's company meeting http://bit.ly/1iRMr #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-12
- Oh the fun between TechCrunch and Facebook http://bit.ly/3UdPUh #
- Bloomberg enters bidding for BusinessWeek. Deadline for bids: Sept. 15 http://is.gd/37xat #
- Google working on ‘painless’ payments for news http://ow.ly/oUtQ #
- RT @johnhcook: I've received 3 Twitter app pitches in the past 24 hours — so one has to ask if a bubble is forming. http://bit.ly/2o7nym #
- @bizjournals survey: Do you prefer year-round schools or the traditional schedule with long summer break? http://bit.ly/48DKJf #
- At Portfolio.com: Who is the most valuable NFL quarterback? http://bit.ly/QJj6E #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-05
- St. Louis Business Journals' survey Do you think lawyers charge too much? has interesting comments. http://bit.ly/4yozd7 #
- Nielsen's PDF of U.S. TV markets and how their ranking changed. http://bit.ly/TLYhW #
- RT @bizjournals In latest bizjournals survey, 55% disapproved of the job Obama is doing; 40% approved. http://bit.ly/2lYkSw #
- RT @KellySpors: 7 Most Overrated Small Businesses http://tinyurl.com/m3vwkv (Do you agree?) #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-29
- Reading Rainbow fades to black: http://bit.ly/TYW3C #
- In a few hours the Hawks play the Bombers. A win would put Hawks on the playoff ladder. #
- SBA distributes informational videos over YouTube. http://bit.ly/h3Iy9 #
- Newspapers find a new way to monetize their journalists — sign up for their classes or seminars http://bit.ly/Ix2h8 #
- bizjournals asks: Do you approve or disapprove of the job President Obama is doing as president? http://bit.ly/2lYkSw #
- RT @MichaelHyatt: The “Twitter Will Kill You” video hits a little too close to home. Hilarious! http://bit.ly/8Rg1u #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-22
- How today's old-meda crisis compares with the 1949 network radio crisis when TV began to grow. http://bit.ly/4dRN2a #
- Dow Jones may sell its stock indexes. Buyer could rename Dow Jones Industrial Average. http://bit.ly/STtx #
- @bizjournals Bernanke calls growth prospects "good" http://bit.ly/EeZ52 #
- RT @TechCrunch: What Exactly Do 1.6 Billion Retweet Buttons Get You? About 6 Million Actual Retweets. http://tcrn.ch/7v7X #
- For the past two year, the rich haven't been getting richer — NY Times. http://bit.ly/IehBC #
- Calculated Risk: Record 13.2 Percent of Mortgage Loans in Foreclosure or Delinquent in Q2 http://bit.ly/15WM9J #
- RT @bizjournals: Execs say they don't want to be 'friended' by business contacts: http://bit.ly/6L9j1 #
- The collapse of Lehman Brothers — soon to be a made-for-TV movie by BBC http://bit.ly/11GdTp #
- 35% of employers decided not to hire someone because of what they found out about them on Twitter, Facebook, etc.: http://bit.ly/Kck0h #
- We're asking in our Sales and Marketing Center: Is sales ability found more in talent or training? http://bit.ly/2hX20c #
- I like Google Voice, but Andy Kessler explains in WSJ "Why AT&T Killed Google Voice" http://bit.ly/1dsv6y #
- Indeed has a spiffy chart about difficulty finding a job in U.S. cities, except D.C. and Jacksonville. http://bit.ly/pbMjy #
- Latest bizjournals study shows Florida has been hit worst by the recession. http://bit.ly/AoJsy #
- I upgraded to #HootSuite 2.0 because I wanted to see multi-column view http://hootsuite.com/upgrade #
- A media empire from I Can Has Cheezburger and LOLcats http://bit.ly/1LUcDI via @addthis #
- Feb report says banks made fewer loans in 2Q because of lower loan deman. http://bit.ly/IkXU9 #
- Study: 40 percent of Twitter messages 'pointless babble': study — I thought it would be higher. http://bit.ly/EITtj #
- From Portfolio.com: How is your state (and D.C.) doing during the recession. http://bit.ly/3yQ9Ts #
- It's stunning that a change in Windows' sleep mode could save as much energy as taking 380,000 cars off the road. http://bit.ly/zXaR3 #
- Bizjournal's latest survey: If you could watch only one sport for the next 10 years, what would it be? http://bit.ly/Fp1eh #
- New York City's total personal income tops $1 trillion. http://bit.ly/SyJ6U #
- RT @JohnAByrne: RT @querdenker_ch: Betting on the Real-Time Web – BusinessWeek http://is.gd/2l3Sv #
- New tool to try — Hootsuite #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-15
- Study made for online publishers says proprietary content is best place to put adds. Portal sites beg to differ http://bit.ly/T0o93 #
- Nice story on my favorite URL shortner http://bit.ly/vobja #
- Portfolio.com today softly re-launched as a bizjournals property. The full re-launch of the site is expected next month. #
- From NY Times: In the morning, which is first breakfast or computer/mobile? http://bit.ly/usKp6 #
- RT @SVSJbizjournal Facebook buys online content-sharing biz for undisclosed price. http://bit.ly/1wI30Z #
- I think it would be fun to tour Austin, TX in an electric car. http://bit.ly/YOYFc #
- RT @bizjournals asks: Should employers have a say in employee's health? http://bit.ly/G4U46 #
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reBlog from socialmedia.biz: Coolest power tools of some top geeks
I found this fascinating quote today:
• I just started using HootSuite 2.0, a Web-based, Ajax-smart Twitter application that I find superior (so far) to the downloadable Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop apps. (I’m @jdlasica on Twitter.)socialmedia.biz, Coolest power tools of some top geeks, Aug 2009
You should read the whole article.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-08
- Whitney Shaw named CEO of ACBJ http://bit.ly/HmbGO #
- RT @WSJCareers For the Self-Employed, It's an Endless Workweek http://bit.ly/awwYi #
- When I needed to quickly catch up on business news, I found that a stack of newspapers was the best way to scan. #
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