Tag: twitter
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Tweets = Your State of Being
I just listened to a talk by @jayadelson – Sirchio Lecture – and he made a comment about how a tweet represents your state of being. You can tweet 24 hours a day. As I listened to his talk, I kept thinking about how cathartic it is to broadcast our…
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Your Inner Narcissism
Studies have shown that Generation Y uses social media for self-promotion, narcissism, and attention seeking. Here’s the article. It’s not just the Gen Y crowd. It’s every generation. It’s everybody on social media. Yes, we do use it to reconnect and get information. But social media really taps into our…
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The Wisdom on Twitter
I don’t know what your Twitter stream looks like. I’m pretty picky about who I follow, but I noticed that I tend to follow people that always have wise and sometimes witty sayings. These are people that tend to write quotes, and have incredible insight into life. For this post,…
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Here’s the Paper If You Want
So I’m at a cafe. I have my laptop open so to the Google page – pretty much the portal to pretty much anything. With the Free wifi here, I can get to any news story or trending topic out in the Net. I’m sitting next to this gentleman. He…
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Emotions and Blogging
I saw this tweet on Twitter from @TheBeanCast. Here’s the tweet: TheBeanCast Blogging is emotionally draining when you actually put effort in it. Should just start posting links and snarky comments like everyone else. Of course I retweeted it, but I wanted to blog it as well. Blogging is not…
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Father’s Day Tweet
I was looking on Twitter yesterday. It was Father’s Day and I don’t even remember who’s profile it was so I’m sorry for whoever I originally read it from – It was a tweet that said something to the effect of – Happy Father’s Day to all of the single…
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Nerdy or Cool
Today was #wwdc. If you don’t know what that is, just Google it or do a Twitter search for it. Or just click here to see the twitter ticker tape of #wwdc. I’ve watched/followed a few conferences on Twitter. It is possible to attend these conferences without actually paying any…
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Tweet Thought
I was talking to my friend Scott yesterday (here is his blog), and I asked him a question about urbanism and social media. I asked him for a response to my question, but I only wanted a tweet thought. I only wanted 140 characters – because if you can’t tweet…
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Attend Any Conference That You Want
….by simply following the hash tags for the conference on Twitter. Okay, so maybe you miss out on the human element. You don’t get to talk or touch the people that are there. There is tons of value in the hallway conversations at any conference – the coffee breaks –…
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Thinking In Twitter Ticker Tape
I’m starting to think in terms of a Twitter Ticker Tape. You know what I mean? I am a pretty visual processor so I picture the actual “tweets” in my mind as I start processing through an idea or presentation. It is a very asynchronous method of visual or mental…
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Identity and Yours
Your identity is yours. But someone else can take it and use it if they get to it first. I asked a friend this week – who has his @firstlast name as his twitter name – if he was the also the same “firstlast” with a 1 at the end…