As Twitter continues its rise in popularity, there are a bunch of tips and books out (or coming out) on how to best use it.
There’s The Twitter Book from Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein; the upcoming Twitterville from Shel Israel; the TwiTip blog from Darren Rowse; and I even chipped in with the Twitter Rulebook.
But for all these and the other numerous guides floating around online and off, they can all offering differing viewpoints. What’s needed is one coherent collection [...]

Recently I wrote why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week.
I hope you check them out – they’re all worth getting to know.

Community. Khayyam Wakil (@iamkhayyam). Khayyam is an outstanding person and one that just keeps on giving. He’s one of these Twitter users that shares so much and never asks for anything in return. And away from Twitter he’s a pretty fine comedian as [...]

Last night on Twitter, I saw a pretty high-profile user retweet a message he’d received from one of his connections. It was high praise about this person, and was retweeted verbatim with no changes to the text.
My initial reaction to that was to ask the following question to the Twittersphere:

The responses came in thick and fast and they opened up a great stream of conversation for the next hour at least, with aspects to all sides of the original question.

David [...]

Seesmic have just released the preview version of Seesmic Web for Twitter. A web-based version of their hugely popular Seesmic Desktop desktop app, Seesmic Web also has some pretty cool new features not found on the desktop version.
The first (and really useful) difference is the threaded conversation option for direct messages. Now you don’t have to worry about trying to remember what you said to someone previously – it’s all there for you.
The next option is a rollover view of [...]

I caught a tweet from Ted Murphy today, about how a celebrity was paid $2,500 to post a sponsored tweet.
Ted is the founder and CEO of IZEA, the company that owns SocialSpark and PayPerPost.
Both SocialSpark and PayPerPost offer bloggers the chance to earn money from paid product reviews.
It’s a contentious topic that generally splits blogger opinion down the middle, with both sides offering valid reasons for their views for and against sponsored posts or paid blogging. Personally, I’m neither here [...]

While I don’t use third-party Twitter app Tweetdeck myself (I switched to Seesmic Desktop a while back), I noticed today that both Mashable and TechCrunch now have their own branded versions.
It’s basically the same Tweetdeck application but now you can have a dedicated pre-set column for the latest news from both websites, as well as a shiny Mashable or TechCrunch logo on your Tweetdeck skin.
But are they worth changing to?
Personally, I can’t see the major benefit at this time. Yes, [...]

Recently I wrote about why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week.
I hope you check them out – they’re all worth getting to know.

Community. Seth Simonds (@SethSimonds). Seth’s an interesting guy. This is someone that shed 45,000 Twitter followers so he could concentrate on a lesser number and connect better. He tries video experiments to show his community the horror of waterboarding. He consistently has [...]

I’m a mobile Luddite. I don’t have an iPhone or Blackberry (although I do like the look of the new Palm Pre) and to be honest I’m not too bothered about having a smart phone at the minute.
Now you might say that for someone that is involved in the online world as I am, not having an iPhone or similar makes me some kind of heathen. And maybe it does.
But here’s the thing.
I’m a people person. I like to know [...]

Recently I wrote about why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week.
Something a little different this week (and I realize it goes against my reasons for taking it to the blog – just listing names – but there’s a reason this week).
Everyone featured today fits into many different categories but one thing they all have in common is that they’re proud wearers of the 12for12k [...]

Recently I wrote about why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week.
I hope you check them out – they’re all worth getting to know.

Community. John Haydon (@johnhaydon). John is a massive influence on me. From his sterling non-profit work to his social media smarts, and his incredibly friendly demeanour, he’s the true spirit of community. He also plays a mean guitar. One of my “must [...]