We are all searching for something almost 90% of the time. Either we are searching for our next job, an old friend, new gossip, etc. Even though we are all searching for different things we can all use the same tools to find what we need/want.
Words From a Purple Mind
Input on the important topics …to me of course
It’s not about the number of followers…
This is just my two cents so take it as you may.
I haven’t written a blog that focuses on just Twitter but due to the extreme number of tweets I’ve seen since yesterday I thought this was needed. Since yesterday there has been many tweets about a site called tweetgreeter. I am in no way recommending the site since I think it’s a joke. The point of the site is to just add followers as fast as you can.
41 Top Tips To Growing Your Social Media Presence
Stanley Tang wrote a great blog on the 41 top tips to growing your social media presence. Below are the 41 tips and some of my comments (in purple of course).
Don’t do this…even if Dilbert says so
On 2/1/2009 the Dilbert comic strip had the pointy haired boss telling Asok to create profiles and write positive reviews. This is not a good thing to do. You should not make up ghost/fake profiles just to pump up your product/service. Nor should you write comments that defame your competitors, that’s just wrong. You wouldn’t want your competitors to do it to you.
Interactive Social Media Map
Overdrive Interactive has put together a great social media map. This map lists out the sites best used for different areas of social media. As we all know social media is huge so the more you can get the word out about who you are and what you represent the better.
Roadmap to Become a Blogger
The Become a Blogger team Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick have put together a wonderful report on the Roadmap to Become a Blogger.
If you are interested in blogging or just want to learn more about it I recommend taking the time to either read/listen to the report. The report is free and also has an audio file if you want to listen to it on your mp3 player.
Testing Challenge. Are you up for it?
Creative Chaos has come up with a very interesting testing challenge. The challenge lists out a variety of products and laws. You as a tester need to determine what would you test & why would you test those items.
Here’s the details of the challenge:
Principles of Agile Software Development
Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presented on the lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners during Agile 2008. For those of you that weren’t able to attend (like me) the video is definitely worth watching.
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008
This slide deck is very interesting as it shows the different tools that were used in 2008 for learning. There are a variety of tools that I use and some that I don’t right now but I’m definitely going to be checking them out.
Twellow can be used to increase connections
Some of you use Twitter but do you use Twellow as well? Twellow pulls your updates from Twitter and posts them in the categories you select. You can get listed in 10 different categories.
If you want to connect with people who have experience and expertise in your areas of interest then this is the place to go.